github.com/cilium/cilium@v1.16.2/Documentation/network/pod-mac-address.rst (about) 1 .. only:: not (epub or latex or html) 2 3 WARNING: You are looking at unreleased Cilium documentation. 4 Please use the official rendered version released here: 5 https://docs.cilium.io 6 7 .. _pod_mac_address: 8 9 ************************************ 10 Use a Specific MAC Address for a Pod 11 ************************************ 12 13 Some applications bind software licenses to network interface MAC addresses. 14 Cilium provides the ability to specific MAC addresses for pods 15 at deploy time instead of letting the operating system allocate them. 16 17 18 Configuring the address 19 ####################### 20 21 Cilium will configure the MAC address for the primary interface inside a 22 Pod if you specify the MAC address in the ``cni.cilium.io/mac-address`` 23 annotation before deploying the Pod. 24 This MAC address is isolated to the container so it will 25 not collide with any other MAC addresses assigned to other Pods on the same 26 node. The MAC address must be specified **before** deploying the Pod. 27 28 Annotate the pod with ``cni.cilium.io/mac-address`` set to the desired MAC address. 29 For example: 30 31 .. code-block:: yaml 32 33 apiVersion: v1 34 kind: Pod 35 metadata: 36 annotations: 37 cni.cilium.io/mac-address: e2:9c:30:38:52:61 38 labels: 39 app: busybox 40 name: busybox 41 namespace: default 42 43 Deploy the Pod. Cilium will configure the mac address to the first interface in the Pod automatically. 44 Check whether its mac address is the specified mac address. 45 46 .. code-block:: shell-session 47 48 $ kubectl exec -it busybox -- ip addr 49 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue qlen 1000 50 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 51 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo 52 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 53 inet6 ::1/128 scope host 54 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 55 7: eth0@if8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP,M-DOWN> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue qlen 1000 56 link/ether e2:9c:30:38:52:61 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 57 inet 10.244.2.195/32 scope global eth0 58 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 59 inet6 fe80::e46d:f4ff:fe4d:ebca/64 scope link 60 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever