OpenShift Container Platform offers two supported choices, OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes, for the default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider. The following table summarizes the current feature support for both network providers:
Table 1. Default CNI network provider feature comparison
Feature |
OpenShift SDN |
OVN-Kubernetes |
Egress IPs |
Supported |
Supported |
Egress firewall [1] |
Supported |
Supported |
Egress router |
Supported |
Partially supported [3] |
IPsec encryption |
Not supported |
Supported |
Kubernetes network policy |
Partially supported [2] |
Supported |
Multicast |
Supported |
Supported |
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Egress firewall is also known as egress network policy in OpenShift SDN. This is not the same as network policy egress.
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Network policy for OpenShift SDN does not support egress rules and some ipBlock
rules.
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Egress router for OVN-Kubernetes supports only redirect mode.