About networking

    The following list highlights some of the most commonly used Red Hat OpenShift Networking features available on your cluster:

    • Primary cluster network provided by either of the following Container Network Interface (CNI) plugins:

      • OVN-Kubernetes network plugin, the default

      • OpenShift SDN network plugin, an optional alternative

    • Certified 3rd-party alternative primary network plugins

    • Ingress Operator for TLS encrypted web traffic

    • DNS Operator for name assignment

    • MetalLB Operator for traffic load balancing on bare metal clusters

    • IP failover support for high-availability

    • Hybrid Linux-Windows host clusters for Windows-based workloads

    • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh for discovery, load balancing, service-to-service authentication, failure recovery, metrics, and monitoring of services

    • Single-node OpenShift

    • Submariner and technologies for inter-cluster networking