DRA Chainable Networking Proposal

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

DRA Chainable Networking

A proposal for declarative, composable network configuration in Kubernetes using DRA device requests with dependOn chaining — enabling bonding, VLANs, tuning, and mixed NIC + GPU topologies in a single ResourceClaim.

Constraint: this proposal uses only the existing DRA API (DeviceClass, ResourceClaim, ResourceSlice, opaque config). No upstream API extensions are required.

1. Problem Statement

Today’s DRA network drivers face a fundamental limitation: complex network topologies cannot be expressed declaratively within the DRA API.

VLAN on Sebastian Scheinkman - Red Hat Openshift, Networking, Kubernetes and Cloud Native

DRA Chainable Networking Proposal

DRA Chainable Networking

1. Problem Statement