Chapter 3. Installing a cluster on Nutanix
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.15, you can choose one of the following options to install a cluster on your Nutanix instance:
Using installer-provisioned infrastructure: Use the procedures in the following sections to use installer-provisioned infrastructure. Installer-provisioned infrastructure is ideal for installing in connected or disconnected network environments. The installer-provisioned infrastructure includes an installation program that provisions the underlying infrastructure for the cluster.
Using the Assisted Installer: The Assisted Installer hosted at console.redhat.com. The Assisted Installer cannot be used in disconnected environments. The Assisted Installer does not provision the underlying infrastructure for the cluster, so you must provision the infrastructure before the running the Assisted Installer. Installing with the Assisted Installer also provides integration with Nutanix, enabling autoscaling. See Installing an on-premise cluster using the Assisted Installer for additional details.
Using user-provisioned infrastructure: Complete the relevant steps outlined in the Installing a cluster on any platform documentation.
3.1. Prerequisites
- You have reviewed details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
- The installation program requires access to port 9440 on Prism Central and Prism Element. You verified that port 9440 is accessible.
If you use a firewall, you have met these prerequisites:
- You confirmed that port 9440 is accessible. Control plane nodes must be able to reach Prism Central and Prism Element on port 9440 for the installation to succeed.
- You configured the firewall to grant access to the sites that OpenShift Container Platform requires. This includes the use of Telemetry.
If your Nutanix environment is using the default self-signed SSL certificate, replace it with a certificate that is signed by a CA. The installation program requires a valid CA-signed certificate to access to the Prism Central API. For more information about replacing the self-signed certificate, see the Nutanix AOS Security Guide.
If your Nutanix environment uses an internal CA to issue certificates, you must configure a cluster-wide proxy as part of the installation process. For more information, see Configuring a custom PKI.
ImportantUse 2048-bit certificates. The installation fails if you use 4096-bit certificates with Prism Central 2022.x.
3.2. Internet access for OpenShift Container Platform
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.15, you require access to the internet to install your cluster.
You must have internet access to:
- Access OpenShift Cluster Manager to download the installation program and perform subscription management. If the cluster has internet access and you do not disable Telemetry, that service automatically entitles your cluster.
- Access Quay.io to obtain the packages that are required to install your cluster.
- Obtain the packages that are required to perform cluster updates.
If your cluster cannot have direct internet access, you can perform a restricted network installation on some types of infrastructure that you provision. During that process, you download the required content and use it to populate a mirror registry with the installation packages. With some installation types, the environment that you install your cluster in will not require internet access. Before you update the cluster, you update the content of the mirror registry.
3.3. Internet access for Prism Central
Prism Central requires internet access to obtain the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image that is required to install the cluster. The RHCOS image for Nutanix is available at rhcos.mirror.openshift.com
.
3.4. Generating a key pair for cluster node SSH access
During an OpenShift Container Platform installation, you can provide an SSH public key to the installation program. The key is passed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) 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 RHCOS nodes as the user core
. To access the nodes through SSH, the private key identity must be managed by SSH for your local user.
If you want to SSH in to your cluster nodes to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, you must provide the SSH public key during the installation process. The ./openshift-install gather
command also requires the SSH public key to be in place on the cluster nodes.
Do not skip this procedure in production environments, where disaster recovery and debugging is required.
You must use a local key, not one that you configured with platform-specific approaches such as AWS key pairs.
Procedure
If you do not have an existing SSH key pair on your local machine to use for authentication onto your cluster nodes, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -f <path>/<file_name> 1
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- Specify the path and file name, such as
~/.ssh/id_ed25519
, of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your~/.ssh
directory.
NoteIf you plan to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses the RHEL cryptographic libraries that have been submitted to NIST for FIPS 140-2/140-3 Validation on only the
x86_64
,ppc64le
, ands390x
architectures, do not create a key that uses theed25519
algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses thersa
orecdsa
algorithm.View the public SSH key:
$ cat <path>/<file_name>.pub
For example, run the following to view the
~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
public key:$ cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
Add the SSH private key identity to the SSH agent for your local user, if it has not already been added. SSH agent management of the key is required for password-less SSH authentication onto your cluster nodes, or if you want to use the
./openshift-install gather
command.NoteOn some distributions, default SSH private key identities such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
and~/.ssh/id_dsa
are managed automatically.If the
ssh-agent
process is not already running for your local user, start it as a background task:$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Example output
Agent pid 31874
NoteIf your cluster is in FIPS mode, only use FIPS-compliant algorithms to generate the SSH key. The key must be either RSA or ECDSA.
