calicoctl ipam show

This section describes the calicoctl ipam show command.

Read the calicoctl Overview for a full list of calicoctl commands.

Displaying the help text for ‘calicoctl ipam show’ command

Run calicoctl ipam show --help to display the following help menu for the command.

  1. Usage:
  2.   calicoctl ipam show [--ip=<IP> | --show-blocks] [--config=<CONFIG>]
  4. Options:
  5.   -h --help                Show this screen.
  6.      --ip=<IP>             Report whether this specific IP address is in use.
  7.      --show-blocks         Show detailed information for IP blocks as well as pools.
  8.      --show-borrowed       Show detailed information for "borrowed" IP addresses.
  9.      --show-configuration  Show current Calico IPAM configuration.
  10.   -c --config=<CONFIG>     Path to the file containing connection
  11.                            configuration in YAML or JSON format.
  12.                            [default: /etc/calico/calicoctl.cfg]
  14. Description:
  15.   The ipam show command prints information about a given IP address, or about
  16.   overall IP usage.

Examples

  1. Print the information associated with an IP address.

    1. calicoctl ipam show --ip=192.168.1.2

    The following result indicates that the IP is not assigned to an endpoint.

    1. IP 192.168.1.2 is not currently assigned

  2. Print the information associated with a different IP address.

    1. calicoctl ipam show --ip=10.244.118.70

    For a Kubernetes pod IP, attributes indicate the pod name and namespace:

    1. IP 10.244.118.70 is in use
    2. Attributes:
    3.   pod: nano-66d4c99f8b-jm5s9
    4.   namespace: default
    5.   node: ip-172-16-101-160.us-west-2.compute.internal

  3. Print a summary of IP usage.

    1. calicoctl ipam show

    The table shows usage for each IP Pool:

    1. +----------+-------------------+------------+------------+-------------------+
    2. | GROUPING |       CIDR        | IPS TOTAL  | IPS IN USE |     IPS FREE      |
    3. +----------+-------------------+------------+------------+-------------------+
    4. | IP Pool  | 10.65.0.0/16      |      65536 | 5 (0%)     | 65531 (100%)      |
    5. | IP Pool  | fd5f:abcd:64::/48 | 1.2089e+24 | 7 (0%)     | 1.2089e+24 (100%) |
    6. +----------+-------------------+------------+------------+-------------------+

  4. Print more detailed IP usage by blocks.

    1. calicoctl ipam show --show-blocks

    As well as the total usage per IP Pool, the table shows usage for block that has been allocated from those pools:

    1. +----------+-------------------------------------------+------------+------------+-------------------+
    2. | GROUPING |                   CIDR                    | IPS TOTAL  | IPS IN USE |     IPS FREE      |
    3. +----------+-------------------------------------------+------------+------------+-------------------+
    4. | IP Pool  | 10.65.0.0/16                              |      65536 | 5 (0%)     | 65531 (100%)      |
    5. | Block    | 10.65.79.0/26                             |         64 | 5 (8%)     | 59 (92%)          |
    6. | IP Pool  | fd5f:abcd:64::/48                         | 1.2089e+24 | 7 (0%)     | 1.2089e+24 (100%) |
    7. | Block    | fd5f:abcd:64:4f2c:ec1b:27b9:1989:77c0/122 |         64 | 7 (11%)    | 57 (89%)          |
    8. +----------+-------------------------------------------+------------+------------+-------------------+

  5. Print more detailed information about borrowed IP addresses.

    1. calicoctl ipam show --show-borrowed

    Table shows which IP addresses have been borrowed by which node out of which block and the entity consuming it:

    1. +------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+------+------------------------------------+
    2. |     IP     | BORROWING-NODE  |     BLOCK     |  BLOCK OWNER  | TYPE |            ALLOCATED-TO            |
    3. +------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+------+------------------------------------+
    4. | 172.16.0.1 | worker-node-1   | 172.16.0.0/29 | worker-node-2 | pod  | external-ns/nginx-6db489d4b7-gln7h |
    5. | 172.16.0.2 | worker-node-3   | 172.16.0.0/29 | worker-node-2 | pod  | external-ns/nginx-6db489d4b7-kzkbv |
    6. +------------+-----------------+---------------+---------------+------+------------------------------------+

  6. Print current IPAM configuration.

    1. calicoctl ipam show --show-configuration

    Table shows current IPAM configuration:

    1. +--------------------+-------+
    2. |      PROPERTY      | VALUE |
    3. +--------------------+-------+
    4. | StrictAffinity     | false |
    5. | AutoAllocateBlocks | true  |
    6. +--------------------+-------+

Options

  1. --ip=<IP>             Specific IP address to show.
  2. --show-blocks         Show detailed information for IP blocks as well as pools.
  3. --show-borrowed       Show detailed information for "borrowed" IP addresses.
  4. --show-configuration  Show current Calico IPAM configuration

General options

  1. -c --config=<CONFIG>       Path to the file containing connection
  2.                            configuration in YAML or JSON format.
  3.                            [default: /etc/calico/calicoctl.cfg]

See also