Installing a cluster on OpenStack on your own SR-IOV infrastructure

In OKD 4.7, you can install a cluster on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) that runs on user-provisioned infrastructure and uses single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) networks to run compute machines.

Using your own infrastructure allows you to integrate your cluster with existing infrastructure and modifications. The process requires more labor on your part than installer-provisioned installations, because you must create all RHOSP resources, such as Nova servers, Neutron ports, and security groups. However, Red Hat provides Ansible playbooks to help you in the deployment process.

Prerequisites

• Review details about the OKD installation and update processes.

  • Verify that OKD 4.7 is compatible with your RHOSP version by using the “Supported platforms for OpenShift clusters” section. You can also compare platform support across different versions by viewing the OKD on RHOSP support matrix.

• Verify that your network configuration does not rely on a provider network. Provider networks are not supported.

• Have an RHOSP account where you want to install OKD.

• On the machine where you run the installation program, have:

  • A single directory in which you can keep the files you create during the installation process

  • Python 3

Resource guidelines for installing OKD on RHOSP

To support an OKD installation, your Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) quota must meet the following requirements:

A cluster might function with fewer than recommended resources, but its performance is not guaranteed.

An OKD deployment comprises control plane machines, compute machines, and a bootstrap machine.

Control plane and compute machines

By default, the OKD installation process stands up three control plane and three compute machines.

Each machine requires:

• An instance from the RHOSP quota

• A port from the RHOSP quota

• A flavor with at least 16 GB memory, 4 vCPUs, and 25 GB storage space

Additionally, for clusters that use single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV), RHOSP compute nodes require a flavor that supports huge pages.

Additional resources

• For more information about configuring performant RHOSP compute nodes, see Configuring Compute nodes for performance.

Bootstrap machine

During installation, a bootstrap machine is temporarily provisioned to stand up the control plane. After the production control plane is ready, the bootstrap machine is deprovisioned.

The bootstrap machine requires:

• An instance from the RHOSP quota

• A port from the RHOSP quota

• A flavor with at least 16 GB memory, 4 vCPUs, and 25 GB storage space

Downloading playbook dependencies

The Ansible playbooks that simplify the installation process on user-provisioned infrastructure require several Python modules. On the machine where you will run the installer, add the modules’ repositories and then download them.

Prerequisites

• Python 3 is installed on your machine.

Procedure

1. On a command line, add the repositories:

   1. Register with Red Hat Subscription Manager:

      $ sudo subscription-manager register # If not done already

   2. Pull the latest subscription data:

      $ sudo subscription-manager attach --pool=$YOUR_POOLID # If not done already

   3. Disable the current repositories:

      $ sudo subscription-manager repos --disable=* # If not done already

   4. Add the required repositories:

      $ sudo subscription-manager repos \
        --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-baseos-rpms \
        --enable=openstack-16-tools-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms \
        --enable=ansible-2.9-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms \
        --enable=rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms

2. Install the modules:

   $ sudo yum install python3-openstackclient ansible python3-openstacksdk python3-netaddr

3. Ensure that the python command points to python3:

   $ sudo alternatives --set python /usr/bin/python3

Downloading the installation playbooks

Download Ansible playbooks that you can use to install OKD on your own Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) infrastructure.

Prerequisites

• The curl command-line tool is available on your machine.

Procedure

• To download the playbooks to your working directory, run the following script from a command line:

  $ xargs -n 1 curl -O <<< '
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/bootstrap.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/common.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/compute-nodes.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/control-plane.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/inventory.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/network.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/security-groups.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/down-bootstrap.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/down-compute-nodes.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/down-control-plane.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/down-load-balancers.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/down-network.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/down-security-groups.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.7/upi/openstack/down-containers.yaml'

The playbooks are downloaded to your machine.

Obtaining the installation program

Before you install OKD, download the installation file on a local computer.

Prerequisites

• You have a computer that runs Linux or macOS, with 500 MB of local disk space

Procedure

1. 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.

2. 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

3. From the Pull Secret page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site, download your installation pull secret as a .txt file. 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 site 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 site:

   • 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.

Generating an SSH private key and adding it to the agent

If you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery on your cluster, you must provide an SSH key to both your ssh-agent and the installation program. You can use this key to access the bootstrap machine in a public cluster to troubleshoot installation issues.

You can use this key to SSH into the master nodes as the user core. When you deploy the cluster, the key is added to the core user’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys list.

Procedure

1. If you do not have an SSH key that is configured for password-less authentication on your computer, 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_rsa, of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your ~/.ssh directory.

   Running this command generates an SSH key that does not require a password in the location that you specified.

   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 the ed25519 algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses the rsa or ecdsa algorithm.

2. Start the ssh-agent process 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.

3. Add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent:

   $ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> (1)

   Example output

   Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)

   1	Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Next steps

• When you install OKD, provide the SSH public key to the installation program.

Creating the Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) image

The OKD installation program requires that a Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) image be present in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) cluster. Retrieve the latest FCOS image, then upload it using the RHOSP CLI.

Prerequisites

• The RHOSP CLI is installed.

Procedure

1. Log in to the Red Hat Customer Portal’s Product Downloads page.

2. Under Version, select the most recent release of OKD 4.7 for Fedora 8.

   The FCOS images might not change with every release of OKD. You must download images with the highest version that is less than or equal to the OKD version that you install. Use the image versions that match your OKD version if they are available.

3. Download the Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) - OpenStack Image (QCOW).

4. Decompress the image.

   You must decompress the RHOSP image before the cluster can use it. The name of the downloaded file might not contain a compression extension, like .gz or .tgz. To find out if or how the file is compressed, in a command line, enter: $ file <name_of_downloaded_file>

5. From the image that you downloaded, create an image that is named rhcos in your cluster by using the RHOSP CLI:

   $ openstack image create --container-format=bare --disk-format=qcow2 --file rhcos-${RHCOS_VERSION}-openstack.qcow2 rhcos

   Depending on your RHOSP environment, you might be able to upload the image in either .raw or .qcow2 formats. If you use Ceph, you must use the .raw format.

