Chapter 14. Managing bare metal hosts

Procedure

1. In the web console, navigate to Compute Bare Metal Hosts.
2. Select Add Host New with Dialog.
3. Specify a unique name for the new bare metal host.
4. Set the Boot MAC address.
5. Set the Baseboard Management Console (BMC) Address.
6. Optionally, enable power management for the host. This allows OpenShift Container Platform to control the power state of the host.
7. Enter the user credentials for the host’s baseboard management controller (BMC).
8. Select to power on the host after creation, and select Create.
9. Scale up the number of replicas to match the number of available bare metal hosts. Navigate to Compute MachineSets, and increase the number of machine replicas in the cluster by selecting Edit Machine count from the Actions drop-down menu.

Procedure

1. In the web console, navigate to Compute Bare Metal Hosts.
2. Select Add Host New from YAML.

3. Copy and paste the below YAML, modifying the relevant fields with the details of your host:

   apiVersion: metal3.io/v1alpha1
   kind: BareMetalHost
   metadata:
     name: <bare_metal_host_name>
   spec:
     online: true
     bmc:
       address: <bmc_address>
       credentialsName: <secret_credentials_name>  1
       disableCertificateVerification: True
     bootMACAddress: <host_boot_mac_address>
     hardwareProfile: unknown

   1

   credentialsName must reference a valid Secret CR. The baremetal-operator cannot manage the bare metal host without a valid Secret referenced in the credentialsName. For more information about secrets and how to create them, see Understanding secrets.

4. Select Create to save the YAML and create the new bare metal host.

5. Scale up the number of replicas to match the number of available bare metal hosts. Navigate to Compute MachineSets, and increase the number of machines in the cluster by selecting Edit Machine count from the Actions drop-down menu.

   Note

   You can also manage the number of bare metal nodes using the oc scale command and the appropriate bare metal machine set.

Procedure

1. Annotate the machine set that you want to configure for automatic scaling by adding the metal3.io/autoscale-to-hosts annotation. Replace <machineset> with the name of the machine set.

   $ oc annotate machineset <machineset> -n openshift-machine-api 'metal3.io/autoscale-to-hosts=<any_value>'

   Wait for the new scaled machines to start.