Clusters

When you remove the VolSync ManagedClusterAddOn from the hub cluster, it removes the VolSync operator subscription on the managed cluster but does not remove the cluster service version (CSV). To remove the CSV from the managed clusters, run the following command on each managed cluster from which you are removing VolSync:

oc delete csv -n openshift-operators volsync-product.v0.6.0

If you have a different version of VolSync installed, replace v0.6.0 with your installed version.

After you delete a ManagedClusterSet, the label that is added to each managed cluster that associates the cluster to the cluster set is not automatically removed. Manually remove the label from each of the managed clusters that were included in the deleted managed cluster set. The label resembles the following example: cluster.open-cluster-management.io/clusterset:<ManagedClusterSet Name>.

If you create a Hive ClusterClaim against a ClusterPool and manually set the ClusterClaimspec lifetime field to an invalid golang time value, the product stops fulfilling and reconciling all ClusterClaims, not just the malformed claim.

If this error occurs. you see the following content in the clusterclaim-controller pod logs, which is a specific example with the pool name and invalid lifetime included:

E0203 07:10:38.266841       1 reflector.go:138] sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/cache/internal/informers_map.go:224: Failed to watch *v1.ClusterClaim: failed to list *v1.ClusterClaim: v1.ClusterClaimList.Items: []v1.ClusterClaim: v1.ClusterClaim.v1.ClusterClaim.Spec: v1.ClusterClaimSpec.Lifetime: unmarshalerDecoder: time: unknown unit "w" in duration "1w", error found in #10 byte of ...|time":"1w"}},{"apiVe|..., bigger context ...|clusterPoolName":"policy-aas-hubs","lifetime":"1w"}},{"apiVersion":"hive.openshift.io/v1","kind":"Cl|...

You can delete the invalid claim.

If the malformed claim is deleted, claims begin successfully reconciling again without any further interaction.

The clusterimageset is in fast channel, but the provisioned cluster is in stable channel. Currently the product does not sync the channel to the provisioned OpenShift Container Platform cluster.

Change to the right channel in the OpenShift Container Platform console. Click Administration > Cluster Settings > Details Channel.

After you restore the backup of a hub cluster that managed a cluster with custom CA certificates, the connection between the managed cluster and the hub cluster might fail. This is because the CA certificate was not backed up on the restored hub cluster. To restore the connection, copy the custom CA certificate information that is in the namespace of your managed cluster to the <managed_cluster>-admin-kubeconfig secret on the restored hub cluster.

Tip: If you copy this CA certificate to the hub cluster before creating the backup copy, the backup copy includes the secret information. When the backup copy is used to restore in the future, the connection between the hub and managed clusters will automatically complete.

If the local-cluster is deleted while disableHubSelfManagement is set to false, the local-cluster is recreated by the MulticlusterHub operator. After you detach a local-cluster, the local-cluster might not be automatically recreated.

When you create an on-premises cluster using the console, you must select an available subnet for your cluster. It is not marked as a required field.

When creating OpenShift Container Platform clusters using the Infrastructure Operator, the file name of the ISO image might be too long. The long image name causes the image provisioning and the cluster provisioning to fail. To determine if this is the problem, complete the following steps:

If this problem occurs, it is typically on the following versions of OpenShift Container Platform, because the infrastructure operator was not using image service:

To avoid this error, upgrade your OpenShift Container Platform to version 4.8.18 or later, or 4.9.7 or later.

When you accidentally try to reimport the cluster named local-cluster as a cluster with a different name, the status for local-cluster and for the reimported cluster display offline.

To recover from this case, complete the following steps:

An Automation template that is configured to automatically provision a managed cluster might fail when both of the following conditions are met:

If you import a managed cluster by installing the klusterlet operator, the version of the klusterlet operator must be the same as the version of the hub cluster or the klusterlet operator will not work.

You cannot delete the namespace of a managed cluster manually. The managed cluster namespace is automatically deleted after the managed cluster is detached. If you delete the managed cluster namespace manually before the managed cluster is detached, the managed cluster shows a continuous terminating status after you delete the managed cluster. To delete this terminating managed cluster, manually remove the finalizers from the managed cluster that you detached.

Hub cluster and manage cluster time might become out-of-sync, displaying in the console unknown and eventually available within a few minutes. Ensure that the OpenShift Container Platform hub cluster time is configured correctly. See Customizing nodes.

