Purpose: Docker and Kubernetes network troubleshooting can become complex. With proper understanding of how Docker and Kubernetes networking works and the right set of tools, you can troubleshoot and resolve these networking issues. The netshoot container has a set of powerful networking tshooting tools that can be used to troubleshoot Docker networking issues. Along with these tools come a set of use-cases that show how this container can be used in real-world scenarios.
Network Namespaces: Before starting to use this tool, it's important to go over one key topic: Network Namespaces. Network namespaces provide isolation of the system resources associated with networking. Docker uses network and other type of namespaces (pid,mount,user..etc) to create an isolated environment for each container. Everything from interfaces, routes, and IPs is completely isolated within the network namespace of the container.
Kubernetes also uses network namespaces. Kubelets creates a network namespace per pod where all containers in that pod share that same network namespace (eths,IP, tcp sockets...etc). This is a key difference between Docker containers and Kubernetes pods.
Cool thing about namespaces is that you can switch between them. You can enter a different container's network namespace, perform some troubleshooting on its network's stack with tools that aren't even installed on that container. Additionally, netshoot can be used to troubleshoot the host itself by using the host's network namespace. This allows you to perform any troubleshooting without installing any new packages directly on the host or your application's package.
Netshoot with Docker
Container's Network Namespace: If you're having networking issues with your application's container, you can launch netshoot with that container's network namespace like this:
$ docker run -it --net container:<container_name> nicolaka/netshoot
Host's Network Namespace: If you think the networking issue is on the host itself, you can launch netshoot with that host's network namespace:
$ docker run -it --net host nicolaka/netshoot
Network's Network Namespace: If you want to troubleshoot a Docker network, you can enter the network's namespace using nsenter. This is explained in the nsenter section below.
Netshoot with Docker Compose
You can easily deploy netshoot using Docker Compose using something like this:
Many network issues could result in application performance degradation. Some of those issues could be related to the underlying networking infrastructure(underlay). Others could be related to misconfiguration at the host or Docker level. Let's take a look at common networking issues:
latency
routing
DNS resolution
firewall
incomplete ARPs
To troubleshoot these issues, netshoot includes a set of powerful tools as recommended by this diagram.
Included Packages: The following packages are included in netshoot. We'll go over some with some sample use-cases.
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