Chapter 1. Installing on GCP
1.1. Configuring a GCP project
Before you can install OpenShift Container Platform, you must configure a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project to host it.
1.1.1. Creating a GCP project
To install OpenShift Container Platform, you must create a project in your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account to host the cluster.
Procedure
Create a project to host your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. See Creating and Managing Projects in the GCP documentation.
ImportantYour GCP project must use the Premium Network Service Tier if you are using installer-provisioned infrastructure. The Standard Network Service Tier is not supported for clusters installed using the installation program. The installation program configures internal load balancing for the
api-int.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>
URL; the Premium Tier is required for internal load balancing.
1.1.2. Enabling API services in GCP
Your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project requires access to several API services to complete OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
Procedure
Enable the following required API services in the project that hosts your cluster. See Enabling services in the GCP documentation.
Table 1.1. Required API services API service Console service name Compute Engine API
compute.googleapis.com
Google Cloud APIs
cloudapis.googleapis.com
Cloud Resource Manager API
cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com
Google DNS API
dns.googleapis.com
IAM Service Account Credentials API
iamcredentials.googleapis.com
Identity and Access Management (IAM) API
iam.googleapis.com
Service Management API
servicemanagement.googleapis.com
Service Usage API
serviceusage.googleapis.com
Google Cloud Storage JSON API
storage-api.googleapis.com
Cloud Storage
storage-component.googleapis.com
1.1.3. Configuring DNS for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform, the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account you use must have a dedicated public hosted zone in the same project that you host the OpenShift Container Platform cluster. This zone must be authoritative for the domain. The DNS service provides cluster DNS resolution and name lookup for external connections to the cluster.
Procedure
Identify your domain, or subdomain, and registrar. You can transfer an existing domain and registrar or obtain a new one through GCP or another source.
NoteIf you purchase a new domain, it can take time for the relevant DNS changes to propagate. For more information about purchasing domains through Google, see Google Domains.
Create a public hosted zone for your domain or subdomain in your GCP project. See Creating public zones in the GCP documentation.
Use an appropriate root domain, such as
openshiftcorp.com
, or subdomain, such asclusters.openshiftcorp.com
.Extract the new authoritative name servers from the hosted zone records. See Look up your Cloud DNS name servers in the GCP documentation.
You typically have four name servers.
- Update the registrar records for the name servers that your domain uses. For example, if you registered your domain to Google Domains, see the following topic in the Google Domains Help: How to switch to custom name servers.
- If you migrated your root domain to Google Cloud DNS, migrate your DNS records. See Migrating to Cloud DNS in the GCP documentation.
- If you use a subdomain, follow your company’s procedures to add its delegation records to the parent domain. This process might include a request to your company’s IT department or the division that controls the root domain and DNS services for your company.
1.1.4. GCP account limits
The OpenShift Container Platform cluster uses a number of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) components, but the default Quotas do not affect your ability to install a default OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
A default cluster, which contains three compute and three control plane machines, uses the following resources. Note that some resources are required only during the bootstrap process and are removed after the cluster deploys.
Service | Component | Location | Total resources required | Resources removed after bootstrap |
---|---|---|---|---|
Service account | IAM | Global | 5 | 0 |
Firewall rules | Compute | Global | 11 | 1 |
Forwarding rules | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
In-use global IP addresses | Compute | Global | 4 | 1 |
Health checks | Compute | Global | 3 | 0 |
Images | Compute | Global | 1 | 0 |
Networks | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Static IP addresses | Compute | Region | 4 | 1 |
Routers | Compute | Global | 1 | 0 |
Routes | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Subnetworks | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Target pools | Compute | Global | 3 | 0 |
CPUs | Compute | Region | 28 | 4 |
Persistent disk SSD (GB) | Compute | Region | 896 | 128 |
If any of the quotas are insufficient during installation, the installation program displays an error that states both which quota was exceeded and the region.
Be sure to consider your actual cluster size, planned cluster growth, and any usage from other clusters that are associated with your account. The CPU, static IP addresses, and persistent disk SSD (storage) quotas are the ones that are most likely to be insufficient.
If you plan to deploy your cluster in one of the following regions, you will exceed the maximum storage quota and are likely to exceed the CPU quota limit:
-
asia-east2
-
asia-northeast2
-
asia-south1
-
australia-southeast1
-
europe-north1
-
europe-west2
-
europe-west3
-
europe-west6
-
northamerica-northeast1
-
southamerica-east1
-
us-west2
You can increase resource quotas from the GCP console, but you might need to file a support ticket. Be sure to plan your cluster size early so that you can allow time to resolve the support ticket before you install your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
1.1.5. Creating a service account in GCP
OpenShift Container Platform requires a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service account that provides authentication and authorization to access data in the Google APIs. If you do not have an existing IAM service account that contains the required roles in your project, you must create one.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
Procedure
- Create a service account in the project that you use to host your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. See Creating a service account in the GCP documentation.
Grant the service account the appropriate permissions. You can either grant the individual permissions that follow or assign the
Owner
role to it. See Granting roles to a service account for specific resources.NoteWhile making the service account an owner of the project is the easiest way to gain the required permissions, it means that service account has complete control over the project. You must determine if the risk that comes from offering that power is acceptable.
Create the service account key in JSON format. See Creating service account keys in the GCP documentation.
The service account key is required to create a cluster.
1.1.5.1. Required GCP permissions
When you attach the Owner
role to the service account that you create, you grant that service account all permissions, including those that are required to install OpenShift Container Platform. To deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster, the service account requires the following permissions. If you deploy your cluster into an existing VPC, the service account does not require certain networking permissions, which are noted in the following lists:
Required roles for the installation program
- Compute Admin
- Security Admin
- Service Account Admin
- Service Account User
- Storage Admin
Required roles for creating network resources during installation
- DNS Administrator
Optional roles
For the cluster to create new limited credentials for its Operators, add the following role:
- Service Account Key Admin
The roles are applied to the service accounts that the control plane and compute machines use:
Account | Roles |
---|---|
Control Plane |
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
Compute |
|
|
1.1.6. Supported GCP regions
You can deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster to the following Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions:
-
asia-east1
(Changhua County, Taiwan) -
asia-east2
(Hong Kong) -
asia-northeast1
(Tokyo, Japan) -
asia-northeast2
(Osaka, Japan) -
asia-south1
(Mumbai, India) -
asia-southeast1
(Jurong West, Singapore) -
australia-southeast1
(Sydney, Australia) -
europe-north1
(Hamina, Finland) -
europe-west1
(St. Ghislain, Belgium) -
europe-west2
(London, England, UK) -
europe-west3
(Frankfurt, Germany) -
europe-west4
(Eemshaven, Netherlands) -
europe-west6
(Zürich, Switzerland) -
northamerica-northeast1
(Montréal, Québec, Canada) -
southamerica-east1
(São Paulo, Brazil) -
us-central1
(Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA) -
us-east1
(Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA) -
us-east4
(Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA) -
us-west1
(The Dalles, Oregon, USA) -
us-west2
(Los Angeles, California, USA)
1.1.7. Next steps
- Install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster on GCP. You can install a customized cluster or quickly install a cluster with default options.
1.2. Installing a cluster quickly on GCP
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.5, you can install a cluster on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that uses the default configuration options.
1.2.1. Prerequisites
- Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
- Configure a GCP account to host the cluster.
- If you use a firewall, you must configure it to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to.
- If you do not allow the system to manage identity and access management (IAM), then a cluster administrator can manually create and maintain IAM credentials. Manual mode can also be used in environments where the cloud IAM APIs are not reachable.
1.2.2. Internet and Telemetry access for OpenShift Container Platform
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.5, you require access to the Internet to install your cluster. The Telemetry service, which runs by default to provide metrics about cluster health and the success of updates, also requires Internet access. If your cluster is connected to the Internet, Telemetry runs automatically, and your cluster is registered to the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM).
Once you confirm that your Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager inventory is correct, either maintained automatically by Telemetry or manually using OCM, use subscription watch to track your OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions at the account or multi-cluster level.
You must have Internet access to:
- Access the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager page 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 content that is required and use it to populate a mirror registry with the packages that you need to install a cluster and generate the installation program. 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.
1.2.3. Generating an SSH private key and adding it to the agent
If you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery on your cluster, you must provide an SSH key to both your ssh-agent
and the installation program. You can use this key to access the bootstrap machine in a public cluster to troubleshoot installation issues.
In a production environment, you require disaster recovery and debugging.
You can use this key to SSH into the master nodes as the user core
. When you deploy the cluster, the key is added to the core
user’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
list.
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 SSH key that is configured for password-less authentication on your computer, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' \ -f <path>/<file_name> 1
- 1
- Specify the path and file name, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
, of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your~/.ssh
directory.
Running this command generates an SSH key that does not require a password in the location that you specified.
NoteIf you plan to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries on the
x86_64
architecture, do not create a key that uses theed25519
algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses thersa
orecdsa
algorithm.Start the
ssh-agent
process as a background task:$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Example output
Agent pid 31874
If your cluster is in FIPS mode, only use FIPS-compliant algorithms to generate the SSH key. The key must be either RSA or ECDSA.
Add your SSH private key to the
ssh-agent
:$ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1
Example output
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
- 1
- Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
Set the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
environment variable to the full path to your service account private key file.$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="<your_service_account_file>"
Verify that the credentials were applied.
$ gcloud auth list
Next steps
- When you install OpenShift Container Platform, provide the SSH public key to the installation program.
1.2.4. Obtaining the installation program
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, download the installation file on a local computer.
Prerequisites
- You must install the cluster from a computer that uses Linux or macOS.
- You need 500 MB of local disk space to download the installation program.
Procedure
- 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.
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.
ImportantThe 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.
ImportantDeleting the files created by the installation program does not remove your cluster, even if the cluster failed during installation. You must complete the OpenShift Container Platform uninstallation procedures outlined for your specific cloud provider to remove your cluster entirely.
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
-
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.
1.2.5. 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
- Configure an account with the cloud platform that hosts your cluster.
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Remove any existing GCP credentials that do not use the service account key for the GCP account that you configured for your cluster and that are stored in the following locations:
-
The
GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS
,GOOGLE_CLOUD_KEYFILE_JSON
, orGCLOUD_KEYFILE_JSON
environment variables -
The
~/.gcp/osServiceAccount.json
file -
The
gcloud cli
default credentials
-
The
Run the installation program:
$ ./openshift-install create cluster --dir=<installation_directory> \ 1 --log-level=info 2
ImportantSpecify 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.
Provide values at the prompts:
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 gcp as the platform to target.
- If you have not configured the service account key for your GCP account on your computer, you must obtain it from GCP and paste the contents of the file or enter the absolute path to the file.
- Select the project ID to provision the cluster in. The default value is specified by the service account that you configured.
- Select the region to deploy the cluster to.
- Select the base domain to deploy the cluster to. The base domain corresponds to the public DNS zone that you created for your cluster.
- Enter a descriptive name for your cluster. If you provide a name that is longer than 6 characters, only the first 6 characters will be used in the infrastructure ID that is generated from the cluster name.
- Paste the pull secret that you obtained from the Pull Secret page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
NoteIf 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.ImportantThe 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.ImportantYou must not delete the installation program or the files that the installation program creates. Both are required to delete the cluster.
Optional: You can reduce the number of permissions for the service account that you used to install the cluster.
-
If you assigned the
Owner
role to your service account, you can remove that role and replace it with theViewer
role. -
If you included the
Service Account Key Admin
role, you can remove it.
-
If you assigned the
1.2.6. Installing the CLI by downloading the binary
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) in order 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 4.5. Download and install the new version of oc
.
1.2.6.1. Installing the CLI on Linux
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Linux from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvzf <file>
Place the
oc
binary in a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.2.6.2. Installing the CLI on Windows
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Windows from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unzip the archive with a ZIP program.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, open the command prompt and execute the following command:C:\> path
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
C:\> oc <command>
1.2.6.3. Installing the CLI on macOS
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select MacOS from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unpack and unzip the archive.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory on your PATH.To check your
PATH
, open a terminal and execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.2.7. Logging in to the cluster
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 OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
-
Install the
oc
CLI.
Procedure
Export the
kubeadmin
credentials:$ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Verify you can run
oc
commands successfully using the exported configuration:$ oc whoami
Example output
system:admin
1.2.8. Next steps
- Customize your cluster.
- If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.
1.3. Installing a cluster on GCP with customizations
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.5, you can install a customized cluster on infrastructure that the installation program provisions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). To customize the installation, you modify parameters in the install-config.yaml
file before you install the cluster.
1.3.1. Prerequisites
- Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
- Configure a GCP account to host the cluster.
- If you use a firewall, you must configure it to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to.
- If you do not allow the system to manage identity and access management (IAM), then a cluster administrator can manually create and maintain IAM credentials. Manual mode can also be used in environments where the cloud IAM APIs are not reachable.
1.3.2. Internet and Telemetry access for OpenShift Container Platform
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.5, you require access to the Internet to install your cluster. The Telemetry service, which runs by default to provide metrics about cluster health and the success of updates, also requires Internet access. If your cluster is connected to the Internet, Telemetry runs automatically, and your cluster is registered to the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM).
Once you confirm that your Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager inventory is correct, either maintained automatically by Telemetry or manually using OCM, use subscription watch to track your OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions at the account or multi-cluster level.
You must have Internet access to:
- Access the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager page 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 content that is required and use it to populate a mirror registry with the packages that you need to install a cluster and generate the installation program. 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.
1.3.3. Generating an SSH private key and adding it to the agent
If you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery on your cluster, you must provide an SSH key to both your ssh-agent
and the installation program. You can use this key to access the bootstrap machine in a public cluster to troubleshoot installation issues.
In a production environment, you require disaster recovery and debugging.
You can use this key to SSH into the master nodes as the user core
. When you deploy the cluster, the key is added to the core
user’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
list.
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 SSH key that is configured for password-less authentication on your computer, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' \ -f <path>/<file_name> 1
- 1
- Specify the path and file name, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
, of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your~/.ssh
directory.
Running this command generates an SSH key that does not require a password in the location that you specified.
NoteIf you plan to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries on the
x86_64
architecture, do not create a key that uses theed25519
algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses thersa
orecdsa
algorithm.Start the
ssh-agent
process as a background task:$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Example output
Agent pid 31874
If your cluster is in FIPS mode, only use FIPS-compliant algorithms to generate the SSH key. The key must be either RSA or ECDSA.
Add your SSH private key to the
ssh-agent
:$ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1
Example output
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
- 1
- Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
Set the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
environment variable to the full path to your service account private key file.$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="<your_service_account_file>"
Verify that the credentials were applied.
$ gcloud auth list
Next steps
- When you install OpenShift Container Platform, provide the SSH public key to the installation program.
1.3.4. Obtaining the installation program
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, download the installation file on a local computer.
Prerequisites
- You must install the cluster from a computer that uses Linux or macOS.
- You need 500 MB of local disk space to download the installation program.
Procedure
- 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.
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.
ImportantThe 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.
ImportantDeleting the files created by the installation program does not remove your cluster, even if the cluster failed during installation. You must complete the OpenShift Container Platform uninstallation procedures outlined for your specific cloud provider to remove your cluster entirely.
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
-
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.
1.3.5. Creating the installation configuration file
You can customize the OpenShift Container Platform cluster you install on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Create the
install-config.yaml
file.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.
ImportantSpecify 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.
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 gcp as the platform to target.
- If you have not configured the service account key for your GCP account on your computer, you must obtain it from GCP and paste the contents of the file or enter the absolute path to the file.
- Select the project ID to provision the cluster in. The default value is specified by the service account that you configured.
- Select the region to deploy the cluster to.
- Select the base domain to deploy the cluster to. The base domain corresponds to the public DNS zone that you created for your cluster.
- Enter a descriptive name for your cluster.
- Paste the pull secret that you obtained from the Pull Secret page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
-
Modify the
install-config.yaml
file. You can find more information about the available parameters in the Installation configuration parameters section. Back up the
install-config.yaml
file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters.ImportantThe
install-config.yaml
file is consumed during the installation process. If you want to reuse the file, you must back it up now.
1.3.5.1. Installation configuration parameters
Before you deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you provide parameter values to describe your account on the cloud platform that hosts your cluster and optionally customize your cluster’s platform. When you create the install-config.yaml
installation configuration file, you provide values for the required parameters through the command line. If you customize your cluster, you can modify the install-config.yaml
file to provide more details about the platform.
After installation, you cannot modify these parameters in the install-config.yaml
file.
The openshift-install
command does not validate field names for parameters. If an incorrect name is specified, the related file or object is not created, and no error is reported. Ensure that the field names for any parameters that are specified are correct.
1.3.5.1.1. Required configuration parameters
Required installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
|
The API version for the | String |
|
The base domain of your cloud provider. The base domain is used to create routes to your OpenShift Container Platform cluster components. The full DNS name for your cluster is a combination of the |
A fully-qualified domain or subdomain name, such as |
|
Kubernetes resource | Object |
|
The name of the cluster. DNS records for the cluster are all subdomains of |
String of lowercase letters, hyphens ( |
|
The configuration for the specific platform upon which to perform the installation: | Object |
| Get a pull secret from https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/pull-secret to authenticate downloading container images for OpenShift Container Platform components from services such as Quay.io. |
{ "auths":{ "cloud.openshift.com":{ "auth":"b3Blb=", "email":"you@example.com" }, "quay.io":{ "auth":"b3Blb=", "email":"you@example.com" } } } |
1.3.5.1.2. 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.
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| The configuration for the cluster network. | Object Note
You cannot modify parameters specified by the |
| The cluster network provider Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-in to install. |
Either |
| The IP address blocks for pods.
The default value is If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example: networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 |
|
Required if you use An IPv4 network. |
An IP address block in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. The prefix length for an IPv4 block is between |
|
The subnet prefix length to assign to each individual node. For example, if | A subnet prefix.
The default value is |
|
The IP address block for services. The default value is The OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes network providers support only a single IP address block for the service network. | An array with an IP address block in CIDR format. For example: networking: serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 |
| The IP address blocks for machines. If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example: networking: machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16 |
|
Required if you use | An IP network block in CIDR notation.
For example, Note
Set the |
1.3.5.1.3. Optional configuration parameters
Optional installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| A PEM-encoded X.509 certificate bundle that is added to the nodes' trusted certificate store. This trust bundle may also be used when a proxy has been configured. | String |
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the compute nodes. | Array of machine-pool objects. For details, see the following "Machine-pool" table. |
|
Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, heteregeneous clusters are not supported, so all pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String |
|
Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or Important If you disable simultaneous multithreading, ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
| The number of compute machines, which are also known as worker machines, to provision. |
A positive integer greater than or equal to |
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the control plane. |
Array of |
|
Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, heterogeneous clusters are not supported, so all pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String |
|
Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or Important If you disable simultaneous multithreading, ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
| The number of control plane machines to provision. |
The only supported value is |
|
Enable or disable FIPS mode. The default is Note If you are using Azure File storage, you cannot enable FIPS mode. |
|
| Sources and repositories for the release-image content. |
Array of objects. Includes a |
|
Required if you use | String |
| Specify one or more repositories that may also contain the same images. | Array of strings |
| How to publish or expose the user-facing endpoints of your cluster, such as the Kubernetes API, OpenShift routes. |
|
| The SSH key to authenticate access to your cluster machines. Note
For production OpenShift Container Platform clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, specify an SSH key that your |
For example, |
1.3.5.1.4. Additional Google Cloud Platform (GCP) configuration parameters
Additional GCP configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| The name of the existing VPC that you want to deploy your cluster to. | String. |
| The GCP machine type. | The GCP machine type. |
| The availability zones where the installation program creates machines for the specified MachinePool. |
A list of valid GCP availability zones, such as |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VPC that you want to deploy your control plane machines to. | The subnet name. |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VPC that you want to deploy your compute machines to. | The subnet name. |
1.3.5.2. Sample customized install-config.yaml
file for GCP
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 controlPlane: 2 3 hyperthreading: Enabled 4 name: master platform: gcp: type: n2-standard-4 zones: - us-central1-a - us-central1-c replicas: 3 compute: 5 6 - hyperthreading: Enabled 7 name: worker platform: gcp: type: n2-standard-4 zones: - us-central1-a - us-central1-c replicas: 3 metadata: name: test-cluster 8 networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16 networkType: OpenShiftSDN serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: gcp: projectID: openshift-production 9 region: us-central1 10 pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}' 11 fips: false 12 sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA... 13
- 1 8 9 10 11
- Required. The installation program prompts you for this value.
- 2 5
- If you do not provide these parameters and values, the installation program provides the default value.
- 3 6
- 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. - 4 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. Use larger machine types, such as
n1-standard-8
, for your machines if you disable simultaneous multithreading. - 12
- 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.
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- You can optionally 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.
1.3.6. 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
- Configure an account with the cloud platform that hosts your cluster.
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Remove any existing GCP credentials that do not use the service account key for the GCP account that you configured for your cluster and that are stored in the following locations:
-
The
GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS
,GOOGLE_CLOUD_KEYFILE_JSON
, orGCLOUD_KEYFILE_JSON
environment variables -
The
~/.gcp/osServiceAccount.json
file -
The
gcloud cli
default credentials
-
The
Run the installation program:
$ ./openshift-install create cluster --dir=<installation_directory> \ 1 --log-level=info 2
NoteIf 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.ImportantThe 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.ImportantYou must not delete the installation program or the files that the installation program creates. Both are required to delete the cluster.
Optional: You can reduce the number of permissions for the service account that you used to install the cluster.
-
If you assigned the
Owner
role to your service account, you can remove that role and replace it with theViewer
role. -
If you included the
Service Account Key Admin
role, you can remove it.
-
If you assigned the
1.3.7. Installing the CLI by downloading the binary
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) in order 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 4.5. Download and install the new version of oc
.
1.3.7.1. Installing the CLI on Linux
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Linux from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvzf <file>
Place the
oc
binary in a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.3.7.2. Installing the CLI on Windows
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Windows from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unzip the archive with a ZIP program.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, open the command prompt and execute the following command:C:\> path
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
C:\> oc <command>
1.3.7.3. Installing the CLI on macOS
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select MacOS from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unpack and unzip the archive.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory on your PATH.To check your
PATH
, open a terminal and execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.3.8. Logging in to the cluster
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 OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
-
Install the
oc
CLI.
Procedure
Export the
kubeadmin
credentials:$ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Verify you can run
oc
commands successfully using the exported configuration:$ oc whoami
Example output
system:admin
1.3.9. Next steps
- Customize your cluster.
- If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.
1.4. Installing a cluster on GCP with network customizations
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.5, you can install a cluster with a customized network configuration on infrastructure that the installation program provisions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). By customizing your network configuration, your cluster can coexist with existing IP address allocations in your environment and integrate with existing MTU and VXLAN configurations. To customize the installation, you modify parameters in the install-config.yaml
file before you install the cluster.
You must set most of the network configuration parameters during installation, and you can modify only kubeProxy
configuration parameters in a running cluster.
1.4.1. Prerequisites
- Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
- Configure a GCP account to host the cluster.
- If you use a firewall, you must configure it to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to.
- If you do not allow the system to manage identity and access management (IAM), then a cluster administrator can manually create and maintain IAM credentials. Manual mode can also be used in environments where the cloud IAM APIs are not reachable.
1.4.2. Internet and Telemetry access for OpenShift Container Platform
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.5, you require access to the Internet to install your cluster. The Telemetry service, which runs by default to provide metrics about cluster health and the success of updates, also requires Internet access. If your cluster is connected to the Internet, Telemetry runs automatically, and your cluster is registered to the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM).
Once you confirm that your Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager inventory is correct, either maintained automatically by Telemetry or manually using OCM, use subscription watch to track your OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions at the account or multi-cluster level.
You must have Internet access to:
- Access the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager page 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 content that is required and use it to populate a mirror registry with the packages that you need to install a cluster and generate the installation program. 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.
1.4.3. Generating an SSH private key and adding it to the agent
If you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery on your cluster, you must provide an SSH key to both your ssh-agent
and the installation program. You can use this key to access the bootstrap machine in a public cluster to troubleshoot installation issues.
In a production environment, you require disaster recovery and debugging.
You can use this key to SSH into the master nodes as the user core
. When you deploy the cluster, the key is added to the core
user’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
list.
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 SSH key that is configured for password-less authentication on your computer, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' \ -f <path>/<file_name> 1
- 1
- Specify the path and file name, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
, of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your~/.ssh
directory.
Running this command generates an SSH key that does not require a password in the location that you specified.
NoteIf you plan to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries on the
x86_64
architecture, do not create a key that uses theed25519
algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses thersa
orecdsa
algorithm.Start the
ssh-agent
process as a background task:$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Example output
Agent pid 31874
If your cluster is in FIPS mode, only use FIPS-compliant algorithms to generate the SSH key. The key must be either RSA or ECDSA.
Add your SSH private key to the
ssh-agent
:$ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1
Example output
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
- 1
- Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
Set the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
environment variable to the full path to your service account private key file.$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="<your_service_account_file>"
Verify that the credentials were applied.
$ gcloud auth list
Next steps
- When you install OpenShift Container Platform, provide the SSH public key to the installation program.
1.4.4. Obtaining the installation program
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, download the installation file on a local computer.
Prerequisites
- You must install the cluster from a computer that uses Linux or macOS.
- You need 500 MB of local disk space to download the installation program.
Procedure
- 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.
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.
ImportantThe 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.
ImportantDeleting the files created by the installation program does not remove your cluster, even if the cluster failed during installation. You must complete the OpenShift Container Platform uninstallation procedures outlined for your specific cloud provider to remove your cluster entirely.
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
-
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.
1.4.5. Creating the installation configuration file
You can customize the OpenShift Container Platform cluster you install on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Create the
install-config.yaml
file.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.
ImportantSpecify 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.
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 gcp as the platform to target.
- If you have not configured the service account key for your GCP account on your computer, you must obtain it from GCP and paste the contents of the file or enter the absolute path to the file.
