Home Network

Gateway Device Connectivity

DNS in home network does not need to be modified if you wish to use IP Addresses however if your Home Network router supports custom local DNS entries it is useful to at least add the flamenco.cluster.home domain name to point to the Gateway Device. The Flamenco Manager is proxied behind the Gateway Device. See below for more details on how to add custom local DNS entries.

Gateway Device

The Gateway Device will present various services to the Home Network including Blender Flamenco Manager.

Flamenco

The Blender Flamenco Manager uses UPnP to quickly locate Flamenco Workers on a local network. This is enabled and allows you add more Flamenco Workers if you have other computers on your Home Network. Inside the Cluster, the k8s nodes run Flamenco Workers and will register with the Flamenco Manager on the Gateway Device.

To reach the Flamenco Manager, the workstations on the Home Network will use flamenco.cluster.home or the IP address to the Gateway Device.

IP Subnet Ranges for Home Network

Typically the Gateway Device will receive something like 192.168.1.xxx address. It must not receive a subnet address that overlaps 192.168.57.0/24.

Custom DNS Entries

It may be helpful to add custom DNS entries for flamenco.cluster.home that points to the Gateway Device. Some routers allow you to add your own.

If you are trying to access the cluster monitoring software (prometheus.cluster.home, grafana.cluster.home) then these web-based services are routed using host-based-paths within the cluster.home network and must be resolved on the Home Network and used in your browser.

Example local dns entries where the Gateway Device is found at 192.168.1.xxx (Gateway Device)

flamenco.cluster.home   ---> 192.168.1.xxx (Gateway Device)
prometheus.cluster.home ---> 192.168.1.xxx (Gateway Device)
grafana.cluster.home    ---> 192.168.1.xxx (Gateway Device)