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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe enhancement proposal defines an optional ChangesCNIDevice-backed tunnel endpoints
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This proposal adds CNIDevice-hosted VXLAN endpoints while preserving loopback defaults. A failed endpoint replacement can leave an unreachable VTEP advertised, and the supported configuration boundary and failure-path coverage remain incomplete; these issues should be resolved before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@enhancements/cnidevice-backed-tunnel-endpoints.md`:
- Around line 512-514: Update the replacement reconciliation flow so CNI
attachment and FRR host-route changes commit atomically: retain the old
attachment until the new FRR state is committed, or restore both the old
attachment and FRR configuration whenever ADD, verification, or FRR update
fails. Add failure tests covering each post-DEL step and confirm the previous
endpoint remains fully restored after every failure.
- Around line 238-239: Move the interfaceName immutability CEL transition rule
from the optional interfaceName field to the containing TunnelEndpointConfig
object so it runs when the field is added, removed, or changed. Preserve the
self.?interfaceName == oldSelf.?interfaceName condition, and update coverage to
verify all presence-change cases with the specified Kubernetes and
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- Around line 381-384: Update the documented validation to require the same CNI
plugin entry to declare type ipvlan, mode l3, ipam.type static, and
capabilities.ips true. Do not accept capability declarations from other chain
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Propose an optional tunnelEndpoint.interfaceName field so OpenPERouter places the deterministically allocated tunnel endpoint address on a referenced CNIDevice instead of the router loopback and uses that interface as the VXLAN source. The motivating use case is an ipvlan interface in L3 mode for cloud and virtualized networks that reject additional source MAC addresses. In ipvlan L3 mode the kernel delivers inbound traffic only to addresses registered on an ipvlan child, so a loopback VTEP cannot receive return VXLAN traffic. OpenPERouter keeps owning IP allocation from cidrs and passes the address to the bundled ipvlan + static IPAM chain through the standard ips capability, avoiding a Whereabouts dependency. The scope is CNIDevice-backed EVPN only; NetworkDevice placement and SRv6 over ipvlan L3 are left to separate enhancements. Assisted-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Enrique Llorente <ellorent@redhat.com>
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Pushed e9702dd: a rewrite of the Motivation only. The API, validation, CNI contract, lifecycle and test plan are unchanged, but the doc was arguing for the field from the wrong axis (NetworkDevice-vs-CNIDevice) when the real axis is can this uplink deliver traffic to a loopback address. What changed:
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The host lifecycle defines a separate path where CNI ADD succeeds but endpoint address verification fails, after which
SetupUnderlay()calls CNI DEL and prevents VNI creation. The test plan covers failed ADD only. Add coverage for failed verification, cache cleanup, and VNI suppression.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 302-303: Revise the cidrs behavior description to limit controlled
CNI attachment reprovisioning to endpoints configured with interfaceName.
Separately document that endpoints without interfaceName use the existing
loopback (lo) update path and do not reference a CNI attachment.
- Around line 260-268: Update the InterfaceName field documentation to
explicitly limit support to CNIDevice configurations using a single IPvlan L3
plugin with static IPAM and capabilities.ips set to true, while retaining the
existing behavior description and validation annotations.
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In `@enhancements/cnidevice-backed-tunnel-endpoints.md`:
- Around line 722-725: Extend the test plan for the SetupUnderlay lifecycle to
cover CNI ADD succeeding followed by failed endpoint address verification, then
verify that CNI DEL is invoked, cached attachment state is cleaned up, and VNI
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| // interfaceName optionally names the CNIDevice interface (its effective | ||
| // cniDevice.interfaceName) on which OpenPERouter places the derived tunnel | ||
| // endpoint addresses. When omitted, the addresses are placed on the router | ||
| // loopback. | ||
| // +kubebuilder:validation:Pattern=`^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9._-]*$` | ||
| // +kubebuilder:validation:MinLength=1 | ||
| // +kubebuilder:validation:MaxLength=15 | ||
| // +optional | ||
| InterfaceName *string `json:"interfaceName,omitempty"` |
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Make the supported interfaceName scope explicit.