- Select the project ID to provision the cluster in. The default value is specified by the service account that you configured.
- Select the region to deploy the cluster to.
- Select the base domain to deploy the cluster to. The base domain corresponds to the public DNS zone that you created for your cluster.
- Enter a descriptive name for your cluster.
- Paste the pull secret that you obtained from the Pull Secret page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
-
Modify the
install-config.yaml
file. You can find more information about the available parameters in the Installation configuration parameters section. Back up the
install-config.yaml
file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters.ImportantThe
install-config.yaml
file is consumed during the installation process. If you want to reuse the file, you must back it up now.
1.4.5.1. Installation configuration parameters
Before you deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you provide parameter values to describe your account on the cloud platform that hosts your cluster and optionally customize your cluster’s platform. When you create the install-config.yaml
installation configuration file, you provide values for the required parameters through the command line. If you customize your cluster, you can modify the install-config.yaml
file to provide more details about the platform.
After installation, you cannot modify these parameters in the install-config.yaml
file.
The openshift-install
command does not validate field names for parameters. If an incorrect name is specified, the related file or object is not created, and no error is reported. Ensure that the field names for any parameters that are specified are correct.
1.4.5.1.1. Required configuration parameters
Required installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
|
The API version for the | String |
|
The base domain of your cloud provider. The base domain is used to create routes to your OpenShift Container Platform cluster components. The full DNS name for your cluster is a combination of the |
A fully-qualified domain or subdomain name, such as |
|
Kubernetes resource | Object |
|
The name of the cluster. DNS records for the cluster are all subdomains of |
String of lowercase letters, hyphens ( |
|
The configuration for the specific platform upon which to perform the installation: | Object |
| Get a pull secret from https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/pull-secret to authenticate downloading container images for OpenShift Container Platform components from services such as Quay.io. |
{ "auths":{ "cloud.openshift.com":{ "auth":"b3Blb=", "email":"you@example.com" }, "quay.io":{ "auth":"b3Blb=", "email":"you@example.com" } } } |
1.4.5.1.2. 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.
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| The configuration for the cluster network. | Object Note
You cannot modify parameters specified by the |
| The cluster network provider Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-in to install. |
Either |
| The IP address blocks for pods.
The default value is If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example: networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 |
|
Required if you use An IPv4 network. |
An IP address block in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. The prefix length for an IPv4 block is between |
|
The subnet prefix length to assign to each individual node. For example, if | A subnet prefix.
The default value is |
|
The IP address block for services. The default value is The OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes network providers support only a single IP address block for the service network. | An array with an IP address block in CIDR format. For example: networking: serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 |
| The IP address blocks for machines. If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example: networking: machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16 |
|
Required if you use | An IP network block in CIDR notation.
For example, Note
Set the |
1.4.5.1.3. Optional configuration parameters
Optional installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| A PEM-encoded X.509 certificate bundle that is added to the nodes' trusted certificate store. This trust bundle may also be used when a proxy has been configured. | String |
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the compute nodes. | Array of machine-pool objects. For details, see the following "Machine-pool" table. |
|
Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, heteregeneous clusters are not supported, so all pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String |
|
Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or Important If you disable simultaneous multithreading, ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
| The number of compute machines, which are also known as worker machines, to provision. |
A positive integer greater than or equal to |
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the control plane. |
Array of |
|
Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, heterogeneous clusters are not supported, so all pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String |
|
Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or Important If you disable simultaneous multithreading, ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
| The number of control plane machines to provision. |
The only supported value is |
|
Enable or disable FIPS mode. The default is Note If you are using Azure File storage, you cannot enable FIPS mode. |
|
| Sources and repositories for the release-image content. |
Array of objects. Includes a |
|
Required if you use | String |
| Specify one or more repositories that may also contain the same images. | Array of strings |
| How to publish or expose the user-facing endpoints of your cluster, such as the Kubernetes API, OpenShift routes. |
|
| The SSH key to authenticate access to your cluster machines. Note
For production OpenShift Container Platform clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, specify an SSH key that your |
For example, |
1.4.5.1.4. Additional Google Cloud Platform (GCP) configuration parameters
Additional GCP configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| The name of the existing VPC that you want to deploy your cluster to. | String. |
| The GCP machine type. | The GCP machine type. |
| The availability zones where the installation program creates machines for the specified MachinePool. |
A list of valid GCP availability zones, such as |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VPC that you want to deploy your control plane machines to. | The subnet name. |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VPC that you want to deploy your compute machines to. | The subnet name. |
The Open Virtual Networking (OVN) Kubernetes network plug-in is a Technology Preview feature only. Technology Preview features are not supported with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs) and might not be functionally complete. Red Hat does not recommend using them in production. These features provide early access to upcoming product features, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.
For more information about the support scope of the OVN Technology Preview, see https://access.redhat.com/articles/4380121.
1.4.5.2. Network configuration parameters
You can modify your cluster network configuration parameters in the install-config.yaml
configuration file. The following table describes the parameters.
You cannot modify these parameters in the install-config.yaml
file after installation.
Parameter | Description | Value |
---|---|---|
|
The default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider plug-in to deploy. The |
Either |
|
A block of IP addresses from which pod IP addresses are allocated. The |
An IP address allocation in CIDR format. The default value is |
|
The subnet prefix length to assign to each individual node. For example, if |
A subnet prefix. The default value is |
|
A block of IP addresses for services. |
An IP address allocation in CIDR format. The default value is |
| A block of IP addresses assigned to nodes created by the OpenShift Container Platform installation program while installing the cluster. The address block must not overlap with any other network block. Multiple CIDR ranges may be specified. |
An IP address allocation in CIDR format. The default value is |
1.4.5.3. Sample customized install-config.yaml
file for GCP
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 controlPlane: 2 3 hyperthreading: Enabled 4 name: master platform: gcp: type: n2-standard-4 zones: - us-central1-a - us-central1-c replicas: 3 compute: 5 6 - hyperthreading: Enabled 7 name: worker platform: gcp: type: n2-standard-4 zones: - us-central1-a - us-central1-c replicas: 3 metadata: name: test-cluster 8 networking: 9 clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16 networkType: OpenShiftSDN serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: gcp: projectID: openshift-production 10 region: us-central1 11 pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}' 12 fips: false 13 sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA... 14
- 1 8 10 11 12
- Required. The installation program prompts you for this value.
- 2 5 9
- If you do not provide these parameters and values, the installation program provides the default value.
- 3 6
- 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. - 4 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. Use larger machine types, such as
n1-standard-8
, for your machines if you disable simultaneous multithreading. - 13
- 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.
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- You can optionally 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.
1.4.6. Modifying advanced network configuration parameters
You can modify the advanced network configuration parameters only before you install the cluster. Advanced configuration customization lets you integrate your cluster into your existing network environment by specifying an MTU or VXLAN port, by allowing customization of kube-proxy settings, and by specifying a different mode
for the openshiftSDNConfig
parameter.
Modifying the OpenShift Container Platform manifest files created by the installation program is not supported. Applying a manifest file that you create, as in the following procedure, is supported.
Prerequisites
-
Create the
install-config.yaml
file and complete any modifications to it.
Procedure
Use the following command to create manifests:
$ ./openshift-install create manifests --dir=<installation_directory> 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the name of the directory that contains theinstall-config.yaml
file for your cluster.
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 themanifests/
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
Open the
cluster-network-03-config.yml
file in an editor and enter a CR that describes the Operator configuration you want:apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: Network metadata: name: cluster spec: 1 clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 defaultNetwork: type: OpenShiftSDN openshiftSDNConfig: mode: NetworkPolicy mtu: 1450 vxlanPort: 4789
- 1
- The parameters for the
spec
parameter are only an example. Specify your configuration for the Cluster Network Operator in the CR.
The CNO provides default values for the parameters in the CR, so you must specify only the parameters that you want to change.
-
Save the
cluster-network-03-config.yml
file and quit the text editor. -
Optional: Back up the
manifests/cluster-network-03-config.yml
file. The installation program deletes themanifests/
directory when creating the cluster.
1.4.7. Cluster Network Operator configuration
The configuration for the cluster network is specified as part of the Cluster Network Operator (CNO) configuration and stored in a CR object that is named cluster
. The CR specifies the parameters for the Network
API in the operator.openshift.io
API group.
You can specify the cluster network configuration for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster by setting the parameter values for the defaultNetwork
parameter in the CNO CR. The following CR displays the default configuration for the CNO and explains both the parameters you can configure and the valid parameter values:
Cluster Network Operator CR
apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: Network metadata: name: cluster spec: clusterNetwork: 1 - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 serviceNetwork: 2 - 172.30.0.0/16 defaultNetwork: 3 ... kubeProxyConfig: 4 iptablesSyncPeriod: 30s 5 proxyArguments: iptables-min-sync-period: 6 - 0s
- 1 2
- Specified in the
install-config.yaml
file. - 3
- Configures the default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider for the cluster network.
- 4
- The parameters for this object specify the
kube-proxy
configuration. If you do not specify the parameter values, the Cluster Network Operator applies the displayed default parameter values. If you are using the OVN-Kubernetes default CNI network provider, the kube-proxy configuration has no effect. - 5
- The refresh period for
iptables
rules. The default value is30s
. Valid suffixes includes
,m
, andh
and are described in the Go time package documentation.NoteBecause of performance improvements introduced in OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 and greater, adjusting the
iptablesSyncPeriod
parameter is no longer necessary. - 6
- The minimum duration before refreshing
iptables
rules. This parameter ensures that the refresh does not happen too frequently. Valid suffixes includes
,m
, andh
and are described in the Go time package.
1.4.7.1. Configuration parameters for the OpenShift SDN default CNI network provider
The following YAML object describes the configuration parameters for the OpenShift SDN default Container Network Interface (CNI) network provider.
defaultNetwork: type: OpenShiftSDN 1 openshiftSDNConfig: 2 mode: NetworkPolicy 3 mtu: 1450 4 vxlanPort: 4789 5
- 1
- Specified in the
install-config.yaml
file. - 2
- Specify only if you want to override part of the OpenShift SDN configuration.
- 3
- Configures the network isolation mode for OpenShift SDN. The allowed values are
Multitenant
,Subnet
, orNetworkPolicy
. The default value isNetworkPolicy
. - 4
- The maximum transmission unit (MTU) for the VXLAN overlay network. This is detected automatically based on the MTU of the primary network interface. You do not normally need to override the detected MTU.
If the auto-detected value is not what you expected it to be, confirm that the MTU on the primary network interface on your nodes is correct. You cannot use this option to change the MTU value of the primary network interface on the nodes.
If your cluster requires different MTU values for different nodes, you must set this value to
50
less than the lowest MTU value in your cluster. For example, if some nodes in your cluster have an MTU of9001
, and some have an MTU of1500
, you must set this value to1450
. - 5
- The port to use for all VXLAN packets. The default value is
4789
. If you are running in a virtualized environment with existing nodes that are part of another VXLAN network, then you might be required to change this. For example, when running an OpenShift SDN overlay on top of VMware NSX-T, you must select an alternate port for VXLAN, since both SDNs use the same default VXLAN port number.On Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can select an alternate port for the VXLAN between port
9000
and port9999
.
1.4.7.2. Configuration parameters for the OVN-Kubernetes default CNI network provider
The following YAML object describes the configuration parameters for the OVN-Kubernetes default CNI network provider.
defaultNetwork: type: OVNKubernetes 1 ovnKubernetesConfig: 2 mtu: 1400 3 genevePort: 6081 4
- 1
- Specified in the
install-config.yaml
file. - 2
- Specify only if you want to override part of the OVN-Kubernetes configuration.
- 3
- The maximum transmission unit (MTU) for the Geneve (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation) overlay network. This is detected automatically based on the MTU of the primary network interface. You do not normally need to override the detected MTU.
If the auto-detected value is not what you expected it to be, confirm that the MTU on the primary network interface on your nodes is correct. You cannot use this option to change the MTU value of the primary network interface on the nodes.
If your cluster requires different MTU values for different nodes, you must set this value to
100
less than the lowest MTU value in your cluster. For example, if some nodes in your cluster have an MTU of9001
, and some have an MTU of1500
, you must set this value to1400
. - 4
- The UDP port for the Geneve overlay network.
1.4.7.3. Cluster Network Operator example configuration
A complete CR object for the CNO is displayed in the following example:
Cluster Network Operator example CR
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: OpenShiftSDN openshiftSDNConfig: mode: NetworkPolicy mtu: 1450 vxlanPort: 4789 kubeProxyConfig: iptablesSyncPeriod: 30s proxyArguments: iptables-min-sync-period: - 0s
1.4.8. 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
- Configure an account with the cloud platform that hosts your cluster.
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Run the installation program:
$ ./openshift-install create cluster --dir=<installation_directory> \ 1 --log-level=info 2
NoteIf 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.ImportantThe 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.ImportantYou must not delete the installation program or the files that the installation program creates. Both are required to delete the cluster.
1.4.9. Installing the CLI by downloading the binary
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) in order 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 4.5. Download and install the new version of oc
.
1.4.9.1. Installing the CLI on Linux
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Linux from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvzf <file>
Place the
oc
binary in a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.4.9.2. Installing the CLI on Windows
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Windows from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unzip the archive with a ZIP program.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, open the command prompt and execute the following command:C:\> path
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
C:\> oc <command>
1.4.9.3. Installing the CLI on macOS
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select MacOS from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unpack and unzip the archive.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory on your PATH.To check your
PATH
, open a terminal and execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.4.10. Logging in to the cluster
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 OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
-
Install the
oc
CLI.
Procedure
Export the
kubeadmin
credentials:$ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Verify you can run
oc
commands successfully using the exported configuration:$ oc whoami
Example output
system:admin
1.4.11. Next steps
- Customize your cluster.
- If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.
1.5. Installing a cluster on GCP into an existing VPC
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.5, you can install a cluster into an existing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The installation program provisions the rest of the required infrastructure, which you can further customize. To customize the installation, you modify parameters in the install-config.yaml
file before you install the cluster.
1.5.1. Prerequisites
- Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
- Configure a GCP account to host the cluster.
- If you use a firewall, you must configure it to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to.
- If you do not allow the system to manage identity and access management (IAM), then a cluster administrator can manually create and maintain IAM credentials. Manual mode can also be used in environments where the cloud IAM APIs are not reachable.
1.5.2. Internet and Telemetry access for OpenShift Container Platform
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.5, you require access to the Internet to install your cluster. The Telemetry service, which runs by default to provide metrics about cluster health and the success of updates, also requires Internet access. If your cluster is connected to the Internet, Telemetry runs automatically, and your cluster is registered to the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM).
Once you confirm that your Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager inventory is correct, either maintained automatically by Telemetry or manually using OCM, use subscription watch to track your OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions at the account or multi-cluster level.
You must have Internet access to:
- Access the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager page 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 content that is required and use it to populate a mirror registry with the packages that you need to install a cluster and generate the installation program. 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.
1.5.3. Generating an SSH private key and adding it to the agent
If you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery on your cluster, you must provide an SSH key to both your ssh-agent
and the installation program. You can use this key to access the bootstrap machine in a public cluster to troubleshoot installation issues.
In a production environment, you require disaster recovery and debugging.
You can use this key to SSH into the master nodes as the user core
. When you deploy the cluster, the key is added to the core
user’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
list.
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 SSH key that is configured for password-less authentication on your computer, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' \ -f <path>/<file_name> 1
- 1
- Specify the path and file name, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
, of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your~/.ssh
directory.
Running this command generates an SSH key that does not require a password in the location that you specified.
NoteIf you plan to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries on the
x86_64
architecture, do not create a key that uses theed25519
algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses thersa
orecdsa
algorithm.Start the
ssh-agent
process as a background task:$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Example output
Agent pid 31874
If your cluster is in FIPS mode, only use FIPS-compliant algorithms to generate the SSH key. The key must be either RSA or ECDSA.
Add your SSH private key to the
ssh-agent
:$ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1
Example output
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
- 1
- Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
Set the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
environment variable to the full path to your service account private key file.$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="<your_service_account_file>"
Verify that the credentials were applied.
$ gcloud auth list
Next steps
- When you install OpenShift Container Platform, provide the SSH public key to the installation program.
1.5.4. Obtaining the installation program
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, download the installation file on a local computer.
Prerequisites
- You must install the cluster from a computer that uses Linux or macOS.
- You need 500 MB of local disk space to download the installation program.
Procedure
- 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.
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.
ImportantThe 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.
ImportantDeleting the files created by the installation program does not remove your cluster, even if the cluster failed during installation. You must complete the OpenShift Container Platform uninstallation procedures outlined for your specific cloud provider to remove your cluster entirely.
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
-
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.
1.5.5. Creating the installation configuration file
You can customize the OpenShift Container Platform cluster you install on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Create the
install-config.yaml
file.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.
ImportantSpecify 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.
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 gcp as the platform to target.
- If you have not configured the service account key for your GCP account on your computer, you must obtain it from GCP and paste the contents of the file or enter the absolute path to the file.
- Select the project ID to provision the cluster in. The default value is specified by the service account that you configured.
- Select the region to deploy the cluster to.
- Select the base domain to deploy the cluster to. The base domain corresponds to the public DNS zone that you created for your cluster.
- Enter a descriptive name for your cluster.
- Paste the pull secret that you obtained from the Pull Secret page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
-
Modify the
install-config.yaml
file. You can find more information about the available parameters in the Installation configuration parameters section. Back up the
install-config.yaml
file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters.ImportantThe
install-config.yaml
file is consumed during the installation process. If you want to reuse the file, you must back it up now.
1.5.5.1. Installation configuration parameters
Before you deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you provide parameter values to describe your account on the cloud platform that hosts your cluster and optionally customize your cluster’s platform. When you create the install-config.yaml
installation configuration file, you provide values for the required parameters through the command line. If you customize your cluster, you can modify the install-config.yaml
file to provide more details about the platform.
After installation, you cannot modify these parameters in the install-config.yaml
file.
The openshift-install
command does not validate field names for parameters. If an incorrect name is specified, the related file or object is not created, and no error is reported. Ensure that the field names for any parameters that are specified are correct.
1.5.5.1.1. Required configuration parameters
Required installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
|
The API version for the | String |
|
The base domain of your cloud provider. The base domain is used to create routes to your OpenShift Container Platform cluster components. The full DNS name for your cluster is a combination of the |
A fully-qualified domain or subdomain name, such as |
|
Kubernetes resource | Object |
|
The name of the cluster. DNS records for the cluster are all subdomains of |
String of lowercase letters, hyphens ( |
|
The configuration for the specific platform upon which to perform the installation: | Object |
| Get a pull secret from https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/pull-secret to authenticate downloading container images for OpenShift Container Platform components from services such as Quay.io. |
{ "auths":{ "cloud.openshift.com":{ "auth":"b3Blb=", "email":"you@example.com" }, "quay.io":{ "auth":"b3Blb=", "email":"you@example.com" } } } |
1.5.5.1.2. 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.
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| The configuration for the cluster network. | Object Note
You cannot modify parameters specified by the |
| The cluster network provider Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-in to install. |
Either |
| The IP address blocks for pods.
The default value is If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example: networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 |
|
Required if you use An IPv4 network. |
An IP address block in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. The prefix length for an IPv4 block is between |
|
The subnet prefix length to assign to each individual node. For example, if | A subnet prefix.
The default value is |
|
The IP address block for services. The default value is The OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes network providers support only a single IP address block for the service network. | An array with an IP address block in CIDR format. For example: networking: serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 |
| The IP address blocks for machines. If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example: networking: machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16 |
|
Required if you use | An IP network block in CIDR notation.
For example, Note
Set the |
1.5.5.1.3. Optional configuration parameters
Optional installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| A PEM-encoded X.509 certificate bundle that is added to the nodes' trusted certificate store. This trust bundle may also be used when a proxy has been configured. | String |
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the compute nodes. | Array of machine-pool objects. For details, see the following "Machine-pool" table. |
|
Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, heteregeneous clusters are not supported, so all pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String |
|
Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or Important If you disable simultaneous multithreading, ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
| The number of compute machines, which are also known as worker machines, to provision. |
A positive integer greater than or equal to |
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the control plane. |
Array of |
|
Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, heterogeneous clusters are not supported, so all pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String |
|
Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or Important If you disable simultaneous multithreading, ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
| The number of control plane machines to provision. |
The only supported value is |
|
Enable or disable FIPS mode. The default is Note If you are using Azure File storage, you cannot enable FIPS mode. |
|
| Sources and repositories for the release-image content. |
Array of objects. Includes a |
|
Required if you use | String |
| Specify one or more repositories that may also contain the same images. | Array of strings |
| How to publish or expose the user-facing endpoints of your cluster, such as the Kubernetes API, OpenShift routes. |
|
| The SSH key to authenticate access to your cluster machines. Note
For production OpenShift Container Platform clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, specify an SSH key that your |
For example, |
1.5.5.1.4. Additional Google Cloud Platform (GCP) configuration parameters
Additional GCP configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| The name of the existing VPC that you want to deploy your cluster to. | String. |
| The GCP machine type. | The GCP machine type. |
| The availability zones where the installation program creates machines for the specified MachinePool. |
A list of valid GCP availability zones, such as |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VPC that you want to deploy your control plane machines to. | The subnet name. |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VPC that you want to deploy your compute machines to. | The subnet name. |
1.5.5.2. Sample customized install-config.yaml
file for GCP
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 controlPlane: 2 3 hyperthreading: Enabled 4 name: master platform: gcp: type: n2-standard-4 zones: - us-central1-a - us-central1-c replicas: 3 compute: 5 6 - hyperthreading: Enabled 7 name: worker platform: gcp: type: n2-standard-4 zones: - us-central1-a - us-central1-c replicas: 3 metadata: name: test-cluster 8 networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16 networkType: OpenShiftSDN serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: gcp: projectID: openshift-production 9 region: us-central1 10 network: existing_vpc 11 controlPlaneSubnet: control_plane_subnet 12 computeSubnet: compute_subnet 13 pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}' 14 fips: false 15 sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA... 16
- 1 8 9 10 14
- Required. The installation program prompts you for this value.
- 2 5
- If you do not provide these parameters and values, the installation program provides the default value.
- 3 6
- 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. - 4 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. Use larger machine types, such as
n1-standard-8
, for your machines if you disable simultaneous multithreading. - 11
- Specify the name of an existing VPC.
- 12
- Specify the name of the existing subnet to deploy the control plane machines to. The subnet must belong to the VPC that you specified.
- 13
- Specify the name of the existing subnet to deploy the compute machines to. The subnet must belong to the VPC that you specified.
- 15
- 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.
- 16
- You can optionally 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.
1.5.5.3. 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
-
An existing
install-config.yaml
file. Review the sites that your cluster requires access to and determine whether any need to bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster egress traffic is proxied, including calls to hosting cloud provider APIs. Add 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: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 additionalTrustBundle: | 4 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT> -----END CERTIFICATE----- ...
- 1
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be
http
. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must not specify anhttpProxy
value. - 2
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster. If this field is not specified, then
httpProxy
is used for both HTTP and HTTPS connections. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must not specify anhttpsProxy
value. - 3
- A comma-separated list of destination domain names, domains, IP addresses, or other network CIDRs to exclude proxying. Preface a domain with
.
to match subdomains only. For example,.y.com
matchesx.y.com
, but noty.com
. Use*
to bypass 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 theProxy
object’strustedCA
field. TheadditionalTrustBundle
field is required unless the proxy’s identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must provide the MITM CA certificate.
NoteThe installation program does not support the proxy
readinessEndpoints
field.- 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.
1.5.6. 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
- Configure an account with the cloud platform that hosts your cluster.
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Remove any existing GCP credentials that do not use the service account key for the GCP account that you configured for your cluster and that are stored in the following locations:
-
The
GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS
,GOOGLE_CLOUD_KEYFILE_JSON
, orGCLOUD_KEYFILE_JSON
environment variables -
The
~/.gcp/osServiceAccount.json
file -
The
gcloud cli
default credentials
-
The
Run the installation program:
$ ./openshift-install create cluster --dir=<installation_directory> \ 1 --log-level=info 2
NoteIf 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.ImportantThe 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.ImportantYou must not delete the installation program or the files that the installation program creates. Both are required to delete the cluster.
Optional: You can reduce the number of permissions for the service account that you used to install the cluster.
-
If you assigned the
Owner
role to your service account, you can remove that role and replace it with theViewer
role. -
If you included the
Service Account Key Admin
role, you can remove it.
-
If you assigned the
1.5.7. Installing the CLI by downloading the binary
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) in order 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 4.5. Download and install the new version of oc
.
1.5.7.1. Installing the CLI on Linux
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Linux from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvzf <file>
Place the
oc
binary in a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.5.7.2. Installing the CLI on Windows
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Windows from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unzip the archive with a ZIP program.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, open the command prompt and execute the following command:C:\> path
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
C:\> oc <command>
1.5.7.3. Installing the CLI on macOS
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select MacOS from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unpack and unzip the archive.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory on your PATH.To check your
PATH
, open a terminal and execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.5.8. Logging in to the cluster
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 OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
-
Install the
oc
CLI.
Procedure
Export the
kubeadmin
credentials:$ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Verify you can run
oc
commands successfully using the exported configuration:$ oc whoami
Example output
system:admin
1.5.9. Next steps
- Customize your cluster.
- If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.
1.6. Installing a private cluster on GCP
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.5, you can install a private cluster into an existing VPC on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The installation program provisions the rest of the required infrastructure, which you can further customize. To customize the installation, you modify parameters in the install-config.yaml
file before you install the cluster.
1.6.1. Prerequisites
- Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
- Configure a GCP account to host the cluster.
- If you use a firewall, you must configure it to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to.
- If you do not allow the system to manage identity and access management (IAM), then a cluster administrator can manually create and maintain IAM credentials. Manual mode can also be used in environments where the cloud IAM APIs are not reachable.
