In my last blog I took a look at some of the different IP addresses that get assigned in a standard Kubernetes cluster, but an obvious follow-on question is, how do pods get those IP addresses?, and to answer that question we need to talk about network plugins. The Kubernetes project took the decision to delegate this part of container networking to external software, in order to make it a more flexible system that can be adapted to different use cases. The way this is done is that the projec...
