# 02 | CNI = Flannel [https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel](https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel) Flannel provides the pod to pod networking, using [VXLAN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Extensible_LAN). ```bash kubectl apply -f https://github.com/flannel-io/flannel/releases/latest/download/kube-flannel.yml ```