Enable IPv6 with Portworx on bare metal

Supported configurations

IPv6 is supported by Portworx in the following configurations:

Operating system	Kubernetes version	Portworx configuration
CentOS 7.9 Kernel: 3.10.0-1160.53.1	1.23.0	Portworx Operator based installation Dual network - Management and Data traffic on a separate network
CentOS 7.6 Kernel: 5.7.12-1	1.20.0	Portworx Operator based installation Single network - Management and Data traffic on a same network
Ubuntu 18.04.4 Kernel: v5.3	1.23.0	Portworx Operator based installation Single network - Management and Data traffic on a same network

Supported features

Portworx supports the following features with IPv6:

• All basic features of Portworx
• Prometheus monitoring
• Autopilot

Unsupported features

Portworx does not support the following features with IPv6:

• Portworx installation with mixed mode (IPv4 & IPv6)
• Portworx installation with Cloud Drives
• Portworx installation with proxy
• PX-Central License Server
• PX-Backup
• Asynchronous and Synchronous disaster recovery (DR)
• Telemetry

Enable IPv6 support

To enable IPv6 support, perform the following steps:

1. Specify your internal registry's Portworx operator image path in your Portworx operator spec. Replace the line image: portworx/px-operator:<version_number> in the generated Portworx operator spec with the path to your internal registry operator image. For example:

   image: <image_registry_hostname>/<repo_name>/<image_name>:<tag>

2. If your internal registry is password protected, create a secret to store the credentials, then specify the internal registry access info in the Portworx Storage Cluster spec. For example:

   imagePullSecret: <secret_name>
   customImageRegistry: <image_registry_hostname>/<repo_name>

3. Specify the oci-monitor path in the internal registry. For example:

   spec:
     image: <image_registry_hostname>/<repo_name>/<image_name>:<tag>

4. For dual network deployments, specify network configuration. For example:

     network:
       dataInterface: <interface_name_for_data_traffic>
       mgmtInterface: <interface_name_for_mgmt_traffic>