This document applies to the HEAD of the calico-containers source tree.
View the calico-containers documentation for the latest release here.
Calico can be used as a network plugin for Kubernetes to provide connectivity and network policy in a Kubernetes cluster. Calico allows you to enforce fine-grained network security policy natively in Kubernetes. The video below shows a quick demonstration of Calico policy in action.
The following guides help you get started with Calico.
These guides let you get a cluster set up quickly, and walk you through using Calico for networking and network policy.
These guides walk you through setting up a Kubernetes cluster with Calico.
- Integration Guide (Recommended) - Discusses adding Calico to an existing cluster.
- CoreOS bare-metal
- Ubuntu bare-metal
- The kube-proxy must be started in
iptablesproxy mode. This is the default as of Kubernetes v1.2.0.