   If the installation program finds multiple images with the same name, it chooses one of them at random. To avoid this behavior, create unique names for resources in RHOSP.

After you upload the image to RHOSP, it is usable in the installation process.

Verifying external network access

The OKD installation process requires external network access. You must provide an external network value to it, or deployment fails. Before you begin the process, verify that a network with the external router type exists in Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP).

Prerequisites

• Configure OpenStack’s networking service to have DHCP agents forward instances’ DNS queries

Procedure

1. Using the RHOSP CLI, verify the name and ID of the ‘External’ network:

   $ openstack network list --long -c ID -c Name -c "Router Type"

   Example output

   +--------------------------------------+----------------+-------------+
   | ID                                   | Name           | Router Type |
   +--------------------------------------+----------------+-------------+
   | 148a8023-62a7-4672-b018-003462f8d7dc | public_network | External    |
   +--------------------------------------+----------------+-------------+

A network with an external router type appears in the network list. If at least one does not, see Creating a default floating IP network and Creating a default provider network.

Enabling access to the environment

At deployment, all OKD machines are created in a Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP)-tenant network. Therefore, they are not accessible directly in most RHOSP deployments.

You can configure OKD API and application access by using floating IP addresses (FIPs) during installation. You can also complete an installation without configuring FIPs, but the installer will not configure a way to reach the API or applications externally.

Enabling access with floating IP addresses

Create floating IP (FIP) addresses for external access to the OKD API, cluster applications, and the bootstrap process.

Procedure

1. Using the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) CLI, create the API FIP:

   $ openstack floating ip create --description "API <cluster_name>.<base_domain>" <external_network>

2. Using the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) CLI, create the apps, or Ingress, FIP:

   $ openstack floating ip create --description "Ingress <cluster_name>.<base_domain>" <external_network>

3. By using the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) CLI, create the bootstrap FIP:

   $ openstack floating ip create --description "bootstrap machine" <external_network>

4. Add records that follow these patterns to your DNS server for the API and Ingress FIPs:

   api.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>.  IN  A  <API_FIP>
   *.apps.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. IN  A <apps_FIP>

   If you do not control the DNS server, you can add the record to your /etc/hosts file. This action makes the API accessible to only you, which is not suitable for production deployment but does allow installation for development and testing.

5. Add the FIPs to the inventory.yaml file as the values of the following variables:

   • os_api_fip

   • os_bootstrap_fip

   • os_ingress_fip

If you use these values, you must also enter an external network as the value of the os_external_network variable in the inventory.yaml file.

Completing installation without floating IP addresses

You can install OKD on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) without providing floating IP addresses.

In the inventory.yaml file, do not define the following variables:

• os_api_fip

• os_bootstrap_fip

• os_ingress_fip

If you cannot provide an external network, you can also leave os_external_network blank. If you do not provide a value for os_external_network, a router is not created for you, and, without additional action, the installer will fail to retrieve an image from Glance. Later in the installation process, when you create network resources, you must configure external connectivity on your own.

If you run the installer with the wait-for command from a system that cannot reach the cluster API due to a lack of floating IP addresses or name resolution, installation fails. To prevent installation failure in these cases, you can use a proxy network or run the installer from a system that is on the same network as your machines.

api.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>.  IN  A  <api_port_IP>
*.apps.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. IN  A <ingress_port_IP>

Defining parameters for the installation program

The OKD installation program relies on a file that is called clouds.yaml. The file describes Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) configuration parameters, including the project name, log in information, and authorization service URLs.

Procedure

1. Create the clouds.yaml file:

   • If your RHOSP distribution includes the Horizon web UI, generate a clouds.yaml file in it.

     Remember to add a password to the auth field. You can also keep secrets in a separate file from clouds.yaml.

   • If your RHOSP distribution does not include the Horizon web UI, or you do not want to use Horizon, create the file yourself. For detailed information about clouds.yaml, see Config files in the RHOSP documentation.

     clouds:
       shiftstack:
         auth:
           auth_url: http://10.10.14.42:5000/v3
           project_name: shiftstack
           username: shiftstack_user
           password: XXX
           user_domain_name: Default
           project_domain_name: Default
       dev-env:
         region_name: RegionOne
         auth:
           username: 'devuser'
           password: XXX
           project_name: 'devonly'
           auth_url: 'https://10.10.14.22:5001/v2.0'

2. If your RHOSP installation uses self-signed certificate authority (CA) certificates for endpoint authentication:

   1. Copy the certificate authority file to your machine.

   2. Add the cacerts key to the clouds.yaml file. The value must be an absolute, non-root-accessible path to the CA certificate:

      clouds:
        shiftstack:
          ...
          cacert: "/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors/ca.crt.pem"

      After you run the installer with a custom CA certificate, you can update the certificate by editing the value of the ca-cert.pem key in the cloud-provider-config keymap. On a command line, run: $ oc edit configmap -n openshift-config cloud-provider-config

3. Place the clouds.yaml file in one of the following locations:

   1. The value of the OS_CLIENT_CONFIG_FILE environment variable

   2. The current directory

   3. A Unix-specific user configuration directory, for example ~/.config/openstack/clouds.yaml

   4. A Unix-specific site configuration directory, for example /etc/openstack/clouds.yaml

      The installation program searches for clouds.yaml in that order.

Creating the installation configuration file

You can customize the OKD cluster you install on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP).

Prerequisites

• Obtain the OKD installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.

• Obtain service principal permissions at the subscription level.

