Installing a cluster on OpenStack with Kuryr on your own infrastructure

In OKD version 4.8, you can install a cluster on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) that runs on user-provisioned infrastructure.

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, like Nova servers, Neutron ports, and security groups. However, Red Hat provides Ansible playbooks to help you in the deployment process.

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 verified that OKD 4.8 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.

• You have an RHOSP account where you want to install OKD.

• On the machine from which you run the installation program, you have:

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

  • Python 3

About Kuryr SDN

Kuryr is a container network interface (CNI) plug-in solution that uses the Neutron and Octavia Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) services to provide networking for pods and Services.

Kuryr and OKD integration is primarily designed for OKD clusters running on RHOSP VMs. Kuryr improves the network performance by plugging OKD pods into RHOSP SDN. In addition, it provides interconnectivity between pods and RHOSP virtual instances.

Kuryr components are installed as pods in OKD using the openshift-kuryr namespace:

• kuryr-controller - a single service instance installed on a master node. This is modeled in OKD as a Deployment object.

• kuryr-cni - a container installing and configuring Kuryr as a CNI driver on each OKD node. This is modeled in OKD as a DaemonSet object.

The Kuryr controller watches the OKD API server for pod, service, and namespace create, update, and delete events. It maps the OKD API calls to corresponding objects in Neutron and Octavia. This means that every network solution that implements the Neutron trunk port functionality can be used to back OKD via Kuryr. This includes open source solutions such as Open vSwitch (OVS) and Open Virtual Network (OVN) as well as Neutron-compatible commercial SDNs.

Kuryr is recommended for OKD deployments on encapsulated RHOSP tenant networks to avoid double encapsulation, such as running an encapsulated OKD SDN over an RHOSP network.

If you use provider networks or tenant VLANs, you do not need to use Kuryr to avoid double encapsulation. The performance benefit is negligible. Depending on your configuration, though, using Kuryr to avoid having two overlays might still be beneficial.

Kuryr is not recommended in deployments where all of the following criteria are true:

• The RHOSP version is less than 16.

• The deployment uses UDP services, or a large number of TCP services on few hypervisors.

or

• The ovn-octavia Octavia driver is disabled.

• The deployment uses a large number of TCP services on few hypervisors.

Resource guidelines for installing OKD on RHOSP with Kuryr

When using Kuryr SDN, the pods, services, namespaces, and network policies are using resources from the RHOSP quota; this increases the minimum requirements. Kuryr also has some additional requirements on top of what a default install requires.

Use the following quota to satisfy a default cluster’s minimum requirements:

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

Take the following notes into consideration when setting resources:

• The number of ports that are required is larger than the number of pods. Kuryr uses ports pools to have pre-created ports ready to be used by pods and speed up the pods’ booting time.

• Each network policy is mapped into an RHOSP security group, and depending on the NetworkPolicy spec, one or more rules are added to the security group.

• Each service is mapped to an RHOSP load balancer. Consider this requirement when estimating the number of security groups required for the quota.

  If you are using RHOSP version 15 or earlier, or the ovn-octavia driver, each load balancer has a security group with the user project.

• The quota does not account for load balancer resources (such as VM resources), but you must consider these resources when you decide the RHOSP deployment’s size. The default installation will have more than 50 load balancers; the clusters must be able to accommodate them.

  If you are using RHOSP version 16 with the OVN Octavia driver enabled, only one load balancer VM is generated; services are load balanced through OVN flows.

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

To enable Kuryr SDN, your environment must meet the following requirements:

• Run RHOSP 13+.

• Have Overcloud with Octavia.

• Use Neutron Trunk ports extension.

• Use openvswitch firewall driver if ML2/OVS Neutron driver is used instead of ovs-hybrid.

Increasing quota

When using Kuryr SDN, you must increase quotas to satisfy the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) resources used by pods, services, namespaces, and network policies.

Procedure

• Increase the quotas for a project by running the following command:

  $ sudo openstack quota set --secgroups 250 --secgroup-rules 1000 --ports 1500 --subnets 250 --networks 250 <project>

Configuring Neutron

Kuryr CNI leverages the Neutron Trunks extension to plug containers into the Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) SDN, so you must use the trunks extension for Kuryr to properly work.

