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Open ports to incoming traffic¶

When installing MKE on a host, you need to open specific ports to incoming traffic. Each port listens for incoming traffic from a particular set of hosts, known as the port scope.

MKE uses the following scopes:

Scope	Description
External	Traffic arrives from outside the cluster through end-user interaction.
Internal	Traffic arrives from other hosts in the same cluster.
Self	Traffic arrives to that port only from processes on the same host.

Open the following ports for incoming traffic on each host type:

Hosts	Port	Scope	Purpose
Managers, workers	TCP 179	Internal	BGP peers, used for Kubernetes networking
Managers	TCP 443 (configurable)	External, internal	MKE web UI and API
Managers	TCP 2376 (configurable)	Internal	Docker swarm manager, used for backwards compatibility
Managers	TCP 2377 (configurable)	Internal	Control communication between swarm nodes
Managers, workers	UDP 4789	Internal	Overlay networking
Managers	TCP 6443 (configurable)	External, internal	Kubernetes API server endpoint
Managers, workers	TCP 6444	Self	Kubernetes API reverse proxy
Managers, workers	TCP, UDP 7946	Internal	Gossip-based clustering
Managers, workers	TCP 9091	Self	Felix Prometheus `calico-node` metrics
Managers	TCP 9094	Self	Felix Prometheus `kube-controller` metrics
Managers, workers	TCP 9099	Self	Calico health check
Managers, workers	TCP 10250	Internal	Kubelet
Managers, workers	TCP 12376	Internal	TLS authentication proxy that provides access to MCR
Managers, workers	TCP 12378	Self	etcd reverse proxy
Managers	TCP 12379	Internal	etcd Control API
Managers	TCP 12380	Internal	etcd Peer API
Managers	TCP 12381	Internal	MKE cluster certificate authority
Managers	TCP 12382	Internal	MKE client certificate authority
Managers	TCP 12383	Internal	Authentication storage back end
Managers	TCP 12384	Internal	Authentication storage back end for replication across managers
Managers	TCP 12385	Internal	Authentication service API
Managers	TCP 12386	Internal	Authentication worker
Managers	TCP 12387	Internal	Prometheus server Beta, non-production use only
Managers	TCP 12388	Internal	Kubernetes API server
Managers, workers	TCP 12389	Self	Hardware Discovery API