Procedure

1. Create the install-config.yaml file.

   1. 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.

      Specify an empty directory. Some installation assets, like bootstrap X.509 certificates have short expiration intervals, so 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.

   2. At the prompts, provide the configuration details for your cloud:

      1. 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.

      2. Select openstack as the platform to target.

      3. Specify the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) external network name to use for installing the cluster.

      4. Specify the floating IP address to use for external access to the OpenShift API.

      5. Specify a RHOSP flavor with at least 16 GB RAM to use for control plane and compute nodes.

      6. Select the base domain to deploy the cluster to. All DNS records will be sub-domains of this base and will also include the cluster name.

      7. Enter a name for your cluster. The name must be 14 or fewer characters long.

      8. Paste the pull secret that you obtained from the Pull Secret page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site. This field is optional.

1. Modify the install-config.yaml file. You can find more information about the available parameters in the “Installation configuration parameters” section.

2. 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.

You now have the file install-config.yaml in the directory that you specified.

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.

Required configuration parameters

Required installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:

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.

networking:
  clusterNetwork:
  - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14
    hostPrefix: 23

networking:
  serviceNetwork:
   - 172.30.0.0/16

networking:
  machineNetwork:
  - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16

Optional configuration parameters

Optional installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:

sshKey:
  <key1>
  <key2>
  <key3>

Additional Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) configuration parameters

Additional RHOSP configuration parameters are described in the following table:

Optional RHOSP configuration parameters

Optional RHOSP configuration parameters are described in the following table:

{
   “type”: “ml.large”,
   “rootVolume”: {
      “size”: 30,
      “type”: “performance”
   }
}

Sample customized install-config.yaml file for RHOSP

This sample install-config.yaml demonstrates all of the possible Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) customization options.

apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: example.com
controlPlane:
  name: master
  platform: {}
  replicas: 3
compute:
- name: worker
  platform:
    openstack:
      type: ml.large
  replicas: 3
metadata:
  name: example
networking:
  clusterNetwork:
  - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14
    hostPrefix: 23
  machineNetwork:
  - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16
  serviceNetwork:
  - 172.30.0.0/16
  networkType: OVNKubernetes
platform:
  openstack:
    cloud: mycloud
    externalNetwork: external
    computeFlavor: m1.xlarge
    apiFloatingIP: 128.0.0.1
pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}'
sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA...

Custom subnets in RHOSP deployments

Optionally, you can deploy a cluster on a Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) subnet of your choice. The subnet’s GUID is passed as the value of platform.openstack.machinesSubnet in the install-config.yaml file.

This subnet is used as the cluster’s primary subnet. By default, nodes and ports are created on it. You can create nodes and ports on a different RHOSP subnet by setting the value of the platform.openstack.machinesSubnet property to the subnet’s UUID.

Before you run the OKD installer with a custom subnet, verify that your configuration meets the following requirements:

• The subnet that is used by platform.openstack.machinesSubnet has DHCP enabled.

• The CIDR of platform.openstack.machinesSubnet matches the CIDR of networking.machineNetwork.

• The installation program user has permission to create ports on this network, including ports with fixed IP addresses.

Clusters that use custom subnets have the following limitations:

• If you plan to install a cluster that uses floating IP addresses, the platform.openstack.machinesSubnet subnet must be attached to a router that is connected to the externalNetwork network.

• If the platform.openstack.machinesSubnet value is set in the install-config.yaml file, the installation program does not create a private network or subnet for your RHOSP machines.

• You cannot use the platform.openstack.externalDNS property at the same time as a custom subnet. To add DNS to a cluster that uses a custom subnet, configure DNS on the RHOSP network.

Setting a custom subnet for machines

The IP range that the installation program uses by default might not match the Neutron subnet that you create when you install OKD. If necessary, update the CIDR value for new machines by editing the installation configuration file.

Prerequisites

• You have the install-config.yaml file that was generated by the OKD installation program.

Procedure

1. On a command line, browse to the directory that contains install-config.yaml.

2. From that directory, either run a script to edit the install-config.yaml file or update the file manually:

   • To set the value by using a script, run:

     $ python -c '
     import yaml;
     path = "install-config.yaml";
     data = yaml.safe_load(open(path));
     data["networking"]["machineNetwork"] = [{"cidr": "192.168.0.0/18"}]; (1)
     open(path, "w").write(yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False))'

     1	Insert a value that matches your intended Neutron subnet, e.g. 192.0.2.0/24.

   • To set the value manually, open the file and set the value of networking.machineCIDR to something that matches your intended Neutron subnet.

Emptying compute machine pools

To proceed with an installation that uses your own infrastructure, set the number of compute machines in the installation configuration file to zero. Later, you create these machines manually.

Prerequisites

• You have the install-config.yaml file that was generated by the OKD installation program.

Procedure

1. On a command line, browse to the directory that contains install-config.yaml.

2. From that directory, either run a script to edit the install-config.yaml file or update the file manually:

   • To set the value by using a script, run:

     $ python -c '
     import yaml;
     path = "install-config.yaml";
     data = yaml.safe_load(open(path));
     data["compute"][0]["replicas"] = 0;
     open(path, "w").write(yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False))'

   • To set the value manually, open the file and set the value of compute.<first entry>.replicas to 0.

Creating the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files

Because you must modify some cluster definition files and manually start the cluster machines, you must generate the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files that the cluster needs to make its machines.

The installation configuration file transforms into the Kubernetes manifests. The manifests wrap into the Ignition configuration files, which are later used to create the cluster.

Prerequisites

• You obtained the OKD installation program.

• You created the install-config.yaml installation configuration file.