Document that interfaceName supports only a CNIDevice using one IPvlan L3 plugin with static IPAM and capabilities.ips: true. The current API description says only “CNIDevice,” while validation rejects macvlan and IPvlan L2 configurations.
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Update the InterfaceName field documentation to explicitly limit support to
CNIDevice configurations using a single IPvlan L3 plugin with static IPAM and
capabilities.ips set to true, while retaining the existing behavior description
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| Changes to `cidrs` retain their current API behavior and cause a controlled | ||
| reprovision of the referenced CNI attachment with the newly derived addresses. |
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Limit CNI replacement to interface-backed endpoints.
When interfaceName is omitted, the endpoint is assigned to lo as described in Line 370. No referenced CNI attachment exists in that path. Scope this replacement statement to configurations with interfaceName, and describe the existing loopback update path separately.
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-Changes to `cidrs` retain their current API behavior and cause a controlled reprovision of the referenced CNI attachment with the newly derived addresses.
+When `interfaceName` is set, changes to `cidrs` cause a controlled reprovision of the referenced CNI attachment with the newly derived addresses. When it is omitted, the existing loopback update path remains unchanged.📝 Committable suggestion
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| reprovision of the referenced CNI attachment with the newly derived addresses. | |
| When `interfaceName` is set, changes to `cidrs` cause a controlled reprovision of the referenced CNI attachment with the newly derived addresses. When it is omitted, the existing loopback update path remains unchanged. |
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Revise the cidrs behavior description to limit controlled CNI attachment
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that endpoints without interfaceName use the existing loopback (lo) update path
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Is this a BUG FIX or a FEATURE ?:
/kind design
What this PR does / why we need it:
Adds a design proposal (
enhancements/cnidevice-backed-tunnel-endpoints.md) for an optionaltunnelEndpoint.interfaceNamefield. OpenPERouter keeps deriving the tunnel endpoint address deterministically fromtunnelEndpoint.cidrsand the node index, but wheninterfaceNameis set it places the derived address on the referenced CNIDevice instead of the router loopback and uses that interface as the VXLAN source device. When the field is omitted, behavior is unchanged (loopback).The motivating use case is an
ipvlaninterface in L3 mode for cloud and virtualized networks that reject additional source MAC addresses (e.g. GCP and other providers with MAC anti-spoofing). InipvlanL3 mode the kernel delivers inbound traffic only to addresses registered on anipvlanchild, so a loopback VTEP cannot receive return VXLAN traffic. Placing the endpoint address directly on theipvlaninterface resolves this.This supersedes the removed
vtepInterfacebehavior: instead of discovering an existing address on an arbitrary interface,cidrsstays authoritative and the address is applied through the bundledipvlan+ static IPAM chain using the standardipscapability, avoiding a Whereabouts dependency.This PR is a design document only; no code, API, or generated artifacts change.
Special notes for your reviewer:
Scope is intentionally limited to CNIDevice-backed EVPN tunnel endpoints. NetworkDevice placement and SRv6-over-
ipvlan-L3 are deferred to separate enhancements. The feature is cloud-provider-neutral and kernel-datapath only (grout already rejects CNIDevice).Based on the GCP proof-of-concept branch, which validated the routed
ipvlanL3 + VXLAN model with Multus, Whereabouts, and the formervtepInterface. CNIDevice now provides a controller-owned interface lifecycle that makes interface-backed endpoints viable without Multus.The document covers API shape, the kernel rationale, the CNI capability/static-IPAM contract, validation intent, reconciliation/lifecycle ordering (including endpoint replacement on
cidrschanges), backward compatibility, failure modes, a test plan, and alternatives considered (notably why not Whereabouts).Release note:
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