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Version: v1.12

Use Submariner to connect the network between Karmada member clusters

This document demonstrates how to use the Submariner to connect the network between member clusters.

Submariner flattens the networks between the connected clusters, and enables IP reachability between Pods and Services.

You can refer to the Submariner QUICKSTART GUIDES for more installation instructions with Submariner.

Install Karmada​

Install Karmada control plane​

Following the steps Install Karmada control plane in Quick Start, you can get a Karmada.

Join member cluster​

In the following steps, we are going to create a member cluster and then join the cluster to Karmada control plane.

  1. Create member cluster

We are going to create a cluster named cluster1 and we want the KUBECONFIG file in $HOME/.kube/cluster.config. Run following command:

hack/create-cluster.sh cluster1 $HOME/.kube/cluster1.config

This will create a cluster by kind.

  1. Join member cluster to Karmada control plane

Export KUBECONFIG and switch to karmada apiserver:

export KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kube/karmada.config

kubectl config use-context karmada-apiserver

Then, install karmadactl command and join the member cluster:

go install github.com/karmada-io/karmada/cmd/karmadactl

karmadactl join cluster1 --cluster-kubeconfig=$HOME/.kube/cluster1.config

In addition to the original member clusters, ensure that at least two member clusters are joined to the Karmada.

In this example, we have joined two member clusters to the Karmada:

# kubectl get clusters
NAME      VERSION   MODE   READY   AGE
cluster1   v1.21.1   Push   True    16s
cluster2   v1.21.1   Push   True    5s
...

Deploy Submariner​

We are going to deploy Submariner components on the host cluster and member clusters by using the subctl CLI as it's the recommended deployment method according to Submariner official documentation.

Submariner uses a central Broker component to facilitate the exchange of metadata information between Gateway Engines deployed in participating clusters. The Broker must be deployed on a single Kubernetes cluster. This cluster’s API server must be reachable by all Kubernetes clusters connected by Submariner, therefore, we deployed it on the karmada-host cluster.

Install subctl​

Please refer to the SUBCTL Installation.

Use karmada-host as Broker​

subctl deploy-broker --kubeconfig /root/.kube/karmada.config --context karmada-host

Join cluster1 and cluster2 to the Broker​

subctl join --kubeconfig /root/.kube/cluster1.config broker-info.subm --natt=false
subctl join --kubeconfig /root/.kube/cluster2.config broker-info.subm --natt=false

Connectivity test​

Please refer to the Multi-cluster Service Discovery.