Procedure

1. Change to the directory that contains the installation program and generate the Kubernetes manifests for the cluster:

   $ ./openshift-install create manifests --dir=<installation_directory> (1)

   Example output

   INFO Credentials loaded from the "myprofile" profile in file "/home/myuser/.aws/credentials"
   INFO Consuming Install Config from target directory
   INFO Manifests created in: install_dir/manifests and install_dir/openshift

   1	For <installation_directory>, specify the installation directory that contains the install-config.yaml file you created.

2. Remove the Kubernetes manifest files that define the control plane machines and compute machine sets:

   $ rm -f openshift/99_openshift-cluster-api_master-machines-*.yaml openshift/99_openshift-cluster-api_worker-machineset-*.yaml

   Because you create and manage these resources yourself, you do not have to initialize them.

   • You can preserve the machine set files to create compute machines by using the machine API, but you must update references to them to match your environment.

3. Check that the mastersSchedulable parameter in the <installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml Kubernetes manifest file is set to false. This setting prevents pods from being scheduled on the control plane machines:

   1. Open the <installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml file.

   2. Locate the mastersSchedulable parameter and ensure that it is set to false.

   3. Save and exit the file.

4. To create the Ignition configuration files, run the following command from the directory that contains the installation program:

   $ ./openshift-install create ignition-configs --dir=<installation_directory> (1)

   1	For <installation_directory>, specify the same installation directory.

   The following files are generated in the directory:

   .
   ├── auth
   │   ├── kubeadmin-password
   │   └── kubeconfig
   ├── bootstrap.ign
   ├── master.ign
   ├── metadata.json
   └── worker.ign

5. Export the metadata file’s infraID key as an environment variable:

   $ export INFRA_ID=$(jq -r .infraID metadata.json)

Preparing the bootstrap Ignition files

The OKD installation process relies on bootstrap machines that are created from a bootstrap Ignition configuration file.

Edit the file and upload it. Then, create a secondary bootstrap Ignition configuration file that Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) uses to download the primary file.

Prerequisites

• You have the bootstrap Ignition file that the installer program generates, bootstrap.ign.

• The infrastructure ID from the installer’s metadata file is set as an environment variable ($INFRA_ID).

  • If the variable is not set, see Creating the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files.

• You have an HTTP(S)-accessible way to store the bootstrap Ignition file.

  • The documented procedure uses the RHOSP image service (Glance), but you can also use the RHOSP storage service (Swift), Amazon S3, an internal HTTP server, or an ad hoc Nova server.

Procedure

1. Run the following Python script. The script modifies the bootstrap Ignition file to set the hostname and, if available, CA certificate file when it runs:

   import base64
   import json
   import os
   with open('bootstrap.ign', 'r') as f:
       ignition = json.load(f)
   files = ignition['storage'].get('files', [])
   infra_id = os.environ.get('INFRA_ID', 'openshift').encode()
   hostname_b64 = base64.standard_b64encode(infra_id + b'-bootstrap\n').decode().strip()
   files.append(
   {
       'path': '/etc/hostname',
       'mode': 420,
       'contents': {
           'source': 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,' + hostname_b64
       }
   })
   ca_cert_path = os.environ.get('OS_CACERT', '')
   if ca_cert_path:
       with open(ca_cert_path, 'r') as f:
           ca_cert = f.read().encode()
           ca_cert_b64 = base64.standard_b64encode(ca_cert).decode().strip()
       files.append(
       {
           'path': '/opt/openshift/tls/cloud-ca-cert.pem',
           'mode': 420,
           'contents': {
               'source': 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,' + ca_cert_b64
           }
       })
   ignition['storage']['files'] = files;
   with open('bootstrap.ign', 'w') as f:
       json.dump(ignition, f)

2. Using the RHOSP CLI, create an image that uses the bootstrap Ignition file:

   $ openstack image create --disk-format=raw --container-format=bare --file bootstrap.ign <image_name>

3. Get the image’s details:

   $ openstack image show <image_name>

   Make a note of the file value; it follows the pattern v2/images/<image_ID>/file.

   Verify that the image you created is active.

4. Retrieve the image service’s public address:

   $ openstack catalog show image

5. Combine the public address with the image file value and save the result as the storage location. The location follows the pattern <image_service_public_URL>/v2/images/<image_ID>/file.

6. Generate an auth token and save the token ID:

   $ openstack token issue -c id -f value

7. Insert the following content into a file called $INFRA_ID-bootstrap-ignition.json and edit the placeholders to match your own values:

   {
     "ignition": {
       "config": {
         "merge": [{
           "source": "<storage_url>", (1)
           "httpHeaders": [{
             "name": "X-Auth-Token", (2)
             "value": "<token_ID>" (3)
           }]
         }]
       },
       "security": {
         "tls": {
           "certificateAuthorities": [{
             "source": "data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,<base64_encoded_certificate>" (4)
           }]
         }
       },
       "version": "3.2.0"
     }
   }

   1	Replace the value of ignition.config.merge.source with the bootstrap Ignition file storage URL.
   2	Set name in httpHeaders to “X-Auth-Token”.
   3	Set value in httpHeaders to your token’s ID.
   4	If the bootstrap Ignition file server uses a self-signed certificate, include the base64-encoded certificate.

8. Save the secondary Ignition config file.

The bootstrap Ignition data will be passed to RHOSP during installation.

Creating control plane Ignition config files on RHOSP

Installing OKD on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) on your own infrastructure requires control plane Ignition config files. You must create multiple config files.

Prerequisites

• The infrastructure ID from the installation program’s metadata file is set as an environment variable ($INFRA_ID).

  • If the variable is not set, see “Creating the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files”.