Add your SSH private key to the
ssh-agent
:$ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1
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- Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as
~/.ssh/id_ed25519
Example output
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
Next steps
- When you install OpenShift Container Platform, provide the SSH public key to the installation program.
3.5. Obtaining the installation program
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, download the installation file on the host you are using for installation.
Prerequisites
- You have a computer that runs Linux or macOS, with at least 1.2 GB of local disk space.
Procedure
- Go to the Cluster Type page on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. If you have a Red Hat account, log in with your credentials. If you do not, create an account.
- Select your infrastructure provider from the Run it yourself section of the page.
- Select your host operating system and architecture from the dropdown menus under OpenShift Installer and click Download Installer.
Place the downloaded file in the directory where you want to store the installation configuration files.
Important- 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 of the 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 OpenShift Container Platform uninstallation procedures for your specific cloud provider.
Extract the installation program. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ tar -xvf openshift-install-linux.tar.gz
- Download your installation pull secret from Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager. This pull secret allows you to authenticate with the services that are provided by the included authorities, including Quay.io, which serves the container images for OpenShift Container Platform components.
Alternatively, you can retrieve the installation program from the Red Hat Customer Portal, where you can specify a version of the installation program to download. However, you must have an active subscription to access this page.
3.6. Adding Nutanix root CA certificates to your system trust
Because the installation program requires access to the Prism Central API, you must add your Nutanix trusted root CA certificates to your system trust before you install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Procedure
- From the Prism Central web console, download the Nutanix root CA certificates.
- Extract the compressed file that contains the Nutanix root CA certificates.
Add the files for your operating system to the system trust. For example, on a Fedora operating system, run the following command:
# cp certs/lin/* /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors
Update your system trust. For example, on a Fedora operating system, run the following command:
# update-ca-trust extract
3.7. Creating the installation configuration file
You can customize the OpenShift Container Platform cluster you install on Nutanix.
Prerequisites
- You have the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
- You have verified that you have met the Nutanix networking requirements. For more information, see "Preparing to install on Nutanix".
Procedure
Create the
install-config.yaml
file.Change to the directory that contains the installation program and run the following command:
$ ./openshift-install create install-config --dir <installation_directory> 1
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- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the directory name to store the files that the installation program creates.
When specifying the directory:
-
Verify that the directory has the
execute
permission. This permission is required to run Terraform binaries under the installation directory. - Use an empty directory. Some installation assets, such as bootstrap X.509 certificates, have short expiration intervals, therefore you must not reuse an installation directory. If you want to reuse individual files from another cluster installation, you can copy them into your directory. However, the file names for the installation assets might change between releases. Use caution when copying installation files from an earlier OpenShift Container Platform version.
At the prompts, provide the configuration details for your cloud:
Optional: Select an SSH key to use to access your cluster machines.
NoteFor production OpenShift Container Platform clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, specify an SSH key that your
ssh-agent
process uses.- Select nutanix as the platform to target.
- Enter the Prism Central domain name or IP address.
- Enter the port that is used to log into Prism Central.
Enter the credentials that are used to log into Prism Central.
The installation program connects to Prism Central.
- Select the Prism Element that will manage the OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
- Select the network subnet to use.
- Enter the virtual IP address that you configured for control plane API access.
- Enter the virtual IP address that you configured for cluster ingress.
- Enter the base domain. This base domain must be the same one that you configured in the DNS records.
Enter a descriptive name for your cluster.
The cluster name you enter must match the cluster name you specified when configuring the DNS records.
Optional: Update one or more of the default configuration parameters in the
install.config.yaml
file to customize the installation.For more information about the parameters, see "Installation configuration parameters".
NoteIf you are installing a three-node cluster, be sure to set the
compute.replicas
parameter to0
. This ensures that cluster’s control planes are schedulable. For more information, see "Installing a three-node cluster on Nutanix".Back up the
install-config.yaml
file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters.ImportantThe
install-config.yaml
file is consumed during the installation process. If you want to reuse the file, you must back it up now.
Additional resources
3.7.1. Sample customized install-config.yaml file for Nutanix
You can customize the install-config.yaml
file to specify more details about your OpenShift Container Platform cluster’s platform or modify the values of the required parameters.
