- Installing a cluster on Azure into an existing VNet
- Prerequisites
- About reusing a VNet for your OKD cluster
- Generating a key pair for cluster node SSH access
- Obtaining the installation program
- Creating the installation configuration file
- Enabling Accelerated Networking during installation
- Deploying the cluster
- Finalizing user-managed encryption after installation
- Installing the OpenShift CLI by downloading the binary
- Logging in to the cluster by using the CLI
- Next steps
Installing a cluster on Azure into an existing VNet
In OKD version 4.12, you can install a cluster into an existing Azure Virtual Network (VNet) on Microsoft Azure. The installation program provisions the rest of the required infrastructure, which you can further customize. To customize the installation, you modify parameters in the install-config.yaml
file before you install the cluster.
Prerequisites
You reviewed details about the OKD installation and update processes.
You read the documentation on selecting a cluster installation method and preparing it for users.
You configured an Azure account to host the cluster and determined the tested and validated region to deploy the cluster to.
If you use a firewall, you configured it to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to.
If the cloud identity and access management (IAM) APIs are not accessible in your environment, or if you do not want to store an administrator-level credential secret in the
kube-system
namespace, you can manually create and maintain IAM credentials.If you use customer-managed encryption keys, you prepared your Azure environment for encryption.
About reusing a VNet for your OKD cluster
In OKD 4.12, you can deploy a cluster into an existing Azure Virtual Network (VNet) in Microsoft Azure. If you do, you must also use existing subnets within the VNet and routing rules.
By deploying OKD into an existing Azure VNet, you might be able to avoid service limit constraints in new accounts or more easily abide by the operational constraints that your company’s guidelines set. This is a good option to use if you cannot obtain the infrastructure creation permissions that are required to create the VNet.
Requirements for using your VNet
When you deploy a cluster by using an existing VNet, you must perform additional network configuration before you install the cluster. In installer-provisioned infrastructure clusters, the installer usually creates the following components, but it does not create them when you install into an existing VNet:
Subnets
Route tables
VNets
Network Security Groups
The installation program requires that you use the cloud-provided DNS server. Using a custom DNS server is not supported and causes the installation to fail. |
If you use a custom VNet, you must correctly configure it and its subnets for the installation program and the cluster to use. The installation program cannot subdivide network ranges for the cluster to use, set route tables for the subnets, or set VNet options like DHCP, so you must do so before you install the cluster.
The cluster must be able to access the resource group that contains the existing VNet and subnets. While all of the resources that the cluster creates are placed in a separate resource group that it creates, some network resources are used from a separate group. Some cluster Operators must be able to access resources in both resource groups. For example, the Machine API controller attaches NICS for the virtual machines that it creates to subnets from the networking resource group.
Your VNet must meet the following characteristics:
The VNet’s CIDR block must contain the
Networking.MachineCIDR
range, which is the IP address pool for cluster machines.The VNet and its subnets must belong to the same resource group, and the subnets must be configured to use Azure-assigned DHCP IP addresses instead of static IP addresses.
You must provide two subnets within your VNet, one for the control plane machines and one for the compute machines. Because Azure distributes machines in different availability zones within the region that you specify, your cluster will have high availability by default.
To ensure that the subnets that you provide are suitable, the installation program confirms the following data:
All the specified subnets exist.
There are two private subnets, one for the control plane machines and one for the compute machines.
The subnet CIDRs belong to the machine CIDR that you specified. Machines are not provisioned in availability zones that you do not provide private subnets for. If required, the installation program creates public load balancers that manage the control plane and worker nodes, and Azure allocates a public IP address to them.
If you destroy a cluster that uses an existing VNet, the VNet is not deleted. |
Network security group requirements
The network security groups for the subnets that host the compute and control plane machines require specific access to ensure that the cluster communication is correct. You must create rules to allow access to the required cluster communication ports.
The network security group rules must be in place before you install the cluster. If you attempt to install a cluster without the required access, the installation program cannot reach the Azure APIs, and installation fails. |
Port | Description | Control plane | Compute |
---|---|---|---|
| Allows HTTP traffic | x | |
| Allows HTTPS traffic | x | |
| Allows communication to the control plane machines | x | |
| Allows internal communication to the machine config server for provisioning machines | x |
Since cluster components do not modify the user-provided network security groups, which the Kubernetes controllers update, a pseudo-network security group is created for the Kubernetes controller to modify without impacting the rest of the environment. |
Division of permissions
Starting with OKD 4.3, you do not need all of the permissions that are required for an installation program-provisioned infrastructure cluster to deploy a cluster. This change mimics the division of permissions that you might have at your company: some individuals can create different resources in your clouds than others. For example, you might be able to create application-specific items, like instances, storage, and load balancers, but not networking-related components such as VNets, subnet, or ingress rules.