Procedure

• On a command line, run the following Python script:

  $ for index in $(seq 0 2); do
      MASTER_HOSTNAME="$INFRA_ID-master-$index\n"
      python -c "import base64, json, sys;
  ignition = json.load(sys.stdin);
  storage = ignition.get('storage', {});
  files = storage.get('files', []);
  files.append({'path': '/etc/hostname', 'mode': 420, 'contents': {'source': 'data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,' + base64.standard_b64encode(b'$MASTER_HOSTNAME').decode().strip(), 'verification': {}}, 'filesystem': 'root'});
  storage['files'] = files;
  ignition['storage'] = storage
  json.dump(ignition, sys.stdout)" <master.ign >"$INFRA_ID-master-$index-ignition.json"
  done

  You now have three control plane Ignition files: <INFRA_ID>-master-0-ignition.json, <INFRA_ID>-master-1-ignition.json, and <INFRA_ID>-master-2-ignition.json.

Creating network resources on RHOSP

Create the network resources that an OKD on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) installation on your own infrastructure requires. To save time, run supplied Ansible playbooks that generate security groups, networks, subnets, routers, and ports.

Prerequisites

• Python 3 is installed on your machine.

• You downloaded the modules in “Downloading playbook dependencies”.

• You downloaded the playbooks in “Downloading the installation playbooks”.

Procedure

1. Optional: Add an external network value to the inventory.yaml playbook:

   Example external network value in the inventory.yaml Ansible playbook

   ...
         # The public network providing connectivity to the cluster. If not
         # provided, the cluster external connectivity must be provided in another
         # way.
         # Required for os_api_fip, os_ingress_fip, os_bootstrap_fip.
         os_external_network: 'external'
   ...

   If you did not provide a value for os_external_network in the inventory.yaml file, you must ensure that VMs can access Glance and an external connection yourself.

2. Optional: Add external network and floating IP (FIP) address values to the inventory.yaml playbook:

   Example FIP values in the inventory.yaml Ansible playbook

   ...
         # OpenShift API floating IP address. If this value is non-empty, the
         # corresponding floating IP will be attached to the Control Plane to
         # serve the OpenShift API.
         os_api_fip: '203.0.113.23'
         # OpenShift Ingress floating IP address. If this value is non-empty, the
         # corresponding floating IP will be attached to the worker nodes to serve
         # the applications.
         os_ingress_fip: '203.0.113.19'
         # If this value is non-empty, the corresponding floating IP will be
         # attached to the bootstrap machine. This is needed for collecting logs
         # in case of install failure.
         os_bootstrap_fip: '203.0.113.20'

   If you do not define values for os_api_fip and os_ingress_fip, you must perform post-installation network configuration. If you do not define a value for os_bootstrap_fip, the installer cannot download debugging information from failed installations. See “Enabling access to the environment” for more information.

3. On a command line, create security groups by running the security-groups.yaml playbook:

   $ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yaml security-groups.yaml

4. On a command line, create a network, subnet, and router by running the network.yaml playbook:

   $ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yaml network.yaml

5. Optional: If you want to control the default resolvers that Nova servers use, run the RHOSP CLI command:

   $ openstack subnet set --dns-nameserver <server_1> --dns-nameserver <server_2> "$INFRA_ID-nodes"

Optionally, you can use the inventory.yaml file that you created to customize your installation. For example, you can deploy a cluster that uses bare metal machines.

Deploying a cluster with bare metal machines

If you want your cluster to use bare metal machines, modify the inventory.yaml file. Your cluster can have both control plane and compute machines running on bare metal, or just compute machines.

Bare-metal compute machines are not supported on clusters that use Kuryr.

Prerequisites

• The RHOSP Bare Metal service (Ironic) is enabled and accessible via the RHOSP Compute API.

• Bare metal is available as a RHOSP flavor.

• The RHOSP network supports both VM and bare metal server attachment.

• Your network configuration does not rely on a provider network. Provider networks are not supported.

• If you want to deploy the machines on a pre-existing network, a RHOSP subnet is provisioned.

• If you want to deploy the machines on an installer-provisioned network, the RHOSP Bare Metal service (Ironic) is able to listen for and interact with Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) boot machines that run on tenant networks.

• You created an inventory.yaml file as part of the OKD installation process.

Procedure

1. In the inventory.yaml file, edit the flavors for machines:

   1. If you want to use bare-metal control plane machines, change the value of os_flavor_master to a bare metal flavor.

   2. Change the value of os_flavor_worker to a bare metal flavor.

      An example bare metal inventory.yaml file

      all:
        hosts:
          localhost:
            ansible_connection: local
            ansible_python_interpreter: "{{ansible_playbook_python}}"
            # User-provided values
            os_subnet_range: '10.0.0.0/16'
            os_flavor_master: 'my-bare-metal-flavor' (1)
            os_flavor_worker: 'my-bare-metal-flavor' (2)
            os_image_rhcos: 'rhcos'
            os_external_network: 'external'
      ...

      1	If you want to have bare-metal control plane machines, change this value to a bare metal flavor.
      2	Change this value to a bare metal flavor to use for compute machines.

Use the updated inventory.yaml file to complete the installation process. Machines that are created during deployment use the flavor that you added to the file.

./openshift-install wait-for install-complete —log-level debug

Creating the bootstrap machine on RHOSP

Create a bootstrap machine and give it the network access it needs to run on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP). Red Hat provides an Ansible playbook that you run to simplify this process.

Prerequisites

• You downloaded the modules in “Downloading playbook dependencies”.

• You downloaded the playbooks in “Downloading the installation playbooks”.

• The inventory.yaml, common.yaml, and bootstrap.yaml Ansible playbooks are in a common directory.

• The metadata.json file that the installation program created is in the same directory as the Ansible playbooks.

Procedure

1. On a command line, change the working directory to the location of the playbooks.

2. On a command line, run the bootstrap.yaml playbook:

   $ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yaml bootstrap.yaml

3. After the bootstrap server is active, view the logs to verify that the Ignition files were received:

   $ openstack console log show "$INFRA_ID-bootstrap"

Creating the control plane machines on RHOSP

Create three control plane machines by using the Ignition config files that you generated. Red Hat provides an Ansible playbook that you run to simplify this process.

