Overview
This document describes how to deploy blueprints from Akraino's KNI Blueprint Family. It is common to all blueprints in that family, unless otherwise noted.
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Pre-Requisites for Deploying to Bare Metal
The baremetal UPI install can be optionally automated when using knictl (see below). When attempting a manual baremetal UPI install, however, please be sure to read: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.1/installing/installing_bare_metal/installing-bare-metal.html
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- Download DVD iso from http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/ , place it on /tmp
Mount it:
Code Block language bash mount -o loop /tmp/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1810.iso /mnt/ mkdir -p $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/baremetal_automation/matchbox-data/var/lib/matchbox/assets/centos7 cp -ar /mnt/. $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/baremetal_automation/matchbox-data/var/lib/matchbox/assets/centos7/ umount /mnt
Prepare a $HOME/settings_upi.env file with the following parameters:
Code Block language bash export CLUSTER_NAME="$CLUSTER_NAME" export BASE_DOMAIN="$CLUSTER_DOMAIN" export PULL_SECRET='your_pull_secret' export KUBECONFIG_PATH=$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/baremetal_automation/ocp/auth/kubeconfig export OS_INSTALL_ENDPOINT=http://172.22.0.1:8080/assets/centos7 export ROOT_PASSWORD="pick_something"Navigate to the kickstart script generation and execute it, copying the generated kickstart file:
Code Block language bash cd $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/baremetal_automation/kickstart/ bash add_kickstart_for_centos.sh cp centos-worker-kickstart.cfg $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/baremetal_automation/matchbox-data/var/lib/matchbox/assets/
- After that, you are ready to deploy your CentOS workers with the usual procedure.
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