Chapter 1. Installing on OpenStack

1. As an administrator in the RHOSP CLI, add the swiftoperator role to the account that will access Swift:

   $ openstack role add --user <user> --project <project> swiftoperator

2. As the account with the swiftoperator role, set a temporary URL property for the account:

   $ openstack object store account set --property Temp-URL-Key=superkey

Procedure

1. Log in to the Red Hat customer portal’s Product Downloads page.
2. Under Version, select version 4.2.0 for RHEL 8.

3. Download the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS - OpenStack Image (QCOW).

   Important

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

4. Decompress the image.

   Note

   You must decompress the OpenStack image before the cluster can use it.

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

   Caution

   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.

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

Procedure

1. Create the clouds.yaml file:

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

     Important

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

   • If your OpenStack 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. Place the file that you generate 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.

Procedure

1. Access the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site. If you have a Red Hat account, log in with your credentials. If you do not, create an account.

2. Navigate to the page for your installation type, download the installation program for your operating system, and place the file in the directory where you will 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 both the installation program and the files that the installation program creates after you finish installing the cluster.

3. Extract the installation program. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:

   $ tar xvf <installation_program>.tar.gz

4. From the Pull Secret page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site, download your installation pull secret as a .txt file. This pull secret allows you to authenticate with the services that are provided by the included authorities, including Quay.io, which serves the container images for OpenShift Container Platform components.

Procedure

1. Create the install-config.yaml file.

   1. 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.

      Important

      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 OpenShift Container Platform 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.

         Note

         For production OpenShift Container Platform clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery on, 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.
2. Modify the install-config.yaml file. You can find more information about the available parameters in the Installation configuration parameters section.

3. Back up the install-config.yaml file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters.

   Important

   The install-config.yaml file is consumed during the installation process. If you want to reuse the file, you must back it up now.

Procedure

1. If you do not have an SSH key that is configured for password-less authentication on your computer, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:

   $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -N '' \
       -f <path>/<file_name> 1

   1

   Specify the path and file name, such as ~/.ssh/id_rsa, of the SSH key.

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

2. Start the ssh-agent process as a background task:

   $ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
   
   Agent pid 31874

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

   $ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1
   
   Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)

   1

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

Procedure

1. Run the installation program:

   $ ./openshift-install create cluster --dir=<installation_directory> \ 1
       --log-level=info 2

   1

   For <installation_directory>, specify the location of your customized ./install-config.yaml file.

   2

   To view different installation details, specify warn, debug, or error instead of info.

   Note

   If the cloud provider account that you configured on your host does not have sufficient permissions to deploy the cluster, the installation process stops, and the missing permissions are displayed.

   When the cluster deployment completes, directions for accessing your cluster, including a link to its web console and credentials for the kubeadmin user, display in your terminal.

   Important

   The Ignition config files that the installation program generates contain certificates that expire after 24 hours. You must keep the cluster running for 24 hours in a non-degraded state to ensure that the first certificate rotation has finished.

   Important

   You must not delete the installation program or the files that the installation program creates. Both are required to delete the cluster.

Procedure

1. In the cluster environment, export the administrator’s kubeconfig file:

   $ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1

   1

   For <installation_directory>, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.

   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.

2. View the control plane and compute machines created after a deployment:

   $ oc get nodes

3. View your cluster’s version:

   $ oc get clusterversion

4. View your operators' status:

   $ oc get clusteroperator

5. View all running Pods in the cluster:

   $ oc get pods -A

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
   system:admin

1. Show the port:

   $ openstack port show <cluster name>-<clusterID>-ingress-port

2. Attach the port to the IP address:

   $ openstack floating ip set --port <ingress port ID> <apps FIP>

3. Add a wildcard A record for *apps. to your DNS file:

   *.apps.<cluster name>.<base domain>  IN  A  <apps FIP>

Procedure

1. From the computer that you used to install the cluster, run the following command:

   $ ./openshift-install destroy cluster \
   --dir=<installation_directory> --log-level=info 1 2

   1

   For <installation_directory>, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.

   2

   To view different details, specify warn, debug, or error instead of info.

   Note

   You must specify the directory that contains the cluster definition files for your cluster. The installation program requires the metadata.json file in this directory to delete the cluster.

2. Optional: Delete the <installation_directory> directory and the OpenShift Container Platform installation program.