This sample YAML file is provided for reference only. You must obtain your install-config.yaml
file by using the installation program and modify it.
apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: example.com 1 compute: 2 - hyperthreading: Enabled 3 name: worker replicas: 3 platform: nutanix: 4 cpus: 2 coresPerSocket: 2 memoryMiB: 8196 osDisk: diskSizeGiB: 120 categories: 5 - key: <category_key_name> value: <category_value> controlPlane: 6 hyperthreading: Enabled 7 name: master replicas: 3 platform: nutanix: 8 cpus: 4 coresPerSocket: 2 memoryMiB: 16384 osDisk: diskSizeGiB: 120 categories: 9 - key: <category_key_name> value: <category_value> metadata: creationTimestamp: null name: test-cluster 10 networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16 networkType: OVNKubernetes 11 serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: nutanix: apiVIPs: - 10.40.142.7 12 defaultMachinePlatform: bootType: Legacy categories: 13 - key: <category_key_name> value: <category_value> project: 14 type: name name: <project_name> ingressVIPs: - 10.40.142.8 15 prismCentral: endpoint: address: your.prismcentral.domainname 16 port: 9440 17 password: <password> 18 username: <username> 19 prismElements: - endpoint: address: your.prismelement.domainname port: 9440 uuid: 0005b0f1-8f43-a0f2-02b7-3cecef193712 subnetUUIDs: - c7938dc6-7659-453e-a688-e26020c68e43 clusterOSImage: http://example.com/images/rhcos-47.83.202103221318-0-nutanix.x86_64.qcow2 20 credentialsMode: Manual publish: External pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}' 21 fips: false 22 sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA... 23
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- Required. The installation program prompts you for this value.
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- The
controlPlane
section is a single mapping, but the compute section is a sequence of mappings. To meet the requirements of the different data structures, the first line of thecompute
section must begin with a hyphen,-
, and the first line of thecontrolPlane
section must not. Although both sections currently define a single machine pool, it is possible that future versions of OpenShift Container Platform will support defining multiple compute pools during installation. Only one control plane pool is used. - 3 7
- Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or
hyperthreading
. By default, simultaneous multithreading is enabled to increase the performance of your machines' cores. You can disable it by setting the parameter value toDisabled
. If you disable simultaneous multithreading in some cluster machines, you must disable it in all cluster machines.ImportantIf you disable simultaneous multithreading, ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance.
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- Optional: Provide additional configuration for the machine pool parameters for the compute and control plane machines.
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- Optional: Provide one or more pairs of a prism category key and a prism category value. These category key-value pairs must exist in Prism Central. You can provide separate categories to compute machines, control plane machines, or all machines.
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- TThe cluster network plugin to install. The default value
OVNKubernetes
is the only supported value. - 14
- Optional: Specify a project with which VMs are associated. Specify either
name
oruuid
for the project type, and then provide the corresponding UUID or project name. You can associate projects to compute machines, control plane machines, or all machines. - 20
- Optional: By default, the installation program downloads and installs the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image. If Prism Central does not have internet access, you can override the default behavior by hosting the RHCOS image on any HTTP server and pointing the installation program to the image.
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- Whether to enable or disable FIPS mode. By default, FIPS mode is not enabled. If FIPS mode is enabled, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines that OpenShift Container Platform runs on bypass the default Kubernetes cryptography suite and use the cryptography modules that are provided with RHCOS instead.Important
When running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) booted in FIPS mode, OpenShift Container Platform core components use the RHEL cryptographic libraries that have been submitted to NIST for FIPS 140-2/140-3 Validation on only the x86_64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures.
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- Optional: You can provide the
sshKey
value that you use to access the machines in your cluster.NoteFor production OpenShift Container Platform clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, specify an SSH key that your
ssh-agent
process uses.
3.7.2. Configuring failure domains
Failure domains improve the fault tolerance of an OpenShift Container Platform cluster by distributing control plane and compute machines across multiple Nutanix Prism Elements (clusters).
It is recommended that you configure three failure domains to ensure high-availability.
Prerequisites
-
You have an installation configuration file (
install-config.yaml
).
Procedure
Edit the
install-config.yaml
file and add the following stanza to configure the first failure domain:apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: example.com compute: # ... platform: nutanix: failureDomains: - name: <failure_domain_name> prismElement: name: <prism_element_name> uuid: <prism_element_uuid> subnetUUIDs: - <network_uuid> # ...
where:
<failure_domain_name>
-
Specifies a unique name for the failure domain. The name is limited to 64 or fewer characters, which can include lower-case letters, digits, and a dash (
-
). The dash cannot be in the leading or ending position of the name. <prism_element_name>
- Optional. Specifies the name of the Prism Element.