The Azure credentials that you use when you create your cluster do not need the networking permissions that are required to make VNets and core networking components within the VNet, such as subnets, routing tables, internet gateways, NAT, and VPN. You still need permission to make the application resources that the machines within the cluster require, such as load balancers, security groups, storage accounts, and nodes.
Isolation between clusters
Because the cluster is unable to modify network security groups in an existing subnet, there is no way to isolate clusters from each other on the VNet.
Generating a key pair for cluster node SSH access
During an OKD installation, you can provide an SSH public key to the installation program. The key is passed to the Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) nodes through their Ignition config files and is used to authenticate SSH access to the nodes. The key is added to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
list for the core
user on each node, which enables password-less authentication.
After the key is passed to the nodes, you can use the key pair to SSH in to the FCOS nodes as the user core
. To access the nodes through SSH, the private key identity must be managed by SSH for your local user.
If you want to SSH in to your cluster nodes to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, you must provide the SSH public key during the installation process. The ./openshift-install gather
command also requires the SSH public key to be in place on the cluster nodes.
Do not skip this procedure in production environments, where disaster recovery and debugging is required. |
You must use a local key, not one that you configured with platform-specific approaches such as AWS key pairs. |
On clusters running Fedora CoreOS (FCOS), the SSH keys specified in the Ignition config files are written to the |
Procedure
If you do not have an existing SSH key pair on your local machine to use for authentication onto your cluster nodes, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -f <path>/<file_name> (1)
1 Specify the path and file name, such as ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
, of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your~/.ssh
directory.If you plan to install an OKD cluster that uses FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries on the
x86_64
architecture, do not create a key that uses theed25519
algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses thersa
orecdsa
algorithm.View the public SSH key:
$ cat <path>/<file_name>.pub
For example, run the following to view the
~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
public key:$ cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
Add the SSH private key identity to the SSH agent for your local user, if it has not already been added. SSH agent management of the key is required for password-less SSH authentication onto your cluster nodes, or if you want to use the
./openshift-install gather
command.On some distributions, default SSH private key identities such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
and~/.ssh/id_dsa
are managed automatically.If the
ssh-agent
process is not already running for your local user, start it as a background task:$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Example output
Agent pid 31874
If your cluster is in FIPS mode, only use FIPS-compliant algorithms to generate the SSH key. The key must be either RSA or ECDSA.
Add your SSH private key to the
ssh-agent
:$ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> (1)
1 Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
Example output
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
Next steps
- When you install OKD, provide the SSH public key to the installation program.
Obtaining the installation program
Before you install OKD, download the installation file on the host you are using for installation.
Prerequisites
- You have a computer that runs Linux or macOS, with 500 MB of local disk space.
Procedure
Download installer from https://github.com/openshift/okd/releases
The installation program creates several files on the computer that you use to install your cluster. You must keep the installation program and the files that the installation program creates after you finish installing the cluster. Both files are required to delete the cluster.
Deleting the files created by the installation program does not remove your cluster, even if the cluster failed during installation. To remove your cluster, complete the OKD uninstallation procedures for your specific cloud provider.
Extract the installation program. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ tar -xvf openshift-install-linux.tar.gz
Download your installation pull secret from the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager. This pull secret allows you to authenticate with the services that are provided by the included authorities, including Quay.io, which serves the container images for OKD components.
Using a pull secret from the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager is not required. You can use a pull secret for another private registry. Or, if you do not need the cluster to pull images from a private registry, you can use
{"auths":{"fake":{"auth":"aWQ6cGFzcwo="}}}
as the pull secret when prompted during the installation.If you do not use the pull secret from the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager:
Red Hat Operators are not available.
The Telemetry and Insights operators do not send data to Red Hat.
Content from the Red Hat Container Catalog registry, such as image streams and Operators, are not available.
Creating the installation configuration file
You can customize the OKD cluster you install on Microsoft Azure.
Prerequisites
Obtain the OKD installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Obtain service principal permissions at the subscription level.