You cannot import IBM OpenShift Container Platform Kubernetes Service version 3.11 clusters. Later versions of IBM OpenShift Kubernetes Service are supported.

When you change your cloud provider access key on the cloud provider side, you also need to update the corresponding credential for this cloud provider on the console of multicluster engine operator. This is required when your credentials expire on the cloud provider where the managed cluster is hosted and you try to delete the managed cluster.

Search maps RBAC for resources in the hub cluster. Depending on user RBAC settings, users might not see node data from the managed cluster. Results from search might be different from what is displayed on the Nodes page for a cluster.

When you destroy a managed cluster, the status continues to display Destroying after one hour, and the cluster is not destroyed. To resolve this issue complete the following steps:

You cannot use the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management console to upgrade OpenShift Container Platform managed clusters that are in the OpenShift Container Platform Dedicated environment.

The search details page for a certain resource on a certain managed cluster might fail. You must ensure that the work-manager add-on in the managed cluster is in Available status before you can search.

Both Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and non-OpenShift Container Platform clusters support the pod log feature, however non-OpenShift Container Platform clusters require LoadBalancer to be enabled to use the feature. Complete the following steps to enable LoadBalancer:

For more information about the LoadBalancer types, see the Service page in the Kubernetes documentation.

When you create a hosting service cluster with a cluster-wide proxy configuration on OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.z, the nodeip-configuration.service service does not start on the worker nodes.

Provisioning an OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 cluster on Azure fails due to an authentication operator timeout error. To work around the issue, use a different worker node type in the install-config.yaml file or set the vmNetworkingType parameter to Basic. See the following install-config.yaml example:

compute:
- hyperthreading: Enabled
  name: 'worker'
  replicas: 3
  platform:
    azure:
      type:  Standard_D2s_v3
      osDisk:
        diskSizeGB: 128
      vmNetworkingType: 'Basic'

iPXE is an open source network boot firmware. See iPXE for more details.

When booting a node, the URL length limitation in some DHCP servers cuts off the ipxeScript URL in the InfraEnv custom resource definition, resulting in the following error message in the console:

no bootable devices

To work around the issue, complete the following steps:

If you are using the removed BareMetalAssets API in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.6, the ClusterDeployment cannot be deleted after upgrading to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.7 because the BareMetalAssets API is bound to the ClusterDeployment.

To work around the issue, run the following command to remove the finalizers before upgrading to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.7:

oc patch clusterdeployment <clusterdeployment-name> -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}' --type=merge

When you deploy a cluster in a disconnected environment by using the central infrastructure management service, the cluster nodes might not start installing.

This issue occurs because the cluster uses a discovery ISO image that is created from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS live ISO image that is shipped with OpenShift Container Platform versions 4.12.0 through 4.12.2. The image contains a restrictive /etc/containers/policy.json file that requires signatures for images sourcing from registry.redhat.io and registry.access.redhat.com. In a disconnected environment, the images that are mirrored might not have the signatures mirrored, which results in the image pull failing for cluster nodes at discovery. The Agent image fails to connect with the cluster nodes, which causes communication with the assisted service to fail.

To work around this issue, apply an ignition override to the cluster that sets the /etc/containers/policy.json file to unrestrictive. The ignition override can be set in the InfraEnv custom resource definition. The following example shows an InfraEnv custom resource definition with the override:

apiVersion: agent-install.openshift.io/v1beta1
kind: InfraEnv
metadata:
  name: cluster
  namespace: cluster
spec:
  ignitionConfigOverride: '{"ignition":{"version":"3.2.0"},"storage":{"files":[{"path":"/etc/containers/policy.json","mode":420,"overwrite":true,"contents":{"source":"data:text/plain;charset=utf-8;base64,ewogICAgImRlZmF1bHQiOiBbCiAgICAgICAgewogICAgICAgICAgICAidHlwZSI6ICJpbnNlY3VyZUFjY2VwdEFueXRoaW5nIgogICAgICAgIH0KICAgIF0sCiAgICAidHJhbnNwb3J0cyI6CiAgICAgICAgewogICAgICAgICAgICAiZG9ja2VyLWRhZW1vbiI6CiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICB7CiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIiI6IFt7InR5cGUiOiJpbnNlY3VyZUFjY2VwdEFueXRoaW5nIn1dCiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICB9CiAgICAgICAgfQp9"}}]}}'

The following example shows the unrestrictive file that is created:

{
    "default": [
        {
            "type": "insecureAcceptAnything"
        }
    ],
    "transports": {
        "docker-daemon": {
        "": [
        {
            "type": "insecureAcceptAnything"
        }
        ]
    }
    }
}

After this setting is changed, the clusters install.