In addition, if you leverage the default ML2/OVS Neutron driver, the firewall must be set to openvswitch instead of ovs_hybrid so that security groups are enforced on trunk subports and Kuryr can properly handle network policies.

Configuring Octavia

Kuryr SDN uses Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP)’s Octavia LBaaS to implement OKD services. Thus, you must install and configure Octavia components in RHOSP to use Kuryr SDN.

To enable Octavia, you must include the Octavia service during the installation of the RHOSP Overcloud, or upgrade the Octavia service if the Overcloud already exists. The following steps for enabling Octavia apply to both a clean install of the Overcloud or an Overcloud update.

Procedure

1. If you are using the local registry, create a template to upload the images to the registry. For example:

   (undercloud) $ openstack overcloud container image prepare \
   -e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/services-docker/octavia.yaml \
   --namespace=registry.access.redhat.com/rhosp13 \
   --push-destination=<local-ip-from-undercloud.conf>:8787 \
   --prefix=openstack- \
   --tag-from-label {version}-{product-version} \
   --output-env-file=/home/stack/templates/overcloud_images.yaml \
   --output-images-file /home/stack/local_registry_images.yaml

2. Verify that the local_registry_images.yaml file contains the Octavia images. For example:

   ...
   - imagename: registry.access.redhat.com/rhosp13/openstack-octavia-api:13.0-43
     push_destination: <local-ip-from-undercloud.conf>:8787
   - imagename: registry.access.redhat.com/rhosp13/openstack-octavia-health-manager:13.0-45
     push_destination: <local-ip-from-undercloud.conf>:8787
   - imagename: registry.access.redhat.com/rhosp13/openstack-octavia-housekeeping:13.0-45
     push_destination: <local-ip-from-undercloud.conf>:8787
   - imagename: registry.access.redhat.com/rhosp13/openstack-octavia-worker:13.0-44
     push_destination: <local-ip-from-undercloud.conf>:8787

   The Octavia container versions vary depending upon the specific RHOSP release installed.

3. Pull the container images from registry.redhat.io to the Undercloud node:

   (undercloud) $ sudo openstack overcloud container image upload \
     --config-file  /home/stack/local_registry_images.yaml \
     --verbose

   This may take some time depending on the speed of your network and Undercloud disk.

4. Since an Octavia load balancer is used to access the OKD API, you must increase their listeners’ default timeouts for the connections. The default timeout is 50 seconds. Increase the timeout to 20 minutes by passing the following file to the Overcloud deploy command:

   (undercloud) $ cat octavia_timeouts.yaml
   parameter_defaults:
     OctaviaTimeoutClientData: 1200000
     OctaviaTimeoutMemberData: 1200000

   This is not needed for RHOSP 13.0.13+.

5. Install or update your Overcloud environment with Octavia:

   $ openstack overcloud deploy --templates \
     -e /usr/share/openstack-tripleo-heat-templates/environments/services-docker/octavia.yaml \
     -e octavia_timeouts.yaml

   This command only includes the files associated with Octavia; it varies based on your specific installation of RHOSP. See the RHOSP documentation for further information. For more information on customizing your Octavia installation, see installation of Octavia using Director.

   When leveraging Kuryr SDN, the Overcloud installation requires the Neutron trunk extension. This is available by default on director deployments. Use the openvswitch firewall instead of the default ovs-hybrid when the Neutron backend is ML2/OVS. There is no need for modifications if the backend is ML2/OVN.

6. In RHOSP versions earlier than 13.0.13, add the project ID to the octavia.conf configuration file after you create the project.

   • To enforce network policies across services, like when traffic goes through the Octavia load balancer, you must ensure Octavia creates the Amphora VM security groups on the user project.

     This change ensures that required load balancer security groups belong to that project, and that they can be updated to enforce services isolation.

     This task is unnecessary in RHOSP version 13.0.13 or later. Octavia implements a new ACL API that restricts access to the load balancers VIP.