Procedure
Create the
install-config.yaml
file.Change to the directory that contains the installation program and run the following command:
$ ./openshift-install create install-config --dir <installation_directory> (1)
1 For <installation_directory>
, specify the directory name to store the files that the installation program creates.When specifying the directory:
Verify that the directory has the
execute
permission. This permission is required to run Terraform binaries under the installation directory.Use an empty directory. Some installation assets, such as bootstrap X.509 certificates, have short expiration intervals, therefore you must not reuse an installation directory. If you want to reuse individual files from another cluster installation, you can copy them into your directory. However, the file names for the installation assets might change between releases. Use caution when copying installation files from an earlier OKD version.
At the prompts, provide the configuration details for your cloud:
Optional: Select an SSH key to use to access your cluster machines.
For production OKD clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, specify an SSH key that your
ssh-agent
process uses.Select azure as the platform to target.
If you do not have a Microsoft Azure profile stored on your computer, specify the following Azure parameter values for your subscription and service principal:
azure subscription id: The subscription ID to use for the cluster. Specify the
id
value in your account output.azure tenant id: The tenant ID. Specify the
tenantId
value in your account output.azure service principal client id: The value of the
appId
parameter for the service principal.azure service principal client secret: The value of the
password
parameter for the service principal.
Select the region to deploy the cluster to.
Select the base domain to deploy the cluster to. The base domain corresponds to the Azure DNS Zone that you created for your cluster.
Enter a descriptive name for your cluster.
All Azure resources that are available through public endpoints are subject to resource name restrictions, and you cannot create resources that use certain terms. For a list of terms that Azure restricts, see Resolve reserved resource name errors in the Azure documentation.
Paste the pull secret from the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager. This field is optional.
Modify the
install-config.yaml
file. You can find more information about the available parameters in the “Installation configuration parameters” section.Back up the
install-config.yaml
file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters.The
install-config.yaml
file is consumed during the installation process. If you want to reuse the file, you must back it up now.
Installation configuration parameters
Before you deploy an OKD cluster, you provide parameter values to describe your account on the cloud platform that hosts your cluster and optionally customize your cluster’s platform. When you create the install-config.yaml
installation configuration file, you provide values for the required parameters through the command line. If you customize your cluster, you can modify the install-config.yaml
file to provide more details about the platform.
After installation, you cannot modify these parameters in the |
Required configuration parameters
Required installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| The API version for the | String |
| The base domain of your cloud provider. The base domain is used to create routes to your OKD cluster components. The full DNS name for your cluster is a combination of the | A fully-qualified domain or subdomain name, such as |
| Kubernetes resource | Object |
| The name of the cluster. DNS records for the cluster are all subdomains of | String of lowercase letters, hyphens ( |
| The configuration for the specific platform upon which to perform the installation: | Object |
Network configuration parameters
You can customize your installation configuration based on the requirements of your existing network infrastructure. For example, you can expand the IP address block for the cluster network or provide different IP address blocks than the defaults.
Only IPv4 addresses are supported.
Globalnet is not supported with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation disaster recovery solutions. For regional disaster recovery scenarios, ensure that you use a nonoverlapping range of private IP addresses for the cluster and service networks in each cluster. |
Parameter | Description | Values | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
| The configuration for the cluster network. | Object
| ||
| The Red Hat OpenShift Networking network plugin to install. | Either | ||
| The IP address blocks for pods. The default value is If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example:
| ||
| Required if you use An IPv4 network. | An IP address block in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. The prefix length for an IPv4 block is between | ||
| The subnet prefix length to assign to each individual node. For example, if | A subnet prefix. The default value is | ||
| The IP address block for services. The default value is The OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes network plugins support only a single IP address block for the service network. | An array with an IP address block in CIDR format. For example:
| ||
| The IP address blocks for machines. If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example:
| ||
| Required if you use | An IP network block in CIDR notation. For example,
|
Optional configuration parameters
Optional installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
| A PEM-encoded X.509 certificate bundle that is added to the nodes’ trusted certificate store. This trust bundle may also be used when a proxy has been configured. | String | ||
| Controls the installation of optional core cluster components. You can reduce the footprint of your OKD cluster by disabling optional components. For more information, see the “Cluster capabilities” page in Installing. | String array | ||
| Selects an initial set of optional capabilities to enable. Valid values are | String | ||
| Extends the set of optional capabilities beyond what you specify in | String array | ||
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the compute nodes. | Array of | ||
| Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, clusters with varied architectures are not supported. All pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String | ||
| Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or
|
| ||
| Required if you use |
| ||
| Required if you use |
| ||
| The number of compute machines, which are also known as worker machines, to provision. | A positive integer greater than or equal to | ||
| Enables the cluster for a feature set. A feature set is a collection of OKD features that are not enabled by default. For more information about enabling a feature set during installation, see “Enabling features using feature gates”. | String. The name of the feature set to enable, such as | ||
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the control plane. | Array of | ||
| Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, clusters with varied architectures are not supported. All pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String | ||
| Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or
|
| ||
| Required if you use |
| ||
| Required if you use |
| ||
| The number of control plane machines to provision. | The only supported value is | ||
| The Cloud Credential Operator (CCO) mode. If no mode is specified, the CCO dynamically tries to determine the capabilities of the provided credentials, with a preference for mint mode on the platforms where multiple modes are supported.