<prism_element_uuid
>- Specifies the UUID of the Prism Element.
<network_uuid
>- Specifies the UUID of the Prism Element subnet object. The subnet’s IP address prefix (CIDR) should contain the virtual IP addresses that the OpenShift Container Platform cluster uses. Only one subnet per failure domain (Prism Element) in an OpenShift Container Platform cluster is supported.
- As required, configure additional failure domains.
To distribute control plane and compute machines across the failure domains, do one of the following:
If compute and control plane machines can share the same set of failure domains, add the failure domain names under the cluster’s default machine configuration.
Example of control plane and compute machines sharing a set of failure domains
apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: example.com compute: # ... platform: nutanix: defaultMachinePlatform: failureDomains: - failure-domain-1 - failure-domain-2 - failure-domain-3 # ...
If compute and control plane machines must use different failure domains, add the failure domain names under the respective machine pools.
Example of control plane and compute machines using different failure domains
apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: example.com compute: # ... controlPlane: platform: nutanix: failureDomains: - failure-domain-1 - failure-domain-2 - failure-domain-3 # ... compute: platform: nutanix: failureDomains: - failure-domain-1 - failure-domain-2 # ...
- Save the file.
3.7.3. Configuring the cluster-wide proxy during installation
Production environments can deny direct access to the internet and instead have an HTTP or HTTPS proxy available. You can configure a new OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use a proxy by configuring the proxy settings in the install-config.yaml
file.
Prerequisites
-
You have an existing
install-config.yaml
file. You reviewed the sites that your cluster requires access to and determined whether any of them need to bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster egress traffic is proxied, including calls to hosting cloud provider APIs. You added sites to the
Proxy
object’sspec.noProxy
field to bypass the proxy if necessary.NoteThe
Proxy
objectstatus.noProxy
field is populated with the values of thenetworking.machineNetwork[].cidr
,networking.clusterNetwork[].cidr
, andnetworking.serviceNetwork[]
fields from your installation configuration.For installations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP), the
Proxy
objectstatus.noProxy
field is also populated with the instance metadata endpoint (169.254.169.254
).
Procedure
Edit your
install-config.yaml
file and add the proxy settings. For example:apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: my.domain.com proxy: httpProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 1 httpsProxy: https://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 additionalTrustBundle: | 4 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT> -----END CERTIFICATE----- additionalTrustBundlePolicy: <policy_to_add_additionalTrustBundle> 5
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- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be
http
. - 2
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster.
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- A comma-separated list of destination domain names, IP addresses, or other network CIDRs to exclude from proxying. Preface a domain with
.
to match subdomains only. For example,.y.com
matchesx.y.com
, but noty.com
. Use*
to bypass the proxy for all destinations. - 4
- If provided, the installation program generates a config map that is named
user-ca-bundle
in theopenshift-config
namespace that contains one or more additional CA certificates that are required for proxying HTTPS connections. The Cluster Network Operator then creates atrusted-ca-bundle
config map that merges these contents with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) trust bundle, and this config map is referenced in thetrustedCA
field of theProxy
object. TheadditionalTrustBundle
field is required unless the proxy’s identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle. - 5
- Optional: The policy to determine the configuration of the
Proxy
object to reference theuser-ca-bundle
config map in thetrustedCA
field. The allowed values areProxyonly
andAlways
. UseProxyonly
to reference theuser-ca-bundle
config map only whenhttp/https
proxy is configured. UseAlways
to always reference theuser-ca-bundle
config map. The default value isProxyonly
.
NoteThe installation program does not support the proxy
readinessEndpoints
field.NoteIf the installer times out, restart and then complete the deployment by using the
wait-for
command of the installer. For example:$ ./openshift-install wait-for install-complete --log-level debug
- Save the file and reference it when installing OpenShift Container Platform.
The installation program creates a cluster-wide proxy that is named cluster
that uses the proxy settings in the provided install-config.yaml
file. If no proxy settings are provided, a cluster
Proxy
object is still created, but it will have a nil spec
.
Only the Proxy
object named cluster
is supported, and no additional proxies can be created.
3.8. Installing the OpenShift CLI by downloading the binary
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) to interact with OpenShift Container Platform from a command-line interface. You can install oc
on Linux, Windows, or macOS.
If you installed an earlier version of oc
, you cannot use it to complete all of the commands in OpenShift Container Platform 4.15. Download and install the new version of oc
.
