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Portmap (HostPort)

Starting from Cilium 1.8, the Kubernetes HostPort feature is supported natively through Cilium's eBPF-based kube-proxy replacement. CNI chaining is therefore not needed anymore. For more information, see section :ref:kubeproxyfree_hostport.

However, for the case where Cilium is deployed as kubeProxyReplacement=false, the HostPort feature can then be enabled via CNI chaining with the portmap plugin which implements HostPort. This guide documents how to enable the latter for the chaining case.

For more general information about the Kubernetes HostPort feature, check out the upstream documentation: Kubernetes hostPort-CNI plugin documentation <https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/compute-storage-net/network-plugins/#support-hostport>_.

.. note::

Before using HostPort, read the Kubernetes Configuration Best Practices <https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/overview/>_ to understand the implications of this feature.

Deploy Cilium with the portmap plugin enabled

Install the portmap binaries. Some Kubernetes distributions will do this for you, in which case you don't need to do anything. However, if portmap is not available on your worker nodes, you must install it into /opt/cni/bin/. You can find binaries from the CNI project releases page <https://github.com/containernetworking/plugins/releases>_.

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Deploy Cilium release via Helm:

.. cilium-helm-install:: :namespace: kube-system :set: cni.chainingMode=portmap

.. note::

You can combine the cni.chainingMode=portmap option with any of the other installation guides.

As Cilium is deployed as a DaemonSet, it will write a new CNI configuration. The new configuration now enables HostPort. Any new pod scheduled is now able to make use of the HostPort functionality.

Restart existing pods

The new CNI chaining configuration will not apply to any pod that is already running the cluster. Existing pods will be reachable and Cilium will load-balance to them but policy enforcement will not apply to them and load-balancing is not performed for traffic originating from existing pods. You must restart these pods in order to invoke the chaining configuration on them.