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.
Pre-Installation Requirements
Resource Requirements
The resource requirements for deployment depend on the specific blueprint and deployment target. Please see:
Pre-Requisites for Deploying to AWS
For deploying a KNI blueprint to AWS, you need to
- add a public hosted DNS zone for the cluster to Route53,
- validate your AWS quota in the chosen region is sufficient,
- set up an API user account with the necessarily IAM privileges.
Please see the upstream documentation for details.
Store the aws-access-key-id
and aws-secret-access-key
in a credentials file inside $HOME/.aws, with the following format:
[default] aws_access_key_id=xxx aws_secret_access_key=xxx
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
Pre-Requisites for Deploying to Google Cloud Platform
For deploying a KNI blueprint to GCP, you need to:
- enable service APIs
- setup DNS
- ensure sufficient quota
- create a installer service account
Please, see the upstream documentation for details. As mentioned in the KNI installer repo, the service account JSON file should be located inside $HOME/.gcp with the name osServiceAccount.json.
Pre-Requisites for Deploying to Libvirt
For deploying a KNI blueprint to VMs on KVM/libvirt, you need to
- provision a machine with CentOS 1810 to serve as virthost and
- prepare the virthost by running
source utils/prep_host.sh
from the kni-installer repo on that host.
Please see the upstream documentation for details.
Create site for AWS, GCP and libvirt
In order to deploy a blueprint, you need to create a repository with a site. The site configuration is based in kustomize, and needs to use our blueprints as base, referencing that properly. Sample sites for deploying on libvirt, AWS and baremetal can be seen on: https://github.com/akraino-edge-stack/kni-blueprint-pae/tree/master/sites.
Site needs to have this structure:
.
├── 00_install-config
│ ├── install-config.name.patch.yaml
│ ├── install-config.patch.yaml
│ ├── kustomization.yaml
│ └── site-config.yaml
├── 01_cluster-mods
│ ├── kustomization.yaml
│ ├── manifests
│ └── openshift
├── 02_cluster-addons
│ └── kustomization.yaml
└── 03_services
└── kustomization.yaml
00_install-config
This folder will contain the basic settings for the site, including the base blueprint/profile, and the site name/domain. The following files are needed:
- kustomization.yaml: key file, where it will contain a link to the used blueprint/profile, and a reference to the used patches to customize the site bases:The entry in bases needs to reference the blueprint being used (in this case blueprint-pae), and the profile install-config file (in this case production.aws/00_install-config). The other entries need to be just written literally.
bases: - git::https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/kni/blueprint-pae.git//profiles/production.aws/00_install-config patches: - install-config.patch.yaml patchesJson6902: - target: version: v1 kind: InstallConfig name: cluster path: install-config.name.patch.yaml transformers: - site-config.yaml
install-config.patch.yaml: is a patch to modify the domain from the base blueprint. You need to customize with the domain you want to give to your site
apiVersion: v1 kind: InstallConfig metadata: name: cluster baseDomain: devcluster.openshift.com
- install-config.name.patch.yaml: is a patch to modify the site name from the base blueprint. You need to customize with the name you want to give to your site
- op: replace path: "/metadata/name" value: kni-site
- site-config.yaml: site configuration file, you can add entries in config to override behaviour of knictl (currently just releaseImageOverride is supported)
apiVersion: kni.akraino.org/v1alpha1 kind: SiteConfig metadata: name: notImportantHere config: releaseImageOverride: registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/origin/release:4.1
NOTE: If you are deploying on baremetal, specific configuration needs to be set. This is going to be covered in an specific section for it
01_cluster_mods
This is the directory that will contain all the customizations for the basic cluster deployment. You could create patches for modifying number of masters/workers, network settings... everything that needs to be modified on cluster deployment time. It needs to have a basic kustomization.yaml file, that will reference the same level file for the blueprint. And you could create additional patches following kustomize syntax:
bases: - git::https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/kni/blueprint-pae.git//profiles/production.aws/01_cluster-mods
02_cluster_addons and 03_services
Follow same structure as 01_cluster_mods, but in this case is for adding additional workloads after cluster deployment. They also need to have a kustomization.yaml file that references the file of the same level for the blueprint, and can include additional resources and patches.
