DANM

What DANM is

DANM is a Kubernetes network management suite for Linux clusters, originally developed as Nokia’s TelCo-grade solution. Its CNI metaplugin can give a Pod multiple network interfaces and delegate their setup to other CNI plugins. Built-in IP address management supports dynamic, static, or no allocation for IPv4 and IPv6, with up to 8 million allocations per network object. Its IPVLAN CNI provides L2 interfaces and supports routes, including policy-based routes, inside Pod network namespaces. Documentation describes integrations with Intel SR-IOV and MACVLAN, plus delegation to Calico and Flannel. For clusters with tenant and administrator roles, production-grade mode provides TenantNetwork and ClusterNetwork APIs for managing shared resources. An optional Svcwatcher extends Kubernetes Service discovery across a Pod’s interfaces, while a webhook validates API objects and connects tenant networks to configured physical interface profiles. DANM is free under the 3-Clause BSD License. Users must create a Kubernetes cluster and install it manually; the deployment guide reports testing with Kubernetes 1.17.x and no official support for versions earlier than 1.9.x.