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Use IPAM for IP Address Management and Allocation

Date: 29 Apr 2022

Rejected!

The proposal in this ADR was rejected! For questions, please reach out to Cloud Posse.

  • Too expensive without significant customer interest or value.

Status​

DRAFT

Problem​

Context​

It’s not required to create subpools. Subpools are used when you need a logical grouping.

Management of Subnets of a VPC

Large enterprises want to do as much route aggregation as possible.

Today​

Today, without IPAM, for existing clients, we manage “pools” in terraform using straight subnet math:

  • Pool: One supernet for the AWS organization

  • Pool: Per account

  • Pool: Per region VPC (with typically only one VPC per account, per region)

  • Per availability zone

  • public

  • private

Future​

We propose managing pools in a similar manner, but introducing a pool for the OU.

  • One supernet for the AWS organization

  • Per OU

  • Per region

  • Per VPC (with typically only one VPC per account, per region) - final pool

  • Per availability zone - all AZ subnets are siblings of each other, and children of the VPC

  • public

  • private

The more pools we create, the hard it is to leverage route aggregation.

Use-case: Grant VPN Access in Zscaler to all non-production networks​

Use-case: Production VPC has reached 90% capacity in us-east-1 and need to add IPs​

Use-case: New production account added and needs VPCs in 2 regions​

Proposal 1

components:
  terraform:
    # manage the organization's IPAM
    ipam:
      vars:
        organization_admin_account: network
        organization_pool_cidr: 10.0.0.0/8
        operating_regions:
            - name: ue1
              cidr: 10.0.0.0/12
            - name: ec1
              cidr: 10.16.0.0/12
            - name: ap1
              cidr: 10.32.0.0/12
        pools:
          - name: ue1-phi-data
            cidr_range: 10.0.0.0/13
            parent: ue1
          - name: ue1-non-phi-data
            cidr_range: 10.8.0.0/13
            parent: ue1
          - name: ec1-phi-data
            cidr_range: 10.16.0.0/13
            parent: ec1
          - name: ec1-non-phi-data
            cidr_range: 10.24.0.0/13
            parent: ec1
          - name: ap1-phi-data
            cidr_range: 10.32.0.0/13
            parent: ap1
          - name: ap1-non-phi-data
            cidr_range: 10.40.0.0/13
            parent: ap1

Considered Options​

Option 1:​

Option 2:​

Option 3:​

Decision​

DECIDED:

Consequences​

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