Installing the OpenShift CLI on Linux
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the OpenShift Container Platform downloads page on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
- Select the architecture from the Product Variant drop-down list.
- Select the appropriate version from the Version drop-down list.
- Click Download Now next to the OpenShift v4.15 Linux Clients entry and save the file.
Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvf <file>
Place the
oc
binary in a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
Verification
After you install the OpenShift CLI, it is available using the
oc
command:$ oc <command>
Installing the OpenShift CLI on Windows
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the OpenShift Container Platform downloads page on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
- Select the appropriate version from the Version drop-down list.
- Click Download Now next to the OpenShift v4.15 Windows Client entry and save the file.
- Unzip the archive with a ZIP program.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, open the command prompt and execute the following command:C:\> path
Verification
After you install the OpenShift CLI, it is available using the
oc
command:C:\> oc <command>
Installing the OpenShift CLI on macOS
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the OpenShift Container Platform downloads page on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
- Select the appropriate version from the Version drop-down list.
Click Download Now next to the OpenShift v4.15 macOS Clients entry and save the file.
NoteFor macOS arm64, choose the OpenShift v4.15 macOS arm64 Client entry.
- Unpack and unzip the archive.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory on your PATH.To check your
PATH
, open a terminal and execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
Verification
Verify your installation by using an
oc
command:$ oc <command>
3.9. Configuring IAM for Nutanix
Installing the cluster requires that the Cloud Credential Operator (CCO) operate in manual mode. While the installation program configures the CCO for manual mode, you must specify the identity and access management secrets.
Prerequisites
-
You have configured the
ccoctl
binary. -
You have an
install-config.yaml
file.
Procedure
Create a YAML file that contains the credentials data in the following format:
Credentials data format
credentials: - type: basic_auth 1 data: prismCentral: 2 username: <username_for_prism_central> password: <password_for_prism_central> prismElements: 3 - name: <name_of_prism_element> username: <username_for_prism_element> password: <password_for_prism_element>
Set a
$RELEASE_IMAGE
variable with the release image from your installation file by running the following command:$ RELEASE_IMAGE=$(./openshift-install version | awk '/release image/ {print $3}')
Extract the list of
CredentialsRequest
custom resources (CRs) from the OpenShift Container Platform release image by running the following command:$ oc adm release extract \ --from=$RELEASE_IMAGE \ --credentials-requests \ --included \1 --install-config=<path_to_directory_with_installation_configuration>/install-config.yaml \2 --to=<path_to_directory_for_credentials_requests> 3
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- The
--included
parameter includes only the manifests that your specific cluster configuration requires. - 2
- Specify the location of the
install-config.yaml
file. - 3
- Specify the path to the directory where you want to store the
CredentialsRequest
objects. If the specified directory does not exist, this command creates it.
Sample
CredentialsRequest
objectapiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1 kind: CredentialsRequest metadata: annotations: include.release.openshift.io/self-managed-high-availability: "true" labels: controller-tools.k8s.io: "1.0" name: openshift-machine-api-nutanix namespace: openshift-cloud-credential-operator spec: providerSpec: apiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1 kind: NutanixProviderSpec secretRef: name: nutanix-credentials namespace: openshift-machine-api
Use the
ccoctl
tool to process allCredentialsRequest
objects by running the following command:$ ccoctl nutanix create-shared-secrets \ --credentials-requests-dir=<path_to_credentials_requests_directory> \1 --output-dir=<ccoctl_output_dir> \2 --credentials-source-filepath=<path_to_credentials_file> 3
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- Specify the path to the directory that contains the files for the component
CredentialsRequests
objects. - 2
- Optional: Specify the directory in which you want the
ccoctl
utility to create objects. By default, the utility creates objects in the directory in which the commands are run. - 3
- Optional: Specify the directory that contains the credentials data YAML file. By default,
ccoctl
expects this file to be in<home_directory>/.nutanix/credentials
.
Edit the
install-config.yaml
configuration file so that thecredentialsMode
parameter is set toManual
.Example
install-config.yaml
configuration fileapiVersion: v1 baseDomain: cluster1.example.com credentialsMode: Manual 1 ...
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- Add this line to set the
credentialsMode
parameter toManual
.
Create the installation manifests by running the following command:
$ openshift-install create manifests --dir <installation_directory> 1
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- Specify the path to the directory that contains the
install-config.yaml
file for your cluster.