1.6.2. Private clusters
If your environment does not require an external Internet connection, you can deploy a private OpenShift Container Platform cluster that does not expose external endpoints. Private clusters are accessible from only an internal network and are not visible to the Internet.
By default, OpenShift Container Platform is provisioned to use publicly-accessible DNS and endpoints. A private cluster sets the DNS, Ingress Controller, and API server to private when you deploy your cluster. This means that the cluster resources are only accessible from your internal network and are not visible to the internet.
To deploy a private cluster, you must use existing networking that meets your requirements. Your cluster resources might be shared between other clusters on the network.
Additionally, you must deploy a private cluster from a machine that has access the API services for the cloud you provision to, the hosts on the network that you provision, and to the internet to obtain installation media. You can use any machine that meets these access requirements and follows your company’s guidelines. For example, this machine can be a bastion host on your cloud network or a machine that has access to the network through a VPN.
1.6.2.1. Private clusters in GCP
To create a private cluster on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you must provide an existing private VPC and subnets to host the cluster. The installation program must also be able to resolve the DNS records that the cluster requires. The installation program configures the Ingress Operator and API server for only internal traffic.
The cluster still requires access to Internet to access the GCP APIs.
The following items are not required or created when you install a private cluster:
- Public subnets
- Public network load balancers, which support public ingress
-
A public DNS zone that matches the
baseDomain
for the cluster
The installation program does use the baseDomain
that you specify to create a private DNS zone and the required records for the cluster. The cluster is configured so that the Operators do not create public records for the cluster and all cluster machines are placed in the private subnets that you specify.
Because it is not possible to limit access to external load balancers based on source tags, the private cluster uses only internal load balancers to allow access to internal instances.
The internal load balancer relies on instance groups rather than the target pools that the network load balancers use. The installation program creates instance groups for each zone, even if there is no instance in that group.
- The cluster IP address is internal only.
- One forwarding rule manages both the Kubernetes API and machine config server ports.
- The backend service is comprised of each zone’s instance group and, while it exists, the bootstrap instance group.
- The firewall uses a single rule that is based on only internal source ranges.
1.6.2.1.1. Limitations
No health check for the Machine config server, /healthz
, runs because of a difference in load balancer functionality. Two internal load balancers cannot share a single IP address, but two network load balancers can share a single external IP address. Instead, the health of an instance is determined entirely by the /readyz
check on port 6443.
1.6.3. About using a custom VPC
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.5, you can deploy a cluster into an existing VPC in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). If you do, you must also use existing subnets within the VPC and routing rules.
By deploying OpenShift Container Platform into an existing GCP VPC, you might be able to avoid limit constraints in new accounts or more easily abide by the operational constraints that your company’s guidelines set. This is a good option to use if you cannot obtain the infrastructure creation permissions that are required to create the VPC yourself.
1.6.3.1. Requirements for using your VPC
The installation program will no longer create the following components:
- VPC
- Subnets
- Cloud router
- Cloud NAT
- NAT IP addresses
If you use a custom VPC, you must correctly configure it and its subnets for the installation program and the cluster to use. The installation program cannot subdivide network ranges for the cluster to use, set route tables for the subnets, or set VPC options like DHCP, so you must do so before you install the cluster.
Your VPC and subnets must meet the following characteristics:
- The VPC must be in the same GCP project that you deploy the OpenShift Container Platform cluster to.
- To allow access to the Internet from the control plane and compute machines, you must configure cloud NAT on the subnets to allow egress to it. These machines do not have a public address. Even if you do not require access to the Internet, you must allow egress to the VPC network to obtain the installation program and images. Because multiple cloud NATs cannot be configured on the shared subnets, the installation program cannot configure it.
To ensure that the subnets that you provide are suitable, the installation program confirms the following data:
- All the subnets that you specify exist and belong to the VPC that you specified.
- The subnet CIDRs belong to the machine CIDR.
- You must provide a subnet to deploy the cluster control plane and compute machines to. You can use the same subnet for both machine types.
If you destroy a cluster that uses an existing VPC, the VPC is not deleted.
1.6.3.2. Division of permissions
Starting with OpenShift Container Platform 4.3, you do not need all of the permissions that are required for an installation program-provisioned infrastructure cluster to deploy a cluster. This change mimics the division of permissions that you might have at your company: some individuals can create different resources in your clouds than others. For example, you might be able to create application-specific items, like instances, buckets, and load balancers, but not networking-related components such as VPCs, subnets, or Ingress rules.
The GCP credentials that you use when you create your cluster do not need the networking permissions that are required to make VPCs and core networking components within the VPC, such as subnets, routing tables, internet gateways, NAT, and VPN. You still need permission to make the application resources that the machines within the cluster require, such as load balancers, security groups, storage, and nodes.
1.6.3.3. Isolation between clusters
If you deploy OpenShift Container Platform to an existing network, the isolation of cluster services is preserved by firewall rules that reference the machines in your cluster by the cluster’s infrastructure ID. Only traffic within the cluster is allowed.
If you deploy multiple clusters to the same VPC, the following components might share access between clusters:
- The API, which is globally available with an external publishing strategy or available throughout the network in an internal publishing strategy
- Debugging tools, such as ports on VM instances that are open to the machine CIDR for SSH and ICMP access
1.6.4. Internet and Telemetry access for OpenShift Container Platform
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.5, you require access to the Internet to install your cluster. The Telemetry service, which runs by default to provide metrics about cluster health and the success of updates, also requires Internet access. If your cluster is connected to the Internet, Telemetry runs automatically, and your cluster is registered to the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM).
Once you confirm that your Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager inventory is correct, either maintained automatically by Telemetry or manually using OCM, use subscription watch to track your OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions at the account or multi-cluster level.
You must have Internet access to:
- Access the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager page 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 content that is required and use it to populate a mirror registry with the packages that you need to install a cluster and generate the installation program. 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.
1.6.5. Generating an SSH private key and adding it to the agent
If you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery on your cluster, you must provide an SSH key to both your ssh-agent
and the installation program. You can use this key to access the bootstrap machine in a public cluster to troubleshoot installation issues.
In a production environment, you require disaster recovery and debugging.
You can use this key to SSH into the master nodes as the user core
. When you deploy the cluster, the key is added to the core
user’s ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
list.
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 SSH key that is configured for password-less authentication on your computer, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' \ -f <path>/<file_name> 1
- 1
- Specify the path and file name, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
, of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your~/.ssh
directory.
Running this command generates an SSH key that does not require a password in the location that you specified.
NoteIf you plan to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries on the
x86_64
architecture, do not create a key that uses theed25519
algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses thersa
orecdsa
algorithm.Start the
ssh-agent
process as a background task:$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Example output
Agent pid 31874
If your cluster is in FIPS mode, only use FIPS-compliant algorithms to generate the SSH key. The key must be either RSA or ECDSA.
Add your SSH private key to the
ssh-agent
:$ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1
Example output
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
- 1
- Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as
~/.ssh/id_rsa
Set the
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS
environment variable to the full path to your service account private key file.$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="<your_service_account_file>"
Verify that the credentials were applied.
$ gcloud auth list
Next steps
- When you install OpenShift Container Platform, provide the SSH public key to the installation program.
1.6.6. Obtaining the installation program
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, download the installation file on a local computer.
Prerequisites
- You must install the cluster from a computer that uses Linux or macOS.
- You need 500 MB of local disk space to download the installation program.
Procedure
- 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.
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.
ImportantThe 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.
ImportantDeleting the files created by the installation program does not remove your cluster, even if the cluster failed during installation. You must complete the OpenShift Container Platform uninstallation procedures outlined for your specific cloud provider to remove your cluster entirely.
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
-
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.
1.6.7. Manually creating the installation configuration file
For installations of a private OpenShift Container Platform cluster that are only accessible from an internal network and are not visible to the Internet, you must manually generate your installation configuration file.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the access token for your cluster.
Procedure
Create an installation directory to store your required installation assets in:
$ mkdir <installation_directory>
ImportantYou must create a 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.
Customize the following
install-config.yaml
file template and save it in the<installation_directory>
.NoteYou must name this configuration file
install-config.yaml
.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 next step of the installation process. You must back it up now.
1.6.7.1. Installation configuration parameters
Before you deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you provide parameter values to describe your account on the cloud platform that hosts your cluster and optionally customize your cluster’s platform. When you create the install-config.yaml
installation configuration file, you provide values for the required parameters through the command line. If you customize your cluster, you can modify the install-config.yaml
file to provide more details about the platform.
After installation, you cannot modify these parameters in the install-config.yaml
file.
The openshift-install
command does not validate field names for parameters. If an incorrect name is specified, the related file or object is not created, and no error is reported. Ensure that the field names for any parameters that are specified are correct.
1.6.7.1.1. Required configuration parameters
Required installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
|
The API version for the | String |
|
The base domain of your cloud provider. The base domain is used to create routes to your OpenShift Container Platform cluster components. The full DNS name for your cluster is a combination of the |
A fully-qualified domain or subdomain name, such as |
|
Kubernetes resource | Object |
|
The name of the cluster. DNS records for the cluster are all subdomains of |
String of lowercase letters, hyphens ( |
|
The configuration for the specific platform upon which to perform the installation: | Object |
| Get a pull secret from https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/pull-secret to authenticate downloading container images for OpenShift Container Platform components from services such as Quay.io. |
{ "auths":{ "cloud.openshift.com":{ "auth":"b3Blb=", "email":"you@example.com" }, "quay.io":{ "auth":"b3Blb=", "email":"you@example.com" } } } |
1.6.7.1.2. 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.
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| The configuration for the cluster network. | Object Note
You cannot modify parameters specified by the |
| The cluster network provider Container Network Interface (CNI) plug-in to install. |
Either |
| The IP address blocks for pods.
The default value is If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example: networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 |
|
Required if you use An IPv4 network. |
An IP address block in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation. The prefix length for an IPv4 block is between |
|
The subnet prefix length to assign to each individual node. For example, if | A subnet prefix.
The default value is |
|
The IP address block for services. The default value is The OpenShift SDN and OVN-Kubernetes network providers support only a single IP address block for the service network. | An array with an IP address block in CIDR format. For example: networking: serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 |
| The IP address blocks for machines. If you specify multiple IP address blocks, the blocks must not overlap. | An array of objects. For example: networking: machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16 |
|
Required if you use | An IP network block in CIDR notation.
For example, Note
Set the |
1.6.7.1.3. Optional configuration parameters
Optional installation configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| A PEM-encoded X.509 certificate bundle that is added to the nodes' trusted certificate store. This trust bundle may also be used when a proxy has been configured. | String |
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the compute nodes. | Array of machine-pool objects. For details, see the following "Machine-pool" table. |
|
Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, heteregeneous clusters are not supported, so all pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String |
|
Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or Important If you disable simultaneous multithreading, ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
| The number of compute machines, which are also known as worker machines, to provision. |
A positive integer greater than or equal to |
| The configuration for the machines that comprise the control plane. |
Array of |
|
Determines the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Currently, heterogeneous clusters are not supported, so all pools must specify the same architecture. Valid values are | String |
|
Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading, or Important If you disable simultaneous multithreading, ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
|
Required if you use |
|
| The number of control plane machines to provision. |
The only supported value is |
|
Enable or disable FIPS mode. The default is Note If you are using Azure File storage, you cannot enable FIPS mode. |
|
| Sources and repositories for the release-image content. |
Array of objects. Includes a |
|
Required if you use | String |
| Specify one or more repositories that may also contain the same images. | Array of strings |
| How to publish or expose the user-facing endpoints of your cluster, such as the Kubernetes API, OpenShift routes. |
|
| The SSH key to authenticate access to your cluster machines. Note
For production OpenShift Container Platform clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, specify an SSH key that your |
For example, |
1.6.7.1.4. Additional Google Cloud Platform (GCP) configuration parameters
Additional GCP configuration parameters are described in the following table:
Parameter | Description | Values |
---|---|---|
| The name of the existing VPC that you want to deploy your cluster to. | String. |
| The GCP machine type. | The GCP machine type. |
| The availability zones where the installation program creates machines for the specified MachinePool. |
A list of valid GCP availability zones, such as |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VPC that you want to deploy your control plane machines to. | The subnet name. |
| The name of the existing subnet in your VPC that you want to deploy your compute machines to. | The subnet name. |
1.6.7.2. Sample customized install-config.yaml
file for GCP
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 controlPlane: 2 3 hyperthreading: Enabled 4 name: master platform: gcp: type: n2-standard-4 zones: - us-central1-a - us-central1-c replicas: 3 compute: 5 6 - hyperthreading: Enabled 7 name: worker platform: gcp: type: n2-standard-4 zones: - us-central1-a - us-central1-c replicas: 3 metadata: name: test-cluster 8 networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 hostPrefix: 23 machineNetwork: - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16 networkType: OpenShiftSDN serviceNetwork: - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: gcp: projectID: openshift-production 9 region: us-central1 10 network: existing_vpc 11 controlPlaneSubnet: control_plane_subnet 12 computeSubnet: compute_subnet 13 pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}' 14 fips: false 15 sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA... 16 publish: Internal 17
- 1 8 9 10 14
- Required. The installation program prompts you for this value.
- 2 5
- If you do not provide these parameters and values, the installation program provides the default value.
- 3 6
- 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. - 4 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. Use larger machine types, such as
n1-standard-8
, for your machines if you disable simultaneous multithreading. - 11
- Specify the name of an existing VPC.
- 12
- Specify the name of the existing subnet to deploy the control plane machines to. The subnet must belong to the VPC that you specified.
- 13
- Specify the name of the existing subnet to deploy the compute machines to. The subnet must belong to the VPC that you specified.
- 15
- 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.
- 16
- You can optionally 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. - 17
- How to publish the user-facing endpoints of your cluster. Set
publish
toInternal
to deploy a private cluster, which cannot be accessed from the Internet. The default value isExternal
.
1.6.7.3. 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
-
An existing
install-config.yaml
file. Review the sites that your cluster requires access to and determine whether any need to bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster egress traffic is proxied, including calls to hosting cloud provider APIs. Add 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: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 additionalTrustBundle: | 4 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT> -----END CERTIFICATE----- ...
- 1
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be
http
. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must not specify anhttpProxy
value. - 2
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster. If this field is not specified, then
httpProxy
is used for both HTTP and HTTPS connections. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must not specify anhttpsProxy
value. - 3
- A comma-separated list of destination domain names, domains, IP addresses, or other network CIDRs to exclude proxying. Preface a domain with
.
to match subdomains only. For example,.y.com
matchesx.y.com
, but noty.com
. Use*
to bypass 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 theProxy
object’strustedCA
field. TheadditionalTrustBundle
field is required unless the proxy’s identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must provide the MITM CA certificate.
NoteThe installation program does not support the proxy
readinessEndpoints
field.- 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.
1.6.8. 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
- Configure an account with the cloud platform that hosts your cluster.
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Run the installation program:
$ ./openshift-install create cluster --dir=<installation_directory> \ 1 --log-level=info 2
NoteIf 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.ImportantThe 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.ImportantYou must not delete the installation program or the files that the installation program creates. Both are required to delete the cluster.
1.6.9. Installing the CLI by downloading the binary
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) in order 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 4.5. Download and install the new version of oc
.
1.6.9.1. Installing the CLI on Linux
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Linux from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvzf <file>
Place the
oc
binary in a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.6.9.2. Installing the CLI on Windows
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Windows from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unzip the archive with a ZIP program.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, open the command prompt and execute the following command:C:\> path
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
C:\> oc <command>
1.6.9.3. Installing the CLI on macOS
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select MacOS from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unpack and unzip the archive.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory on your PATH.To check your
PATH
, open a terminal and execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.6.10. Logging in to the cluster
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 OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
-
Install the
oc
CLI.
Procedure
Export the
kubeadmin
credentials:$ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Verify you can run
oc
commands successfully using the exported configuration:$ oc whoami
Example output
system:admin
1.6.11. Next steps
- Customize your cluster.
- If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.
1.7. Installing a cluster on user-provisioned infrastructure in GCP by using Deployment Manager templates
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.5, you can install a cluster on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that uses infrastructure that you provide.
The steps for performing a user-provided infrastructure install are outlined here. Several Deployment Manager templates are provided to assist in completing these steps or to help model your own. You are also free to create the required resources through other methods.
The steps for performing a user-provisioned infrastructure installation are provided as an example only. Installing a cluster with infrastructure you provide requires knowledge of the cloud provider and the installation process of OpenShift Container Platform. Several Deployment Manager templates are provided to assist in completing these steps or to help model your own. You are also free to create the required resources through other methods; the templates are just an example.
1.7.1. Prerequisites
- Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
- If you use a firewall and plan to use telemetry, you must configure the firewall to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to.
If you do not allow the system to manage identity and access management (IAM), then a cluster administrator can manually create and maintain IAM credentials. Manual mode can also be used in environments where the cloud IAM APIs are not reachable.
NoteBe sure to also review this site list if you are configuring a proxy.
1.7.2. Certificate signing requests management
Because your cluster has limited access to automatic machine management when you use infrastructure that you provision, you must provide a mechanism for approving cluster certificate signing requests (CSRs) after installation. The kube-controller-manager
only approves the kubelet client CSRs. The machine-approver
cannot guarantee the validity of a serving certificate that is requested by using kubelet credentials because it cannot confirm that the correct machine issued the request. You must determine and implement a method of verifying the validity of the kubelet serving certificate requests and approving them.
1.7.3. Configuring your GCP project
Before you can install OpenShift Container Platform, you must configure a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project to host it.
1.7.3.1. Creating a GCP project
To install OpenShift Container Platform, you must create a project in your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account to host the cluster.
Procedure
Create a project to host your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. See Creating and Managing Projects in the GCP documentation.
ImportantYour GCP project must use the Premium Network Service Tier if you are using installer-provisioned infrastructure. The Standard Network Service Tier is not supported for clusters installed using the installation program. The installation program configures internal load balancing for the
api-int.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>
URL; the Premium Tier is required for internal load balancing.
1.7.3.2. Enabling API services in GCP
Your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project requires access to several API services to complete OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
Procedure
Enable the following required API services in the project that hosts your cluster. See Enabling services in the GCP documentation.
Table 1.21. Required API services API service Console service name Cloud Deployment Manager V2 API
deploymentmanager.googleapis.com
Compute Engine API
compute.googleapis.com
Google Cloud APIs
cloudapis.googleapis.com
Cloud Resource Manager API
cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com
Google DNS API
dns.googleapis.com
IAM Service Account Credentials API
iamcredentials.googleapis.com
Identity and Access Management (IAM) API
iam.googleapis.com
Service Management API
servicemanagement.googleapis.com
Service Usage API
serviceusage.googleapis.com
Google Cloud Storage JSON API
storage-api.googleapis.com
Cloud Storage
storage-component.googleapis.com
1.7.3.3. Configuring DNS for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform, the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account you use must have a dedicated public hosted zone in the same project that you host the OpenShift Container Platform cluster. This zone must be authoritative for the domain. The DNS service provides cluster DNS resolution and name lookup for external connections to the cluster.
Procedure
Identify your domain, or subdomain, and registrar. You can transfer an existing domain and registrar or obtain a new one through GCP or another source.
NoteIf you purchase a new domain, it can take time for the relevant DNS changes to propagate. For more information about purchasing domains through Google, see Google Domains.
Create a public hosted zone for your domain or subdomain in your GCP project. See Creating public zones in the GCP documentation.
Use an appropriate root domain, such as
openshiftcorp.com
, or subdomain, such asclusters.openshiftcorp.com
.Extract the new authoritative name servers from the hosted zone records. See Look up your Cloud DNS name servers in the GCP documentation.
You typically have four name servers.
- Update the registrar records for the name servers that your domain uses. For example, if you registered your domain to Google Domains, see the following topic in the Google Domains Help: How to switch to custom name servers.
- If you migrated your root domain to Google Cloud DNS, migrate your DNS records. See Migrating to Cloud DNS in the GCP documentation.
- If you use a subdomain, follow your company’s procedures to add its delegation records to the parent domain. This process might include a request to your company’s IT department or the division that controls the root domain and DNS services for your company.
1.7.3.4. GCP account limits
The OpenShift Container Platform cluster uses a number of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) components, but the default Quotas do not affect your ability to install a default OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
A default cluster, which contains three compute and three control plane machines, uses the following resources. Note that some resources are required only during the bootstrap process and are removed after the cluster deploys.
Service | Component | Location | Total resources required | Resources removed after bootstrap |
---|---|---|---|---|
Service account | IAM | Global | 5 | 0 |
Firewall rules | Networking | Global | 11 | 1 |
Forwarding rules | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Health checks | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Images | Compute | Global | 1 | 0 |
Networks | Networking | Global | 1 | 0 |
Routers | Networking | Global | 1 | 0 |
Routes | Networking | Global | 2 | 0 |
Subnetworks | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Target pools | Networking | Global | 2 | 0 |
If any of the quotas are insufficient during installation, the installation program displays an error that states both which quota was exceeded and the region.
Be sure to consider your actual cluster size, planned cluster growth, and any usage from other clusters that are associated with your account. The CPU, static IP addresses, and persistent disk SSD (storage) quotas are the ones that are most likely to be insufficient.
If you plan to deploy your cluster in one of the following regions, you will exceed the maximum storage quota and are likely to exceed the CPU quota limit:
-
asia-east2
-
asia-northeast2
-
asia-south1
-
australia-southeast1
-
europe-north1
-
europe-west2
-
europe-west3
-
europe-west6
-
northamerica-northeast1
-
southamerica-east1
-
us-west2
You can increase resource quotas from the GCP console, but you might need to file a support ticket. Be sure to plan your cluster size early so that you can allow time to resolve the support ticket before you install your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
1.7.3.5. Creating a service account in GCP
OpenShift Container Platform requires a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service account that provides authentication and authorization to access data in the Google APIs. If you do not have an existing IAM service account that contains the required roles in your project, you must create one.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
Procedure
- Create a service account in the project that you use to host your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. See Creating a service account in the GCP documentation.
Grant the service account the appropriate permissions. You can either grant the individual permissions that follow or assign the
Owner
role to it. See Granting roles to a service account for specific resources.NoteWhile making the service account an owner of the project is the easiest way to gain the required permissions, it means that service account has complete control over the project. You must determine if the risk that comes from offering that power is acceptable.
Create the service account key in JSON format. See Creating service account keys in the GCP documentation.
The service account key is required to create a cluster.
1.7.3.5.1. Required GCP permissions
When you attach the Owner
role to the service account that you create, you grant that service account all permissions, including those that are required to install OpenShift Container Platform. To deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster, the service account requires the following permissions. If you deploy your cluster into an existing VPC, the service account does not require certain networking permissions, which are noted in the following lists:
Required roles for the installation program
- Compute Admin
- Security Admin
- Service Account Admin
- Service Account User
- Storage Admin
Required roles for creating network resources during installation
- DNS Administrator
Required roles for user-provisioned GCP infrastructure
- Deployment Manager Editor
- Service Account Key Admin
Optional roles
For the cluster to create new limited credentials for its Operators, add the following role:
- Service Account Key Admin
The roles are applied to the service accounts that the control plane and compute machines use:
Account | Roles |
---|---|
Control Plane |
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
Compute |
|
|
1.7.3.6. Supported GCP regions
You can deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster to the following Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions:
-
asia-east1
(Changhua County, Taiwan) -
asia-east2
(Hong Kong) -
asia-northeast1
(Tokyo, Japan) -
asia-northeast2
(Osaka, Japan) -
asia-south1
(Mumbai, India) -
asia-southeast1
(Jurong West, Singapore) -
australia-southeast1
(Sydney, Australia) -
europe-north1
(Hamina, Finland) -
europe-west1
(St. Ghislain, Belgium) -
europe-west2
(London, England, UK) -
europe-west3
(Frankfurt, Germany) -
europe-west4
(Eemshaven, Netherlands) -
europe-west6
(Zürich, Switzerland) -
northamerica-northeast1
(Montréal, Québec, Canada) -
southamerica-east1
(São Paulo, Brazil) -
us-central1
(Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA) -
us-east1
(Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA) -
us-east4
(Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA) -
us-west1
(The Dalles, Oregon, USA) -
us-west2
(Los Angeles, California, USA)
1.7.3.7. Installing and configuring CLI tools for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using user-provisioned infrastructure, you must install and configure the CLI tools for GCP.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
- You created a service account and granted it the required permissions.
Procedure
Install the following binaries in
$PATH
:-
gcloud
-
gsutil
See Install the latest Cloud SDK version in the GCP documentation.
-
Authenticate using the
gcloud
tool with your configured service account.See Authorizing with a service account in the GCP documentation.
1.7.4. Creating the installation files for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using user-provisioned infrastructure, you must generate the files that the installation program needs to deploy your cluster and modify them so that the cluster creates only the machines that it will use. You generate and customize the install-config.yaml
file, Kubernetes manifests, and Ignition config files.
1.7.4.1. Creating the installation configuration file
You can customize the OpenShift Container Platform cluster you install on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Create the
install-config.yaml
file.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.
ImportantSpecify 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.
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 gcp as the platform to target.
- If you have not configured the service account key for your GCP account on your computer, you must obtain it from GCP and paste the contents of the file or enter the absolute path to the file.
- Select the project ID to provision the cluster in. The default value is specified by the service account that you configured.
- Select the region to deploy the cluster to.
- Select the base domain to deploy the cluster to. The base domain corresponds to the public DNS zone that you created for your cluster.
- Enter a descriptive name for your cluster.
- Paste the pull secret that you obtained from the Pull Secret page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
Optional: If you do not want the cluster to provision compute machines, empty the compute pool by editing the resulting
install-config.yaml
file to setreplicas
to0
for thecompute
pool:compute: - hyperthreading: Enabled name: worker platform: {} replicas: 0 1
- 1
- Set to
0
.
