Binary install with package manager

Prerequisites

• Install calicoctl as a binary.

• Configure calicoctl to connect to etcd.

Installing Felix

There are several ways to install Felix.

• If you are running Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04, you can install from our PPA:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:project-calico/master
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  sudo apt-get install calico-felix
  

• If you are running a RedHat 7-derived distribution, you can install from our RPM repository:

  cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/calico.repo <<EOF
  [calico]
  name=Calico Repository
  baseurl=http://binaries.projectcalico.org/rpm/master/
  enabled=1
  skip_if_unavailable=0
  gpgcheck=1
  gpgkey=http://binaries.projectcalico.org/rpm/master/key
  priority=97
  EOF
  
  yum install calico-felix
  

Until you initialize the database, Felix will make a regular log that it is in state “wait-for-ready”. The default location for the log file is /var/log/calico/felix.log.

Initializing the etcd database

You should configure a node resource for each host running Felix. In this case, the database is initialized after creating the first node resource. For a deployment that does not include the Calico/BGP integration, the specification of a node resource just requires the name of the node; for most deployments this will be the same as the hostname.

calicoctl create -f - <<EOF
- apiVersion: projectcalico.org/v3
  kind: Node
  metadata:
    name: <node name or hostname>
EOF

The Felix logs should transition from periodic notifications that Felix is in the state wait-for-ready to a stream of initialization messages.