Copy the generated credential files to the target manifests directory by running the following command:
$ cp <ccoctl_output_dir>/manifests/*credentials.yaml ./<installation_directory>/manifests
Verification
Ensure that the appropriate secrets exist in the
manifests
directory.$ ls ./<installation_directory>/manifests
Example output
cluster-config.yaml cluster-dns-02-config.yml cluster-infrastructure-02-config.yml cluster-ingress-02-config.yml cluster-network-01-crd.yml cluster-network-02-config.yml cluster-proxy-01-config.yaml cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml cvo-overrides.yaml kube-cloud-config.yaml kube-system-configmap-root-ca.yaml machine-config-server-tls-secret.yaml openshift-config-secret-pull-secret.yaml openshift-cloud-controller-manager-nutanix-credentials-credentials.yaml openshift-machine-api-nutanix-credentials-credentials.yaml
3.10. Adding config map and secret resources required for Nutanix CCM
Installations on Nutanix require additional ConfigMap
and Secret
resources to integrate with the Nutanix Cloud Controller Manager (CCM).
Prerequisites
-
You have created a
manifests
directory within your installation directory.
Procedure
Navigate to the
manifests
directory:$ cd <path_to_installation_directory>/manifests
Create the
cloud-conf
ConfigMap
file with the nameopenshift-cloud-controller-manager-cloud-config.yaml
and add the following information:apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: cloud-conf namespace: openshift-cloud-controller-manager data: cloud.conf: "{ \"prismCentral\": { \"address\": \"<prism_central_FQDN/IP>\", 1 \"port\": 9440, \"credentialRef\": { \"kind\": \"Secret\", \"name\": \"nutanix-credentials\", \"namespace\": \"openshift-cloud-controller-manager\" } }, \"topologyDiscovery\": { \"type\": \"Prism\", \"topologyCategories\": null }, \"enableCustomLabeling\": true }"
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- Specify the Prism Central FQDN/IP.
Verify that the file
cluster-infrastructure-02-config.yml
exists and has the following information:spec: cloudConfig: key: config name: cloud-provider-config
3.11. Deploying the cluster
You can install OpenShift Container Platform on a compatible cloud platform.
You can run the create cluster
command of the installation program only once, during initial installation.
Prerequisites
- You have the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
- You have verified that the cloud provider account on your host has the correct permissions to deploy the cluster. An account with incorrect permissions causes the installation process to fail with an error message that displays the missing permissions.
Procedure
Change to the directory that contains the installation program and initialize the cluster deployment:
$ ./openshift-install create cluster --dir <installation_directory> \ 1 --log-level=info 2
Verification
When the cluster deployment completes successfully:
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The terminal displays directions for accessing your cluster, including a link to the web console and credentials for the
kubeadmin
user. -
Credential information also outputs to
<installation_directory>/.openshift_install.log
.
Do not delete the installation program or the files that the installation program creates. Both are required to delete the cluster.
Example output
... INFO Install complete! INFO To access the cluster as the system:admin user when using 'oc', run 'export KUBECONFIG=/home/myuser/install_dir/auth/kubeconfig' INFO Access the OpenShift web-console here: https://console-openshift-console.apps.mycluster.example.com INFO Login to the console with user: "kubeadmin", and password: "password" INFO Time elapsed: 36m22s
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The Ignition config files that the installation program generates contain certificates that expire after 24 hours, which are then renewed at that time. If the cluster is shut down before renewing the certificates and the cluster is later restarted after the 24 hours have elapsed, the cluster automatically recovers the expired certificates. The exception is that you must manually approve the pending
node-bootstrapper
certificate signing requests (CSRs) to recover kubelet certificates. See the documentation for Recovering from expired control plane certificates for more information. - It is recommended that you use Ignition config files within 12 hours after they are generated because the 24-hour certificate rotates from 16 to 22 hours after the cluster is installed. By using the Ignition config files within 12 hours, you can avoid installation failure if the certificate update runs during installation.
3.12. Configuring the default storage container
After you install the cluster, you must install the Nutanix CSI Operator and configure the default storage container for the cluster.
For more information, see the Nutanix documentation for installing the CSI Operator and configuring registry storage.
3.13. Telemetry access for OpenShift Container Platform
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.15, the Telemetry service, which runs by default to provide metrics about cluster health and the success of updates, requires internet access. If your cluster is connected to the internet, Telemetry runs automatically, and your cluster is registered to OpenShift Cluster Manager.
After you confirm that your OpenShift Cluster Manager inventory is correct, either maintained automatically by Telemetry or manually by using OpenShift Cluster Manager, use subscription watch to track your OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions at the account or multi-cluster level.