     1. Get the project ID

        $ openstack project show <project>

        Example output

        +-------------+----------------------------------+
        | Field       | Value                            |
        +-------------+----------------------------------+
        | description |                                  |
        | domain_id   | default                          |
        | enabled     | True                             |
        | id          | PROJECT_ID                       |
        | is_domain   | False                            |
        | name        | *<project>*                      |
        | parent_id   | default                          |
        | tags        | []                               |
        +-------------+----------------------------------+

     2. Add the project ID to octavia.conf for the controllers.

        1. Source the stackrc file:

           $ source stackrc  # Undercloud credentials

        2. List the Overcloud controllers:

           $ openstack server list

           Example output

           +--------------------------------------+--------------+--------+-----------------------+----------------+------------+
           │
           | ID                                   | Name         | Status | Networks
           | Image          | Flavor     |
           │
           +--------------------------------------+--------------+--------+-----------------------+----------------+------------+
           │
           | 6bef8e73-2ba5-4860-a0b1-3937f8ca7e01 | controller-0 | ACTIVE |
           ctlplane=192.168.24.8 | overcloud-full | controller |
           │
           | dda3173a-ab26-47f8-a2dc-8473b4a67ab9 | compute-0    | ACTIVE |
           ctlplane=192.168.24.6 | overcloud-full | compute    |
           │
           +--------------------------------------+--------------+--------+-----------------------+----------------+------------+

        3. SSH into the controller(s).

           $ ssh heat-admin@192.168.24.8

        4. Edit the octavia.conf file to add the project into the list of projects where Amphora security groups are on the user’s account.

           # List of project IDs that are allowed to have Load balancer security groups
           # belonging to them.
           amp_secgroup_allowed_projects = PROJECT_ID

     3. Restart the Octavia worker so the new configuration loads.

        controller-0$ sudo docker restart octavia_worker

The Octavia OVN Driver

Octavia supports multiple provider drivers through the Octavia API.

To see all available Octavia provider drivers, on a command line, enter:

$ openstack loadbalancer provider list

Example output

+---------+-------------------------------------------------+
| name    | description                                     |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------+
| amphora | The Octavia Amphora driver.                     |
| octavia | Deprecated alias of the Octavia Amphora driver. |
| ovn     | Octavia OVN driver.                             |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------+

Beginning with RHOSP version 16, the Octavia OVN provider driver (ovn) is supported on OKD on RHOSP deployments.

ovn is an integration driver for the load balancing that Octavia and OVN provide. It supports basic load balancing capabilities, and is based on OpenFlow rules. The driver is automatically enabled in Octavia by Director on deployments that use OVN Neutron ML2.

The Amphora provider driver is the default driver. If ovn is enabled, however, Kuryr uses it.

If Kuryr uses ovn instead of Amphora, it offers the following benefits:

• Decreased resource requirements. Kuryr does not require a load balancer VM for each service.

• Reduced network latency.

• Increased service creation speed by using OpenFlow rules instead of a VM for each service.

• Distributed load balancing actions across all nodes instead of centralized on Amphora VMs.

Known limitations of installing with Kuryr

Using OKD with Kuryr SDN has several known limitations.

RHOSP general limitations

Using OKD with Kuryr SDN has several limitations that apply to all versions and environments:

• Service objects with the NodePort type are not supported.

• Clusters that use the OVN Octavia provider driver support Service objects for which the .spec.selector property is unspecified only if the .subsets.addresses property of the Endpoints object includes the subnet of the nodes or pods.

• If the subnet on which machines are created is not connected to a router, or if the subnet is connected, but the router has no external gateway set, Kuryr cannot create floating IPs for Service objects with type LoadBalancer.

RHOSP version limitations

Using OKD with Kuryr SDN has several limitations that depend on the RHOSP version.

• RHOSP versions before 16 use the default Octavia load balancer driver (Amphora). This driver requires that one Amphora load balancer VM is deployed per OKD service. Creating too many services can cause you to run out of resources.