-
Modify the
install-config.yaml
file. You can find more information about the available parameters in the Installation configuration parameters section. Back up the
install-config.yaml
file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters.ImportantThe
install-config.yaml
file is consumed during the installation process. If you want to reuse the file, you must back it up now.
1.7.4.2. 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
-
An existing
install-config.yaml
file. Review the sites that your cluster requires access to and determine whether any need to bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster egress traffic is proxied, including calls to hosting cloud provider APIs. Add 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: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 additionalTrustBundle: | 4 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT> -----END CERTIFICATE----- ...
- 1
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be
http
. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must not specify anhttpProxy
value. - 2
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster. If this field is not specified, then
httpProxy
is used for both HTTP and HTTPS connections. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must not specify anhttpsProxy
value. - 3
- A comma-separated list of destination domain names, domains, IP addresses, or other network CIDRs to exclude proxying. Preface a domain with
.
to match subdomains only. For example,.y.com
matchesx.y.com
, but noty.com
. Use*
to bypass 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 theProxy
object’strustedCA
field. TheadditionalTrustBundle
field is required unless the proxy’s identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must provide the MITM CA certificate.
NoteThe installation program does not support the proxy
readinessEndpoints
field.- 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.
1.7.4.3. Creating the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files
Because you must modify some cluster definition files and manually start the cluster machines, you must generate the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files that the cluster needs to make its machines.
The 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.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program.
-
Create the
install-config.yaml
installation configuration file.
Procedure
Generate the Kubernetes manifests for the cluster:
$ ./openshift-install create manifests --dir=<installation_directory> 1
Example output
INFO Consuming Install Config from target directory WARNING Making control-plane schedulable by setting MastersSchedulable to true for Scheduler cluster settings
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the installation directory that contains theinstall-config.yaml
file you created.
Because you create your own compute machines later in the installation process, you can safely ignore this warning.
Remove the Kubernetes manifest files that define the control plane machines:
$ rm -f <installation_directory>/openshift/99_openshift-cluster-api_master-machines-*.yaml
By removing these files, you prevent the cluster from automatically generating control plane machines.
Optional: If you do not want the cluster to provision compute machines, remove the Kubernetes manifest files that define the worker machines:
$ rm -f <installation_directory>/openshift/99_openshift-cluster-api_worker-machineset-*.yaml
Because you create and manage the worker machines yourself, you do not need to initialize these machines.
Modify the
<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml
Kubernetes manifest file to prevent pods from being scheduled on the control plane machines:-
Open the
<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml
file. -
Locate the
mastersSchedulable
parameter and set its value toFalse
. - Save and exit the file.
-
Open the
Optional: If you do not want the Ingress Operator to create DNS records on your behalf, remove the
privateZone
andpublicZone
sections from the<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-dns-02-config.yml
DNS configuration file:apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: DNS metadata: creationTimestamp: null name: cluster spec: baseDomain: example.openshift.com privateZone: 1 id: mycluster-100419-private-zone publicZone: 2 id: example.openshift.com status: {}
If you do so, you must add ingress DNS records manually in a later step.
Obtain the Ignition config files:
$ ./openshift-install create ignition-configs --dir=<installation_directory> 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the same installation directory.
The following files are generated in the directory:
. ├── auth │ ├── kubeadmin-password │ └── kubeconfig ├── bootstrap.ign ├── master.ign ├── metadata.json └── worker.ign
Additional resources
1.7.5. Exporting common variables
1.7.5.1. Extracting the infrastructure name
The Ignition config files contain a unique cluster identifier that you can use to uniquely identify your cluster in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The provided Deployment Manager templates contain references to this infrastructure name, so you must extract it.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
-
Install the
jq
package.
Procedure
To extract and view the infrastructure name from the Ignition config file metadata, run the following command:
$ jq -r .infraID <installation_directory>/metadata.json 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Example output
openshift-vw9j6 1
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- The output of this command is your cluster name and a random string.
1.7.5.2. Exporting common variables for Deployment Manager templates
You must export a common set of variables that are used with the provided Deployment Manager templates used to assist in completing a user-provided infrastructure install on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Specific Deployment Manager templates can also require additional exported variables, which are detailed in their related procedures.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
-
Install the
jq
package.
Procedure
Export the following common variables to be used by the provided Deployment Manager templates:
$ export BASE_DOMAIN='<base_domain>' $ export BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME='<base_domain_zone_name>' $ export NETWORK_CIDR='10.0.0.0/16' $ export MASTER_SUBNET_CIDR='10.0.0.0/19' $ export WORKER_SUBNET_CIDR='10.0.32.0/19' $ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1 $ export CLUSTER_NAME=`jq -r .clusterName <installation_directory>/metadata.json` $ export INFRA_ID=`jq -r .infraID <installation_directory>/metadata.json` $ export PROJECT_NAME=`jq -r .gcp.projectID <installation_directory>/metadata.json` $ export REGION=`jq -r .gcp.region <installation_directory>/metadata.json`
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- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
1.7.6. Creating a VPC in GCP
You must create a VPC in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. You can customize the VPC to meet your requirements. One way to create the VPC is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the VPC section of this topic and save it as
01_vpc.py
on your computer. This template describes the VPC that your cluster requires. Create a
01_vpc.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >01_vpc.yaml imports: - path: 01_vpc.py resources: - name: cluster-vpc type: 01_vpc.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 region: '${REGION}' 2 master_subnet_cidr: '${MASTER_SUBNET_CIDR}' 3 worker_subnet_cidr: '${WORKER_SUBNET_CIDR}' 4 EOF
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infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 2
region
is the region to deploy the cluster into, for exampleus-central1
.- 3
master_subnet_cidr
is the CIDR for the master subnet, for example10.0.0.0/19
.- 4
worker_subnet_cidr
is the CIDR for the worker subnet, for example10.0.32.0/19
.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-vpc --config 01_vpc.yaml
1.7.6.1. Deployment Manager template for the VPC
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the VPC that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.1. 01_vpc.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network', 'type': 'compute.v1.network', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'autoCreateSubnetworks': False } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-subnet', 'type': 'compute.v1.subnetwork', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'network': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network.selfLink)', 'ipCidrRange': context.properties['master_subnet_cidr'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker-subnet', 'type': 'compute.v1.subnetwork', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'network': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network.selfLink)', 'ipCidrRange': context.properties['worker_subnet_cidr'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-router', 'type': 'compute.v1.router', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'network': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network.selfLink)', 'nats': [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-nat-master', 'natIpAllocateOption': 'AUTO_ONLY', 'minPortsPerVm': 7168, 'sourceSubnetworkIpRangesToNat': 'LIST_OF_SUBNETWORKS', 'subnetworks': [{ 'name': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-subnet.selfLink)', 'sourceIpRangesToNat': ['ALL_IP_RANGES'] }] }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-nat-worker', 'natIpAllocateOption': 'AUTO_ONLY', 'minPortsPerVm': 512, 'sourceSubnetworkIpRangesToNat': 'LIST_OF_SUBNETWORKS', 'subnetworks': [{ 'name': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker-subnet.selfLink)', 'sourceIpRangesToNat': ['ALL_IP_RANGES'] }] }] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.7.7. Networking requirements for user-provisioned infrastructure
All the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines require network in initramfs
during boot to fetch Ignition config from the machine config server.
You must configure the network connectivity between machines to allow cluster components to communicate. Each machine must be able to resolve the host names of all other machines in the cluster.
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
ICMP | N/A | Network reachability tests |
TCP |
| Metrics |
|
Host level services, including the node exporter on ports | |
| The default ports that Kubernetes reserves | |
| openshift-sdn | |
UDP |
| VXLAN and Geneve |
| VXLAN and Geneve | |
|
Host level services, including the node exporter on ports | |
TCP/UDP |
| Kubernetes node port |
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
TCP |
| Kubernetes API |
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
TCP |
| etcd server and peer ports |
Network topology requirements
The infrastructure that you provision for your cluster must meet the following network topology requirements.
OpenShift Container Platform requires all nodes to have internet access to pull images for platform containers and provide telemetry data to Red Hat.
Load balancers
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, you must provision two load balancers that meet the following requirements:
API load balancer: Provides a common endpoint for users, both human and machine, to interact with and configure the platform. Configure the following conditions:
- Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the API routes.
- A stateless load balancing algorithm. The options vary based on the load balancer implementation.
NoteSession persistence is not required for the API load balancer to function properly.
Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers:
Table 1.27. API load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 6443
Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane. You must configure the
/readyz
endpoint for the API server health check probe.X
X
Kubernetes API server
22623
Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane.
X
Machine config server
NoteThe load balancer must be configured to take a maximum of 30 seconds from the time the API server turns off the
/readyz
endpoint to the removal of the API server instance from the pool. Within the time frame after/readyz
returns an error or becomes healthy, the endpoint must have been removed or added. Probing every 5 or 10 seconds, with two successful requests to become healthy and three to become unhealthy, are well-tested values.Application Ingress load balancer: Provides an Ingress point for application traffic flowing in from outside the cluster. Configure the following conditions:
- Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the Ingress routes.
- A connection-based or session-based persistence is recommended, based on the options available and types of applications that will be hosted on the platform.
Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers:
Table 1.28. Application Ingress load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 443
The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default.
X
X
HTTPS traffic
80
The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default.
X
X
HTTP traffic
If the true IP address of the client can be seen by the load balancer, enabling source IP-based session persistence can improve performance for applications that use end-to-end TLS encryption.
A working configuration for the Ingress router is required for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. You must configure the Ingress router after the control plane initializes.
1.7.8. Creating load balancers in GCP
You must configure load balancers in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. One way to create these components is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the internal load balancer section of this topic and save it as
02_lb_int.py
on your computer. This template describes the internal load balancing objects that your cluster requires. -
For an external cluster, also copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the external load balancer section of this topic and save it as
02_lb_ext.py
on your computer. This template describes the external load balancing objects that your cluster requires. Export the variables that the deployment template uses:
Export the cluster network location:
$ export CLUSTER_NETWORK=(`gcloud compute networks describe ${INFRA_ID}-network --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Export the control plane subnet location:
$ export CONTROL_SUBNET=(`gcloud compute networks subnets describe ${INFRA_ID}-master-subnet --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Export the three zones that the cluster uses:
$ export ZONE_0=(`gcloud compute regions describe ${REGION} --format=json | jq -r .zones[0] | cut -d "/" -f9`)
$ export ZONE_1=(`gcloud compute regions describe ${REGION} --format=json | jq -r .zones[1] | cut -d "/" -f9`)
$ export ZONE_2=(`gcloud compute regions describe ${REGION} --format=json | jq -r .zones[2] | cut -d "/" -f9`)
Create a
02_infra.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >02_infra.yaml imports: - path: 02_lb_ext.py - path: 02_lb_int.py 1 resources: - name: cluster-lb-ext 2 type: 02_lb_ext.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 3 region: '${REGION}' 4 - name: cluster-lb-int type: 02_lb_int.py properties: cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' control_subnet: '${CONTROL_SUBNET}' 5 infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' region: '${REGION}' zones: 6 - '${ZONE_0}' - '${ZONE_1}' - '${ZONE_2}' EOF
- 1 2
- Required only when deploying an external cluster.
- 3
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 4
region
is the region to deploy the cluster into, for exampleus-central1
.- 5
control_subnet
is the URI to the control subnet.- 6
zones
are the zones to deploy the control plane instances into, likeus-east1-b
,us-east1-c
, andus-east1-d
.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-infra --config 02_infra.yaml
Export the cluster IP address:
$ export CLUSTER_IP=(`gcloud compute addresses describe ${INFRA_ID}-cluster-ip --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .address`)
For an external cluster, also export the cluster public IP address:
$ export CLUSTER_PUBLIC_IP=(`gcloud compute addresses describe ${INFRA_ID}-cluster-public-ip --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .address`)
1.7.8.1. Deployment Manager template for the external load balancer
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the external load balancer that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.2. 02_lb_ext.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-public-ip', 'type': 'compute.v1.address', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'] } }, { # Refer to docs/dev/kube-apiserver-health-check.md on how to correctly setup health check probe for kube-apiserver 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-http-health-check', 'type': 'compute.v1.httpHealthCheck', 'properties': { 'port': 6080, 'requestPath': '/readyz' } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-target-pool', 'type': 'compute.v1.targetPool', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'healthChecks': ['$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-http-health-check.selfLink)'], 'instances': [] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-forwarding-rule', 'type': 'compute.v1.forwardingRule', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'IPAddress': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-public-ip.selfLink)', 'target': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-target-pool.selfLink)', 'portRange': '6443' } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.7.8.2. Deployment Manager template for the internal load balancer
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the internal load balancer that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.3. 02_lb_int.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): backends = [] for zone in context.properties['zones']: backends.append({ 'group': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-' + zone + '-instance-group' + '.selfLink)' }) resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-ip', 'type': 'compute.v1.address', 'properties': { 'addressType': 'INTERNAL', 'region': context.properties['region'], 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] } }, { # Refer to docs/dev/kube-apiserver-health-check.md on how to correctly setup health check probe for kube-apiserver 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-health-check', 'type': 'compute.v1.healthCheck', 'properties': { 'httpsHealthCheck': { 'port': 6443, 'requestPath': '/readyz' }, 'type': "HTTPS" } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-backend-service', 'type': 'compute.v1.regionBackendService', 'properties': { 'backends': backends, 'healthChecks': ['$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-health-check.selfLink)'], 'loadBalancingScheme': 'INTERNAL', 'region': context.properties['region'], 'protocol': 'TCP', 'timeoutSec': 120 } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-forwarding-rule', 'type': 'compute.v1.forwardingRule', 'properties': { 'backendService': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-backend-service.selfLink)', 'IPAddress': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-ip.selfLink)', 'loadBalancingScheme': 'INTERNAL', 'ports': ['6443','22623'], 'region': context.properties['region'], 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] } }] for zone in context.properties['zones']: resources.append({ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-' + zone + '-instance-group', 'type': 'compute.v1.instanceGroup', 'properties': { 'namedPorts': [ { 'name': 'ignition', 'port': 22623 }, { 'name': 'https', 'port': 6443 } ], 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'zone': zone } }) return {'resources': resources}
You will need this template in addition to the 02_lb_ext.py
template when you create an external cluster.
1.7.9. Creating a private DNS zone in GCP
You must configure a private DNS zone in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. One way to create this component is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the private DNS section of this topic and save it as
02_dns.py
on your computer. This template describes the private DNS objects that your cluster requires. Create a
02_dns.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >02_dns.yaml imports: - path: 02_dns.py resources: - name: cluster-dns type: 02_dns.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 cluster_domain: '${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}' 2 cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' 3 EOF
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-dns --config 02_dns.yaml
The templates do not create DNS entries due to limitations of Deployment Manager, so you must create them manually:
Add the internal DNS entries:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${CLUSTER_IP} --name api.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 60 --type A --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${CLUSTER_IP} --name api-int.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 60 --type A --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone
For an external cluster, also add the external DNS entries:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${CLUSTER_PUBLIC_IP} --name api.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 60 --type A --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME}
1.7.9.1. Deployment Manager template for the private DNS
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the private DNS that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.4. 02_dns.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-private-zone', 'type': 'dns.v1.managedZone', 'properties': { 'description': '', 'dnsName': context.properties['cluster_domain'] + '.', 'visibility': 'private', 'privateVisibilityConfig': { 'networks': [{ 'networkUrl': context.properties['cluster_network'] }] } } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.7.10. Creating firewall rules in GCP
You must create firewall rules in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. One way to create these components is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for firewall rules section of this topic and save it as
03_firewall.py
on your computer. This template describes the security groups that your cluster requires. Create a
03_firewall.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >03_firewall.yaml imports: - path: 03_firewall.py resources: - name: cluster-firewall type: 03_firewall.py properties: allowed_external_cidr: '0.0.0.0/0' 1 infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 2 cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' 3 network_cidr: '${NETWORK_CIDR}' 4 EOF
- 1
allowed_external_cidr
is the CIDR range that can access the cluster API and SSH to the bootstrap host. For an internal cluster, set this value to${NETWORK_CIDR}
.- 2
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 3
cluster_network
is theselfLink
URL to the cluster network.- 4
network_cidr
is the CIDR of the VPC network, for example10.0.0.0/16
.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-firewall --config 03_firewall.yaml
1.7.10.1. Deployment Manager template for firewall rules
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the firewall rues that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.5. 03_firewall.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-in-ssh', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['22'] }], 'sourceRanges': [context.properties['allowed_external_cidr']], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['6443'] }], 'sourceRanges': [context.properties['allowed_external_cidr']], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-health-checks', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['6080', '6443', '22624'] }], 'sourceRanges': ['35.191.0.0/16', '130.211.0.0/22', '209.85.152.0/22', '209.85.204.0/22'], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-etcd', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['2379-2380'] }], 'sourceTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-control-plane', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['10257'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['10259'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['22623'] }], 'sourceTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-internal-network', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'icmp' },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['22'] }], 'sourceRanges': [context.properties['network_cidr']], 'targetTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-internal-cluster', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'udp', 'ports': ['4789', '6081'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['9000-9999'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'udp', 'ports': ['9000-9999'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['10250'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['30000-32767'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'udp', 'ports': ['30000-32767'] }], 'sourceTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ], 'targetTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.7.12. Creating the RHCOS cluster image for the GCP infrastructure
You must use a valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform nodes.
Procedure
Obtain the RHCOS image from the RHCOS image mirror page.
ImportantThe RHCOS images might not change with every release of OpenShift Container Platform. You must download an image with the highest version that is less than or equal to the OpenShift Container Platform version that you install. Use the image version that matches your OpenShift Container Platform version if it is available.
The file name contains the OpenShift Container Platform version number in the format
rhcos-<version>-<arch>-gcp.<arch>.tar.gz
.Create the Google storage bucket:
$ gsutil mb gs://<bucket_name>
Upload the RHCOS image to the Google storage bucket:
$ gsutil cp <downloaded_image_file_path>/rhcos-<version>-x86_64-gcp.x86_64.tar.gz gs://<bucket_name>
Export the uploaded RHCOS image location as a variable:
$ export IMAGE_SOURCE=`gs://<bucket_name>/rhcos-<version>-x86_64-gcp.x86_64.tar.gz`
Create the cluster image:
$ gcloud compute images create "${INFRA_ID}-rhcos-image" \ --source-uri="${IMAGE_SOURCE}"
1.7.13. Creating the bootstrap machine in GCP
You must create the bootstrap machine in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to use during OpenShift Container Platform cluster initialization. One way to create this machine is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your bootstrap machine, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Ensure pyOpenSSL is installed.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the bootstrap machine section of this topic and save it as
04_bootstrap.py
on your computer. This template describes the bootstrap machine that your cluster requires. Export the location of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image that the installation program requires:
$ export CLUSTER_IMAGE=(`gcloud compute images describe ${INFRA_ID}-rhcos-image --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Create a bucket and upload the
bootstrap.ign
file:$ gsutil mb gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition $ gsutil cp <installation_directory>/bootstrap.ign gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition/
Create a signed URL for the bootstrap instance to use to access the Ignition config. Export the URL from the output as a variable:
$ export BOOTSTRAP_IGN=`gsutil signurl -d 1h service-account-key.json gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition/bootstrap.ign | grep "^gs:" | awk '{print $5}'`
Create a
04_bootstrap.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >04_bootstrap.yaml imports: - path: 04_bootstrap.py resources: - name: cluster-bootstrap type: 04_bootstrap.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 region: '${REGION}' 2 zone: '${ZONE_0}' 3 cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' 4 control_subnet: '${CONTROL_SUBNET}' 5 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 6 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 7 root_volume_size: '128' 8 bootstrap_ign: '${BOOTSTRAP_IGN}' 9 EOF
- 1
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 2
region
is the region to deploy the cluster into, for exampleus-central1
.- 3
zone
is the zone to deploy the bootstrap instance into, for exampleus-central1-b
.- 4
cluster_network
is theselfLink
URL to the cluster network.- 5
control_subnet
is theselfLink
URL to the control subnet.- 6
image
is theselfLink
URL to the RHCOS image.- 7
machine_type
is the machine type of the instance, for examplen1-standard-4
.- 8
root_volume_size
is the boot disk size for the bootstrap machine.- 9
bootstrap_ign
is the URL output when creating a signed URL.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap --config 04_bootstrap.yaml
The templates do not manage load balancer membership due to limitations of Deployment Manager, so you must add the bootstrap machine manually.
Add the bootstrap instance to the internal load balancer instance group:
$ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances \ ${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_0} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap
Add the bootstrap instance group to the internal load balancer backend service:
$ gcloud compute backend-services add-backend \ ${INFRA_ID}-api-internal-backend-service --region=${REGION} --instance-group=${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-instance-group --instance-group-zone=${ZONE_0}
1.7.13.1. Deployment Manager template for the bootstrap machine
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the bootstrap machine that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.7. 04_bootstrap.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-public-ip', 'type': 'compute.v1.address', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zone'] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': '{"ignition":{"config":{"replace":{"source":"' + context.properties['bootstrap_ign'] + '","verification":{}}},"timeouts":{},"version":"2.1.0"},"networkd":{},"passwd":{},"storage":{},"systemd":{}}', }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'], 'accessConfigs': [{ 'natIP': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-public-ip.address)' }] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap' ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zone'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-instance-group', 'type': 'compute.v1.instanceGroup', 'properties': { 'namedPorts': [ { 'name': 'ignition', 'port': 22623 }, { 'name': 'https', 'port': 6443 } ], 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'zone': context.properties['zone'] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.7.14. Creating the control plane machines in GCP
You must create the control plane machines in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your cluster to use. One way to create these machines is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your control plane machines, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for control plane machines section of this topic and save it as
05_control_plane.py
on your computer. This template describes the control plane machines that your cluster requires. Export the following variable required by the resource definition:
$ export MASTER_IGNITION=`cat <installation_directory>/master.ign`
Create a
05_control_plane.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >05_control_plane.yaml imports: - path: 05_control_plane.py resources: - name: cluster-control-plane type: 05_control_plane.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 zones: 2 - '${ZONE_0}' - '${ZONE_1}' - '${ZONE_2}' control_subnet: '${CONTROL_SUBNET}' 3 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 4 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 5 root_volume_size: '128' service_account_email: '${MASTER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}' 6 ignition: '${MASTER_IGNITION}' 7 EOF
- 1
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 2
zones
are the zones to deploy the control plane instances into, for exampleus-central1-a
,us-central1-b
, andus-central1-c
.- 3
control_subnet
is theselfLink
URL to the control subnet.- 4
image
is theselfLink
URL to the RHCOS image.- 5
machine_type
is the machine type of the instance, for examplen1-standard-4
.- 6
service_account_email
is the email address for the master service account that you created.- 7
ignition
is the contents of themaster.ign
file.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-control-plane --config 05_control_plane.yaml
The templates do not manage load balancer membership due to limitations of Deployment Manager, so you must add the control plane machines manually.
Run the following commands to add the control plane machines to the appropriate instance groups:
$ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-master-${ZONE_0}-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_0} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-0 $ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-master-${ZONE_1}-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_1} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-1 $ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-master-${ZONE_2}-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_2} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-2
For an external cluster, you must also run the following commands to add the control plane machines to the target pools:
$ gcloud compute target-pools add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-api-target-pool --instances-zone="${ZONE_0}" --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-0 $ gcloud compute target-pools add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-api-target-pool --instances-zone="${ZONE_1}" --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-1 $ gcloud compute target-pools add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-api-target-pool --instances-zone="${ZONE_2}" --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-2
1.7.14.1. Deployment Manager template for control plane machines
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the control plane machines that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.8. 05_control_plane.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-m-0', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'diskType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][0] + '/diskTypes/pd-ssd', 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][0] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zones'][0] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-m-1', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'diskType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][1] + '/diskTypes/pd-ssd', 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][1] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zones'][1] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-m-2', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'diskType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][2] + '/diskTypes/pd-ssd', 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][2] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zones'][2] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.7.15. Wait for bootstrap completion and remove bootstrap resources in GCP
After you create all of the required infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), wait for the bootstrap process to complete on the machines that you provisioned by using the Ignition config files that you generated with the installation program.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
- Create the control plane machines.
Procedure
Change to the directory that contains the installation program and run the following command:
$ ./openshift-install wait-for bootstrap-complete --dir=<installation_directory> \ 1 --log-level info 2
If the command exits without a
FATAL
warning, your production control plane has initialized.Delete the bootstrap resources:
$ gcloud compute backend-services remove-backend ${INFRA_ID}-api-internal-backend-service --region=${REGION} --instance-group=${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-instance-group --instance-group-zone=${ZONE_0} $ gsutil rm gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition/bootstrap.ign $ gsutil rb gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition $ gcloud deployment-manager deployments delete ${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap
1.7.16. Creating additional worker machines in GCP
You can create worker machines in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your cluster to use by launching individual instances discretely or by automated processes outside the cluster, such as auto scaling groups. You can also take advantage of the built-in cluster scaling mechanisms and the machine API in OpenShift Container Platform.
In this example, you manually launch one instance by using the Deployment Manager template. Additional instances can be launched by including additional resources of type 06_worker.py
in the file.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your worker machines, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
- Create the control plane machines.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for worker machines section of this topic and save it as
06_worker.py
on your computer. This template describes the worker machines that your cluster requires. Export the variables that the resource definition uses.
