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tenus - Linux networking in Golang

tenus - Linux networking in Golang

This is a presentation I gave at the biggest DevOps exchange meetup in London on a Go package I created to manage and configured network devices on Linux OS programmatically.

There is also an accompanying blog post: http://containerops.org/2014/07/30/tenus-golang-powered-linux-networking/

Milos Gajdos

July 30, 2014
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  1. About me… • Ex-Rackspace, couple of startups in and outside

    of UK • Currently freelancing • Twitter: @milosgajdos • Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/milosgajdos • Professional (technology) ranter or just another Ops guy • Programming language tourist, currently loving Go
  2. How and why docknet • Started as a personal interest

    in Linux container networking
 (http://containerops.org/2013/11/19/lxc-networking/) • At the moment, Docker does not offer advanced networking functionality available in LXC/OpenVZ • There does not seem to exist any properly functional Go library which would allow you to configure Linux networking programatically without shelling out
  3. Infrastructure delivery • Network is an essential part of IT

    infrastructure • Well designed network offers better scalability, security, easier management etc. • Legacy network setups and various esoteric or financial requirements leave us deal with ….
  4. Netlink & RTNetlink • Netlink is a datagram-oriented messaging system

    in Linux for user-space applications to communicate with Linux kernel • mostly used by networking tools (iproute2), but there is some use of it in other non-networking kernel subsystems • RtNetlink is a library used for configuring and managing networking devices, routing, neighbouring etc.
  5. Go netlink • Found 2 Go implementations: 1. github.com/abneptis/GoNetlink •

    does not seem to be actively developed any more - last commit about 4 years ago • couldn’t compile it with latest Go compiler 2. github.com/docker/libcontainer/ (netlink package) • used by Docker \o/ • more idiomatic, still work in progress • seems broken - NEEDS FIXING
  6. tenus (https://github.com/milosgajdos83/tenus) • general network managing and configuration library for

    Linux OS - not just containers! • uses properly functioning netlink package which offers more functionality than libcontainer’s one (VLANs, MAC VLANs etc.) • no syscalls in netlink package any more - syscalls are NOT netlink ! • allows for advanced networking configuration of your containers (not necessarily Docker based): VLANs, MAC VLANs, multiple network interfaces etc. • Still MASSIVELY WORK IN PROGRESS • Read more about it here: http://containerops.org/2014/07/30/tenus-golang-powered-linux-networking/
  7. tenus examples • Add an extra veth interface into Docker

    from the host machine: https://gist.github.com/milosgajdos83/7cc9028a962fb5635ada • Add a MAC VLAN interfaces into Docker from the host machine: https://gist.github.com/milosgajdos83/296fb90d076f259a5b0a • Add a VLAN interfaces into Docker from the host machine: https://gist.github.com/milosgajdos83/9f68b1818dca886e9ae8
  8. Links • http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3549.txt • http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8498 • http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/netlink.7.html • http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/netlink.3.html •

    https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/net/core/rtnetlink.c • https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/rtnetlink.h • https://github.com/docker/libcontainer/blob/master/netlink/ netlink_linux.go