CNI-Genie

CNI-Genie enables container orchestrators (Kubernetes, Mesos) to seamlessly connect to the choice of CNI plugins installed on a host, including:

1. ‘reference’ CNI plugins, e.g., bridge, macvlan, ipvlan, loopback
2. ‘3rd-party’ CNI plugins, e.g., (Calico, Romana, Weave-net)
3. ‘specialized’ CNI plugins, e.g., SR-IOV, DPDK (work-in-progress)
4. any generic CNI plugin of choice installed on the host
   

Without CNI-Genie, the orchestrator is bound to only a single CNI plugin. E.g., for the case of Kubernetes, without CNI-Genie, kubelet is bound to only a single CNI plugin passed to kubelet on start. CNI-Genie allows for the co-existance of multiple CNI plugins in runtime.