Export the subnet that hosts the compute machines:
$ export COMPUTE_SUBNET=(`gcloud compute networks subnets describe ${INFRA_ID}-worker-subnet --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Export the email address for your service account:
$ export WORKER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=(`gcloud iam service-accounts list --filter "email~^${INFRA_ID}-w@${PROJECT_NAME}." --format json | jq -r '.[0].email'`)
Export the location of the compute machine Ignition config file:
$ export WORKER_IGNITION=`cat <installation_directory>/worker.ign`
Create a
06_worker.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >06_worker.yaml imports: - path: 06_worker.py resources: - name: 'worker-0' 1 type: 06_worker.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 2 zone: '${ZONE_0}' 3 compute_subnet: '${COMPUTE_SUBNET}' 4 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 5 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 6 root_volume_size: '128' service_account_email: '${WORKER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}' 7 ignition: '${WORKER_IGNITION}' 8 - name: 'worker-1' type: 06_worker.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 9 zone: '${ZONE_1}' 10 compute_subnet: '${COMPUTE_SUBNET}' 11 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 12 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 13 root_volume_size: '128' service_account_email: '${WORKER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}' 14 ignition: '${WORKER_IGNITION}' 15 EOF
- 1
name
is the name of the worker machine, for exampleworker-0
.- 2 9
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 3 10
zone
is the zone to deploy the worker machine into, for exampleus-central1-a
.- 4 11
compute_subnet
is theselfLink
URL to the compute subnet.- 5 12
image
is theselfLink
URL to the RHCOS image.- 6 13
machine_type
is the machine type of the instance, for examplen1-standard-4
.- 7 14
service_account_email
is the email address for the worker service account that you created.- 8 15
ignition
is the contents of theworker.ign
file.
-
Optional: If you want to launch additional instances, include additional resources of type
06_worker.py
in your06_worker.yaml
resource definition file. Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-worker --config 06_worker.yaml
1.7.16.1. Deployment Manager template for worker machines
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the worker machines that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.9. 06_worker.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-' + context.env['name'], 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zone'] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['compute_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zone'] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.7.17. Installing the CLI by downloading the binary
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) in order 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 4.5. Download and install the new version of oc
.
1.7.17.1. Installing the CLI on Linux
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Linux from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvzf <file>
Place the
oc
binary in a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.7.17.2. Installing the CLI on Windows
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Windows from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unzip the archive with a ZIP program.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, open the command prompt and execute the following command:C:\> path
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
C:\> oc <command>
1.7.17.3. Installing the CLI on macOS
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select MacOS from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unpack and unzip the archive.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory on your PATH.To check your
PATH
, open a terminal and execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.7.18. Logging in to the cluster
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 OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
-
Install the
oc
CLI.
Procedure
Export the
kubeadmin
credentials:$ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Verify you can run
oc
commands successfully using the exported configuration:$ oc whoami
Example output
system:admin
1.7.19. 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
Confirm that the cluster recognizes the machines:
$ oc get nodes
Example output
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 63m v1.18.3 master-1 Ready master 63m v1.18.3 master-2 Ready master 64m v1.18.3 worker-0 NotReady worker 76s v1.18.3 worker-1 NotReady worker 70s v1.18.3
The output lists all of the machines that you created.
Review the pending CSRs and ensure that you see the client requests with the
Pending
orApproved
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.
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:NoteBecause the CSRs rotate automatically, approve your CSRs within an hour of adding the machines to the cluster. If you do not approve them within an hour, the certificates will rotate, and more than two certificates will be present for each node. You must approve all of these certificates. Once the client CSR is approved, the Kubelet creates a secondary CSR for the serving certificate, which requires manual approval. Then, subsequent serving certificate renewal requests are automatically approved by the
machine-approver
if the Kubelet requests a new certificate with identical parameters.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
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 ...
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
After all client and server CSRs have been approved, the machines have the
Ready
status. Verify this by running the following command:$ oc get nodes
Example output
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 74m v1.20.0 worker-0 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0 worker-1 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0
NoteIt 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.
1.7.20. Optional: Adding the ingress DNS records
If you removed the DNS zone configuration when creating Kubernetes manifests and generating Ignition configs, you must manually create DNS records that point at the ingress load balancer. You can create either a wildcard *.apps.{baseDomain}.
or specific records. You can use A, CNAME, and other records per your requirements.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Remove the DNS Zone configuration when creating Kubernetes manifests and generating Ignition configs.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
- Create the control plane machines.
- Create the worker machines.
Procedure
Wait for the Ingress router to create a load balancer and populate the
EXTERNAL-IP
field:$ oc -n openshift-ingress get service router-default
Example output
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE router-default LoadBalancer 172.30.18.154 35.233.157.184 80:32288/TCP,443:31215/TCP 98
Add the A record to your zones:
To use A records:
Export the variable for the router IP address:
$ export ROUTER_IP=`oc -n openshift-ingress get service router-default --no-headers | awk '{print $4}'`
Add the A record to the private zones:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${ROUTER_IP} --name \*.apps.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 300 --type A --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone
For an external cluster, also add the A record to the public zones:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${ROUTER_IP} --name \*.apps.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 300 --type A --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME}
To add explicit domains instead of using a wildcard, create entries for each of the cluster’s current routes:
$ oc get --all-namespaces -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{range .status.ingress[*]}{.host}{"\n"}{end}{end}' routes
Example output
oauth-openshift.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com console-openshift-console.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com downloads-openshift-console.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com alertmanager-main-openshift-monitoring.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com grafana-openshift-monitoring.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com prometheus-k8s-openshift-monitoring.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com
1.7.21. Completing a GCP installation on user-provisioned infrastructure
After you start the OpenShift Container Platform installation on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) user-provisioned infrastructure, you can monitor the cluster events until the cluster is ready.
Prerequisites
- Deploy the bootstrap machine for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster on user-provisioned GCP infrastructure.
-
Install the
oc
CLI and log in.
Procedure
Complete the cluster installation:
$ ./openshift-install --dir=<installation_directory> wait-for install-complete 1
Example output
INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the cluster to initialize...
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
ImportantThe 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.Observe the running state of your cluster.
Run the following command to view the current cluster version and status:
$ oc get clusterversion
Example output
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING SINCE STATUS version False True 24m Working towards 4.5.4: 99% complete
Run the following command to view the Operators managed on the control plane by the Cluster Version Operator (CVO):
$ oc get clusteroperators
Example output
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.5.4 True False False 7m56s cloud-credential 4.5.4 True False False 31m cluster-autoscaler 4.5.4 True False False 16m console 4.5.4 True False False 10m csi-snapshot-controller 4.5.4 True False False 16m dns 4.5.4 True False False 22m etcd 4.5.4 False False False 25s image-registry 4.5.4 True False False 16m ingress 4.5.4 True False False 16m insights 4.5.4 True False False 17m kube-apiserver 4.5.4 True False False 19m kube-controller-manager 4.5.4 True False False 20m kube-scheduler 4.5.4 True False False 20m kube-storage-version-migrator 4.5.4 True False False 16m machine-api 4.5.4 True False False 22m machine-config 4.5.4 True False False 22m marketplace 4.5.4 True False False 16m monitoring 4.5.4 True False False 10m network 4.5.4 True False False 23m node-tuning 4.5.4 True False False 23m openshift-apiserver 4.5.4 True False False 17m openshift-controller-manager 4.5.4 True False False 15m openshift-samples 4.5.4 True False False 16m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.5.4 True False False 22m operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.5.4 True False False 22m operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.5.4 True False False 18m service-ca 4.5.4 True False False 23m service-catalog-apiserver 4.5.4 True False False 23m service-catalog-controller-manager 4.5.4 True False False 23m storage 4.5.4 True False False 17m
Run the following command to view your cluster pods:
$ oc get pods --all-namespaces
Example output
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE kube-system etcd-member-ip-10-0-3-111.us-east-2.compute.internal 1/1 Running 0 35m kube-system etcd-member-ip-10-0-3-239.us-east-2.compute.internal 1/1 Running 0 37m kube-system etcd-member-ip-10-0-3-24.us-east-2.compute.internal 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-apiserver-operator openshift-apiserver-operator-6d6674f4f4-h7t2t 1/1 Running 1 37m openshift-apiserver apiserver-fm48r 1/1 Running 0 30m openshift-apiserver apiserver-fxkvv 1/1 Running 0 29m openshift-apiserver apiserver-q85nm 1/1 Running 0 29m ... openshift-service-ca-operator openshift-service-ca-operator-66ff6dc6cd-9r257 1/1 Running 0 37m openshift-service-ca apiservice-cabundle-injector-695b6bcbc-cl5hm 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-service-ca configmap-cabundle-injector-8498544d7-25qn6 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-service-ca service-serving-cert-signer-6445fc9c6-wqdqn 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-service-catalog-apiserver-operator openshift-service-catalog-apiserver-operator-549f44668b-b5q2w 1/1 Running 0 32m openshift-service-catalog-controller-manager-operator openshift-service-catalog-controller-manager-operator-b78cr2lnm 1/1 Running 0 31m
When the current cluster version is
AVAILABLE
, the installation is complete.
1.7.22. Next steps
- Customize your cluster.
- If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.
1.8. Installing a cluster with shared VPC on user-provisioned infrastructure in GCP by using Deployment Manager templates
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.5, you can install a cluster into a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that uses infrastructure that you provide. In this context, a cluster installed into a shared VPC is a cluster that is configured to use a VPC from a project different from where the cluster is being deployed.
A shared VPC enables an organization to connect resources from multiple projects to a common VPC network. You can communicate within the organization securely and efficiently by using internal IPs from that network. For more information about shared VPC, see Shared VPC overview in the GCP documentation.
The steps for performing a user-provided infrastructure installation into a shared VPC are outlined here. Several Deployment Manager templates are provided to assist in completing these steps or to help model your own. You are also free to create the required resources through other methods.
The steps for performing a user-provisioned infrastructure installation are provided as an example only. Installing a cluster with infrastructure you provide requires knowledge of the cloud provider and the installation process of OpenShift Container Platform. Several Deployment Manager templates are provided to assist in completing these steps or to help model your own. You are also free to create the required resources through other methods; the templates are just an example.
1.8.1. Prerequisites
- Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
- If you use a firewall and plan to use telemetry, you must configure the firewall to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to.
If you do not allow the system to manage identity and access management (IAM), then a cluster administrator can manually create and maintain IAM credentials. Manual mode can also be used in environments where the cloud IAM APIs are not reachable.
NoteBe sure to also review this site list if you are configuring a proxy.
1.8.2. Certificate signing requests management
Because your cluster has limited access to automatic machine management when you use infrastructure that you provision, you must provide a mechanism for approving cluster certificate signing requests (CSRs) after installation. The kube-controller-manager
only approves the kubelet client CSRs. The machine-approver
cannot guarantee the validity of a serving certificate that is requested by using kubelet credentials because it cannot confirm that the correct machine issued the request. You must determine and implement a method of verifying the validity of the kubelet serving certificate requests and approving them.
1.8.3. Configuring the GCP project that hosts your cluster
Before you can install OpenShift Container Platform, you must configure a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project to host it.
1.8.3.1. Creating a GCP project
To install OpenShift Container Platform, you must create a project in your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account to host the cluster.
Procedure
Create a project to host your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. See Creating and Managing Projects in the GCP documentation.
ImportantYour GCP project must use the Premium Network Service Tier if you are using installer-provisioned infrastructure. The Standard Network Service Tier is not supported for clusters installed using the installation program. The installation program configures internal load balancing for the
api-int.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>
URL; the Premium Tier is required for internal load balancing.
1.8.3.2. Enabling API services in GCP
Your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project requires access to several API services to complete OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
Procedure
Enable the following required API services in the project that hosts your cluster. See Enabling services in the GCP documentation.
Table 1.29. Required API services API service Console service name Cloud Deployment Manager V2 API
deploymentmanager.googleapis.com
Compute Engine API
compute.googleapis.com
Google Cloud APIs
cloudapis.googleapis.com
Cloud Resource Manager API
cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com
Google DNS API
dns.googleapis.com
IAM Service Account Credentials API
iamcredentials.googleapis.com
Identity and Access Management (IAM) API
iam.googleapis.com
Service Management API
servicemanagement.googleapis.com
Service Usage API
serviceusage.googleapis.com
Google Cloud Storage JSON API
storage-api.googleapis.com
Cloud Storage
storage-component.googleapis.com
1.8.3.3. GCP account limits
The OpenShift Container Platform cluster uses a number of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) components, but the default Quotas do not affect your ability to install a default OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
A default cluster, which contains three compute and three control plane machines, uses the following resources. Note that some resources are required only during the bootstrap process and are removed after the cluster deploys.
Service | Component | Location | Total resources required | Resources removed after bootstrap |
---|---|---|---|---|
Service account | IAM | Global | 5 | 0 |
Firewall rules | Networking | Global | 11 | 1 |
Forwarding rules | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Health checks | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Images | Compute | Global | 1 | 0 |
Networks | Networking | Global | 1 | 0 |
Routers | Networking | Global | 1 | 0 |
Routes | Networking | Global | 2 | 0 |
Subnetworks | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Target pools | Networking | Global | 2 | 0 |
If any of the quotas are insufficient during installation, the installation program displays an error that states both which quota was exceeded and the region.
Be sure to consider your actual cluster size, planned cluster growth, and any usage from other clusters that are associated with your account. The CPU, static IP addresses, and persistent disk SSD (storage) quotas are the ones that are most likely to be insufficient.
If you plan to deploy your cluster in one of the following regions, you will exceed the maximum storage quota and are likely to exceed the CPU quota limit:
-
asia-east2
-
asia-northeast2
-
asia-south1
-
australia-southeast1
-
europe-north1
-
europe-west2
-
europe-west3
-
europe-west6
-
northamerica-northeast1
-
southamerica-east1
-
us-west2
You can increase resource quotas from the GCP console, but you might need to file a support ticket. Be sure to plan your cluster size early so that you can allow time to resolve the support ticket before you install your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
1.8.3.4. Creating a service account in GCP
OpenShift Container Platform requires a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service account that provides authentication and authorization to access data in the Google APIs. If you do not have an existing IAM service account that contains the required roles in your project, you must create one.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
Procedure
- Create a service account in the project that you use to host your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. See Creating a service account in the GCP documentation.
Grant the service account the appropriate permissions. You can either grant the individual permissions that follow or assign the
Owner
role to it. See Granting roles to a service account for specific resources.NoteWhile making the service account an owner of the project is the easiest way to gain the required permissions, it means that service account has complete control over the project. You must determine if the risk that comes from offering that power is acceptable.
Create the service account key in JSON format. See Creating service account keys in the GCP documentation.
The service account key is required to create a cluster.
1.8.3.4.1. Required GCP permissions
When you attach the Owner
role to the service account that you create, you grant that service account all permissions, including those that are required to install OpenShift Container Platform. To deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster, the service account requires the following permissions. If you deploy your cluster into an existing VPC, the service account does not require certain networking permissions, which are noted in the following lists:
Required roles for the installation program
- Compute Admin
- Security Admin
- Service Account Admin
- Service Account User
- Storage Admin
Required roles for creating network resources during installation
- DNS Administrator
Required roles for user-provisioned GCP infrastructure
- Deployment Manager Editor
- Service Account Key Admin
Optional roles
For the cluster to create new limited credentials for its Operators, add the following role:
- Service Account Key Admin
The roles are applied to the service accounts that the control plane and compute machines use:
Account | Roles |
---|---|
Control Plane |
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
Compute |
|
|
1.8.3.5. Supported GCP regions
You can deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster to the following Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions:
-
asia-east1
(Changhua County, Taiwan) -
asia-east2
(Hong Kong) -
asia-northeast1
(Tokyo, Japan) -
asia-northeast2
(Osaka, Japan) -
asia-south1
(Mumbai, India) -
asia-southeast1
(Jurong West, Singapore) -
australia-southeast1
(Sydney, Australia) -
europe-north1
(Hamina, Finland) -
europe-west1
(St. Ghislain, Belgium) -
europe-west2
(London, England, UK) -
europe-west3
(Frankfurt, Germany) -
europe-west4
(Eemshaven, Netherlands) -
europe-west6
(Zürich, Switzerland) -
northamerica-northeast1
(Montréal, Québec, Canada) -
southamerica-east1
(São Paulo, Brazil) -
us-central1
(Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA) -
us-east1
(Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA) -
us-east4
(Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA) -
us-west1
(The Dalles, Oregon, USA) -
us-west2
(Los Angeles, California, USA)
1.8.3.6. Installing and configuring CLI tools for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using user-provisioned infrastructure, you must install and configure the CLI tools for GCP.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
- You created a service account and granted it the required permissions.
Procedure
Install the following binaries in
$PATH
:-
gcloud
-
gsutil
See Install the latest Cloud SDK version in the GCP documentation.
-
Authenticate using the
gcloud
tool with your configured service account.See Authorizing with a service account in the GCP documentation.
1.8.4. Configuring the GCP project that hosts your shared VPC network
If you use a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to host your OpenShift Container Platform cluster in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you must configure the project that hosts it.
If you already have a project that hosts the shared VPC network, review this section to ensure that the project meets all of the requirements to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Procedure
- Create a project to host the shared VPC for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. See Creating and Managing Projects in the GCP documentation.
- Create a service account in the project that hosts your shared VPC. See Creating a service account in the GCP documentation.
Grant the service account the appropriate permissions. You can either grant the individual permissions that follow or assign the
Owner
role to it. See Granting roles to a service account for specific resources.NoteWhile making the service account an owner of the project is the easiest way to gain the required permissions, it means that service account has complete control over the project. You must determine if the risk that comes from offering that power is acceptable.
The service account for the project that hosts the shared VPC network requires the following roles:
- Compute Network User
- Compute Security Admin
- Deployment Manager Editor
- DNS Administrator
- Security Admin
- Network Management Admin
1.8.4.1. Configuring DNS for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform, the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account you use must have a dedicated public hosted zone in the project that hosts the shared VPC that you install the cluster into. This zone must be authoritative for the domain. The DNS service provides cluster DNS resolution and name lookup for external connections to the cluster.
Procedure
Identify your domain, or subdomain, and registrar. You can transfer an existing domain and registrar or obtain a new one through GCP or another source.
NoteIf you purchase a new domain, it can take time for the relevant DNS changes to propagate. For more information about purchasing domains through Google, see Google Domains.
Create a public hosted zone for your domain or subdomain in your GCP project. See Creating public zones in the GCP documentation.
Use an appropriate root domain, such as
openshiftcorp.com
, or subdomain, such asclusters.openshiftcorp.com
.Extract the new authoritative name servers from the hosted zone records. See Look up your Cloud DNS name servers in the GCP documentation.
You typically have four name servers.
- Update the registrar records for the name servers that your domain uses. For example, if you registered your domain to Google Domains, see the following topic in the Google Domains Help: How to switch to custom name servers.
- If you migrated your root domain to Google Cloud DNS, migrate your DNS records. See Migrating to Cloud DNS in the GCP documentation.
- If you use a subdomain, follow your company’s procedures to add its delegation records to the parent domain. This process might include a request to your company’s IT department or the division that controls the root domain and DNS services for your company.
1.8.4.2. Creating a VPC in GCP
You must create a VPC in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. You can customize the VPC to meet your requirements. One way to create the VPC is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the VPC section of this topic and save it as
01_vpc.py
on your computer. This template describes the VPC that your cluster requires. Export the following variables required by the resource definition:
Export the control plane CIDR:
$ export MASTER_SUBNET_CIDR='10.0.0.0/19'
Export the compute CIDR:
$ export WORKER_SUBNET_CIDR='10.0.32.0/19'
Export the region to deploy the VPC network and cluster to:
$ export REGION='<region>'
Export the variable for the ID of the project that hosts the shared VPC:
$ export HOST_PROJECT=<host_project>
Export the variable for the email of the service account that belongs to host project:
$ export HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT=<host_service_account_email>
Create a
01_vpc.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >01_vpc.yaml imports: - path: 01_vpc.py resources: - name: cluster-vpc type: 01_vpc.py properties: infra_id: '<prefix>' 1 region: '${REGION}' 2 master_subnet_cidr: '${MASTER_SUBNET_CIDR}' 3 worker_subnet_cidr: '${WORKER_SUBNET_CIDR}' 4 EOF
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create <vpc_deployment_name> --config 01_vpc.yaml --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} 1
- 1
- For
<vpc_deployment_name>
, specify the name of the VPC to deploy.
Export the VPC variable that other components require:
Export the name of the host project network:
$ export HOST_PROJECT_NETWORK=<vpc_network>
Export the name of the host project control plane subnet:
$ export HOST_PROJECT_CONTROL_SUBNET=<control_plane_subnet>
Export the name of the host project compute subnet:
$ export HOST_PROJECT_COMPUTE_SUBNET=<compute_subnet>
- Set up the shared VPC. See Setting up Shared VPC in the GCP documentation.
1.8.4.2.1. Deployment Manager template for the VPC
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the VPC that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.10. 01_vpc.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network', 'type': 'compute.v1.network', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'autoCreateSubnetworks': False } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-subnet', 'type': 'compute.v1.subnetwork', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'network': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network.selfLink)', 'ipCidrRange': context.properties['master_subnet_cidr'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker-subnet', 'type': 'compute.v1.subnetwork', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'network': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network.selfLink)', 'ipCidrRange': context.properties['worker_subnet_cidr'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-router', 'type': 'compute.v1.router', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'network': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network.selfLink)', 'nats': [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-nat-master', 'natIpAllocateOption': 'AUTO_ONLY', 'minPortsPerVm': 7168, 'sourceSubnetworkIpRangesToNat': 'LIST_OF_SUBNETWORKS', 'subnetworks': [{ 'name': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-subnet.selfLink)', 'sourceIpRangesToNat': ['ALL_IP_RANGES'] }] }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-nat-worker', 'natIpAllocateOption': 'AUTO_ONLY', 'minPortsPerVm': 512, 'sourceSubnetworkIpRangesToNat': 'LIST_OF_SUBNETWORKS', 'subnetworks': [{ 'name': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker-subnet.selfLink)', 'sourceIpRangesToNat': ['ALL_IP_RANGES'] }] }] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.8.5. Creating the installation files for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using user-provisioned infrastructure, you must generate the files that the installation program needs to deploy your cluster and modify them so that the cluster creates only the machines that it will use. You generate and customize the install-config.yaml
file, Kubernetes manifests, and Ignition config files.
1.8.5.1. Manually creating the installation configuration file
For installations of OpenShift Container Platform that use user-provisioned infrastructure, you manually generate your installation configuration file.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the access token for your cluster.
Procedure
Create an installation directory to store your required installation assets in:
$ mkdir <installation_directory>
ImportantYou must create a 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.
Customize the following
install-config.yaml
file template and save it in the<installation_directory>
.NoteYou must name this configuration file
install-config.yaml
.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 next step of the installation process. You must back it up now.
1.8.5.3. 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
-
An existing
install-config.yaml
file. Review the sites that your cluster requires access to and determine whether any need to bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster egress traffic is proxied, including calls to hosting cloud provider APIs. Add 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: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 additionalTrustBundle: | 4 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT> -----END CERTIFICATE----- ...
- 1
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be
http
. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must not specify anhttpProxy
value. - 2
- A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster. If this field is not specified, then
httpProxy
is used for both HTTP and HTTPS connections. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must not specify anhttpsProxy
value. - 3
- A comma-separated list of destination domain names, domains, IP addresses, or other network CIDRs to exclude proxying. Preface a domain with
.
to match subdomains only. For example,.y.com
matchesx.y.com
, but noty.com
. Use*
to bypass 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 theProxy
object’strustedCA
field. TheadditionalTrustBundle
field is required unless the proxy’s identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle. If you use an MITM transparent proxy network that does not require additional proxy configuration but requires additional CAs, you must provide the MITM CA certificate.
NoteThe installation program does not support the proxy
readinessEndpoints
field.- 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.
1.8.5.4. Creating the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files
Because you must modify some cluster definition files and manually start the cluster machines, you must generate the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files that the cluster needs to make its machines.
The 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.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program.
-
Create the
install-config.yaml
installation configuration file.
Procedure
Generate the Kubernetes manifests for the cluster:
$ ./openshift-install create manifests --dir=<installation_directory> 1
Example output
INFO Consuming Install Config from target directory WARNING Making control-plane schedulable by setting MastersSchedulable to true for Scheduler cluster settings
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the installation directory that contains theinstall-config.yaml
file you created.
Because you create your own compute machines later in the installation process, you can safely ignore this warning.
Remove the Kubernetes manifest files that define the control plane machines:
$ rm -f <installation_directory>/openshift/99_openshift-cluster-api_master-machines-*.yaml
By removing these files, you prevent the cluster from automatically generating control plane machines.
Remove the Kubernetes manifest files that define the worker machines:
$ rm -f <installation_directory>/openshift/99_openshift-cluster-api_worker-machineset-*.yaml
Because you create and manage the worker machines yourself, you do not need to initialize these machines.
Modify the
<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml
Kubernetes manifest file to prevent pods from being scheduled on the control plane machines:-
Open the
<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml
file. -
Locate the
mastersSchedulable
parameter and set its value toFalse
. - Save and exit the file.
-
Open the
Remove the
privateZone
sections from the<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-dns-02-config.yml
DNS configuration file:apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: DNS metadata: creationTimestamp: null name: cluster spec: baseDomain: example.openshift.com privateZone: 1 id: mycluster-100419-private-zone status: {}
- 1
- Remove this section completely.
Configure the cloud provider for your VPC.
-
Open the
<installation_directory>/manifests/cloud-provider-config.yaml
file. -
Add the
network-project-id
parameter and set its value to the ID of project that hosts the shared VPC network. -
Add the
network-name
parameter and set its value to the name of the shared VPC network that hosts the OpenShift Container Platform cluster. -
Replace the value of the
subnetwork-name
parameter with the value of the shared VPC subnet that hosts your compute machines.
The contents of the
<installation_directory>/manifests/cloud-provider-config.yaml
resemble the following example:config: |+ [global] project-id = example-project regional = true multizone = true node-tags = opensh-ptzzx-master node-tags = opensh-ptzzx-worker node-instance-prefix = opensh-ptzzx external-instance-groups-prefix = opensh-ptzzx network-project-id = example-shared-vpc network-name = example-network subnetwork-name = example-worker-subnet
-
Open the
If you deploy a cluster that is not on a private network, open the
<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-ingress-default-ingresscontroller.yaml
file and replace the value of thescope
parameter withExternal
. The contents of the file resemble the following example:apiVersion: operator.openshift.io/v1 kind: IngressController metadata: creationTimestamp: null name: default namespace: openshift-ingress-operator spec: endpointPublishingStrategy: loadBalancer: scope: External type: LoadBalancerService status: availableReplicas: 0 domain: '' selector: ''
Obtain the Ignition config files:
$ ./openshift-install create ignition-configs --dir=<installation_directory> 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the same installation directory.