|
| ||
| Sources and repositories for the release-image content. | Array of objects. Includes a | ||
| Required if you use | String | ||
| Specify one or more repositories that may also contain the same images. | Array of strings | ||
| How to publish or expose the user-facing endpoints of your cluster, such as the Kubernetes API, OpenShift routes. |
| ||
| The SSH key or keys to authenticate access your cluster machines.
| One or more keys. For example:
|
Additional Azure configuration parameters
Additional Azure configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| Enables host-level encryption for compute machines. You can enable this encryption alongside user-managed server-side encryption. This feature encrypts temporary, ephemeral, cached and un-managed disks on the VM host. This is not a prerequisite for user-managed server-side encryption. |
|
| The Azure disk size for the VM. | Integer that represents the size of the disk in GB. The default is |
| Defines the type of disk. |
|
| Enables the use of Azure ultra disks for persistent storage on compute nodes. This requires that your Azure region and zone have ultra disks available. |
|
| The name of the Azure resource group that contains the disk encryption set from the installation prerequisites. This resource group should be different from the resource group where you install the cluster to avoid deleting your Azure encryption key when the cluster is destroyed. This value is only necessary if you intend to install the cluster with user-managed disk encryption. | String, for example |
| The name of the disk encryption set that contains the encryption key from the installation prerequisites. | String, for example |
| Optional. The ID of a disk encryption set in another Azure subscription. This secondary disk encryption set will be used to encrypt compute machines. By default, the installation program will use the disk encryption set from the Azure subscription ID that you provided to the installation program prompts. | String, in the format |
| Enables host-level encryption for control plane machines. You can enable this encryption alongside user-managed server-side encryption. This feature encrypts temporary, ephemeral, cached and un-managed disks on the VM host. This is not a prerequisite for user-managed server-side encryption. |
|
| The name of the Azure resource group that contains the disk encryption set from the installation prerequisites. This resource group should be different from the resource group where you install the cluster to avoid deleting your Azure encryption key when the cluster is destroyed. This value is only necessary if you intend to install the cluster with user-managed disk encryption. | String, for example |
| The name of the disk encryption set that contains the encryption key from the installation prerequisites. | String, for example |
| Optional. The ID of a disk encryption set in another Azure subscription. This secondary disk encryption set will be used to encrypt control plane machines. By default, the installation program will use the disk encryption set from the Azure subscription ID that you provided to the installation program prompts. | String, in the format |
| The Azure disk size for the VM. | Integer that represents the size of the disk in GB. The default is |
| Defines the type of disk. |
|
| Enables the use of Azure ultra disks for persistent storage on control plane machines. This requires that your Azure region and zone have ultra disks available. |
|
| The name of the resource group that contains the DNS zone for your base domain. | String, for example |
| The name of an already existing resource group to install your cluster to. This resource group must be empty and only used for this specific cluster; the cluster components assume ownership of all resources in the resource group. If you limit the service principal scope of the installation program to this resource group, you must ensure all other resources used by the installation program in your environment have the necessary permissions, such as the public DNS zone and virtual network. Destroying the cluster by using the installation program deletes this resource group. | String, for example |
| The outbound routing strategy used to connect your cluster to the internet. If you are using user-defined routing, you must have pre-existing networking available where the outbound routing has already been configured prior to installing a cluster. The installation program is not responsible for configuring user-defined routing. |
|
| The name of the Azure region that hosts your cluster. | Any valid region name, such as |
| List of availability zones to place machines in. For high availability, specify at least two zones. | List of zones, for example |
| Enables the use of Azure ultra disks for persistent storage on control plane and compute machines. This requires that your Azure region and zone have ultra disks available. |
|
| The name of the resource group that contains the existing VNet that you want to deploy your cluster to. This name cannot be the same as the | String. |
| The name of the existing VNet that you want to deploy your cluster to. | String. |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VNet that you want to deploy your control plane machines to. | Valid CIDR, for example |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VNet that you want to deploy your compute machines to. | Valid CIDR, for example |
| The name of the Azure cloud environment that is used to configure the Azure SDK with the appropriate Azure API endpoints. If empty, the default value | Any valid cloud environment, such as |
You cannot customize Azure Availability Zones or Use tags to organize your Azure resources with an Azure cluster. |
Minimum resource requirements for cluster installation
Each cluster machine must meet the following minimum requirements:
Machine | Operating System | vCPU [1] | Virtual RAM | Storage | IOPS [2] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bootstrap | FCOS | 4 | 16 GB | 100 GB | 300 |
Control plane | FCOS | 4 | 16 GB | 100 GB | 300 |
Compute | FCOS | 2 | 8 GB | 100 GB | 300 |
One vCPU is equivalent to one physical core when simultaneous multithreading (SMT), or hyperthreading, is not enabled. When enabled, use the following formula to calculate the corresponding ratio: (threads per core × cores) × sockets = vCPUs.