Prerequisites

• You downloaded the modules in “Downloading playbook dependencies”.

• You downloaded the playbooks in “Downloading the installation playbooks”.

• The infrastructure ID from the installation program’s metadata file is set as an environment variable ($INFRA_ID).

• The inventory.yaml, common.yaml, and control-plane.yaml Ansible playbooks are in a common directory.

• You have the three Ignition files that were created in “Creating control plane Ignition config files”.

Procedure

1. On a command line, change the working directory to the location of the playbooks.

2. If the control plane Ignition config files aren’t already in your working directory, copy them into it.

3. On a command line, run the control-plane.yaml playbook:

   $ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yaml control-plane.yaml

4. Run the following command to monitor the bootstrapping process:

   $ openshift-install wait-for bootstrap-complete

   You will see messages that confirm that the control plane machines are running and have joined the cluster:

   INFO API v1.14.6+f9b5405 up
   INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for bootstrapping to complete...
   ...
   INFO It is now safe to remove the bootstrap resources

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

1. 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.

2. Verify you can run oc commands successfully using the exported configuration:

   $ oc whoami

   Example output

   system:admin

Deleting bootstrap resources from RHOSP

Delete the bootstrap resources that you no longer need.

Prerequisites

• You downloaded the modules in “Downloading playbook dependencies”.

• You downloaded the playbooks in “Downloading the installation playbooks”.

• The inventory.yaml, common.yaml, and down-bootstrap.yaml Ansible playbooks are in a common directory.

• The control plane machines are running.

  • If you do not know the status of the machines, see “Verifying cluster status”.

Procedure

1. On a command line, change the working directory to the location of the playbooks.

2. On a command line, run the down-bootstrap.yaml playbook:

   $ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yaml down-bootstrap.yaml

The bootstrap port, server, and floating IP address are deleted.

Creating SR-IOV networks for compute machines

If your Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) deployment supports single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), you can provision SR-IOV networks that compute machines run on.

Prerequisites

• Your cluster supports SR-IOV.

  If you are unsure about what your cluster supports, review the OKD SR-IOV hardware networks documentation.

• You created radio and uplink provider networks as part of your RHOSP deployment. The names radio and uplink are used in all example commands to represent these networks.

Procedure

1. On a command line, create a radio RHOSP network:

   $ openstack network create radio --provider-physical-network radio --provider-network-type flat --external

2. Create an uplink RHOSP network:

   $ openstack network create uplink --provider-physical-network uplink --provider-network-type vlan --external

3. Create a subnet for the radio network:

   $ openstack subnet create --network radio --subnet-range <radio_network_subnet_range> radio

4. Create a subnet for the uplink network:

   $ openstack subnet create --network uplink --subnet-range <uplink_network_subnet_range> uplink

Creating compute machines that run on SR-IOV networks

After standing up the control plane, create compute machines that run on the SR-IOV networks that you created in “Creating SR-IOV networks for compute machines”.

Prerequisites

• You downloaded the modules in “Downloading playbook dependencies”.

• You downloaded the playbooks in “Downloading the installation playbooks”.

• The metadata.yaml file that the installation program created is in the same directory as the Ansible playbooks.

• The control plane is active.

• You created radio and uplink SR-IOV networks as described in “Creating SR-IOV networks for compute machines”.

Procedure

1. On a command line, change the working directory to the location of the inventory.yaml and common.yaml files.

2. Add the radio and uplink networks to the end of the inventory.yaml file by using the additionalNetworks parameter:

   ....
   # If this value is non-empty, the corresponding floating IP will be
   # attached to the bootstrap machine. This is needed for collecting logs
   # in case of install failure.
       os_bootstrap_fip: '203.0.113.20'
       additionalNetworks:
       - id: radio
         count: 4 (1)
         type: direct
         port_security_enabled: no
       - id: uplink
         count: 4 (1)
         type: direct
         port_security_enabled: no

   1	The count parameter defines the number of SR-IOV virtual functions (VFs) to attach to each worker node. In this case, each network has four VFs.

