Any way to access Calico network by non-Calico nodes

Question

I am very new to Calico and Calico networking, so far I went through the Calico docs.
My question is, is there any way to access Calico network by non-Calico nodes?
Went through all the docs, but haven't found any solution, am I missing something ?

Answer 1

If you check the documentation here https://docs.projectcalico.org/v2.6/usage/external-connectivity , you will find, it is mentioned there in Inbound connectivity part:-
BGP peering into your network infrastructure, or using orchestrator specific options..

But if you want to get simple connectivity, a better option is to run calico/node service and calicoctl command line tool can be used to launch calico/node container, which is configured to connect to the datastore being used, on a non-calico node.
That will cause the routes to be distributed to the host and then it would be able to access the workloads.
Found similar ref: https://github.com/projectcalico/calico/issues/858
Hope this helps you