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Plugins Overview

These are general-purpose CNI network plugins maintained by the containernetworking team. For more information, see the individual plugin pages.

Reference plugins:

Main: interface-creating

  • bridge : Creates a bridge, adds the host and the container to it
  • ipvlan : Adds an ipvlan interface in the container
  • macvlan : Creates a new MAC address, forwards all traffic to that to the container
  • ptp : Creates a veth pair
  • host-device : Moves an already-existing device into a container
  • vlan : Creates a vlan interface off a master

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 a container
  • host-local : Maintains a local database of allocated IPs
  • static : Allocates static IPv4/IPv6 addresses to containers

Meta: other plugins

  • tuning : Changes 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

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