OKD and Kubernetes are sensitive to disk performance, and faster storage is recommended, particularly for etcd on the control plane nodes which require a 10 ms p99 fsync duration. Note that on many cloud platforms, storage size and IOPS scale together, so you might need to over-allocate storage volume to obtain sufficient performance.
As with all user-provisioned installations, if you choose to use Fedora compute machines in your cluster, you take responsibility for all operating system life cycle management and maintenance, including performing system updates, applying patches, and completing all other required tasks. Use of Fedora 7 compute machines is deprecated and has been removed in OKD 4.10 and later.
You are required to use Azure virtual machines with |
If an instance type for your platform meets the minimum requirements for cluster machines, it is supported to use in OKD.
Tested instance types for Azure
The following Microsoft Azure instance types have been tested with OKD.
Machine types
standardBSFamily
standardDADSv5Family
standardDASv4Family
standardDASv5Family
standardDCSv3Family
standardDCSFamily
standardDCSv2Family
standardDDCSv3Family
standardDDSv4Family
standardDDSv5Family
standardDSFamily
standardDSv2Family
standardDSv2PromoFamily
standardDSv3Family
standardDSv4Family
standardDSv5Family
standardEADSv5Family
standardEASv4Family
standardEASv5Family
standardEBDSv5Family
standardEBSv5Family
standardEDSv4Family
standardEDSv5Family
standardEIADSv5Family
standardEIASv4Family
standardEIASv5Family
standardEIDSv5Family
standardEISv3Family
standardEISv5Family
standardESv3Family
standardESv4Family
standardESv5Family
standardFXMDVSFamily
standardFSFamily
standardFSv2Family
standardGSFamily
standardHBrsv2Family
standardHBSFamily
standardHCSFamily
standardLASv3Family
standardLSFamily
standardLSv2Family
standardLSv3Family
standardMDSMediumMemoryv2Family
standardMIDSMediumMemoryv2Family
standardMISMediumMemoryv2Family
standardMSFamily
standardMSMediumMemoryv2Family
StandardNCADSA100v4Family
Standard NCASv3_T4 Family
standardNCSv2Family
standardNCSv3Family
standardNDSv2Family
standardNPSFamily
StandardNVADSA10v5Family
standardNVSv3Family
standardXEISv4Family
Tested instance types for Azure ARM
The following Microsoft Azure instance types have been tested with OKD.
Machine types
standardDPSv5Family
standardDPDSv5Family
standardDPLDSv5Family
standardDPLSv5Family
standardEPSv5Family
standardEPDSv5Family
Sample customized install-config.yaml file for Azure
You can customize the install-config.yaml
file to specify more details about your OKD cluster’s platform or modify the values of the required parameters.
