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ScyllaDB Docs ScyllaDB Operator Management Networking IPv6 networking Configure IPv6-only networking

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Configure IPv6-only networking¶

What you’ll achieve: Deploy a ScyllaDB cluster that uses only IPv6 for all communication.

Before you begin:

  • You have a Kubernetes cluster with IPv6 support

  • You have ScyllaDB Operator installed

  • You have kubectl configured

  • Your cluster and applications support IPv6-only operation

After completion: Your ScyllaDB cluster will use only IPv6 for all communication.

Warning

Experimental Feature: IPv6-only configurations are experimental. See Production readiness for details. For production deployments, use dual-stack with IPv4 or dual-stack with IPv6 instead.

Step 1: Apply the configuration¶

Apply the IPv6-only configuration:

kubectl create namespace scylla
kubectl apply -f=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/{{repository}}/{{revision}}/examples/ipv6/scylla-cluster-ipv6.yaml

Step 2: Wait for the cluster to be ready¶

Monitor pod creation:

kubectl get pods -n scylla -l scylla-operator.scylladb.com/pod-type=scylladb-node -w

Wait until all pods show Running status.

Step 3: Verify IPv6-only configuration¶

Check that pods have IPv6 addresses:

kubectl get pods -n scylla -l scylla-operator.scylladb.com/pod-type=scylladb-node -o wide

Expected output shows IPv6 addresses in the IP column:

NAME                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE   IP                NODE
scylla-ipv6-datacenter-... 2/2     Running   0          5m    fd00:10:244:1::7f scylla-worker-1
scylla-ipv6-datacenter-... 2/2     Running   0          4m    fd00:10:244:2::6d scylla-worker-2
scylla-ipv6-datacenter-... 2/2     Running   0          3m    fd00:10:244:3::6c scylla-worker-3

Step 4: Verify cluster health¶

Check that all nodes are up:

NAMESPACE=scylla
CLUSTER_NAME=scylla-ipv6

pods=$(kubectl -n "${NAMESPACE}" get pods -l scylla/cluster="${CLUSTER_NAME}" -l scylla-operator.scylladb.com/pod-type=scylladb-node -o name)

for pod in ${pods}; do
  kubectl -n "${NAMESPACE}" exec "${pod}" -c scylla -- nodetool status
done

Expected output shows IPv6 addresses:

Datacenter: datacenter
======================
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
--  Address              Load      Tokens  Owns  Host ID                              Rack
UN  fd00:10:244:1::7f    501.79 KB 256     ?     4583fff5-2aa6-4041-9be8-c74bcabaff8c rack
UN  fd00:10:244:2::6d    494.49 KB 256     ?     b1f889b4-80e7-4685-a3c5-1b81797c2ce4 rack
UN  fd00:10:244:3::6c    494.96 KB 256     ?     7a4bb6da-415e-4fc3-a6ca-0369c0e76bf0 rack

Next steps¶

  • Troubleshoot IPv6 issues

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    • Step 1: Apply the configuration
    • Step 2: Wait for the cluster to be ready
    • Step 3: Verify IPv6-only configuration
    • Step 4: Verify cluster health
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