How to deploy on AWS, GCP and libvirt
The whole deployment workflow is based on knictl CLI tool that this repository is providing.
CLI tool
The current KNI blueprints use the openshift-install
tool from the OKD Kubernetes distro to stand up a minimal Kubernetes cluster. All other Day 1 and Day 2 operations are then driven purely through manipulation of declarative Kubernetes manifests. To use this in the context of Akraino KNI blueprints, the project has created a helper CLI tool that needs to be installed first on Installer Node.
If necessary, install golang binary (incl. GOPATH var) using following steps, you can use latest version instead of the one given below.
wget https://golang.org/dl/go1.13.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.13.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
Next, install the following dependencies:
sudo yum install -y make gcc libvirt-devel
Then install the knictl:
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:
- a public SSH key
- a pull secret
The public SSH key is automatically added to every machine provisioned into the cluster and allows remote access to that machine. In case you don't have / want to use an existing key, you can create a new key pair using:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
The pull secret is used to download the container images used during cluster deployment. Unfortunately, the OKD Kubernetes distro used by the KNI blueprints does not (yet) provide pre-built container images for all of the deployed components. Instead of going through the hassle of building those from source, we use the ones made available by openshift.com. Therefore, you need to go to https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/metal/user-provisioned, log in (creating a free account, if necessary), and hit "Download Pull Secret".
Create a $HOME/.kni folder and copy the following files:
- id_rsa.pub → needs to contain the public key that you want to use to access your nodes
- pull-secret.json → needs to contain the pull secret previously copied
1. Fetch requirements for a site.
You need to have a site repository with the structure described above. Then, first thing is to fetch the requirements needed for the blueprint that the site references. This is achieved by:
./knictl fetch_requirements github.com/site-repo.git
Where the first argument references a site repository, following https://github.com/hashicorp/go-getter syntax. This will download the site repository, and will create a folder with the site name inside $HOME/.kni . It will also fetch all the binaries needed, and will store them inside $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/requirements folder.
2. Prepare manifests for a site
NOTE: Before performing this step, you must copy your OpenShift pull secret into your build path (i.e. to ~/.kni/pull-secret.json).
Next step is to run a procedure to prepare all the manifests for deploying a site. This is achieved by applying kustomize on the site repository, combining that with the base manifests for the blueprint, and doing a merge with the manifests generated by the installer at runtime. This is achieved by the following command:
./knictl prepare_manifests $SITE_NAME
This will generate a set of manifests ready to apply, and will be stored on $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/final_manifests folder. Along with manifests, a profile.env file has been created also in $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME folder. It includes environment vars that can be sourced before deploying the cluster. Current vars that can be exported are:
- OPENSHIFT_INSTALL_RELEASE_IMAGE_OVERRIDE : used when a new image is wanted, instead of the default one
- TF_VAR_libvirt_master_memory, TF_VAR_libvirt_master_vcpu: Used in the libvirt case, to define the memory and CPU for the vms.
3. Deploy the cluster
Manual
Before starting the deployment, it is recommended to source the env vars from profile.env . You can achieve it with:
source $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/profile.env
If you are deploying on AWS or libvirt, then you need to deploy the cluster. This can be achieved with:
$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/requirements/openshift-install create cluster --dir=$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/final_manifests
This will deploy a cluster based on the specified manifests. You can learn more about how to manage cluster deployment and how to interact with it on https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.1/welcome/index.html
Specific instructions for baremetal are going to be provided later.
4. Apply workloads
After the cluster has been generated, the extra workloads that have been specified in manifests (like kubevirt), need to be applied. This can be achieved by:
./knictl apply_workloads $SITE_NAME
This will execute kustomize on the site manifests and will apply the output to the cluster. After that, the site deployment can be considered as finished.
How to Deploy on Baremetal
Minimal hardware footprint needed
This is minimal configuration example where only 3 servers are used. Servers and their role are given in below table.