This sample YAML file is provided for reference only. You must obtain your |
apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: example.com (1)
controlPlane: (2)
hyperthreading: Enabled (3) (4)
name: master
platform:
azure:
encryptionAtHost: true
ultraSSDCapability: Enabled
osDisk:
diskSizeGB: 1024 (5)
diskType: Premium_LRS
diskEncryptionSet:
resourceGroup: disk_encryption_set_resource_group
name: disk_encryption_set_name
subscriptionId: secondary_subscription_id
type: Standard_D8s_v3
replicas: 3
compute: (2)
- hyperthreading: Enabled (3)
name: worker
platform:
azure:
ultraSSDCapability: Enabled
type: Standard_D2s_v3
encryptionAtHost: true
osDisk:
diskSizeGB: 512 (5)
diskType: Standard_LRS
diskEncryptionSet:
resourceGroup: disk_encryption_set_resource_group
name: disk_encryption_set_name
subscriptionId: secondary_subscription_id
zones: (6)
- "1"
- "2"
- "3"
replicas: 5
metadata:
name: test-cluster (1)
networking:
clusterNetwork:
- cidr: 10.128.0.0/14
hostPrefix: 23
machineNetwork:
- cidr: 10.0.0.0/16
networkType: OVNKubernetes (7)
serviceNetwork:
- 172.30.0.0/16
platform:
azure:
defaultMachinePlatform:
ultraSSDCapability: Enabled
baseDomainResourceGroupName: resource_group (8)
region: centralus (1)
resourceGroupName: existing_resource_group (9)
networkResourceGroupName: vnet_resource_group (10)
virtualNetwork: vnet (11)
controlPlaneSubnet: control_plane_subnet (12)
computeSubnet: compute_subnet (13)
outboundType: Loadbalancer
cloudName: AzurePublicCloud
pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}' (1)
sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA... (14)
1 | Required. The installation program prompts you for this value. | ||
2 | If you do not provide these parameters and values, the installation program provides the default value. | ||
3 | The controlPlane section is a single mapping, but the compute section is a sequence of mappings. To meet the requirements of the different data structures, the first line of the compute section must begin with a hyphen, - , and the first line of the controlPlane section must not. Only one control plane pool is used. | ||
4 | Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or hyperthreading . By default, simultaneous multithreading is enabled to increase the performance of your machines’ cores. You can disable it by setting the parameter value to Disabled . If you disable simultaneous multithreading in some cluster machines, you must disable it in all cluster machines.
| ||
5 | You can specify the size of the disk to use in GB. Minimum recommendation for control plane nodes is 1024 GB. | ||
6 | Specify a list of zones to deploy your machines to. For high availability, specify at least two zones. | ||
7 | The cluster network plugin to install. The supported values are OVNKubernetes and OpenShiftSDN . The default value is OVNKubernetes . | ||
8 | Specify the name of the resource group that contains the DNS zone for your base domain. | ||
9 | Specify the name of an already existing resource group to install your cluster to. If undefined, a new resource group is created for the cluster. | ||
10 | If you use an existing VNet, specify the name of the resource group that contains it. | ||
11 | If you use an existing VNet, specify its name. | ||
12 | If you use an existing VNet, specify the name of the subnet to host the control plane machines. | ||
13 | If you use an existing VNet, specify the name of the subnet to host the compute machines. | ||
14 | You can optionally provide the sshKey value that you use to access the machines in your cluster.
|
Configuring the cluster-wide proxy during installation
Production environments can deny direct access to the internet and instead have an HTTP or HTTPS proxy available. You can configure a new OKD cluster to use a proxy by configuring the proxy settings in the install-config.yaml
file.
Prerequisites
You have an existing
install-config.yaml
file.You reviewed the sites that your cluster requires access to and determined whether any of them need to bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster egress traffic is proxied, including calls to hosting cloud provider APIs. You added sites to the
Proxy
object’sspec.noProxy
field to bypass the proxy if necessary.The
Proxy
objectstatus.noProxy
field is populated with the values of thenetworking.machineNetwork[].cidr
,networking.clusterNetwork[].cidr
, andnetworking.serviceNetwork[]
fields from your installation configuration.For installations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and OpenStack, the
Proxy
objectstatus.noProxy
field is also populated with the instance metadata endpoint (169.254.169.254
).
Procedure
Edit your
install-config.yaml
file and add the proxy settings. For example:apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: my.domain.com
proxy:
httpProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> (1)
httpsProxy: https://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> (2)
noProxy: example.com (3)
additionalTrustBundle: | (4)
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
<MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT>
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
additionalTrustBundlePolicy: <policy_to_add_additionalTrustBundle> (5)
1 A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be http
.2 A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster. 3 A comma-separated list of destination domain names, IP addresses, or other network CIDRs to exclude from proxying. Preface a domain with .
