Allow users to tune net network parameters such as somaxconn.
With this patch, users can add a new network configuration:
> {
> "name": "mytuning",
> "type": "tuning",
> "sysctl": {
> "net.core.somaxconn": "500"
> }
> }
The value /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn will be set to 500 in the network
namespace but will remain unchanged on the host.
Only sysctl parameters that belong to the network subsystem can be
modified.
Related to: https://github.com/coreos/rkt/pull/2140
appc/cni#76 added a "dns" field in the result JSON. But before this
patch, the plugins had no way of knowing which name server to return.
There could be two ways of knowing which name server to return:
1. add it as an extra argument ("CNI_ARGS")
2. add it in the network configuration as a convenience (received via
stdin)
I chose the second way because it is easier. In the case of rkt, it
means the user could just add the DNS name servers in
/etc/rkt/net.d/mynetwork.conf.
A specific IP can now be requested via the environment variable CNI_ARGS, e.g.
`CNI_ARGS=ip=1.2.3.4`.
The plugin will try to reserve the specified IP.
If this is not successful the execution will fail.
This introduces a notion of a "meta" plugin. A meta plugin
is one that delegates the actual work of setting up the interface
to the main plugin. The meta plugin is used to select and dynamically
configure the main plugin. The sequence of events, is as follows:
Given netconf like:
{
"name": "mynet",
"type": "flannel",
"delegate": {
"type": "bridge"
}
}
flannel fills in values like "mtu", "ipam.subnet" and delegates to
"bridge" main plugin. "bridge" plugin will operate as usual, calling
into ipam module for IP assignment.
Delegate dictionary should not contain "name" field as it will be
filled in by the flannel plugin.