Server# | Role | Purpose |
1 | Installer node | This host is used for remotely installing and configuring master and worker node. This server also hosts bootstrap node on KVM-QEMU using libvirt. Several components like- HAProxy, DNS server, DHCP server for provisioning and baremetal network, CoreDNS, Matchbox, Terraform, IPMItool, TFTPboot are configured on this server. Since cluster coreDNS is running from here, this node will be required later as well. |
2 | Master node | This is control plane or master node of K8s cluster that is based on openshift 4.x. |
3 | Worker node | This is worker node which hosts the application. |
4 | Bootstrap node | Bootstrap node runs as VM on installer node and it exists only during the installation and later automatically deleted by installer. |
High level connectivity
Each server should have 3 Ethernet ports configured, purpose of these is listed below. These three are in addition to IPMI port, which is required for PXE boot.
Interface | Purpose |
Management interface | Remote root login from this interface is used for entire setup. This interface needs to have internet connectivity to download various files. This can be shared with external interface. This only needs to be present on the Installer node |
External interface | Interface on the installer node that has internet network connectivity. All external traffic from masters/workers is redirected to the external interface of the installer node. |
Baremetal interface | This interface is for baremetal network, also known as SDN network. This interface doesn’t need internet connectivity. |
Provisioning interface | This interface is for PXE boot. This interface doesn’t need internet connectivity. |
These can be independent NICs or VLANs.
Pre-requisites
OS requirements
Node Role | OS requirement |
Installer | CentOS 7.6 and above |
Bootstrap | RHCOS (Redhat CoreOS) |
Master | RHCOS (Redhat CoreOS) |
Worker | RHCOS/RHEL/CentOS/CentOS-rt |
Network requirements
- Configure required network interfaces as explained earlier. Be sure that each server has the NIC for PXE configured properly, matching to the interface that you are setting for this deployment. You can set it by entering the BIOS setup, and entering into the NIC configuration of your BIOS setup menu.
- Collect IPs and MAC addresses of all the nodes, one sample is given below. This information will be required to populate config files:
Role | iDRAC IP/IPMI port IP | Provisioning network IP | Baremetal network IP | Management network IP | Provisioning network port & mac | Baremetal network port & mac | Management network port & mac |
Installer | xx.xx.xx.xx | xx.xx.xx.xx | xx.xx.xx.xx | xx.xx.xx.xx | em1 / 21:02:0E:DC:BC:27 | em2/ 21:02:0E:DC:BC:28 | em3/ 21:02:0E:DC:BC:29 |
master-0 | |||||||
worker-0 |
- Enable IPMI over LAN for all master and worker nodes. This is required for remote PXE boot from installer node. Different servers have different ways to enable it.
In absence of this setting, following kind of errors are thrown from installer.
Error: Error running command ' ipmitool -I lanplus -H x.x.x.x -U xxx -P xxxxx chassis bootdev pxe;
ipmitool -I lanplus -H x.x.x.x -U xxx -P xxxxx power cycle || ipmitool -I lanplus -H x.x.x.x -U xxx -P xxxxx power on;
': exit status 1. Output: Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session
Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session
Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session
Depending on servers, RMCP session needs to be enabled on security settings of the management console.
After enabling this setting, you can run below command to verify that it is working as expected. Give IP address, username and password.
ipmitool -I lanplus -H x.x.x.x -U xxx -P xxxxx chassis status
(where x.x.x.x is IPMI port IP of your master/worker node, this is followed by root username and password for IPMI e.g. iDRAC)
High level steps
Create site for Baremetal
First step to start a baremetal deployment is to have a site defined, with all the network and baremetal settings defined in the yaml files. A sample of site using this baremetal automation can be seen here .
In order to define the settings for a site, the first section 00_install-config needs to be used.
