Kubernetes based IP Address Management

This project provides an IP address management controller based on Kubernetes resources.

There are two resources, an IPAMRange resource describing managed IP ranges and an IPAMRequest resource for requesting an IP CIDR or a single IP address.

Ranges

The IPAMRange resource provides a pool of managed IP addresses. It consists of a list of CIDRs, arbitrary IP ranges of the form <ip>-<ip> or single IP addresses.

Optionally the range may provide a default chunkSize, the width of network bits allocated for a request, if it does not request a dedicated size.

A size lower than the IP size (32 for IPv4 and 128 for IPv6) only makes sense for a list of CIDRs with a smaller network part.

  apiVersion: ipam.mandelsoft.org/v1alpha1
  kind: IPAMRange
  metadata:
    name: mynetworkpool
    namespace: default
  spec:
    chunkSize: 24
    ranges:
      - 192.168.0.0/16

A range cannot be deleted as long as there are requests refering to this range.

Requests

The IPAMRequest resource is used to request the allocation of a single IP or CIDR from a dedicated pool specified by an IPAMRange object.

The allocated CIDR is reported in the status field of the object.

  apiVersion: ipam.mandelsoft.org/v1alpha1
  kind: IPAMRequest
  metadata:
    name: mynet
    namespace: default
  spec:
    ipam:
      name: mynetworkpool
  status:
    cidr: 192.168.1.0/24
    state: Ready

A request may specify a dedicated size (for example 32 for a dedicated IPv4 Address). If no size is given (either by the referenced pool or by the request itself) a single IP address is allocated (/32 or /128).

By specifying a request CIDR or IP in the field request in the request object it is possible to request the allocation of a dedicated range or IP. If it could be granted the status is set accordinly as for an anonymous request.

The allocation is released again, when the request object is deleted.

Constraints

Once created the specification of a range or request MUST never be modified.

So far there is no validating webhook yet, that prevents such operations.