Docker IP Utilization Check Script

This script scans the Docker overlay networks in a swarm and attempts to determine whether the network has available capacity in its IP address subnet ranges to upgrade to an 18.06 version of the docker engine from an older version of the engine. (However, as it turns out the 18.03 version of the engine has a one-time fix that will prevent issues upgrading to 18.06 or later.) The reason that such an upgrade may not be seemless is that the 18.06 engine introduced a scalability improvement to Docker load balancing that requires allocating an additional IP address per node in the docker cluster that attaches to the overlay network.

The script flags several potential conditions for each overlay:

• IP address space is already completely exhausted
• IP address space will be over capacity if upgrading to Docker engine 18.06 or late
• IP address space could become exhausted in the overlay if the cluster size scales up to a certain number of nodes
• IP address space is allocated to > 80% capacity

Building the Container

docker image build -t docker/ip-util-check .

Running the Container

docker run -it --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
        docker/ip-util-check