CNI plugins

Some CNI network plugins, maintained by the containernetworking team. For
more information, see the individual READMEs.

Read CONTRIBUTING for build and test instructions.
Plugins supplied:
Main: interface-creating

    bridge: Creates a bridge, adds the host and the container to it.
    ipvlan: Adds an ipvlan interface in the container.
    loopback: Set the state of loopback interface to up.
    macvlan: Creates a new MAC address, forwards all traffic to that to
             the container.
    ptp: Creates a veth pair.
    vlan: Allocates a vlan device.
    host-device: Move an already-existing device into a container.

Windows: windows specific

    win-bridge: Creates a bridge, adds the host and the container to it.
    win-overlay: Creates an overlay interface to the container.

IPAM: IP address allocation

    dhcp: Runs a daemon on the host to make DHCP requests on behalf of
          the container
    host-local: Maintains a local database of allocated IPs
    static: Allocate a static IPv4/IPv6 addresses to container and it's
            useful in debugging purpose.

Meta: other plugins

    flannel: Generates an interface corresponding to a flannel config file
    tuning: Tweaks sysctl parameters of an existing interface
    portmap: An iptables-based portmapping plugin. Maps ports from the
             host's address space to the container.
    bandwidth: Allows bandwidth-limiting through use of traffic control
               tbf (ingress/egress).
    sbr: A plugin that configures source based routing for an interface
         (from which it is chained).
    firewall: A firewall plugin which uses iptables or firewalld to add
              rules to allow traffic to/from the container.

Sample

The sample plugin provides an example for building your own plugin.