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Hosting Variants Features Matrix

See also Hosting Variants.

Hosting Variant L2Bridge DNSProxy HttpProxy VFPRules
Host ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Multi VM ✔ ✘ ✔ ✔
Development-Only ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘
Linux-only1 ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
Host (WSL) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Multi VM (WSL) not supported not supported not supported not supported
Development-Only (WSL) ✘ ✘ ✔ ✘
Linux-only1 (WSL) not supported not supported not supported not supported

L2Bridge

Creation of L2Bridge is essential for communication between Pods across Linux and Windows nodes. In principle, a network adapter named cbr0 is created to facilitate communication across nodes.

DNSProxy

Acts as internal DNS server on Windows node. Status can be checked with cmd nssm status dnsproxy.

HttpProxy

Internal proxy running on Windows node. Status can be checked with cmd nssm status httpproxy.

In order to access resources on the internet the following proxy settings need to be used:

  • Host: Proxy http://172.19.1.1:8181 needs to be used inside Linux Pods and Windows Pods. The Linux node needs the proxy as well.
  • Multi VM: Proxy http://172.19.1.101:8181 needs to be used only inside Windows Pods. Linux and Windows nodes can reach the internet through NAT directly as well as Linux Pods.
  • Linux-only: No proxy needs to be used. Internet access is possible through NAT.

Example

Bash Session
curl www.example.com --proxy http://172.19.1.1:8181

VFPRules

Dynamic rules added in cbr0 switch for Windows containers networking.

  1. Linux-only is technically a Multi VM setup without a Windows worker VM and therefor not mentioned in Hosting Variants. ↩↩