Chapter 6. Advanced configuration

If you plan to import Kubernetes clusters that were not created by OpenShift Container Platform or the multicluster engine for Kubernetes operator, generate a secret that contains your OpenShift Container Platform pull secret information to access the entitled content from the distribution registry.

The secret requirements for OpenShift Container Platform clusters are automatically resolved by OpenShift Container Platform and multicluster engine for Kubernetes, so you do not have to create the secret if you are not importing other types of Kubernetes clusters to be managed.

Important: These secrets are namespace-specific, so make sure that you are in the namespace that you use for your engine.

The following example displays the spec.imagePullSecret template to use if you want to use a custom pull secret. Replace secret with the name of your pull secret:

apiVersion: multicluster.openshift.io/v1
kind: MultiClusterEngine
metadata:
  name: multiclusterengine
spec:
  imagePullSecret: <secret>

The operands can be installed in a designated namespace by specifying a location in the MultiClusterEngine custom resource. This namespace is created upon application of the MultiClusterEngine custom resource.

Important: If no target namespace is specified, the operator will install to the multicluster-engine namespace and will set it in the MultiClusterEngine custom resource specification.

The following example displays the spec.targetNamespace template that you can use to specify a target namespace. Replace target with the name of your destination namespace. Note: The target namespace cannot be the default namespace:

apiVersion: multicluster.openshift.io/v1
kind: MultiClusterEngine
metadata:
  name: multiclusterengine
spec:
  targetNamespace: <target>

The Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management hub cluster has two availabilities: High and Basic. By default, the hub cluster has an availability of High, which gives hub cluster components a replicaCount of 2. This provides better support in cases of failover but consumes more resources than the Basic availability, which gives components a replicaCount of 1.

The following examples shows the spec.availabilityConfig template with Basic availability:

apiVersion: multicluster.openshift.io/v1
kind: MultiClusterEngine
metadata:
  name: multiclusterengine
spec:
  availabilityConfig: "Basic"

You can define a set of node selectors in the MultiClusterEngine to install to specific nodes on your cluster. The following example shows spec.nodeSelector to assign Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management pods to nodes with the label node-role.kubernetes.io/infra:

spec:
  nodeSelector:
    node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""

You can define a list of tolerations to allow the MultiClusterEngine to tolerate specific taints defined on the cluster. The following example shows a spec.tolerations that matches a node-role.kubernetes.io/infra taint:

spec:
  tolerations:
  - key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra
    effect: NoSchedule
    operator: Exists

The previous infra-node toleration is set on pods by default without specifying any tolerations in the configuration. Customizing tolerations in the configuration will replace this default behavior.

By default, the Managed-ServiceAccount add-on is disabled. This component when enabled allows you to create or delete a service account on a managed cluster. To install with this add-on enabled, include the following in the MultiClusterEngine specification in spec.overrides:

apiVersion: multicluster.openshift.io/v1
kind: MultiClusterEngine
metadata:
  name: multiclusterengine
spec:
  overrides:
    components:
    - name: managedserviceaccount-preview
      enabled: true

The Managed-ServiceAccount add-on can be enabled after creating MultiClusterEngine by editing the resource on the command line and setting the managedserviceaccount-preview component to enabled: true. Alternatively, you can run the following command and replace <multiclusterengine-name> with the name of your MultiClusterEngine resource.

oc patch MultiClusterEngine <multiclusterengine-name> --type=json -p='[{"op": "add", "path": "/spec/overrides/components/-","value":{"name":"managedserviceaccount-preview","enabled":true}}]'

See Enabling ManagedServiceAccount add-ons to enable.

By default, the Hypershift add-on is disabled. To install with this add-on enabled, include the following in the MultiClusterEngine values in spec.overrides:

apiVersion: multicluster.openshift.io/v1
kind: MultiClusterEngine
metadata:
  name: multiclusterengine
spec:
  overrides:
    components:
    - name: hypershift-preview
      enabled: true

The Hypershift add-on can be enabled after creating MultiClusterEngine by editing the resource on the command line, setting the hypershift-preview component to enabled: true. Alternatively, you can run the following command and replace <multiclusterengine-name> with the name of your MultiClusterEngine resource:

oc patch MultiClusterEngine <multiclusterengine-name> --type=json -p='[{"op": "add", "path": "/spec/overrides/components/-","value":{"name":"hypershift-preview","enabled":true}}]'