Start by creating a kustomization file like the following: https://github.com/akraino-edge-stack/kni-blueprint-pae/blob/master/sites/community.baremetal.edge-sites.net/00_install-config/kustomization.yaml
bases: - git::https://gerrit.akraino.org/r/kni/blueprint-pae.git//profiles/production.baremetal/00_install-config patches: - install-config.patch.yaml patchesJson6902: - target: version: v1 kind: InstallConfig name: cluster path: install-config.name.patch.yaml transformers: - site-config.yaml
In this kustomization file we are patching the default install-config, and also adding some extra files to define networking (site-config.yaml).
ha-lab-ipmi-creds.yaml:
This file is not shown on the site structure as it contains private content. This file should be present with given name in 00_install-config. It needs to have following structure:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: community-lab-ipmi
stringdata:
username: xxx <- base64 encoded IPMI username
password: xxx <- base64 encoded IPMI password
type: Opaque
install-config.name.patch.yaml: https://github.com/akraino-edge-stack/kni-blueprint-pae/blob/master/sites/community.baremetal.edge-sites.net/00_install-config/install-config.name.patch.yaml
- op: replace path: "/metadata/name" value: community <- replace with your cluster name here
install-config.patch.yaml : https://github.com/akraino-edge-stack/kni-blueprint-pae/blob/master/sites/community.baremetal.edge-sites.net/00_install-config/install-config.patch.yaml
apiVersion: v1 kind: InstallConfig baseDomain: baremetal.edge-sites.net <- domain of your site compute: - name: worker replicas: 2 <- number of needed workers controlPlane: name: master platform: {} replicas: 1 <- number of needed masters (1/3) metadata: name: cluster <- Do not change this value as this is not cluster name networking: clusterNetworks: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 networkType: OpenShiftSDN serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: none: {} apiVIP: 192.168.111.4 <- IP for Kubernetes api endpoint, needs to be on the range of your baremetal network ingressVIP: 192.168.111.3 <- IP for the Kubernetes ingress endpoint, needs to be on the range of your baremetal network dnsVIP: 192.168.111.2 <- IP for the Kubernetes DNS endpoint, needs to be on the range of your baremetal network hosts: # Master nodes are always RHCOS - name: master-0 role: master bmc: address: ipmi://10.11.7.12 <- ipmi address for master credentialsName: community-lab-ipmi <- this needs to reference the name of the secret provided in credentials.yaml bootMACAddress: 3C:FD:FE:CD:98:C9 <- mac address for the provisioning interface of your master sdnMacAddress: 3C:FD:FE:CD:98:C8 <- mac address for the baremetal interface of your master # sdnIPAddress: 192.168.111.11 <- Optional -- Set static IP on your baremetal for your master hardwareProfile: default osProfile: # With role == master, the osType is always rhcos # And with type rhcos, the following are settings are available type: rhcos pxe: bios <- pxe boot type either bios (default if not specified) or uefi install_dev: sda <- where to install the operating system (sda is the default) # Worker nodes can be either rhcos (default) || centos (7.x) || rhel (8.x) - name: worker-0 role: worker bmc: address: ipmi://10.11.7.13 credentialsName: community-lab-ipmi bootMACAddress: 3C:FD:FE:CD:9E:91 sdnMacAddress: 3C:FD:FE:CD:9E:90 hardwareProfile: default provisioning_interface: enp134s0f1 <- specify that if the provisioning interface is different than the one you will provide on next site-config.yaml baremetal_interface: enp134s0f0 <- specify that if the baremetal interface is different than the one you will provide on next site-config.yaml # If an osProfile/type is not defined, rhe node defaults to RHCOS osProfile: type: centos7 # With type: rhcos the following are settings are available pxe: bios # pxe boot type either bios (default if not specified) or uefi install_dev: sda # where to install the operating system (sda is the default) - name: worker-1 role: worker bmc: address: ipmi://10.11.7.14 credentialsName: community-lab-ipmi bootMACAddress: 3C:FD:FE:CD:9B:81 sdnMacAddress: 3C:FD:FE:CD:9B:80 hardwareProfile: default # If an osProfile/type is not defined, rhe node defaults to RHCOS # osProfile: # type: rhcos # With type: rhcos the following are settings are available # pxe: bios|uefi # pxe boot type either bios (default if not specified) or uefi # install_dev: sda # where to install the operating system (sda is the default) pullSecret: 'PULL_SECRET' <- Do not change anything here as this is automatically pulled from installer node sshKey: | SSH_PUB_KEY <- Do not change anything here as this is automatically pulled from installer node