The following files are generated in the directory:
. ├── auth │ ├── kubeadmin-password │ └── kubeconfig ├── bootstrap.ign ├── master.ign ├── metadata.json └── worker.ign
1.8.6. Exporting common variables
1.8.6.1. Extracting the infrastructure name
Additional resources
The Ignition config files contain a unique cluster identifier that you can use to uniquely identify your cluster in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The provided Deployment Manager templates contain references to this infrastructure name, so you must extract it.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
-
Install the
jq
package.
Procedure
To extract and view the infrastructure name from the Ignition config file metadata, run the following command:
$ jq -r .infraID <installation_directory>/metadata.json 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Example output
openshift-vw9j6 1
- 1
- The output of this command is your cluster name and a random string.
1.8.6.2. Exporting common variables for Deployment Manager templates
You must export a common set of variables that are used with the provided Deployment Manager templates used to assist in completing a user-provided infrastructure install on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Specific Deployment Manager templates can also require additional exported variables, which are detailed in their related procedures.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
-
Install the
jq
package.
Procedure
- Export the following common variables to be used by the provided Deployment Manager templates:
$ export BASE_DOMAIN='<base_domain>' 1 $ export BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME='<base_domain_zone_name>' 2 $ export NETWORK_CIDR='10.0.0.0/16' $ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 3 $ export CLUSTER_NAME=`jq -r .clusterName <installation_directory>/metadata.json` $ export INFRA_ID=`jq -r .infraID <installation_directory>/metadata.json` $ export PROJECT_NAME=`jq -r .gcp.projectID <installation_directory>/metadata.json`
1.8.7. Networking requirements for user-provisioned infrastructure
All the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines require network in initramfs
during boot to fetch Ignition config from the machine config server.
You must configure the network connectivity between machines to allow cluster components to communicate. Each machine must be able to resolve the host names of all other machines in the cluster.
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
ICMP | N/A | Network reachability tests |
TCP |
| Metrics |
|
Host level services, including the node exporter on ports | |
| The default ports that Kubernetes reserves | |
| openshift-sdn | |
UDP |
| VXLAN and Geneve |
| VXLAN and Geneve | |
|
Host level services, including the node exporter on ports | |
TCP/UDP |
| Kubernetes node port |
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
TCP |
| Kubernetes API |
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
TCP |
| etcd server and peer ports |
Network topology requirements
The infrastructure that you provision for your cluster must meet the following network topology requirements.
OpenShift Container Platform requires all nodes to have internet access to pull images for platform containers and provide telemetry data to Red Hat.
Load balancers
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, you must provision two load balancers that meet the following requirements:
API load balancer: Provides a common endpoint for users, both human and machine, to interact with and configure the platform. Configure the following conditions:
- Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the API routes.
- A stateless load balancing algorithm. The options vary based on the load balancer implementation.
NoteSession persistence is not required for the API load balancer to function properly.
Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers:
Table 1.35. API load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 6443
Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane. You must configure the
/readyz
endpoint for the API server health check probe.X
X
Kubernetes API server
22623
Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane.
X
Machine config server
NoteThe load balancer must be configured to take a maximum of 30 seconds from the time the API server turns off the
/readyz
endpoint to the removal of the API server instance from the pool. Within the time frame after/readyz
returns an error or becomes healthy, the endpoint must have been removed or added. Probing every 5 or 10 seconds, with two successful requests to become healthy and three to become unhealthy, are well-tested values.Application Ingress load balancer: Provides an Ingress point for application traffic flowing in from outside the cluster. Configure the following conditions:
- Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the Ingress routes.
- A connection-based or session-based persistence is recommended, based on the options available and types of applications that will be hosted on the platform.
Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers:
Table 1.36. Application Ingress load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 443
The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default.
X
X
HTTPS traffic
80
The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default.
X
X
HTTP traffic
If the true IP address of the client can be seen by the load balancer, enabling source IP-based session persistence can improve performance for applications that use end-to-end TLS encryption.
A working configuration for the Ingress router is required for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. You must configure the Ingress router after the control plane initializes.
1.8.8. Creating load balancers in GCP
You must configure load balancers in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. One way to create these components is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the internal load balancer section of this topic and save it as
02_lb_int.py
on your computer. This template describes the internal load balancing objects that your cluster requires. -
For an external cluster, also copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the external load balancer section of this topic and save it as
02_lb_ext.py
on your computer. This template describes the external load balancing objects that your cluster requires. Export the variables that the deployment template uses:
Export the cluster network location:
$ export CLUSTER_NETWORK=(`gcloud compute networks describe ${HOST_PROJECT_NETWORK} --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Export the control plane subnet location:
$ export CONTROL_SUBNET=(`gcloud compute networks subnets describe ${HOST_PROJECT_CONTROL_SUBNET} --region=${REGION} --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Export the three zones that the cluster uses:
$ export ZONE_0=(`gcloud compute regions describe ${REGION} --format=json | jq -r .zones[0] | cut -d "/" -f9`)
$ export ZONE_1=(`gcloud compute regions describe ${REGION} --format=json | jq -r .zones[1] | cut -d "/" -f9`)
$ export ZONE_2=(`gcloud compute regions describe ${REGION} --format=json | jq -r .zones[2] | cut -d "/" -f9`)
Create a
02_infra.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >02_infra.yaml imports: - path: 02_lb_ext.py - path: 02_lb_int.py 1 resources: - name: cluster-lb-ext 2 type: 02_lb_ext.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 3 region: '${REGION}' 4 - name: cluster-lb-int type: 02_lb_int.py properties: cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' control_subnet: '${CONTROL_SUBNET}' 5 infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' region: '${REGION}' zones: 6 - '${ZONE_0}' - '${ZONE_1}' - '${ZONE_2}' EOF
- 1 2
- Required only when deploying an external cluster.
- 3
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 4
region
is the region to deploy the cluster into, for exampleus-central1
.- 5
control_subnet
is the URI to the control subnet.- 6
zones
are the zones to deploy the control plane instances into, likeus-east1-b
,us-east1-c
, andus-east1-d
.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-infra --config 02_infra.yaml
Export the cluster IP address:
$ export CLUSTER_IP=(`gcloud compute addresses describe ${INFRA_ID}-cluster-ip --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .address`)
For an external cluster, also export the cluster public IP address:
$ export CLUSTER_PUBLIC_IP=(`gcloud compute addresses describe ${INFRA_ID}-cluster-public-ip --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .address`)
1.8.8.1. Deployment Manager template for the external load balancer
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the external load balancer that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.11. 02_lb_ext.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-public-ip', 'type': 'compute.v1.address', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'] } }, { # Refer to docs/dev/kube-apiserver-health-check.md on how to correctly setup health check probe for kube-apiserver 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-http-health-check', 'type': 'compute.v1.httpHealthCheck', 'properties': { 'port': 6080, 'requestPath': '/readyz' } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-target-pool', 'type': 'compute.v1.targetPool', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'healthChecks': ['$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-http-health-check.selfLink)'], 'instances': [] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-forwarding-rule', 'type': 'compute.v1.forwardingRule', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'IPAddress': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-public-ip.selfLink)', 'target': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-target-pool.selfLink)', 'portRange': '6443' } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.8.8.2. Deployment Manager template for the internal load balancer
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the internal load balancer that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.12. 02_lb_int.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): backends = [] for zone in context.properties['zones']: backends.append({ 'group': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-' + zone + '-instance-group' + '.selfLink)' }) resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-ip', 'type': 'compute.v1.address', 'properties': { 'addressType': 'INTERNAL', 'region': context.properties['region'], 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] } }, { # Refer to docs/dev/kube-apiserver-health-check.md on how to correctly setup health check probe for kube-apiserver 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-health-check', 'type': 'compute.v1.healthCheck', 'properties': { 'httpsHealthCheck': { 'port': 6443, 'requestPath': '/readyz' }, 'type': "HTTPS" } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-backend-service', 'type': 'compute.v1.regionBackendService', 'properties': { 'backends': backends, 'healthChecks': ['$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-health-check.selfLink)'], 'loadBalancingScheme': 'INTERNAL', 'region': context.properties['region'], 'protocol': 'TCP', 'timeoutSec': 120 } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-forwarding-rule', 'type': 'compute.v1.forwardingRule', 'properties': { 'backendService': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-backend-service.selfLink)', 'IPAddress': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-ip.selfLink)', 'loadBalancingScheme': 'INTERNAL', 'ports': ['6443','22623'], 'region': context.properties['region'], 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] } }] for zone in context.properties['zones']: resources.append({ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-' + zone + '-instance-group', 'type': 'compute.v1.instanceGroup', 'properties': { 'namedPorts': [ { 'name': 'ignition', 'port': 22623 }, { 'name': 'https', 'port': 6443 } ], 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'zone': zone } }) return {'resources': resources}
You will need this template in addition to the 02_lb_ext.py
template when you create an external cluster.
1.8.9. Creating a private DNS zone in GCP
You must configure a private DNS zone in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. One way to create this component is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the private DNS section of this topic and save it as
02_dns.py
on your computer. This template describes the private DNS objects that your cluster requires. Create a
02_dns.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >02_dns.yaml imports: - path: 02_dns.py resources: - name: cluster-dns type: 02_dns.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 cluster_domain: '${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}' 2 cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' 3 EOF
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-dns --config 02_dns.yaml --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT}
The templates do not create DNS entries due to limitations of Deployment Manager, so you must create them manually:
Add the internal DNS entries:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${CLUSTER_IP} --name api.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 60 --type A --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${CLUSTER_IP} --name api-int.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 60 --type A --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT}
For an external cluster, also add the external DNS entries:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud --account=${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} --project=${HOST_PROJECT} dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud --account=${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} --project=${HOST_PROJECT} dns record-sets transaction add ${CLUSTER_PUBLIC_IP} --name api.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 60 --type A --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud --account=${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} --project=${HOST_PROJECT} dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME}
1.8.9.1. Deployment Manager template for the private DNS
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the private DNS that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.13. 02_dns.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-private-zone', 'type': 'dns.v1.managedZone', 'properties': { 'description': '', 'dnsName': context.properties['cluster_domain'] + '.', 'visibility': 'private', 'privateVisibilityConfig': { 'networks': [{ 'networkUrl': context.properties['cluster_network'] }] } } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.8.10. Creating firewall rules in GCP
You must create firewall rules in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. One way to create these components is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for firewall rules section of this topic and save it as
03_firewall.py
on your computer. This template describes the security groups that your cluster requires. Create a
03_firewall.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >03_firewall.yaml imports: - path: 03_firewall.py resources: - name: cluster-firewall type: 03_firewall.py properties: allowed_external_cidr: '0.0.0.0/0' 1 infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 2 cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' 3 network_cidr: '${NETWORK_CIDR}' 4 EOF
- 1
allowed_external_cidr
is the CIDR range that can access the cluster API and SSH to the bootstrap host. For an internal cluster, set this value to${NETWORK_CIDR}
.- 2
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 3
cluster_network
is theselfLink
URL to the cluster network.- 4
network_cidr
is the CIDR of the VPC network, for example10.0.0.0/16
.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-firewall --config 03_firewall.yaml --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT}
1.8.10.1. Deployment Manager template for firewall rules
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the firewall rues that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.14. 03_firewall.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-in-ssh', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['22'] }], 'sourceRanges': [context.properties['allowed_external_cidr']], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['6443'] }], 'sourceRanges': [context.properties['allowed_external_cidr']], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-health-checks', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['6080', '6443', '22624'] }], 'sourceRanges': ['35.191.0.0/16', '130.211.0.0/22', '209.85.152.0/22', '209.85.204.0/22'], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-etcd', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['2379-2380'] }], 'sourceTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-control-plane', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['10257'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['10259'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['22623'] }], 'sourceTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-internal-network', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'icmp' },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['22'] }], 'sourceRanges': [context.properties['network_cidr']], 'targetTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-internal-cluster', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'udp', 'ports': ['4789', '6081'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['9000-9999'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'udp', 'ports': ['9000-9999'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['10250'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['30000-32767'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'udp', 'ports': ['30000-32767'] }], 'sourceTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ], 'targetTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.8.12. Creating the RHCOS cluster image for the GCP infrastructure
You must use a valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform nodes.
Procedure
Obtain the RHCOS image from the RHCOS image mirror page.
ImportantThe RHCOS images might not change with every release of OpenShift Container Platform. You must download an image with the highest version that is less than or equal to the OpenShift Container Platform version that you install. Use the image version that matches your OpenShift Container Platform version if it is available.
The file name contains the OpenShift Container Platform version number in the format
rhcos-<version>-<arch>-gcp.<arch>.tar.gz
.Create the Google storage bucket:
$ gsutil mb gs://<bucket_name>
Upload the RHCOS image to the Google storage bucket:
$ gsutil cp <downloaded_image_file_path>/rhcos-<version>-x86_64-gcp.x86_64.tar.gz gs://<bucket_name>
Export the uploaded RHCOS image location as a variable:
$ export IMAGE_SOURCE=`gs://<bucket_name>/rhcos-<version>-x86_64-gcp.x86_64.tar.gz`
Create the cluster image:
$ gcloud compute images create "${INFRA_ID}-rhcos-image" \ --source-uri="${IMAGE_SOURCE}"
1.8.13. Creating the bootstrap machine in GCP
You must create the bootstrap machine in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to use during OpenShift Container Platform cluster initialization. One way to create this machine is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your bootstrap machine, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Ensure pyOpenSSL is installed.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the bootstrap machine section of this topic and save it as
04_bootstrap.py
on your computer. This template describes the bootstrap machine that your cluster requires. Export the location of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image that the installation program requires:
$ export CLUSTER_IMAGE=(`gcloud compute images describe ${INFRA_ID}-rhcos-image --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Create a bucket and upload the
bootstrap.ign
file:$ gsutil mb gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition $ gsutil cp <installation_directory>/bootstrap.ign gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition/
Create a signed URL for the bootstrap instance to use to access the Ignition config. Export the URL from the output as a variable:
$ export BOOTSTRAP_IGN=`gsutil signurl -d 1h service-account-key.json gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition/bootstrap.ign | grep "^gs:" | awk '{print $5}'`
Create a
04_bootstrap.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >04_bootstrap.yaml imports: - path: 04_bootstrap.py resources: - name: cluster-bootstrap type: 04_bootstrap.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 region: '${REGION}' 2 zone: '${ZONE_0}' 3 cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' 4 control_subnet: '${CONTROL_SUBNET}' 5 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 6 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 7 root_volume_size: '128' 8 bootstrap_ign: '${BOOTSTRAP_IGN}' 9 EOF
- 1
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 2
region
is the region to deploy the cluster into, for exampleus-central1
.- 3
zone
is the zone to deploy the bootstrap instance into, for exampleus-central1-b
.- 4
cluster_network
is theselfLink
URL to the cluster network.- 5
control_subnet
is theselfLink
URL to the control subnet.- 6
image
is theselfLink
URL to the RHCOS image.- 7
machine_type
is the machine type of the instance, for examplen1-standard-4
.- 8
root_volume_size
is the boot disk size for the bootstrap machine.- 9
bootstrap_ign
is the URL output when creating a signed URL.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap --config 04_bootstrap.yaml
Add the bootstrap instance to the internal load balancer instance group:
$ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_0} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap
Add the bootstrap instance group to the internal load balancer backend service:
$ gcloud compute backend-services add-backend ${INFRA_ID}-api-internal-backend-service --region=${REGION} --instance-group=${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-instance-group --instance-group-zone=${ZONE_0}
1.8.13.1. Deployment Manager template for the bootstrap machine
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the bootstrap machine that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.16. 04_bootstrap.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-public-ip', 'type': 'compute.v1.address', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zone'] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': '{"ignition":{"config":{"replace":{"source":"' + context.properties['bootstrap_ign'] + '","verification":{}}},"timeouts":{},"version":"2.1.0"},"networkd":{},"passwd":{},"storage":{},"systemd":{}}', }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'], 'accessConfigs': [{ 'natIP': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-public-ip.address)' }] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap' ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zone'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-instance-group', 'type': 'compute.v1.instanceGroup', 'properties': { 'namedPorts': [ { 'name': 'ignition', 'port': 22623 }, { 'name': 'https', 'port': 6443 } ], 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'zone': context.properties['zone'] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.8.14. Creating the control plane machines in GCP
You must create the control plane machines in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your cluster to use. One way to create these machines is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your control plane machines, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for control plane machines section of this topic and save it as
05_control_plane.py
on your computer. This template describes the control plane machines that your cluster requires. Export the following variable required by the resource definition:
$ export MASTER_IGNITION=`cat <installation_directory>/master.ign`
Create a
05_control_plane.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >05_control_plane.yaml imports: - path: 05_control_plane.py resources: - name: cluster-control-plane type: 05_control_plane.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 zones: 2 - '${ZONE_0}' - '${ZONE_1}' - '${ZONE_2}' control_subnet: '${CONTROL_SUBNET}' 3 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 4 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 5 root_volume_size: '128' service_account_email: '${MASTER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}' 6 ignition: '${MASTER_IGNITION}' 7 EOF
- 1
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 2
zones
are the zones to deploy the control plane instances into, for exampleus-central1-a
,us-central1-b
, andus-central1-c
.- 3
control_subnet
is theselfLink
URL to the control subnet.- 4
image
is theselfLink
URL to the RHCOS image.- 5
machine_type
is the machine type of the instance, for examplen1-standard-4
.- 6
service_account_email
is the email address for the master service account that you created.- 7
ignition
is the contents of themaster.ign
file.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-control-plane --config 05_control_plane.yaml
The templates do not manage load balancer membership due to limitations of Deployment Manager, so you must add the control plane machines manually.
Run the following commands to add the control plane machines to the appropriate instance groups:
$ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-master-${ZONE_0}-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_0} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-0 $ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-master-${ZONE_1}-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_1} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-1 $ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-master-${ZONE_2}-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_2} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-2
For an external cluster, you must also run the following commands to add the control plane machines to the target pools:
$ gcloud compute target-pools add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-api-target-pool --instances-zone="${ZONE_0}" --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-0 $ gcloud compute target-pools add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-api-target-pool --instances-zone="${ZONE_1}" --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-1 $ gcloud compute target-pools add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-api-target-pool --instances-zone="${ZONE_2}" --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-2
1.8.14.1. Deployment Manager template for control plane machines
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the control plane machines that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.17. 05_control_plane.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-m-0', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'diskType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][0] + '/diskTypes/pd-ssd', 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][0] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zones'][0] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-m-1', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'diskType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][1] + '/diskTypes/pd-ssd', 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][1] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zones'][1] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-m-2', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'diskType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][2] + '/diskTypes/pd-ssd', 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][2] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zones'][2] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.8.15. Wait for bootstrap completion and remove bootstrap resources in GCP
After you create all of the required infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), wait for the bootstrap process to complete on the machines that you provisioned by using the Ignition config files that you generated with the installation program.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
- Create the control plane machines.
Procedure
Change to the directory that contains the installation program and run the following command:
$ ./openshift-install wait-for bootstrap-complete --dir=<installation_directory> \ 1 --log-level info 2
If the command exits without a
FATAL
warning, your production control plane has initialized.Delete the bootstrap resources:
$ gcloud compute backend-services remove-backend ${INFRA_ID}-api-internal-backend-service --region=${REGION} --instance-group=${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-instance-group --instance-group-zone=${ZONE_0} $ gsutil rm gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition/bootstrap.ign $ gsutil rb gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition $ gcloud deployment-manager deployments delete ${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap
1.8.16. Creating additional worker machines in GCP
You can create worker machines in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your cluster to use by launching individual instances discretely or by automated processes outside the cluster, such as auto scaling groups. You can also take advantage of the built-in cluster scaling mechanisms and the machine API in OpenShift Container Platform.
In this example, you manually launch one instance by using the Deployment Manager template. Additional instances can be launched by including additional resources of type 06_worker.py
in the file.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your worker machines, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
- Create the control plane machines.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for worker machines section of this topic and save it as
06_worker.py
on your computer. This template describes the worker machines that your cluster requires. Export the variables that the resource definition uses.
Export the subnet that hosts the compute machines:
$ export COMPUTE_SUBNET=(`gcloud compute networks subnets describe ${HOST_PROJECT_COMPUTE_SUBNET} --region=${REGION} --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Export the email address for your service account:
$ export WORKER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=(`gcloud iam service-accounts list --filter "email~^${INFRA_ID}-w@${PROJECT_NAME}." --format json | jq -r '.[0].email'`)
Export the location of the compute machine Ignition config file:
$ export WORKER_IGNITION=`cat <installation_directory>/worker.ign`
Create a
06_worker.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >06_worker.yaml imports: - path: 06_worker.py resources: - name: 'worker-0' 1 type: 06_worker.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 2 zone: '${ZONE_0}' 3 compute_subnet: '${COMPUTE_SUBNET}' 4 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 5 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 6 root_volume_size: '128' service_account_email: '${WORKER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}' 7 ignition: '${WORKER_IGNITION}' 8 - name: 'worker-1' type: 06_worker.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 9 zone: '${ZONE_1}' 10 compute_subnet: '${COMPUTE_SUBNET}' 11 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 12 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 13 root_volume_size: '128' service_account_email: '${WORKER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}' 14 ignition: '${WORKER_IGNITION}' 15 EOF
- 1
name
is the name of the worker machine, for exampleworker-0
.- 2 9
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 3 10
zone
is the zone to deploy the worker machine into, for exampleus-central1-a
.- 4 11
compute_subnet
is theselfLink
URL to the compute subnet.- 5 12
image
is theselfLink
URL to the RHCOS image.- 6 13
machine_type
is the machine type of the instance, for examplen1-standard-4
.- 7 14
service_account_email
is the email address for the worker service account that you created.- 8 15
ignition
is the contents of theworker.ign
file.
-
Optional: If you want to launch additional instances, include additional resources of type
06_worker.py
in your06_worker.yaml
resource definition file. Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-worker --config 06_worker.yaml
1.8.16.1. Deployment Manager template for worker machines
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the worker machines that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.18. 06_worker.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-' + context.env['name'], 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zone'] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['compute_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zone'] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.8.17. Installing the CLI by downloading the binary
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) in order 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 4.5. Download and install the new version of oc
.
1.8.17.1. Installing the CLI on Linux
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Linux from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvzf <file>
Place the
oc
binary in a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.8.17.2. Installing the CLI on Windows
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select Windows from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unzip the archive with a ZIP program.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory that is on yourPATH
.To check your
PATH
, open the command prompt and execute the following command:C:\> path
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
C:\> oc <command>
1.8.17.3. Installing the CLI on macOS
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to the Infrastructure Provider page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
- Select your infrastructure provider, and, if applicable, your installation type.
- In the Command line interface section, select MacOS from the drop-down menu and click Download command-line tools.
- Unpack and unzip the archive.
Move the
oc
binary to a directory on your PATH.To check your
PATH
, open a terminal and execute the following command:$ echo $PATH
After you install the CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
1.8.18. Logging in to the cluster
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 OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
-
Install the
oc
CLI.
Procedure
Export the
kubeadmin
credentials:$ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Verify you can run
oc
commands successfully using the exported configuration:$ oc whoami
Example output
system:admin
1.8.19. 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
Confirm that the cluster recognizes the machines:
$ oc get nodes
Example output
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 63m v1.18.3 master-1 Ready master 63m v1.18.3 master-2 Ready master 64m v1.18.3 worker-0 NotReady worker 76s v1.18.3 worker-1 NotReady worker 70s v1.18.3
The output lists all of the machines that you created.
Review the pending CSRs and ensure that you see the client requests with the
Pending
orApproved
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.
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:NoteBecause the CSRs rotate automatically, approve your CSRs within an hour of adding the machines to the cluster. If you do not approve them within an hour, the certificates will rotate, and more than two certificates will be present for each node. You must approve all of these certificates. Once the client CSR is approved, the Kubelet creates a secondary CSR for the serving certificate, which requires manual approval. Then, subsequent serving certificate renewal requests are automatically approved by the
machine-approver
if the Kubelet requests a new certificate with identical parameters.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
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 ...
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
After all client and server CSRs have been approved, the machines have the
Ready
status. Verify this by running the following command:$ oc get nodes
Example output
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 74m v1.20.0 worker-0 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0 worker-1 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0
NoteIt 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.
1.8.20. Adding the ingress DNS records
DNS zone configuration is removed when creating Kubernetes manifests and generating Ignition configs. You must manually create DNS records that point at the ingress load balancer. You can create either a wildcard *.apps.{baseDomain}.
or specific records. You can use A, CNAME, and other records per your requirements.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Remove the DNS Zone configuration when creating Kubernetes manifests and generating Ignition configs.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
- Create the control plane machines.
- Create the worker machines.
Procedure
Wait for the Ingress router to create a load balancer and populate the
EXTERNAL-IP
field:$ oc -n openshift-ingress get service router-default
Example output
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE router-default LoadBalancer 172.30.18.154 35.233.157.184 80:32288/TCP,443:31215/TCP 98
Add the A record to your zones:
To use A records:
Export the variable for the router IP address:
$ export ROUTER_IP=`oc -n openshift-ingress get service router-default --no-headers | awk '{print $4}'`
Add the A record to the private zones:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${ROUTER_IP} --name \*.apps.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 300 --type A --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT}
For an external cluster, also add the A record to the public zones:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${ROUTER_IP} --name \*.apps.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 300 --type A --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} --project ${HOST_PROJECT} --account ${HOST_PROJECT_ACCOUNT}
To add explicit domains instead of using a wildcard, create entries for each of the cluster’s current routes:
$ oc get --all-namespaces -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{range .status.ingress[*]}{.host}{"\n"}{end}{end}' routes
Example output
oauth-openshift.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com console-openshift-console.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com downloads-openshift-console.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com alertmanager-main-openshift-monitoring.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com grafana-openshift-monitoring.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com prometheus-k8s-openshift-monitoring.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com
1.8.21. Adding ingress firewall rules
The cluster requires several firewall rules. If you do not use a shared VPC, these rules are created by the ingress controller via the GCP cloud provider. When you use a shared VPC, you can either create cluster-wide firewall rules for all services now or create each rule based on events, when the cluster requests access. By creating each rule when the cluster requests access, you know exactly which firewall rules are required. By creating cluster-wide firewall rules, you can apply the same rule set across multiple clusters.
