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Introduction

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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/4.4/installing/installing_bare_metal/installing-bare-metal.html

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mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/gerrit.akraino.org/kni
cd $GOPATH/src/gerrit.akraino.org/kni
git clone https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/kni/installer
cd installer
make build
mkdir -p $GOPATH/bin/
cp knictl $GOPATH/bin/

cp knictl /usr/local/go/bin/

Secrets

Most secrets (TLS certificates, Kubernetes API keys, etc.) will be auto-generated for you, but you need to provide at least two secrets yourself:

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This will begin to bring up your worker nodes. 
You will need to destroy the bootstrap VM once the deploy_workers command is initiated with:

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virsh destroy <bootstrap_vm_name>

Monitor your worker nodes are you normally would during this process.  If the deployment doesn't hit any errors, you will then have a working baremetal cluster. You can monitor the state of the cluster with:

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