  Deployments of later versions of RHOSP that have the OVN Octavia driver disabled also use the Amphora driver. They are subject to the same resource concerns as earlier versions of RHOSP.

• Octavia RHOSP versions before 13.0.13 do not support UDP listeners. Therefore, OKD UDP services are not supported.

• Octavia RHOSP versions before 13.0.13 cannot listen to multiple protocols on the same port. Services that expose the same port to different protocols, like TCP and UDP, are not supported.

RHOSP environment limitations

There are limitations when using Kuryr SDN that depend on your deployment environment.

Because of Octavia’s lack of support for the UDP protocol and multiple listeners, if the RHOSP version is earlier than 13.0.13, Kuryr forces pods to use TCP for DNS resolution.

In Go versions 1.12 and earlier, applications that are compiled with CGO support disabled use UDP only. In this case, the native Go resolver does not recognize the use-vc option in resolv.conf, which controls whether TCP is forced for DNS resolution. As a result, UDP is still used for DNS resolution, which fails.

To ensure that TCP forcing is allowed, compile applications either with the environment variable CGO_ENABLED set to 1, i.e. CGO_ENABLED=1, or ensure that the variable is absent.

In Go versions 1.13 and later, TCP is used automatically if DNS resolution using UDP fails.

RHOSP upgrade limitations

As a result of the RHOSP upgrade process, the Octavia API might be changed, and upgrades to the Amphora images that are used for load balancers might be required.

You can address API changes on an individual basis.

If the Amphora image is upgraded, the RHOSP operator can handle existing load balancer VMs in two ways:

• Upgrade each VM by triggering a load balancer failover.

• Leave responsibility for upgrading the VMs to users.

If the operator takes the first option, there might be short downtimes during failovers.

If the operator takes the second option, the existing load balancers will not support upgraded Octavia API features, like UDP listeners. In this case, users must recreate their Services to use these features.

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

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-4.8/upi/openstack/bootstrap.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/common.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/compute-nodes.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/control-plane.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/inventory.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/network.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/security-groups.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/down-bootstrap.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/down-compute-nodes.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/down-control-plane.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/down-load-balancers.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/down-network.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/upi/openstack/down-security-groups.yaml
          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/installer/release-4.8/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. 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 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.

Procedure

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

2. View the public SSH key:

   $ cat <path>/<file_name>.pub

   For example, run the following to view the ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub public key:

   $ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

3. 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.

   1. 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.

4. 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_rsa

   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.

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 4.8 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”
   }
}

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.

Sample customized install-config.yaml file for RHOSP with Kuryr

To deploy with Kuryr SDN instead of the default OpenShift SDN, you must modify the install-config.yaml file to include Kuryr as the desired networking.networkType and proceed with the default OKD SDN installation steps. 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 (1)
  networkType: Kuryr
platform:
  openstack:
    cloud: mycloud
    externalNetwork: external
    computeFlavor: m1.xlarge
    apiFloatingIP: 128.0.0.1
    trunkSupport: true (2)
    octaviaSupport: true (2)
pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}'
sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA...

Cluster deployment on RHOSP provider networks

You can deploy your OKD clusters on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) with a primary network interface on a provider network. Provider networks are commonly used to give projects direct access to a public network that can be used to reach the internet. You can also share provider networks among projects as part of the network creation process.

RHOSP provider networks map directly to an existing physical network in the data center. A RHOSP administrator must create them.

In the following example, OKD workloads are connected to a data center by using a provider network:

OKD clusters that are installed on provider networks do not require tenant networks or floating IP addresses. The installer does not create these resources during installation.

Example provider network types include flat (untagged) and VLAN (802.1Q tagged).

You can learn more about provider and tenant networks in the RHOSP documentation.

RHOSP provider network requirements for cluster installation

Before you install an OKD cluster, your Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) deployment and provider network must meet a number of conditions:

• The RHOSP networking service (Neutron) is enabled and accessible through the RHOSP networking API.

• The RHOSP networking service has the port security and allowed address pairs extensions enabled.

• The provider network can be shared with other tenants.

  Use the openstack network create command with the —share flag to create a network that can be shared.

