kilo/docs/userspace-wireguard.md
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FEATURE: user space wireguard
Add the possibility to use a user space implementation of wireguard. Specifically, the rust implementation boringtun.
2020-12-29 18:50:58 +01:00

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# Userspace WireGuard
It is possible to use a userspace implementation of WireGuard with Kilo.
This can make sense if
* not all nodes in the cluster have WireGuard installed
* no one wants to install the DKMS WireGuard package on these nodes
## Homogeneous Cluster
With a homogeneous cluster (no node has the WireGuard kernel module), you can run a userspace WireGuard implementation as a DaemonSet.
This will create a WireGuard interface and Kilo will configure it.
In order to avoid a race condition, `kg` needs to be passed the `--create-interface=false` flag.
An example configuration for a k3s cluster with [boringtun](https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun) can be applied with
```shell
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/squat/Kilo/master/manifests/kilo-k3s-userspace.yaml
```
__Note:__ even if some nodes have the WireGuard kernel module, this will still use the userspace implementation of WireGuard.
## Heterogeneous Cluster
If you have a heterogeneous cluster (some nodes are missing the WireGuard kernel module) and you wish to use the kernel module, if available, you can apply this configuration to a k3s cluster:
```shell
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/squat/Kilo/master/manifests/kilo-k3s-userspace-heterogeneous.yaml
```
This config will apply [nkml](https://github.com/leonnicolas/nkml) as a DaemonSet to label all nodes according to the presence of the WireGuard kernel module.
It will apply two different DaemonSets with Kilo: `kilo` without userspace WireGuard and `kilo-userspace` with boringtun as a sidecar.
Because Kilo is dependant on nkml, it needs to run on the host network and needs a kubeconfig to be able to update the labels.