to match subdomains only. For example,.y.com
matchesx.y.com
, but noty.com
. Use*
to bypass the proxy for all destinations.4 If provided, the installation program generates a config map that is named user-ca-bundle
in theopenshift-config
namespace that contains one or more additional CA certificates that are required for proxying HTTPS connections. The Cluster Network Operator then creates atrusted-ca-bundle
config map that merges these contents with the Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) trust bundle, and this config map is referenced in thetrustedCA
field of theProxy
object. TheadditionalTrustBundle
field is required unless the proxy’s identity certificate is signed by an authority from the FCOS trust bundle.5 Optional: The policy to determine the configuration of the Proxy
object to reference theuser-ca-bundle
config map in thetrustedCA
field. The allowed values areProxyonly
andAlways
. UseProxyonly
to reference theuser-ca-bundle
config map only whenhttp/https
proxy is configured. UseAlways
to always reference theuser-ca-bundle
config map. The default value isProxyonly
.The installation program does not support the proxy
readinessEndpoints
field.Save the file and reference it when installing OKD.
The installation program creates a cluster-wide proxy that is named cluster
that uses the proxy settings in the provided install-config.yaml
file. If no proxy settings are provided, a cluster
Proxy
object is still created, but it will have a nil spec
.
Only the |
Enabling Accelerated Networking during installation
You can enable Accelerated Networking on Microsoft Azure by adding acceleratedNetworking
to your compute machine set YAML file before you install the cluster.
Prerequisites
- You have created the
install-config.yaml
file and completed any modifications to it.
Procedure
Change to the directory that contains the installation program and create the manifests:
$ ./openshift-install create manifests --dir <installation_directory> (1)
1 <installation_directory>
specifies the name of the directory that contains theinstall-config.yaml
file for your cluster.Example output
INFO Credentials loaded from the "myprofile" profile in file "/home/myuser/.azure/credentials"
INFO Consuming Install Config from target directory
INFO Manifests created in: installation_directory/manifests and installation_directory/openshift
Change to the
openshift
directory within the directory that contains the installation program. Theopenshift
directory contains the Kubernetes manifest files that define the worker machines. These are the three default compute machine set files for an Azure cluster:Machine set files in
openshift
directory listing99_openshift-cluster-api_worker-machineset-0.yaml
99_openshift-cluster-api_worker-machineset-1.yaml
99_openshift-cluster-api_worker-machineset-2.yaml
Add the following to the
providerSpec
field in each compute machine set file:providerSpec:
value:
...
acceleratedNetworking: true (1)
...
vmSize: <azure-vm-size> (2)
...
1 This line enables Accelerated Networking. 2 Specify an Azure VM size that includes at least four vCPUs. For information about VM sizes, see Microsoft Azure documentation.
Additional resources
- For more details about Accelerated Networking, see Accelerated Networking for Microsoft Azure VMs.
Deploying the cluster
You can install OKD on a compatible cloud platform.
You can run the |
Prerequisites
Configure an account with the cloud platform that hosts your cluster.
Obtain the OKD installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Change to the directory that contains the installation program and initialize the cluster deployment:
$ ./openshift-install create cluster --dir <installation_directory> \ (1)
--log-level=info (2)
1 For <installation_directory>
, specify the location of your customized./install-config.yaml
file.2 To view different installation details, specify warn
,debug
, orerror
instead ofinfo
.If the cloud provider account that you configured on your host does not have sufficient permissions to deploy the cluster, the installation process stops, and the missing permissions are displayed.
Verification
When the cluster deployment completes successfully:
The terminal displays directions for accessing your cluster, including a link to the web console and credentials for the
kubeadmin
user.Credential information also outputs to
<installation_directory>/.openshift_install.log
.
Do not delete the installation program or the files that the installation program creates. Both are required to delete the cluster. |
Example output
...
INFO Install complete!
INFO To access the cluster as the system:admin user when using 'oc', run 'export KUBECONFIG=/home/myuser/install_dir/auth/kubeconfig'
INFO Access the OpenShift web-console here: https://console-openshift-console.apps.mycluster.example.com
INFO Login to the console with user: "kubeadmin", and password: "4vYBz-Ee6gm-ymBZj-Wt5AL"
INFO Time elapsed: 36m22s
|
Finalizing user-managed encryption after installation
If you installed OKD using a user-managed encryption key, you can complete the installation by creating a new storage class and granting write permissions to the Azure cluster resource group.