• The RHOSP project that you use to install the cluster must own the provider network, as well as an appropriate subnet.

  To create a network for a project that is named “openshift,” enter the following command $ openstack network create —project openshift To create a subnet for a project that is named “openshift,” enter the following command $ openstack subnet create —project openshift To learn more about creating networks on RHOSP, read the provider networks documentation.

  If the cluster is owned by the admin user, you must run the installer as that user to create ports on the network.

  Provider networks must be owned by the RHOSP project that is used to create the cluster. If they are not, the RHOSP Compute service (Nova) cannot request a port from that network.

• Verify that the provider network can reach the RHOSP metadata service IP address, which is 169.254.169.254 by default.

  Depending on your RHOSP SDN and networking service configuration, you might need to provide the route when you create the subnet. For example:

  $ openstack subnet create --dhcp --host-route destination=169.254.169.254/32,gateway=192.0.2.2 ...

• Optional: To secure the network, create role-based access control (RBAC) rules that limit network access to a single project.

Deploying a cluster that has a primary interface on a provider network

You can deploy an OKD cluster that has its primary network interface on an Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) provider network. .Prerequisites

• Your Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) deployment is configured as described by “RHOSP provider network requirements for cluster installation”.

Procedure

1. In a text editor, open the install-config.yaml file.

2. Set the value of the platform.openstack.apiVIP property to the IP address for the API VIP.

3. Set the value of the platform.openstack.ingressVIP property to the IP address for the Ingress VIP.

4. Set the value of the platform.openstack.machinesSubnet property to the UUID of the provider network subnet.

5. Set the value of the networking.machineNetwork.cidr property to the CIDR block of the provider network subnet.

Section of an installation configuration file for a cluster that relies on a RHOSP provider network

        ...
        platform:
          openstack:
            apiVIP: 192.0.2.13
            ingressVIP: 192.0.2.23
            machinesSubnet: fa806b2f-ac49-4bce-b9db-124bc64209bf
            # ...
        networking:
          machineNetwork:
          - cidr: 192.0.2.0/24

When you deploy the cluster, the installer uses the install-config.yaml file to deploy the cluster on the provider network.

Kuryr ports pools

A Kuryr ports pool maintains a number of ports on standby for pod creation.

Keeping ports on standby minimizes pod creation time. Without ports pools, Kuryr must explicitly request port creation or deletion whenever a pod is created or deleted.

The Neutron ports that Kuryr uses are created in subnets that are tied to namespaces. These pod ports are also added as subports to the primary port of OKD cluster nodes.

Because Kuryr keeps each namespace in a separate subnet, a separate ports pool is maintained for each namespace-worker pair.

Prior to installing a cluster, you can set the following parameters in the cluster-network-03-config.yml manifest file to configure ports pool behavior:

• The enablePortPoolsPrepopulation parameter controls pool prepopulation, which forces Kuryr to add ports to the pool when it is created, such as when a new host is added, or a new namespace is created. The default value is false.

• The poolMinPorts parameter is the minimum number of free ports that are kept in the pool. The default value is 1.

• The poolMaxPorts parameter is the maximum number of free ports that are kept in the pool. A value of 0 disables that upper bound. This is the default setting.

  If your OpenStack port quota is low, or you have a limited number of IP addresses on the pod network, consider setting this option to ensure that unneeded ports are deleted.

• The poolBatchPorts parameter defines the maximum number of Neutron ports that can be created at once. The default value is 3.

Adjusting Kuryr ports pools during installation

During installation, you can configure how Kuryr manages Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) Neutron ports to control the speed and efficiency of pod creation.

Prerequisites

• Create and modify the install-config.yaml file.

Procedure

1. From a command line, create the manifest files:

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

   1	For <installation_directory>, specify the name of the directory that contains the install-config.yaml file for your cluster.