3. Replace the content of the compute-nodes.yaml file with the following text:

   compute-nodes.yaml

   - import_playbook: common.yaml
   - hosts: all
     gather_facts: no
     vars:
       worker_list: []
       port_name_list: []
       nic_list: []
     tasks:
     # Create the SDN/primary port for each worker node
     - name: 'Create the Compute ports'
       os_port:
         name: "{{ item.1 }}-{{ item.0 }}"
         network: "{{ os_network }}"
         security_groups:
         - "{{ os_sg_worker }}"
         allowed_address_pairs:
         - ip_address: "{{ os_ingressVIP }}"
       with_indexed_items: "{{ [os_port_worker] * os_compute_nodes_number }}"
       register: ports
     # Tag each SDN/primary port with cluster name
     - name: 'Set Compute ports tag'
       command:
         cmd: "openstack port set --tag {{ cluster_id_tag }} {{ item.1 }}-{{ item.0 }}"
       with_indexed_items: "{{ [os_port_worker] * os_compute_nodes_number }}"
     - name: 'List the Compute Trunks'
       command:
         cmd: "openstack network trunk list"
       when: os_networking_type == "Kuryr"
       register: compute_trunks
     - name: 'Create the Compute trunks'
       command:
         cmd: "openstack network trunk create --parent-port {{ item.1.id }} {{ os_compute_trunk_name }}-{{ item.0 }}"
       with_indexed_items: "{{ ports.results }}"
       when:
       - os_networking_type == "Kuryr"
       - "os_compute_trunk_name|string not in compute_trunks.stdout"
     - name: ‘Call additional-port processing’
       include_tasks: additional-ports.yaml
     # Create additional ports in OpenStack
     - name: ‘Create additionalNetworks ports’
       os_port:
         name:  "{{ item.0 }}-{{ item.1.name }}"
         vnic_type: "{{ item.1.type }}"
         network: "{{ item.1.uuid }}"
         port_security_enabled: "{{ item.1.port_security_enabled|default(omit) }}"
         no_security_groups: "{{ 'true' if item.1.security_groups is not defined else omit }}"
         security_groups: "{{ item.1.security_groups | default(omit) }}"
       with_nested:
         - "{{ worker_list }}"
         - "{{ port_name_list }}"
     # Tag the ports with the cluster info
     - name: 'Set additionalNetworks ports tag'
       command:
         cmd: "openstack port set --tag {{ cluster_id_tag }} {{ item.0 }}-{{ item.1.name }}"
       with_nested:
         - "{{ worker_list }}"
         - "{{ port_name_list }}"
     # Build the nic list to use for server create
     - name: Build nic list
       set_fact:
         nic_list: "{{ nic_list | default([]) + [ item.name ] }}"
       with_items: "{{ port_name_list }}"
     # Create the servers
     - name: 'Create the Compute servers'
       vars:
         worker_nics: "{{ [ item.1 ] | product(nic_list) | map('join','-') | map('regex_replace', '(.*)', 'port-name=\\1') | list }}"
       os_server:
         name: "{{ item.1 }}"
         image: "{{ os_image_rhcos }}"
         flavor: "{{ os_flavor_worker }}"
         auto_ip: no
         userdata: "{{ lookup('file', 'worker.ign') | string }}"
         security_groups: []
         nics:  "{{ [ 'port-name=' + os_port_worker + '-' + item.0|string ] + worker_nics }}"
         config_drive: yes
       with_indexed_items: "{{ worker_list }}"

4. Insert the following content into a local file that is called additional-ports.yaml:

   additional-ports.yaml

   # Build a list of worker nodes with indexes
   - name: ‘Build worker list’
     set_fact:
       worker_list: "{{ worker_list | default([]) + [ item.1 + '-' + item.0 | string ] }}"
     with_indexed_items: "{{ [ os_compute_server_name ] * os_compute_nodes_number }}"
   # Ensure that each network specified in additionalNetworks exists
   - name: ‘Verify additionalNetworks’
     os_networks_info:
       name: "{{ item.id }}"
     with_items: "{{ additionalNetworks }}"
     register: network_info
   # Expand additionalNetworks by the count parameter in each network definition
   - name: ‘Build port and port index list for additionalNetworks’
     set_fact:
       port_list: "{{ port_list | default([]) + [ {
                       'net_name' : item.1.id,
                       'uuid' : network_info.results[item.0].openstack_networks[0].id,
                       'type' : item.1.type|default('normal'),
                       'security_groups' : item.1.security_groups|default(omit),
                       'port_security_enabled' : item.1.port_security_enabled|default(omit)
                       } ] * item.1.count|default(1) }}"
       index_list: "{{ index_list | default([]) + range(item.1.count|default(1)) | list }}"
     with_indexed_items: "{{ additionalNetworks }}"
   # Calculate and save the name of the port
   # The format of the name is cluster_name-worker-workerID-networkUUID(partial)-count
   # i.e. fdp-nz995-worker-1-99bcd111-1
   - name: ‘Calculate port name’
     set_fact:
       port_name_list: "{{ port_name_list | default([]) + [ item.1 | combine( {'name' : item.1.uuid | regex_search('([^-]+)') + '-' + index_list[item.0]|string } ) ] }}"
     with_indexed_items: "{{ port_list }}"
     when: port_list is defined

5. On a command line, run the compute-nodes.yaml playbook:

   $ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yaml compute-nodes.yaml

Approving the certificate signing requests for your machines

When you add machines to a cluster, two pending certificate signing requests (CSRs) are generated for each machine that you added. You must confirm that these CSRs are approved or, if necessary, approve them yourself. The client requests must be approved first, followed by the server requests.

Prerequisites

• You added machines to your cluster.

Procedure

1. Confirm that the cluster recognizes the machines:

   $ oc get nodes

   Example output

   NAME      STATUS    ROLES   AGE  VERSION
   master-0  Ready     master  63m  v1.20.0
   master-1  Ready     master  63m  v1.20.0
   master-2  Ready     master  64m  v1.20.0
   worker-0  NotReady  worker  76s  v1.20.0
   worker-1  NotReady  worker  70s  v1.20.0

   The output lists all of the machines that you created.

   The preceding output might not include the compute nodes, also known as worker nodes, until some CSRs are approved.

2. Review the pending CSRs and ensure that you see the client requests with the Pending or Approved status for each machine that you added to the cluster:

   $ oc get csr

   Example output

   NAME        AGE     REQUESTOR                                                                   CONDITION
   csr-8b2br   15m     system:serviceaccount:openshift-machine-config-operator:node-bootstrapper   Pending
   csr-8vnps   15m     system:serviceaccount:openshift-machine-config-operator:node-bootstrapper   Pending
   ...

   In this example, two machines are joining the cluster. You might see more approved CSRs in the list.

3. If the CSRs were not approved, after all of the pending CSRs for the machines you added are in Pending status, approve the CSRs for your cluster machines:

   Because the CSRs rotate automatically, approve your CSRs within an hour of adding the machines to the cluster. If you do not approve them within an hour, the certificates will rotate, and more than two certificates will be present for each node. You must approve all of these certificates. Once the client CSR is approved, the Kubelet creates a secondary CSR for the serving certificate, which requires manual approval. Then, subsequent serving certificate renewal requests are automatically approved by the machine-approver if the Kubelet requests a new certificate with identical parameters.