Procedure
Obtain the identity of the cluster resource group used by the installer:
If you specified an existing resource group in
install-config.yaml
, obtain its Azure identity by running the following command:$ az identity list --resource-group "<existing_resource_group>"
If you did not specify a existing resource group in
install-config.yaml
, locate the resource group that the installer created, and then obtain its Azure identity by running the following commands:$ az group list
$ az identity list --resource-group "<installer_created_resource_group>"
Grant a role assignment to the cluster resource group so that it can write to the Disk Encryption Set by running the following command:
$ az role assignment create --role "<privileged_role>" \(1)
--assignee "<resource_group_identity>" (2)
1 Specifies an Azure role that has read/write permissions to the disk encryption set. You can use the Owner
role or a custom role with the necessary permissions.2 Specifies the identity of the cluster resource group. Obtain the
id
of the disk encryption set you created prior to installation by running the following command:$ az disk-encryption-set show -n <disk_encryption_set_name> \(1)
--resource-group <resource_group_name> (2)
1 Specifies the name of the disk encryption set. 2 Specifies the resource group that contains the disk encryption set. The id
is in the format of“/subscriptions/…/resourceGroups/…/providers/Microsoft.Compute/diskEncryptionSets/…”
.Obtain the identity of the cluster service principal by running the following command:
$ az identity show -g <cluster_resource_group> \(1)
-n <cluster_service_principal_name> \(2)
--query principalId --out tsv
1 Specifies the name of the cluster resource group created by the installation program. 2 Specifies the name of the cluster service principal created by the installation program. The identity is in the format of 12345678-1234-1234-1234-1234567890
.Create a role assignment that grants the cluster service principal
Contributor
privileges to the disk encryption set by running the following command:$ az role assignment create --assignee <cluster_service_principal_id> \(1)
--role 'Contributor' \//
--scope <disk_encryption_set_id> \(2)
1 Specifies the ID of the cluster service principal obtained in the previous step. 2 Specifies the ID of the disk encryption set. Create a storage class that uses the user-managed disk encryption set:
Save the following storage class definition to a file, for example
storage-class-definition.yaml
:kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: managed-premium
provisioner: kubernetes.io/azure-disk
parameters:
skuname: Premium_LRS
kind: Managed
diskEncryptionSetID: "<disk_encryption_set_ID>" (1)
resourceGroup: "<resource_group_name>" (2)
reclaimPolicy: Delete
allowVolumeExpansion: true
volumeBindingMode: WaitForFirstConsumer
1 Specifies the ID of the disk encryption set that you created in the prerequisite steps, for example “/subscriptions/xxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx/resourceGroups/test-encryption/providers/Microsoft.Compute/diskEncryptionSets/disk-encryption-set-xxxxxx”
.2 Specifies the name of the resource group used by the installer. This is the same resource group from the first step. Create the storage class
managed-premium
from the file you created by running the following command:$ oc create -f storage-class-definition.yaml
Select the
managed-premium
storage class when you create persistent volumes to use encrypted storage.
Installing the OpenShift CLI by downloading the binary
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) to interact with OKD from a command-line interface. You can install oc
on Linux, Windows, or macOS.
If you installed an earlier version of |
Installing the OpenShift CLI on Linux
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Procedure
Navigate to link:https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/oc/latest/ and choose the folder for your operating system and architecture.
Download
oc.tar.gz
.Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvzf <file>
Place the
oc
binary in a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the OpenShift CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
Installing the OpenShift CLI on Windows
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Procedure
Navigate to link:https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/oc/latest/ and choose the folder for your operating system and architecture.
Download
oc.zip
.Unzip the archive with a ZIP program.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, open the command prompt and execute the following command:C:\> path
After you install the OpenShift CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
C:\> oc <command>
Installing the OpenShift CLI on macOS
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Procedure
Navigate to link:https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/oc/latest/ and choose the folder for your operating system and architecture.
Download
oc.tar.gz
.Unpack and unzip the archive.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory on your PATH.To check your
PATH
, open a terminal and execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the OpenShift CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
Logging in to the cluster by using the CLI
You can log in to your cluster as a default system user by exporting the cluster kubeconfig
file. The kubeconfig
file contains information about the cluster that is used by the CLI to connect a client to the correct cluster and API server. The file is specific to a cluster and is created during OKD installation.
Prerequisites
You deployed an OKD cluster.
You installed the
oc
CLI.
Procedure
Export the
kubeadmin
credentials:$ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig (1)
1 For <installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.Verify you can run
oc
commands successfully using the exported configuration:$ oc whoami
Example output
system:admin
Additional resources
- See Accessing the web console for more details about accessing and understanding the OKD web console.
Additional resources
- See About remote health monitoring for more information about the Telemetry service
Next steps
If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.