2. Create a file that is named cluster-network-03-config.yml in the <installation_directory>/manifests/ directory:

   $ touch <installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-network-03-config.yml (1)

   1	For <installation_directory>, specify the directory name that contains the manifests/ directory for your cluster.

   After creating the file, several network configuration files are in the manifests/ directory, as shown:

   $ ls <installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-network-*

   Example output

   cluster-network-01-crd.yml
   cluster-network-02-config.yml
   cluster-network-03-config.yml

3. Open the cluster-network-03-config.yml file in an editor, and enter a custom resource (CR) that describes the Cluster Network Operator configuration that you want:

   $ oc edit networks.operator.openshift.io cluster

4. Edit the settings to meet your requirements. The following file is provided as an example:

   apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1
   kind: Network
   metadata:
     name: cluster
   spec:
     clusterNetwork:
     - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14
       hostPrefix: 23
     serviceNetwork:
     - 172.30.0.0/16
     defaultNetwork:
       type: Kuryr
       kuryrConfig:
         enablePortPoolsPrepopulation: false (1)
         poolMinPorts: 1 (2)
         poolBatchPorts: 3 (3)
         poolMaxPorts: 5 (4)
         openstackServiceNetwork: 172.30.0.0/15 (5)

   1	Set the value of enablePortPoolsPrepopulation to true to make Kuryr create new Neutron ports after a namespace is created or a new node is added to the cluster. This setting raises the Neutron ports quota but can reduce the time that is required to spawn pods. The default value is false.
   2	Kuryr creates new ports for a pool if the number of free ports in that pool is lower than the value of poolMinPorts. The default value is 1.
   3	poolBatchPorts controls the number of new ports that are created if the number of free ports is lower than the value of poolMinPorts. The default value is 3.
   4	If the number of free ports in a pool is higher than the value of poolMaxPorts, Kuryr deletes them until the number matches that value. Setting this value to 0 disables this upper bound, preventing pools from shrinking. The default value is 0.
   5	The openStackServiceNetwork parameter defines the CIDR range of the network from which IP addresses are allocated to RHOSP Octavia’s LoadBalancers.

   If this parameter is used with the Amphora driver, Octavia takes two IP addresses from this network for each load balancer: one for OpenShift and the other for VRRP connections. Because these IP addresses are managed by OKD and Neutron respectively, they must come from different pools. Therefore, the value of openStackServiceNetwork must be at least twice the size of the value of serviceNetwork, and the value of serviceNetwork must overlap entirely with the range that is defined by openStackServiceNetwork.

   The CNO verifies that VRRP IP addresses that are taken from the range that is defined by this parameter do not overlap with the range that is defined by the serviceNetwork parameter.

   If this parameter is not set, the CNO uses an expanded value of serviceNetwork that is determined by decrementing the prefix size by 1.

5. Save the cluster-network-03-config.yml file, and exit the text editor.

6. Optional: Back up the manifests/cluster-network-03-config.yml file. The installation program deletes the manifests/ directory while creating the cluster.

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.

Modifying the network type

By default, the installation program selects the OpenShiftSDN network type. To use Kuryr instead, change the value in the installation configuration file that the program generated.

Prerequisites

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

Procedure

1. In a command prompt, 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"]["networkType"] = "Kuryr";
     open(path, "w").write(yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False))'

   • To set the value manually, open the file and set networking.networkType to "Kuryr".

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 configure the machines.

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

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 OKD 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.

   Ignition config files are created for the bootstrap, control plane, and compute nodes in the installation directory. The kubeadmin-password and kubeconfig files are created in the ./<installation_directory>/auth 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"

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 compute machines on RHOSP

After standing up the control plane, create compute machines. 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 compute-nodes.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.

• The control plane is active.

Procedure

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

2. On a command line, run the playbook:

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

Next steps

• Approve the certificate signing requests for the machines.

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  v1.21.0
   master-1  Ready     master  63m  v1.21.0
   master-2  Ready     master  64m  v1.21.0

   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. After 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  v1.21.0
   master-1  Ready     master  73m  v1.21.0
   master-2  Ready     master  74m  v1.21.0
   worker-0  Ready     worker  11m  v1.21.0
   worker-1  Ready     worker  11m  v1.21.0

   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.

Additional resources

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

Next steps

• 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.