If you choose to create each rule based on events, you must create firewall rules after you provision the cluster and during the life of the cluster when the console notifies you that rules are missing. Events that are similar to the following event are displayed, and you must add the firewall rules that are required:
$ oc get events -n openshift-ingress --field-selector="reason=LoadBalancerManualChange"
Example output
Firewall change required by security admin: `gcloud compute firewall-rules create k8s-fw-a26e631036a3f46cba28f8df67266d55 --network example-network --description "{\"kubernetes.io/service-name\":\"openshift-ingress/router-default\", \"kubernetes.io/service-ip\":\"35.237.236.234\"}\" --allow tcp:443,tcp:80 --source-ranges 0.0.0.0/0 --target-tags exampl-fqzq7-master,exampl-fqzq7-worker --project example-project`
If you encounter issues when creating these rule-based events, you can configure the cluster-wide firewall rules while your cluster is running.
1.8.22. Completing a GCP installation on user-provisioned infrastructure
After you start the OpenShift Container Platform installation on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) user-provisioned infrastructure, you can monitor the cluster events until the cluster is ready.
Prerequisites
- Deploy the bootstrap machine for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster on user-provisioned GCP infrastructure.
-
Install the
oc
CLI and log in.
Procedure
Complete the cluster installation:
$ ./openshift-install --dir=<installation_directory> wait-for install-complete 1
Example output
INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the cluster to initialize...
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
ImportantThe 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.Observe the running state of your cluster.
Run the following command to view the current cluster version and status:
$ oc get clusterversion
Example output
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING SINCE STATUS version False True 24m Working towards 4.5.4: 99% complete
Run the following command to view the Operators managed on the control plane by the Cluster Version Operator (CVO):
$ oc get clusteroperators
Example output
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.5.4 True False False 7m56s cloud-credential 4.5.4 True False False 31m cluster-autoscaler 4.5.4 True False False 16m console 4.5.4 True False False 10m csi-snapshot-controller 4.5.4 True False False 16m dns 4.5.4 True False False 22m etcd 4.5.4 False False False 25s image-registry 4.5.4 True False False 16m ingress 4.5.4 True False False 16m insights 4.5.4 True False False 17m kube-apiserver 4.5.4 True False False 19m kube-controller-manager 4.5.4 True False False 20m kube-scheduler 4.5.4 True False False 20m kube-storage-version-migrator 4.5.4 True False False 16m machine-api 4.5.4 True False False 22m machine-config 4.5.4 True False False 22m marketplace 4.5.4 True False False 16m monitoring 4.5.4 True False False 10m network 4.5.4 True False False 23m node-tuning 4.5.4 True False False 23m openshift-apiserver 4.5.4 True False False 17m openshift-controller-manager 4.5.4 True False False 15m openshift-samples 4.5.4 True False False 16m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.5.4 True False False 22m operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.5.4 True False False 22m operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.5.4 True False False 18m service-ca 4.5.4 True False False 23m service-catalog-apiserver 4.5.4 True False False 23m service-catalog-controller-manager 4.5.4 True False False 23m storage 4.5.4 True False False 17m
Run the following command to view your cluster pods:
$ oc get pods --all-namespaces
Example output
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE kube-system etcd-member-ip-10-0-3-111.us-east-2.compute.internal 1/1 Running 0 35m kube-system etcd-member-ip-10-0-3-239.us-east-2.compute.internal 1/1 Running 0 37m kube-system etcd-member-ip-10-0-3-24.us-east-2.compute.internal 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-apiserver-operator openshift-apiserver-operator-6d6674f4f4-h7t2t 1/1 Running 1 37m openshift-apiserver apiserver-fm48r 1/1 Running 0 30m openshift-apiserver apiserver-fxkvv 1/1 Running 0 29m openshift-apiserver apiserver-q85nm 1/1 Running 0 29m ... openshift-service-ca-operator openshift-service-ca-operator-66ff6dc6cd-9r257 1/1 Running 0 37m openshift-service-ca apiservice-cabundle-injector-695b6bcbc-cl5hm 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-service-ca configmap-cabundle-injector-8498544d7-25qn6 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-service-ca service-serving-cert-signer-6445fc9c6-wqdqn 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-service-catalog-apiserver-operator openshift-service-catalog-apiserver-operator-549f44668b-b5q2w 1/1 Running 0 32m openshift-service-catalog-controller-manager-operator openshift-service-catalog-controller-manager-operator-b78cr2lnm 1/1 Running 0 31m
When the current cluster version is
AVAILABLE
, the installation is complete.
1.8.23. Next steps
- Customize your cluster.
- If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.
1.9. Installing a cluster on GCP in a restricted network with user-provisioned infrastructure
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.5, you can install a cluster on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that uses infrastructure that you provide and an internal mirror of the installation release content.
While you can install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster by using mirrored installation release content, your cluster still requires internet access to use the GCP APIs.
The steps for performing a user-provided infrastructure install are outlined here. Several Deployment Manager templates are provided to assist in completing these steps or to help model your own. You are also free to create the required resources through other methods.
The steps for performing a user-provisioned infrastructure installation are provided as an example only. Installing a cluster with infrastructure you provide requires knowledge of the cloud provider and the installation process of OpenShift Container Platform. Several Deployment Manager templates are provided to assist in completing these steps or to help model your own. You are also free to create the required resources through other methods; the templates are just an example.
1.9.1. Prerequisites
Create a registry on your mirror host and obtain the
imageContentSources
data for your version of OpenShift Container Platform.ImportantBecause the installation media is on the mirror host, you can use that computer to complete all installation steps.
- Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
-
If you use a firewall, you must configure it to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to. While you might need to grant access to more sites, you must grant access to
*.googleapis.com
andaccounts.google.com
. - If you do not allow the system to manage identity and access management (IAM), then a cluster administrator can manually create and maintain IAM credentials. Manual mode can also be used in environments where the cloud IAM APIs are not reachable.
1.9.2. Configuring your GCP project
Before you can install OpenShift Container Platform, you must configure a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project to host it.
1.9.2.1. Creating a GCP project
To install OpenShift Container Platform, you must create a project in your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account to host the cluster.
Procedure
Create a project to host your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. See Creating and Managing Projects in the GCP documentation.
ImportantYour GCP project must use the Premium Network Service Tier if you are using installer-provisioned infrastructure. The Standard Network Service Tier is not supported for clusters installed using the installation program. The installation program configures internal load balancing for the
api-int.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>
URL; the Premium Tier is required for internal load balancing.
1.9.2.2. Enabling API services in GCP
Your Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project requires access to several API services to complete OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
Procedure
Enable the following required API services in the project that hosts your cluster. See Enabling services in the GCP documentation.
Table 1.37. Required API services API service Console service name Compute Engine API
compute.googleapis.com
Google Cloud APIs
cloudapis.googleapis.com
Cloud Resource Manager API
cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com
Google DNS API
dns.googleapis.com
IAM Service Account Credentials API
iamcredentials.googleapis.com
Identity and Access Management (IAM) API
iam.googleapis.com
Service Management API
servicemanagement.googleapis.com
Service Usage API
serviceusage.googleapis.com
Google Cloud Storage JSON API
storage-api.googleapis.com
Cloud Storage
storage-component.googleapis.com
1.9.2.3. Configuring DNS for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform, the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account you use must have a dedicated public hosted zone in the same project that you host the OpenShift Container Platform cluster. This zone must be authoritative for the domain. The DNS service provides cluster DNS resolution and name lookup for external connections to the cluster.
Procedure
Identify your domain, or subdomain, and registrar. You can transfer an existing domain and registrar or obtain a new one through GCP or another source.
NoteIf you purchase a new domain, it can take time for the relevant DNS changes to propagate. For more information about purchasing domains through Google, see Google Domains.
Create a public hosted zone for your domain or subdomain in your GCP project. See Creating public zones in the GCP documentation.
Use an appropriate root domain, such as
openshiftcorp.com
, or subdomain, such asclusters.openshiftcorp.com
.Extract the new authoritative name servers from the hosted zone records. See Look up your Cloud DNS name servers in the GCP documentation.
You typically have four name servers.
- Update the registrar records for the name servers that your domain uses. For example, if you registered your domain to Google Domains, see the following topic in the Google Domains Help: How to switch to custom name servers.
- If you migrated your root domain to Google Cloud DNS, migrate your DNS records. See Migrating to Cloud DNS in the GCP documentation.
- If you use a subdomain, follow your company’s procedures to add its delegation records to the parent domain. This process might include a request to your company’s IT department or the division that controls the root domain and DNS services for your company.
1.9.2.4. GCP account limits
The OpenShift Container Platform cluster uses a number of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) components, but the default Quotas do not affect your ability to install a default OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
A default cluster, which contains three compute and three control plane machines, uses the following resources. Note that some resources are required only during the bootstrap process and are removed after the cluster deploys.
Service | Component | Location | Total resources required | Resources removed after bootstrap |
---|---|---|---|---|
Service account | IAM | Global | 5 | 0 |
Firewall rules | Networking | Global | 11 | 1 |
Forwarding rules | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Health checks | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Images | Compute | Global | 1 | 0 |
Networks | Networking | Global | 1 | 0 |
Routers | Networking | Global | 1 | 0 |
Routes | Networking | Global | 2 | 0 |
Subnetworks | Compute | Global | 2 | 0 |
Target pools | Networking | Global | 2 | 0 |
If any of the quotas are insufficient during installation, the installation program displays an error that states both which quota was exceeded and the region.
Be sure to consider your actual cluster size, planned cluster growth, and any usage from other clusters that are associated with your account. The CPU, static IP addresses, and persistent disk SSD (storage) quotas are the ones that are most likely to be insufficient.
If you plan to deploy your cluster in one of the following regions, you will exceed the maximum storage quota and are likely to exceed the CPU quota limit:
-
asia-east2
-
asia-northeast2
-
asia-south1
-
australia-southeast1
-
europe-north1
-
europe-west2
-
europe-west3
-
europe-west6
-
northamerica-northeast1
-
southamerica-east1
-
us-west2
You can increase resource quotas from the GCP console, but you might need to file a support ticket. Be sure to plan your cluster size early so that you can allow time to resolve the support ticket before you install your OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
1.9.2.5. Creating a service account in GCP
OpenShift Container Platform requires a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) service account that provides authentication and authorization to access data in the Google APIs. If you do not have an existing IAM service account that contains the required roles in your project, you must create one.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
Procedure
- Create a service account in the project that you use to host your OpenShift Container Platform cluster. See Creating a service account in the GCP documentation.
Grant the service account the appropriate permissions. You can either grant the individual permissions that follow or assign the
Owner
role to it. See Granting roles to a service account for specific resources.NoteWhile making the service account an owner of the project is the easiest way to gain the required permissions, it means that service account has complete control over the project. You must determine if the risk that comes from offering that power is acceptable.
Create the service account key in JSON format. See Creating service account keys in the GCP documentation.
The service account key is required to create a cluster.
1.9.2.5.1. Required GCP permissions
When you attach the Owner
role to the service account that you create, you grant that service account all permissions, including those that are required to install OpenShift Container Platform. To deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster, the service account requires the following permissions. If you deploy your cluster into an existing VPC, the service account does not require certain networking permissions, which are noted in the following lists:
Required roles for the installation program
- Compute Admin
- Security Admin
- Service Account Admin
- Service Account User
- Storage Admin
Required roles for creating network resources during installation
- DNS Administrator
Required roles for user-provisioned GCP infrastructure
- Deployment Manager Editor
- Service Account Key Admin
Optional roles
For the cluster to create new limited credentials for its Operators, add the following role:
- Service Account Key Admin
The roles are applied to the service accounts that the control plane and compute machines use:
Account | Roles |
---|---|
Control Plane |
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
Compute |
|
|
1.9.2.6. Supported GCP regions
You can deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster to the following Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions:
-
asia-east1
(Changhua County, Taiwan) -
asia-east2
(Hong Kong) -
asia-northeast1
(Tokyo, Japan) -
asia-northeast2
(Osaka, Japan) -
asia-south1
(Mumbai, India) -
asia-southeast1
(Jurong West, Singapore) -
australia-southeast1
(Sydney, Australia) -
europe-north1
(Hamina, Finland) -
europe-west1
(St. Ghislain, Belgium) -
europe-west2
(London, England, UK) -
europe-west3
(Frankfurt, Germany) -
europe-west4
(Eemshaven, Netherlands) -
europe-west6
(Zürich, Switzerland) -
northamerica-northeast1
(Montréal, Québec, Canada) -
southamerica-east1
(São Paulo, Brazil) -
us-central1
(Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA) -
us-east1
(Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA) -
us-east4
(Ashburn, Northern Virginia, USA) -
us-west1
(The Dalles, Oregon, USA) -
us-west2
(Los Angeles, California, USA)
1.9.2.7. Installing and configuring CLI tools for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using user-provisioned infrastructure, you must install and configure the CLI tools for GCP.
Prerequisites
- You created a project to host your cluster.
- You created a service account and granted it the required permissions.
Procedure
Install the following binaries in
$PATH
:-
gcloud
-
gsutil
See Install the latest Cloud SDK version in the GCP documentation.
-
Authenticate using the
gcloud
tool with your configured service account.See Authorizing with a service account in the GCP documentation.
1.9.3. Creating the installation files for GCP
To install OpenShift Container Platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using user-provisioned infrastructure, you must generate the files that the installation program needs to deploy your cluster and modify them so that the cluster creates only the machines that it will use. You generate and customize the install-config.yaml
file, Kubernetes manifests, and Ignition config files.
1.9.3.1. Creating the installation configuration file
You can customize the OpenShift Container Platform cluster you install on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Procedure
Create the
install-config.yaml
file.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.
ImportantSpecify 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.
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 gcp as the platform to target.
- If you have not configured the service account key for your GCP account on your computer, you must obtain it from GCP and paste the contents of the file or enter the absolute path to the file.
- Select the project ID to provision the cluster in. The default value is specified by the service account that you configured.
- Select the region to deploy the cluster to.
- Select the base domain to deploy the cluster to. The base domain corresponds to the public DNS zone that you created for your cluster.
- Enter a descriptive name for your cluster.
- Paste the pull secret that you obtained from the Pull Secret page on the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager site.
-
Modify the
install-config.yaml
file. You can find more information about the available parameters in the Installation configuration parameters section. Back up the
install-config.yaml
file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters.ImportantThe
install-config.yaml
file is consumed during the installation process. If you want to reuse the file, you must back it up now.
1.9.3.2. Creating the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files
Because you must modify some cluster definition files and manually start the cluster machines, you must generate the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files that the cluster needs to make its machines.
The 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.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program. For a restricted network installation, these files are on your mirror host.
-
Create the
install-config.yaml
installation configuration file.
Procedure
Generate the Kubernetes manifests for the cluster:
$ ./openshift-install create manifests --dir=<installation_directory> 1
Example output
INFO Consuming Install Config from target directory WARNING Making control-plane schedulable by setting MastersSchedulable to true for Scheduler cluster settings
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the installation directory that contains theinstall-config.yaml
file you created.
Because you create your own compute machines later in the installation process, you can safely ignore this warning.
Remove the Kubernetes manifest files that define the control plane machines:
$ rm -f <installation_directory>/openshift/99_openshift-cluster-api_master-machines-*.yaml
By removing these files, you prevent the cluster from automatically generating control plane machines.
Optional: If you do not want the cluster to provision compute machines, remove the Kubernetes manifest files that define the worker machines:
$ rm -f <installation_directory>/openshift/99_openshift-cluster-api_worker-machineset-*.yaml
Because you create and manage the worker machines yourself, you do not need to initialize these machines.
Modify the
<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml
Kubernetes manifest file to prevent pods from being scheduled on the control plane machines:-
Open the
<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml
file. -
Locate the
mastersSchedulable
parameter and set its value toFalse
. - Save and exit the file.
-
Open the
Optional: If you do not want the Ingress Operator to create DNS records on your behalf, remove the
privateZone
andpublicZone
sections from the<installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-dns-02-config.yml
DNS configuration file:apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1 kind: DNS metadata: creationTimestamp: null name: cluster spec: baseDomain: example.openshift.com privateZone: 1 id: mycluster-100419-private-zone publicZone: 2 id: example.openshift.com status: {}
If you do so, you must add ingress DNS records manually in a later step.
Obtain the Ignition config files:
$ ./openshift-install create ignition-configs --dir=<installation_directory> 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the same installation directory.
The following files are generated in the directory:
. ├── auth │ ├── kubeadmin-password │ └── kubeconfig ├── bootstrap.ign ├── master.ign ├── metadata.json └── worker.ign
Additional resources
1.9.4. Exporting common variables
1.9.4.1. Extracting the infrastructure name
The Ignition config files contain a unique cluster identifier that you can use to uniquely identify your cluster in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The provided Deployment Manager templates contain references to this infrastructure name, so you must extract it.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
-
Install the
jq
package.
Procedure
To extract and view the infrastructure name from the Ignition config file metadata, run the following command:
$ jq -r .infraID <installation_directory>/metadata.json 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Example output
openshift-vw9j6 1
- 1
- The output of this command is your cluster name and a random string.
1.9.4.2. Exporting common variables for Deployment Manager templates
You must export a common set of variables that are used with the provided Deployment Manager templates used to assist in completing a user-provided infrastructure install on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Specific Deployment Manager templates can also require additional exported variables, which are detailed in their related procedures.
Prerequisites
- Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
-
Install the
jq
package.
Procedure
Export the following common variables to be used by the provided Deployment Manager templates:
$ export BASE_DOMAIN='<base_domain>' $ export BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME='<base_domain_zone_name>' $ export NETWORK_CIDR='10.0.0.0/16' $ export MASTER_SUBNET_CIDR='10.0.0.0/19' $ export WORKER_SUBNET_CIDR='10.0.32.0/19' $ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1 $ export CLUSTER_NAME=`jq -r .clusterName <installation_directory>/metadata.json` $ export INFRA_ID=`jq -r .infraID <installation_directory>/metadata.json` $ export PROJECT_NAME=`jq -r .gcp.projectID <installation_directory>/metadata.json` $ export REGION=`jq -r .gcp.region <installation_directory>/metadata.json`
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
1.9.5. Creating a VPC in GCP
You must create a VPC in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. You can customize the VPC to meet your requirements. One way to create the VPC is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the VPC section of this topic and save it as
01_vpc.py
on your computer. This template describes the VPC that your cluster requires. Create a
01_vpc.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >01_vpc.yaml imports: - path: 01_vpc.py resources: - name: cluster-vpc type: 01_vpc.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 region: '${REGION}' 2 master_subnet_cidr: '${MASTER_SUBNET_CIDR}' 3 worker_subnet_cidr: '${WORKER_SUBNET_CIDR}' 4 EOF
- 1
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 2
region
is the region to deploy the cluster into, for exampleus-central1
.- 3
master_subnet_cidr
is the CIDR for the master subnet, for example10.0.0.0/19
.- 4
worker_subnet_cidr
is the CIDR for the worker subnet, for example10.0.32.0/19
.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-vpc --config 01_vpc.yaml
1.9.5.1. Deployment Manager template for the VPC
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the VPC that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.19. 01_vpc.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network', 'type': 'compute.v1.network', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'autoCreateSubnetworks': False } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-subnet', 'type': 'compute.v1.subnetwork', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'network': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network.selfLink)', 'ipCidrRange': context.properties['master_subnet_cidr'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker-subnet', 'type': 'compute.v1.subnetwork', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'network': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network.selfLink)', 'ipCidrRange': context.properties['worker_subnet_cidr'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-router', 'type': 'compute.v1.router', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'network': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-network.selfLink)', 'nats': [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-nat-master', 'natIpAllocateOption': 'AUTO_ONLY', 'minPortsPerVm': 7168, 'sourceSubnetworkIpRangesToNat': 'LIST_OF_SUBNETWORKS', 'subnetworks': [{ 'name': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-subnet.selfLink)', 'sourceIpRangesToNat': ['ALL_IP_RANGES'] }] }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-nat-worker', 'natIpAllocateOption': 'AUTO_ONLY', 'minPortsPerVm': 512, 'sourceSubnetworkIpRangesToNat': 'LIST_OF_SUBNETWORKS', 'subnetworks': [{ 'name': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker-subnet.selfLink)', 'sourceIpRangesToNat': ['ALL_IP_RANGES'] }] }] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.9.6. Networking requirements for user-provisioned infrastructure
All the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines require network in initramfs
during boot to fetch Ignition config from the machine config server.
You must configure the network connectivity between machines to allow cluster components to communicate. Each machine must be able to resolve the host names of all other machines in the cluster.
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
ICMP | N/A | Network reachability tests |
TCP |
| Metrics |
|
Host level services, including the node exporter on ports | |
| The default ports that Kubernetes reserves | |
| openshift-sdn | |
UDP |
| VXLAN and Geneve |
| VXLAN and Geneve | |
|
Host level services, including the node exporter on ports | |
TCP/UDP |
| Kubernetes node port |
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
TCP |
| Kubernetes API |
Protocol | Port | Description |
---|---|---|
TCP |
| etcd server and peer ports |
Network topology requirements
The infrastructure that you provision for your cluster must meet the following network topology requirements.
Load balancers
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, you must provision two load balancers that meet the following requirements:
API load balancer: Provides a common endpoint for users, both human and machine, to interact with and configure the platform. Configure the following conditions:
- Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the API routes.
- A stateless load balancing algorithm. The options vary based on the load balancer implementation.
NoteSession persistence is not required for the API load balancer to function properly.
Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers:
Table 1.43. API load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 6443
Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane. You must configure the
/readyz
endpoint for the API server health check probe.X
X
Kubernetes API server
22623
Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane.
X
Machine config server
NoteThe load balancer must be configured to take a maximum of 30 seconds from the time the API server turns off the
/readyz
endpoint to the removal of the API server instance from the pool. Within the time frame after/readyz
returns an error or becomes healthy, the endpoint must have been removed or added. Probing every 5 or 10 seconds, with two successful requests to become healthy and three to become unhealthy, are well-tested values.Application Ingress load balancer: Provides an Ingress point for application traffic flowing in from outside the cluster. Configure the following conditions:
- Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the Ingress routes.
- A connection-based or session-based persistence is recommended, based on the options available and types of applications that will be hosted on the platform.
Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers:
Table 1.44. Application Ingress load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 443
The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default.
X
X
HTTPS traffic
80
The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default.
X
X
HTTP traffic
If the true IP address of the client can be seen by the load balancer, enabling source IP-based session persistence can improve performance for applications that use end-to-end TLS encryption.
A working configuration for the Ingress router is required for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. You must configure the Ingress router after the control plane initializes.
1.9.7. Creating load balancers in GCP
You must configure load balancers in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. One way to create these components is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the internal load balancer section of this topic and save it as
02_lb_int.py
on your computer. This template describes the internal load balancing objects that your cluster requires. -
For an external cluster, also copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the external load balancer section of this topic and save it as
02_lb_ext.py
on your computer. This template describes the external load balancing objects that your cluster requires. Export the variables that the deployment template uses:
Export the cluster network location:
$ export CLUSTER_NETWORK=(`gcloud compute networks describe ${INFRA_ID}-network --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Export the control plane subnet location:
$ export CONTROL_SUBNET=(`gcloud compute networks subnets describe ${INFRA_ID}-master-subnet --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Export the three zones that the cluster uses:
$ export ZONE_0=(`gcloud compute regions describe ${REGION} --format=json | jq -r .zones[0] | cut -d "/" -f9`)
$ export ZONE_1=(`gcloud compute regions describe ${REGION} --format=json | jq -r .zones[1] | cut -d "/" -f9`)
$ export ZONE_2=(`gcloud compute regions describe ${REGION} --format=json | jq -r .zones[2] | cut -d "/" -f9`)
Create a
02_infra.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >02_infra.yaml imports: - path: 02_lb_ext.py - path: 02_lb_int.py 1 resources: - name: cluster-lb-ext 2 type: 02_lb_ext.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 3 region: '${REGION}' 4 - name: cluster-lb-int type: 02_lb_int.py properties: cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' control_subnet: '${CONTROL_SUBNET}' 5 infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' region: '${REGION}' zones: 6 - '${ZONE_0}' - '${ZONE_1}' - '${ZONE_2}' EOF
- 1 2
- Required only when deploying an external cluster.