   For clusters running on platforms that are not machine API enabled, such as bare metal and other user-provisioned infrastructure, you must implement a method of automatically approving the kubelet serving certificate requests (CSRs). If a request is not approved, then the oc exec, oc rsh, and oc logs commands cannot succeed, because a serving certificate is required when the API server connects to the kubelet. Any operation that contacts the Kubelet endpoint requires this certificate approval to be in place. The method must watch for new CSRs, confirm that the CSR was submitted by the node-bootstrapper service account in the system:node or system:admin groups, and confirm the identity of the node.

   • To approve them individually, run the following command for each valid CSR:

     $ oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> (1)

     1	<csr_name> is the name of a CSR from the list of current CSRs.

   • To approve all pending CSRs, run the following command:

     $ oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty oc adm certificate approve

     Some Operators might not become available until some CSRs are approved.

4. Now that your client requests are approved, you must review the server requests for each machine that you added to the cluster:

   $ oc get csr

   Example output

   NAME        AGE     REQUESTOR                                                                   CONDITION
   csr-bfd72   5m26s   system:node:ip-10-0-50-126.us-east-2.compute.internal                       Pending
   csr-c57lv   5m26s   system:node:ip-10-0-95-157.us-east-2.compute.internal                       Pending
   ...

5. If the remaining CSRs are not approved, and are in the Pending status, approve the CSRs for your cluster machines:

   • To approve them individually, run the following command for each valid CSR:

     $ oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> (1)

     1	<csr_name> is the name of a CSR from the list of current CSRs.

   • To approve all pending CSRs, run the following command:

     $ oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs oc adm certificate approve

6. After all client and server CSRs have been approved, the machines have the Ready status. Verify this by running the following command:

   $ oc get nodes

   Example output

   NAME      STATUS    ROLES   AGE  VERSION
   master-0  Ready     master  73m  v1.20.0
   master-1  Ready     master  73m  v1.20.0
   master-2  Ready     master  74m  v1.20.0
   worker-0  Ready     worker  11m  v1.20.0
   worker-1  Ready     worker  11m  v1.20.0

   It can take a few minutes after approval of the server CSRs for the machines to transition to the Ready status.

Additional information

• For more information on CSRs, see Certificate Signing Requests.

Verifying a successful installation

Verify that the OKD installation is complete.

Prerequisites

• You have the installation program (openshift-install)

Procedure

• On a command line, enter:

  $ openshift-install --log-level debug wait-for install-complete

The program outputs the console URL, as well as the administrator’s login information.

The cluster is operational. Before you can configure it for SR-IOV networks though, you must perform additional tasks.

Preparing a cluster that runs on RHOSP for SR-IOV

Before you use single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) on a cluster that runs on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP), make the RHOSP metadata service mountable as a drive and enable the No-IOMMU Operator for the virtual function I/O (VFIO) driver.

Enabling the RHOSP metadata service as a mountable drive

You can apply a machine config to your machine pool that makes the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) metadata service available as a mountable drive.

The following machine config enables the display of RHOSP network UUIDs from within the SR-IOV Network Operator. This configuration simplifies the association of SR-IOV resources to cluster SR-IOV resources.

Procedure

1. Create a machine config file from the following template:

   A mountable metadata service machine config file

   kind: MachineConfig
   apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1
   metadata:
     name: 20-mount-config (1)
     labels:
       machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: worker
   spec:
     config:
       ignition:
         version: 3.2.0
       systemd:
         units:
           - name: create-mountpoint-var-config.service
             enabled: true
             contents: |
               [Unit]
               Description=Create mountpoint /var/config
               Before=kubelet.service
               [Service]
               ExecStart=/bin/mkdir -p /var/config
               [Install]
               WantedBy=var-config.mount
           - name: var-config.mount
             enabled: true
             contents: |
               [Unit]
               Before=local-fs.target
               [Mount]
               Where=/var/config
               What=/dev/disk/by-label/config-2
               [Install]
               WantedBy=local-fs.target

   1	You can substitute a name of your choice.

2. From a command line, apply the machine config:

   $ oc apply -f <machine_config_file_name>.yaml

Enabling the No-IOMMU feature for the RHOSP VFIO driver

You can apply a machine config to your machine pool that enables the No-IOMMU feature for the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) virtual function I/O (VFIO) driver. The RHOSP vfio-pci driver requires this feature.

Procedure

1. Create a machine config file from the following template:

   A No-IOMMU VFIO machine config file

   kind: MachineConfig
   apiVersion: machineconfiguration.openshift.io/v1
   metadata:
     name: 99-vfio-noiommu (1)
     labels:
       machineconfiguration.openshift.io/role: worker
   spec:
     config:
       ignition:
         version: 3.2.0
       storage:
         files:
         - path: /etc/modprobe.d/vfio-noiommu.conf
           mode: 0644
           contents:
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   1	You can substitute a name of your choice.

2. From a command line, apply the machine config:

   $ oc apply -f <machine_config_file_name>.yaml

The cluster is installed and prepared for SR-IOV configuration. You must now perform the SR-IOV configuration tasks in “Next steps”.

Additional resources

• See About remote health monitoring for more information about the Telemetry service

Additional resources

• See Performance Addon Operator for low latency nodes for information about configuring your deployment for real-time running and low latency.

Next steps

• To complete SR-IOV configuration for your cluster:

  • Install the Performance Addon Operator.

  • Configure the Performance Addon Operator with huge pages support.

  • Install the SR-IOV Operator.

  • Configure your SR-IOV network device.

• Customize your cluster.

• If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.

• If you need to enable external access to node ports, configure ingress cluster traffic by using a node port.

• If you did not configure RHOSP to accept application traffic over floating IP addresses, configure RHOSP access with floating IP addresses.