Similar to our Kafka exporter, we can have an IPFIX exporter, configured via the CRD, that exports enriched flows to any IPFIX collector.

This feature must not be confused with the Agent type, which can be either ebpf or ipfix. The IPFIX exporter will be possible to use regardless of that Agent type, and this feature does NOT change anything regarding the flow generation source.

Ie when configuring the IPFIX export, the flow pipeline would either be:

ebpf agent => flowlogs-pipeline (enricher) => ipfix export

or:

OVS / ipfix => flowlogs-pipeline (enricher) => ipfix export

This feature request was initially made on github upstream: https://github.com/netobserv/network-observability-operator/issues/296