- 3
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 4
region
is the region to deploy the cluster into, for exampleus-central1
.- 5
control_subnet
is the URI to the control subnet.- 6
zones
are the zones to deploy the control plane instances into, likeus-east1-b
,us-east1-c
, andus-east1-d
.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-infra --config 02_infra.yaml
Export the cluster IP address:
$ export CLUSTER_IP=(`gcloud compute addresses describe ${INFRA_ID}-cluster-ip --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .address`)
For an external cluster, also export the cluster public IP address:
$ export CLUSTER_PUBLIC_IP=(`gcloud compute addresses describe ${INFRA_ID}-cluster-public-ip --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .address`)
1.9.7.1. Deployment Manager template for the external load balancer
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the external load balancer that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.20. 02_lb_ext.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-public-ip', 'type': 'compute.v1.address', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'] } }, { # Refer to docs/dev/kube-apiserver-health-check.md on how to correctly setup health check probe for kube-apiserver 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-http-health-check', 'type': 'compute.v1.httpHealthCheck', 'properties': { 'port': 6080, 'requestPath': '/readyz' } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-target-pool', 'type': 'compute.v1.targetPool', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'healthChecks': ['$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-http-health-check.selfLink)'], 'instances': [] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-forwarding-rule', 'type': 'compute.v1.forwardingRule', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'], 'IPAddress': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-public-ip.selfLink)', 'target': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-target-pool.selfLink)', 'portRange': '6443' } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.9.7.2. Deployment Manager template for the internal load balancer
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the internal load balancer that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.21. 02_lb_int.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): backends = [] for zone in context.properties['zones']: backends.append({ 'group': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-' + zone + '-instance-group' + '.selfLink)' }) resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-ip', 'type': 'compute.v1.address', 'properties': { 'addressType': 'INTERNAL', 'region': context.properties['region'], 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] } }, { # Refer to docs/dev/kube-apiserver-health-check.md on how to correctly setup health check probe for kube-apiserver 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-health-check', 'type': 'compute.v1.healthCheck', 'properties': { 'httpsHealthCheck': { 'port': 6443, 'requestPath': '/readyz' }, 'type': "HTTPS" } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-backend-service', 'type': 'compute.v1.regionBackendService', 'properties': { 'backends': backends, 'healthChecks': ['$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-health-check.selfLink)'], 'loadBalancingScheme': 'INTERNAL', 'region': context.properties['region'], 'protocol': 'TCP', 'timeoutSec': 120 } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-forwarding-rule', 'type': 'compute.v1.forwardingRule', 'properties': { 'backendService': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api-internal-backend-service.selfLink)', 'IPAddress': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-cluster-ip.selfLink)', 'loadBalancingScheme': 'INTERNAL', 'ports': ['6443','22623'], 'region': context.properties['region'], 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] } }] for zone in context.properties['zones']: resources.append({ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master-' + zone + '-instance-group', 'type': 'compute.v1.instanceGroup', 'properties': { 'namedPorts': [ { 'name': 'ignition', 'port': 22623 }, { 'name': 'https', 'port': 6443 } ], 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'zone': zone } }) return {'resources': resources}
You will need this template in addition to the 02_lb_ext.py
template when you create an external cluster.
1.9.8. Creating a private DNS zone in GCP
You must configure a private DNS zone in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. One way to create this component is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the private DNS section of this topic and save it as
02_dns.py
on your computer. This template describes the private DNS objects that your cluster requires. Create a
02_dns.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >02_dns.yaml imports: - path: 02_dns.py resources: - name: cluster-dns type: 02_dns.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 cluster_domain: '${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}' 2 cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' 3 EOF
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-dns --config 02_dns.yaml
The templates do not create DNS entries due to limitations of Deployment Manager, so you must create them manually:
Add the internal DNS entries:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${CLUSTER_IP} --name api.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 60 --type A --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${CLUSTER_IP} --name api-int.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 60 --type A --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone
For an external cluster, also add the external DNS entries:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${CLUSTER_PUBLIC_IP} --name api.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 60 --type A --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME}
1.9.8.1. Deployment Manager template for the private DNS
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the private DNS that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.22. 02_dns.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-private-zone', 'type': 'dns.v1.managedZone', 'properties': { 'description': '', 'dnsName': context.properties['cluster_domain'] + '.', 'visibility': 'private', 'privateVisibilityConfig': { 'networks': [{ 'networkUrl': context.properties['cluster_network'] }] } } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.9.9. Creating firewall rules in GCP
You must create firewall rules in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use. One way to create these components is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your GCP infrastructure, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for firewall rules section of this topic and save it as
03_firewall.py
on your computer. This template describes the security groups that your cluster requires. Create a
03_firewall.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >03_firewall.yaml imports: - path: 03_firewall.py resources: - name: cluster-firewall type: 03_firewall.py properties: allowed_external_cidr: '0.0.0.0/0' 1 infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 2 cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' 3 network_cidr: '${NETWORK_CIDR}' 4 EOF
- 1
allowed_external_cidr
is the CIDR range that can access the cluster API and SSH to the bootstrap host. For an internal cluster, set this value to${NETWORK_CIDR}
.- 2
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 3
cluster_network
is theselfLink
URL to the cluster network.- 4
network_cidr
is the CIDR of the VPC network, for example10.0.0.0/16
.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-firewall --config 03_firewall.yaml
1.9.9.1. Deployment Manager template for firewall rules
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the firewall rues that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.23. 03_firewall.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-in-ssh', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['22'] }], 'sourceRanges': [context.properties['allowed_external_cidr']], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-api', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['6443'] }], 'sourceRanges': [context.properties['allowed_external_cidr']], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-health-checks', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['6080', '6443', '22624'] }], 'sourceRanges': ['35.191.0.0/16', '130.211.0.0/22', '209.85.152.0/22', '209.85.204.0/22'], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-etcd', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['2379-2380'] }], 'sourceTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-control-plane', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['10257'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['10259'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['22623'] }], 'sourceTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ], 'targetTags': [context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-internal-network', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'icmp' },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['22'] }], 'sourceRanges': [context.properties['network_cidr']], 'targetTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-internal-cluster', 'type': 'compute.v1.firewall', 'properties': { 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'allowed': [{ 'IPProtocol': 'udp', 'ports': ['4789', '6081'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['9000-9999'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'udp', 'ports': ['9000-9999'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['10250'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'tcp', 'ports': ['30000-32767'] },{ 'IPProtocol': 'udp', 'ports': ['30000-32767'] }], 'sourceTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ], 'targetTags': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker' ] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.9.11. Creating the RHCOS cluster image for the GCP infrastructure
You must use a valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your OpenShift Container Platform nodes.
Procedure
Obtain the RHCOS image from the RHCOS image mirror page.
ImportantThe RHCOS images might not change with every release of OpenShift Container Platform. You must download an image with the highest version that is less than or equal to the OpenShift Container Platform version that you install. Use the image version that matches your OpenShift Container Platform version if it is available.
The file name contains the OpenShift Container Platform version number in the format
rhcos-<version>-<arch>-gcp.<arch>.tar.gz
.Create the Google storage bucket:
$ gsutil mb gs://<bucket_name>
Upload the RHCOS image to the Google storage bucket:
$ gsutil cp <downloaded_image_file_path>/rhcos-<version>-x86_64-gcp.x86_64.tar.gz gs://<bucket_name>
Export the uploaded RHCOS image location as a variable:
$ export IMAGE_SOURCE=`gs://<bucket_name>/rhcos-<version>-x86_64-gcp.x86_64.tar.gz`
Create the cluster image:
$ gcloud compute images create "${INFRA_ID}-rhcos-image" \ --source-uri="${IMAGE_SOURCE}"
1.9.12. Creating the bootstrap machine in GCP
You must create the bootstrap machine in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to use during OpenShift Container Platform cluster initialization. One way to create this machine is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your bootstrap machine, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Ensure pyOpenSSL is installed.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for the bootstrap machine section of this topic and save it as
04_bootstrap.py
on your computer. This template describes the bootstrap machine that your cluster requires. Export the location of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) image that the installation program requires:
$ export CLUSTER_IMAGE=(`gcloud compute images describe ${INFRA_ID}-rhcos-image --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Create a bucket and upload the
bootstrap.ign
file:$ gsutil mb gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition $ gsutil cp <installation_directory>/bootstrap.ign gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition/
Create a signed URL for the bootstrap instance to use to access the Ignition config. Export the URL from the output as a variable:
$ export BOOTSTRAP_IGN=`gsutil signurl -d 1h service-account-key.json gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition/bootstrap.ign | grep "^gs:" | awk '{print $5}'`
Create a
04_bootstrap.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >04_bootstrap.yaml imports: - path: 04_bootstrap.py resources: - name: cluster-bootstrap type: 04_bootstrap.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 region: '${REGION}' 2 zone: '${ZONE_0}' 3 cluster_network: '${CLUSTER_NETWORK}' 4 control_subnet: '${CONTROL_SUBNET}' 5 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 6 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 7 root_volume_size: '128' 8 bootstrap_ign: '${BOOTSTRAP_IGN}' 9 EOF
- 1
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 2
region
is the region to deploy the cluster into, for exampleus-central1
.- 3
zone
is the zone to deploy the bootstrap instance into, for exampleus-central1-b
.- 4
cluster_network
is theselfLink
URL to the cluster network.- 5
control_subnet
is theselfLink
URL to the control subnet.- 6
image
is theselfLink
URL to the RHCOS image.- 7
machine_type
is the machine type of the instance, for examplen1-standard-4
.- 8
root_volume_size
is the boot disk size for the bootstrap machine.- 9
bootstrap_ign
is the URL output when creating a signed URL.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap --config 04_bootstrap.yaml
The templates do not manage load balancer membership due to limitations of Deployment Manager, so you must add the bootstrap machine manually.
Add the bootstrap instance to the internal load balancer instance group:
$ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances \ ${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_0} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap
Add the bootstrap instance group to the internal load balancer backend service:
$ gcloud compute backend-services add-backend \ ${INFRA_ID}-api-internal-backend-service --region=${REGION} --instance-group=${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-instance-group --instance-group-zone=${ZONE_0}
1.9.12.1. Deployment Manager template for the bootstrap machine
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the bootstrap machine that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.25. 04_bootstrap.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-public-ip', 'type': 'compute.v1.address', 'properties': { 'region': context.properties['region'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zone'] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': '{"ignition":{"config":{"replace":{"source":"' + context.properties['bootstrap_ign'] + '","verification":{}}},"timeouts":{},"version":"2.1.0"},"networkd":{},"passwd":{},"storage":{},"systemd":{}}', }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'], 'accessConfigs': [{ 'natIP': '$(ref.' + context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-public-ip.address)' }] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap' ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zone'] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-bootstrap-instance-group', 'type': 'compute.v1.instanceGroup', 'properties': { 'namedPorts': [ { 'name': 'ignition', 'port': 22623 }, { 'name': 'https', 'port': 6443 } ], 'network': context.properties['cluster_network'], 'zone': context.properties['zone'] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.9.13. Creating the control plane machines in GCP
You must create the control plane machines in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your cluster to use. One way to create these machines is to modify the provided Deployment Manager template.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your control plane machines, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for control plane machines section of this topic and save it as
05_control_plane.py
on your computer. This template describes the control plane machines that your cluster requires. Export the following variable required by the resource definition:
$ export MASTER_IGNITION=`cat <installation_directory>/master.ign`
Create a
05_control_plane.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >05_control_plane.yaml imports: - path: 05_control_plane.py resources: - name: cluster-control-plane type: 05_control_plane.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 1 zones: 2 - '${ZONE_0}' - '${ZONE_1}' - '${ZONE_2}' control_subnet: '${CONTROL_SUBNET}' 3 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 4 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 5 root_volume_size: '128' service_account_email: '${MASTER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}' 6 ignition: '${MASTER_IGNITION}' 7 EOF
- 1
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 2
zones
are the zones to deploy the control plane instances into, for exampleus-central1-a
,us-central1-b
, andus-central1-c
.- 3
control_subnet
is theselfLink
URL to the control subnet.- 4
image
is theselfLink
URL to the RHCOS image.- 5
machine_type
is the machine type of the instance, for examplen1-standard-4
.- 6
service_account_email
is the email address for the master service account that you created.- 7
ignition
is the contents of themaster.ign
file.
Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-control-plane --config 05_control_plane.yaml
The templates do not manage load balancer membership due to limitations of Deployment Manager, so you must add the control plane machines manually.
Run the following commands to add the control plane machines to the appropriate instance groups:
$ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-master-${ZONE_0}-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_0} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-0 $ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-master-${ZONE_1}-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_1} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-1 $ gcloud compute instance-groups unmanaged add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-master-${ZONE_2}-instance-group --zone=${ZONE_2} --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-2
For an external cluster, you must also run the following commands to add the control plane machines to the target pools:
$ gcloud compute target-pools add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-api-target-pool --instances-zone="${ZONE_0}" --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-0 $ gcloud compute target-pools add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-api-target-pool --instances-zone="${ZONE_1}" --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-1 $ gcloud compute target-pools add-instances ${INFRA_ID}-api-target-pool --instances-zone="${ZONE_2}" --instances=${INFRA_ID}-m-2
1.9.13.1. Deployment Manager template for control plane machines
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the control plane machines that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.26. 05_control_plane.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-m-0', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'diskType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][0] + '/diskTypes/pd-ssd', 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][0] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zones'][0] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-m-1', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'diskType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][1] + '/diskTypes/pd-ssd', 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][1] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zones'][1] } }, { 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-m-2', 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'diskType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][2] + '/diskTypes/pd-ssd', 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zones'][2] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['control_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-master', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zones'][2] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.9.14. Wait for bootstrap completion and remove bootstrap resources in GCP
After you create all of the required infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), wait for the bootstrap process to complete on the machines that you provisioned by using the Ignition config files that you generated with the installation program.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
- Create the control plane machines.
Procedure
Change to the directory that contains the installation program and run the following command:
$ ./openshift-install wait-for bootstrap-complete --dir=<installation_directory> \ 1 --log-level info 2
If the command exits without a
FATAL
warning, your production control plane has initialized.Delete the bootstrap resources:
$ gcloud compute backend-services remove-backend ${INFRA_ID}-api-internal-backend-service --region=${REGION} --instance-group=${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-instance-group --instance-group-zone=${ZONE_0} $ gsutil rm gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition/bootstrap.ign $ gsutil rb gs://${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap-ignition $ gcloud deployment-manager deployments delete ${INFRA_ID}-bootstrap
1.9.15. Creating additional worker machines in GCP
You can create worker machines in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for your cluster to use by launching individual instances discretely or by automated processes outside the cluster, such as auto scaling groups. You can also take advantage of the built-in cluster scaling mechanisms and the machine API in OpenShift Container Platform.
In this example, you manually launch one instance by using the Deployment Manager template. Additional instances can be launched by including additional resources of type 06_worker.py
in the file.
If you do not use the provided Deployment Manager template to create your worker machines, you must review the provided information and manually create the infrastructure. If your cluster does not initialize correctly, you might have to contact Red Hat support with your installation logs.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Generate the Ignition config files for your cluster.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
- Create the control plane machines.
Procedure
-
Copy the template from the Deployment Manager template for worker machines section of this topic and save it as
06_worker.py
on your computer. This template describes the worker machines that your cluster requires. Export the variables that the resource definition uses.
Export the subnet that hosts the compute machines:
$ export COMPUTE_SUBNET=(`gcloud compute networks subnets describe ${INFRA_ID}-worker-subnet --region=${REGION} --format json | jq -r .selfLink`)
Export the email address for your service account:
$ export WORKER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=(`gcloud iam service-accounts list --filter "email~^${INFRA_ID}-w@${PROJECT_NAME}." --format json | jq -r '.[0].email'`)
Export the location of the compute machine Ignition config file:
$ export WORKER_IGNITION=`cat <installation_directory>/worker.ign`
Create a
06_worker.yaml
resource definition file:$ cat <<EOF >06_worker.yaml imports: - path: 06_worker.py resources: - name: 'worker-0' 1 type: 06_worker.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 2 zone: '${ZONE_0}' 3 compute_subnet: '${COMPUTE_SUBNET}' 4 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 5 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 6 root_volume_size: '128' service_account_email: '${WORKER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}' 7 ignition: '${WORKER_IGNITION}' 8 - name: 'worker-1' type: 06_worker.py properties: infra_id: '${INFRA_ID}' 9 zone: '${ZONE_1}' 10 compute_subnet: '${COMPUTE_SUBNET}' 11 image: '${CLUSTER_IMAGE}' 12 machine_type: 'n1-standard-4' 13 root_volume_size: '128' service_account_email: '${WORKER_SERVICE_ACCOUNT}' 14 ignition: '${WORKER_IGNITION}' 15 EOF
- 1
name
is the name of the worker machine, for exampleworker-0
.- 2 9
infra_id
is theINFRA_ID
infrastructure name from the extraction step.- 3 10
zone
is the zone to deploy the worker machine into, for exampleus-central1-a
.- 4 11
compute_subnet
is theselfLink
URL to the compute subnet.- 5 12
image
is theselfLink
URL to the RHCOS image.- 6 13
machine_type
is the machine type of the instance, for examplen1-standard-4
.- 7 14
service_account_email
is the email address for the worker service account that you created.- 8 15
ignition
is the contents of theworker.ign
file.
-
Optional: If you want to launch additional instances, include additional resources of type
06_worker.py
in your06_worker.yaml
resource definition file. Create the deployment by using the
gcloud
CLI:$ gcloud deployment-manager deployments create ${INFRA_ID}-worker --config 06_worker.yaml
1.9.15.1. Deployment Manager template for worker machines
You can use the following Deployment Manager template to deploy the worker machines that you need for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster:
Example 1.27. 06_worker.py
Deployment Manager template
def GenerateConfig(context): resources = [{ 'name': context.properties['infra_id'] + '-' + context.env['name'], 'type': 'compute.v1.instance', 'properties': { 'disks': [{ 'autoDelete': True, 'boot': True, 'initializeParams': { 'diskSizeGb': context.properties['root_volume_size'], 'sourceImage': context.properties['image'] } }], 'machineType': 'zones/' + context.properties['zone'] + '/machineTypes/' + context.properties['machine_type'], 'metadata': { 'items': [{ 'key': 'user-data', 'value': context.properties['ignition'] }] }, 'networkInterfaces': [{ 'subnetwork': context.properties['compute_subnet'] }], 'serviceAccounts': [{ 'email': context.properties['service_account_email'], 'scopes': ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform'] }], 'tags': { 'items': [ context.properties['infra_id'] + '-worker', ] }, 'zone': context.properties['zone'] } }] return {'resources': resources}
1.9.16. Logging in to the cluster
You can log in to your cluster as a default system user by exporting the cluster kubeconfig
file. The kubeconfig
file contains information about the cluster that is used by the CLI to connect a client to the correct cluster and API server. The file is specific to a cluster and is created during OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Prerequisites
- Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
-
Install the
oc
CLI.
Procedure
Export the
kubeadmin
credentials:$ export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
Verify you can run
oc
commands successfully using the exported configuration:$ oc whoami
Example output
system:admin
1.9.17. 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
Confirm that the cluster recognizes the machines:
$ oc get nodes
Example output
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 63m v1.18.3 master-1 Ready master 63m v1.18.3 master-2 Ready master 64m v1.18.3 worker-0 NotReady worker 76s v1.18.3 worker-1 NotReady worker 70s v1.18.3
The output lists all of the machines that you created.
Review the pending CSRs and ensure that you see the client requests with the
Pending
orApproved
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.
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:NoteBecause the CSRs rotate automatically, approve your CSRs within an hour of adding the machines to the cluster. If you do not approve them within an hour, the certificates will rotate, and more than two certificates will be present for each node. You must approve all of these certificates. Once the client CSR is approved, the Kubelet creates a secondary CSR for the serving certificate, which requires manual approval. Then, subsequent serving certificate renewal requests are automatically approved by the
machine-approver
if the Kubelet requests a new certificate with identical parameters.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
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 ...
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
After all client and server CSRs have been approved, the machines have the
Ready
status. Verify this by running the following command:$ oc get nodes
Example output
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 74m v1.20.0 worker-0 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0 worker-1 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0
NoteIt 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.
1.9.18. Optional: Adding the ingress DNS records
If you removed the DNS zone configuration when creating Kubernetes manifests and generating Ignition configs, you must manually create DNS records that point at the ingress load balancer. You can create either a wildcard *.apps.{baseDomain}.
or specific records. You can use A, CNAME, and other records per your requirements.
Prerequisites
- Configure a GCP account.
- Remove the DNS Zone configuration when creating Kubernetes manifests and generating Ignition configs.
- Create and configure a VPC and associated subnets in GCP.
- Create and configure networking and load balancers in GCP.
- Create control plane and compute roles.
- Create the bootstrap machine.
- Create the control plane machines.
- Create the worker machines.
Procedure
Wait for the Ingress router to create a load balancer and populate the
EXTERNAL-IP
field:$ oc -n openshift-ingress get service router-default
Example output
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE router-default LoadBalancer 172.30.18.154 35.233.157.184 80:32288/TCP,443:31215/TCP 98
Add the A record to your zones:
To use A records:
Export the variable for the router IP address:
$ export ROUTER_IP=`oc -n openshift-ingress get service router-default --no-headers | awk '{print $4}'`
Add the A record to the private zones:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${ROUTER_IP} --name \*.apps.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 300 --type A --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${INFRA_ID}-private-zone
For an external cluster, also add the A record to the public zones:
$ if [ -f transaction.yaml ]; then rm transaction.yaml; fi $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction add ${ROUTER_IP} --name \*.apps.${CLUSTER_NAME}.${BASE_DOMAIN}. --ttl 300 --type A --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME} $ gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone ${BASE_DOMAIN_ZONE_NAME}
To add explicit domains instead of using a wildcard, create entries for each of the cluster’s current routes:
$ oc get --all-namespaces -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{range .status.ingress[*]}{.host}{"\n"}{end}{end}' routes
Example output
oauth-openshift.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com console-openshift-console.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com downloads-openshift-console.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com alertmanager-main-openshift-monitoring.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com grafana-openshift-monitoring.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com prometheus-k8s-openshift-monitoring.apps.your.cluster.domain.example.com
1.9.19. Completing a GCP installation on user-provisioned infrastructure
After you start the OpenShift Container Platform installation on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) user-provisioned infrastructure, you can monitor the cluster events until the cluster is ready.
Prerequisites
- Deploy the bootstrap machine for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster on user-provisioned GCP infrastructure.
-
Install the
oc
CLI and log in.
Procedure
Complete the cluster installation:
$ ./openshift-install --dir=<installation_directory> wait-for install-complete 1
Example output
INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the cluster to initialize...
- 1
- For
<installation_directory>
, specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in.
ImportantThe 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.Observe the running state of your cluster.
Run the following command to view the current cluster version and status:
$ oc get clusterversion
Example output
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING SINCE STATUS version False True 24m Working towards 4.5.4: 99% complete
Run the following command to view the Operators managed on the control plane by the Cluster Version Operator (CVO):
$ oc get clusteroperators
Example output
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.5.4 True False False 7m56s cloud-credential 4.5.4 True False False 31m cluster-autoscaler 4.5.4 True False False 16m console 4.5.4 True False False 10m csi-snapshot-controller 4.5.4 True False False 16m dns 4.5.4 True False False 22m etcd 4.5.4 False False False 25s image-registry 4.5.4 True False False 16m ingress 4.5.4 True False False 16m insights 4.5.4 True False False 17m kube-apiserver 4.5.4 True False False 19m kube-controller-manager 4.5.4 True False False 20m kube-scheduler 4.5.4 True False False 20m kube-storage-version-migrator 4.5.4 True False False 16m machine-api 4.5.4 True False False 22m machine-config 4.5.4 True False False 22m marketplace 4.5.4 True False False 16m monitoring 4.5.4 True False False 10m network 4.5.4 True False False 23m node-tuning 4.5.4 True False False 23m openshift-apiserver 4.5.4 True False False 17m openshift-controller-manager 4.5.4 True False False 15m openshift-samples 4.5.4 True False False 16m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.5.4 True False False 22m operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.5.4 True False False 22m operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.5.4 True False False 18m service-ca 4.5.4 True False False 23m service-catalog-apiserver 4.5.4 True False False 23m service-catalog-controller-manager 4.5.4 True False False 23m storage 4.5.4 True False False 17m
Run the following command to view your cluster pods:
$ oc get pods --all-namespaces
Example output
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE kube-system etcd-member-ip-10-0-3-111.us-east-2.compute.internal 1/1 Running 0 35m kube-system etcd-member-ip-10-0-3-239.us-east-2.compute.internal 1/1 Running 0 37m kube-system etcd-member-ip-10-0-3-24.us-east-2.compute.internal 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-apiserver-operator openshift-apiserver-operator-6d6674f4f4-h7t2t 1/1 Running 1 37m openshift-apiserver apiserver-fm48r 1/1 Running 0 30m openshift-apiserver apiserver-fxkvv 1/1 Running 0 29m openshift-apiserver apiserver-q85nm 1/1 Running 0 29m ... openshift-service-ca-operator openshift-service-ca-operator-66ff6dc6cd-9r257 1/1 Running 0 37m openshift-service-ca apiservice-cabundle-injector-695b6bcbc-cl5hm 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-service-ca configmap-cabundle-injector-8498544d7-25qn6 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-service-ca service-serving-cert-signer-6445fc9c6-wqdqn 1/1 Running 0 35m openshift-service-catalog-apiserver-operator openshift-service-catalog-apiserver-operator-549f44668b-b5q2w 1/1 Running 0 32m openshift-service-catalog-controller-manager-operator openshift-service-catalog-controller-manager-operator-b78cr2lnm 1/1 Running 0 31m
When the current cluster version is
AVAILABLE
, the installation is complete.
1.9.20. Next steps
- Customize your cluster.
-
Configure image streams for the Cluster Samples Operator and the
must-gather
tool. - Learn how to use Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) on restricted networks.
- If the mirror registry that you used to install your cluster has a trusted CA, add it to the cluster by configuring additional trust stores.
- If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.
1.10. Uninstalling a cluster on GCP
You can remove a cluster that you deployed to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
1.10.1. Removing a cluster that uses installer-provisioned infrastructure
You can remove a cluster that uses installer-provisioned infrastructure from your cloud.
After uninstallation, check your cloud provider for any resources not removed properly, especially with User Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI) clusters. There might be resources that the installer did not create or that the installer is unable to access. For example, some Google Cloud resources require IAM permissions in shared VPC host projects, or there might be unused health checks that must be deleted.
Prerequisites
- Have a copy of the installation program that you used to deploy the cluster.
- Have the files that the installation program generated when you created your cluster.
Procedure
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
NoteYou 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.-
Optional: Delete the
<installation_directory>
directory and the OpenShift Container Platform installation program.