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Calico networking

Calico is the default networking plugin for MKE. The default Calico encapsulation setting for MKE is VXLAN, however the plugin also supports IP-in-IP encapsulation. Refer to the Calico documentation on Overlay networking for more information.

Important

NetworkManager can impair the Calico agent routing function. To resolve this issue, you must create a file called /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/calico.conf with the following content:

[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=interface-name:cali*;interface-name:tunl*;interface-name:vxlan.calico;interface-name:wireguard.cali