site-config.yaml: https://github.com/akraino-edge-stack/kni-blueprint-pae/blob/master/sites/community.baremetal.edge-sites.net/00_install-config/site-config.yaml
apiVersion: kni.akraino.org/v1alpha1 kind: SiteConfig metadata: name: notImportantHere config: {} provisioningInfrastructure: hosts: # interface to use for provisioning on the masters masterBootInterface: ens787f1 <- name of the provisioning interface for the masters # interface to use for provisioning on the workers workerBootInterface: ens787f1 <- name of the provisioning interface for the workers # interface to use for baremetal on the masters masterSdnInterface: ens787f0 <- name of the baremetal interface for the masters # interface to use for baremetal on the workers workerSdnInterface: ens787f0 <- name of the baremetal interface for the workers network: # The provisioning network's CIDR provisioningIpCidr: 172.22.0.0/24 <- range of the provisioning network # PXE boot server IP # DHCP range start (usually provHost/interfaces/provisioningIpAddress + 1) provisioningDHCPStart: 172.22.0.11 <- DHCP start range of the provisioning network provisioningDHCPEnd: 172.22.0.51 -> DHCP end range # The baremetal networks's CIDR baremetalIpCidr: 192.168.111.0/24 <- range of the baremetal network # Address map # bootstrap: baremetalDHCPStart i.e. 192.168.111.10 # master-0: baremetalDHCPStart+1 i.e. 192.168.111.11 # master-1: baremetalDHCPStart+2 i.e. 192.168.111.12 # master-2: baremetalDHCPStart+3 i.e. 192.168.111.13 # worker-0: baremetalDHCPStart+5 i.e. 192.168.111.15 # worker-N: baremetalDHCPStart+5+N baremetalDHCPStart: 192.168.111.10 <- DHCP start range of the baremetal network. Needs to start with an IP that does not conflict with previous baremetal VIP definitions baremetalDHCPEnd: 192.168.111.50 <- DHCP end range # baremetal network default gateway, set to proper IP if /provHost/services/baremetalGateway == false # if /provHost/services/baremetalGateway == true, baremetalGWIP with be located on provHost/interfaces/baremetal # and external traffic will be routed through the provisioning host baremetalGWIP: 192.168.111.4 dns: # cluster DNS, change to proper IP address if provHost/services/clusterDNS == false # if /provHost/services/clusterDNS == true, cluster (IP) with be located on provHost/interfaces/provisioning # and DNS functionality will be provided by the provisioning host cluster: 192.168.111.3 # Up to 3 external DNS servers to which non-local queries will be directed external1: 8.8.8.8 # external2: 10.11.5.19 # external3: 10.11.5.19 provHost: interfaces: # Interface on the provisioning host that connects to the provisioning network provisioning: enp136s0f1 <- it typically needs to be a nic, not a vlan (unless your system supports pxe booting from vlans) # Must be in provisioningIpCidr range # pxe boot server will be at port 8080 on this address provisioningIpAddress: 172.22.0.1 # Interface on the provisioning host that connects to the baremetal network baremetal: enp136s0f0.3009 # Must be in baremetalIpCidr range baremetalIpAddress: 192.168.111.1 # Interface on the provisioning host that connects to the internet/external network external: enp136s0f0.3008 bridges: # These bridges are created on the bastion host provisioning: provisioning <- typically leave those fixed names baremetal: baremetal services: # Does the provsioning host provide DHCP services for the baremetal network? baremetalDHCP: true <- set it to false just if you have your own DHCP for the baremetal network # Does the provisioning host provide DNS services for the cluster? clusterDNS: true <- set it to false just if you have your own DNS in the baremetal network and you can configure your names properly # Does the provisioning host provide a default gateway for the baremetal network? baremetalGateway: true
Setup installer node
Install CentOS operating system there. Once you have it, configure your NIC/VLANS properly (management/external, provisioning, baremetal, ipmi). Be sure that you collect the information of interfaces/vlans.
Configure the system properly to run knictl on it: Install knictl
Fetch requirements
Inside knictl path (typically $HOME/go/src/gerrit.akraino.org/kni/installer), run the fetch-requirements command, pointing to the github repo of the site you created
./knictl fetch_requirements <site repo URI>
For example:
./knictl fetch_requirements github.com/akraino-edge-stack/kni-blueprint-pae/tree/master/sites/community.baremetal.edge-sites.net
Prepare manifests
Run the prepare manifests command, using as a parameter the name of your site
./knictl prepare_manifests $SITE_NAME
For example:
./knictl prepare_manifests community.baremetal.edge-sites.net
Remember that the generated files there have a validity of 24 hours. If you don't finish the installation on that time, you'll need to re-run this command.
Deploy masters
./knictl deploy_masters $SITE_NAME
This will deploy a bootstrap VM and begin to bring up your master nodes. Once the masters have reached the ready state, you can then deploy your workers. You can monitor the process of installation with:
$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/requirements/openshift-install wait-for bootstrap-complete --dir $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/baremetal_automation/ocp/
When all master nodes are shown as ready, you can start deployment of your workers
Deploy workers
./knictl deploy_workers $SITE_NAME
This will begin to bring up your worker nodes. 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:
$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/requirements/openshift-install wait-for install-complete --dir $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/baremetal_automation/ocp/
It may happen that the monitor of this process stops at 93%-94%. This is fine, you can just launch again, or simply start using the cluster, as mostly all operators will come online over the time. Follow
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.1/installing/installing_bare_metal/installing-bare-metal.html#installation-registry-storage-config_installing-bare-metal to fix image registry operator.
Prepare to deploy CentOS nodes
The default installation is totally automated for RHCOS. However, there is the possibility to deploy CentOS nodes, but this requires some specific preparation steps:
- Download DVD iso from http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1908.iso , place it on /tmp
Mount it:
mount -o loop /tmp/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1908.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 $HOME/settings_upi.env file with the following parameters:
export CLUSTER_NAME="$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://<Installer node provisioning IP>:8080/assets/centos7 export ROOT_PASSWORD="pick_something"
Navigate to the kickstart script generation and execute it, copying the generated kickstart file:
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.
After masters and workers are up, you can apply the workloads using the general procedure with:
./knictl apply_workloads $SITE_NAME --kubeconfig $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/baremetal_automation/ocp/auth/kubeconfig
Accessing the Cluster
After the deployment finishes, a kubeconfig
file will be placed inside auth directory:
export KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/final_manifests/auth/kubeconfig
NOTE: When using automated baremetal deployment, the kubeconfig
will be found here instead:
export KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/baremetal_automation/ocp/auth/kubeconfig
Then cluster can be managed with the kubectl or oc
(drop-in replacement with advanced functionality) CLI tools.
To verify a correct setup, you can check again the nodes, and see if masters and workers are ready:
$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/requirements/oc get nodes
You also can check if the cluster is available:
$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/requirements/oc get clusterversion
You can also verify that the console is working, the console url is the following:
https://console-openshift-console.apps.$CLUSTER_NAME.$CLUSTER_DOMAIN
You can enter the console with kubeadmin user and the password that is shown at the end of the install.
Destroying the Cluster
Manual
When needed, the site can be destroyed with the openshift-install command, using the following syntax:
$HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/requirements/openshift-install destroy cluster --dir $HOME/.kni/$SITE_NAME/final_manifests
Automated (Baremetal UPI only)
A baremetal UPI cluster that was deployed using knictl's automation commands (deploy_masters / deploy_workers) can be destroyed like so:
./knictl destroy_cluster $SITE_NAME
Troubleshooting the Cluster
Please see the upstream documentation for details.