If the Assisted Installer agent starts slowly and you deploy a managed cluster, the managed cluster might become stuck in the Pending status and not have any agent resources. You can work around the issue by disabling converged flow. Complete the following steps:

The following limitations occur if the hub cluster is not able to reach or communicate with the managed cluster:

You can specify a custom ingress domain by using the ClusterDeployment resource while installing a managed cluster, but the change is only applied after the installation by using the SyncSet resource. As a result, the spec field in the clusterdeployment.yaml file displays the custom ingress domain you specified, but the status still displays the default domain.

If the annotation and ManagedCluster name do not match, the console displays the cluster as Pending import. The cluster cannot be used by the multicluster engine operator. The same issue happens when there is no annotation and the ManagedCluster name does not match the Infra-ID value of the HostedCluster resource."

When you use the console to add a new node pool to an existing hosted cluster, the same version of OpenShift Container Platform might appear more than once in the list of options. You can select any instance in the list for the version that you want.

The selectorType: LaberSelector setting is not supported when using the ManagedClusterSet API. The selectorType: ExclusiveClusterSetLabel setting is supported.

Important:

RBAC is validated at the console level and at the API level. Actions in the console can be enabled or disabled based on user access role permissions. View the following sections for more information on RBAC for specific lifecycles in the product.

View the following cluster pool RBAC operations:

View the following console and API RBAC tables for cluster lifecycle:

The access to credentials is controlled by Kubernetes. Credentials are stored and secured as Kubernetes secrets. The following permissions apply to accessing secrets in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes:

Follow the procedures that are described in Creating infrastructure machine sets in the OpenShift Container Platform documentation. Infrastructure nodes are configured with a Kubernetes taint and label to keep non-management workloads from running on them.

To be compatible with the infrastructure node enablement provided by multicluster engine operator, ensure your infrastructure nodes have the following taint and label applied:

metadata:
  labels:
    node-role.kubernetes.io/infra: ""
spec:
  taints:
  - effect: NoSchedule
    key: node-role.kubernetes.io/infra

Add the following additional configuration before applying the Operator Lifecycle Manager Subscription:

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

Add the following additional configuration before applying the MultiClusterEngine custom resource:

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

If your hub cluster and managed clusters use the same CPU architecture, complete the following steps to mirror the ironic agent image manually:

If your hub cluster and managed clusters use different CPU architectures, a default ironic agent image is used. Complete the following steps to mirror the correct default ironic agent image manually:

To create an Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) secret, complete the following task from the console:

The files that reference the release images are YAML files that are maintained in the acm-hive-openshift-releases GitHub repository GitHub repository. Those files are used create the list of the available release images in the console. This includes the latest fast channel images from OpenShift Container Platform.

The console only displays the latest release images for the three latest versions of OpenShift Container Platform. For example, you might see the following release images displayed in the console options:

Only the latest versions are in the console to encourage the creation of clusters with the latest release images. In some cases, you might need to create a cluster that is a specific version, which is why the older versions are available.

Note: Only release images with the visible: 'true' label are available to select when creating clusters in the console. An example of this label in a ClusterImageSet resource is provided in the following content:

apiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterImageSet
metadata:
  labels:
    channel: fast
    visible: 'true'
  name: img4.10.1-x86-64-appsub
spec:
  releaseImage: quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.10.1-x86_64

Additional release images are stored, but are not visible in the console. To view all of the available release images, run kubectl get clusterimageset in your CLI.

The repository contains the clusterImageSets directory, which is the directory that you use when working with the release images. The clusterImageSets directory contains the following directories:

Note: By default, the current list of release images is updated one time an hour. After upgrading the product, it may take up to an hour for the list to reflect the recommended release image versions for the new version of the product.

You can configure your ClusterImageSets with the following options.

You can create a cluster on an architecture that is different from the architecture of the hub cluster by manually creating a release image that contains the files for both architectures.

For example, you might need to create an x86_64 cluster from a hub cluster that is running on the ppc64le, aarch64, or s390x architecture. If you create the release image with both sets of files, the cluster creation succeeds because the new release image enables the OpenShift Container Platform release registry to provide a multi-architecture image manifest.

OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 and later supports multiple architectures by default. You can use the following clusterImageSet to provision a cluster:

apiVersion: hive.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterImageSet
metadata:
  labels:
    channel: fast
    visible: 'true'
  name: img4.13.0-multi-appsub
spec:
  releaseImage: quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.12.0-multi

To create the release image for OpenShift Container Platform images that do not support multiple architectures, complete steps similar to the following example for your architecture type:

The creation process uses the merged release images to create the cluster.

See the following prerequisites before enabling the central infrastructure management service:

You need a bare metal host custom resource definition before enabling the central infrastructure management service.

You need a Provisioning resource before enabling the central infrastructure management service.

To enable central infrastructure management in disconnected environments, complete the following steps:

Important: If you are using the late binding feature and the spec.osImages releases in the AgentServiceConfig custom resource are version 4.13 or later, the OpenShift Container Platform release images that you use when creating your clusters must be version 4.13 or later. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS images for version 4.13 and later are not compatible with images earlier than version 4.13.

You can verify that your central infrastructure management service is healthy by checking the assisted-service and assisted-image-service deployments and ensuring that their pods are ready and running.

To enable central infrastructure management in connected environments, create the AgentServiceConfig custom resource by saving the following YAML content in the agent_service_config.yaml file:

apiVersion: agent-install.openshift.io/v1beta1
kind: AgentServiceConfig
metadata:
 name: agent
spec:
  databaseStorage:
    accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
    resources:
      requests:
        storage: <db_volume_size> 1
  filesystemStorage:
    accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
    resources:
      requests:
        storage: <fs_volume_size> 2
  imageStorage:
    accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
    resources:
      requests:
        storage: <img_volume_size> 3

Your central infrastructure management service is configured. You can verify that it is healthy by checking the assisted-service and assisted-image-service deployments and ensuring that their pods are ready and running.

Complete the following steps to create a host inventory by using the console:

If you need advanced configuration options that are not available in the console, continue to Creating a host inventory by using the command line interface.

If you do not need advanced configuration options, you can continue by configuring static networking, if required, and begin adding hosts to your infrastructure environment.

To access a host inventory, select Infrastructure > Host inventory in the console. Select your infrastructure environment from the list to view the details and hosts.

Complete the following steps to create a host inventory (infrastructure environment) by using the command line interface:

See the following list of notable properties:

Note: If you modify the InfraEnv resource, make sure that the InfraEnv has created a new Discovery Image by looking at the createdTime property. If you already booted hosts, boot them again with the latest Discovery Image.

You can continue by configuring static networking, if required, and begin adding hosts to your infrastructure environment.

To configure advanced networking for your infrastructure environment by using the command line interface, complete the following steps:

Note: The Image Service automatically creates a new image when you update any InfraEnv properties or change the NMStateConfig resources that match its label selector. If you add NMStateConfig resources after creating the InfraEnv resource, make sure that the InfraEnv creates a new Discovery Image by checking the createdTime property in your InfraEnv. If you already booted hosts, boot them again with the latest Discovery Image.

Download the ISO by completing the following steps:

You now see a URL to download the ISO. Booted hosts appear in the host inventory table. Hosts might take a few minutes to appear. You must approve each host before you can use it. You can select hosts from the inventory table by clicking Actions and selecting Approve.

You can see the URL to download the ISO in the isoDownloadURL property in the status of your InfraEnv resource. See Creating a host inventory by using the command line interface for more information about the InfraEnv resource.

Each booted host creates an Agent resource in the same namespace. You must approve each host before you can use it.

Complete the following steps to automatically add bare metal hosts to your host inventory by using the console:

Complete the following steps to automatically add bare metal hosts to your host inventory by using the command line interface.

After turning on the host, the image starts downloading. This might take a few minutes. When the host is discovered, an Agent custom resource is created automatically.

Converged flow is enabled by default. If your hosts do not appear, you might need to temporarily disable converged flow. To disable converged flow, complete the following steps:

Each host that you successfully boot with the Discovery ISO appears as a row in your host inventory. You can use the console to edit and manage your hosts. If you booted the host manually and are not using the bare metal operator automation, you must approve the host in the console before you can use it. Hosts that are ready to be installed as OpenShift nodes have the Available status.

An Agent resource represents each host. You can set the following properties in an Agent resource:

The status of an Agent resource has the following properties:

Before creating a cluster, you must clone the clusterImageSets repository and apply it to your hub cluster. See the following steps:

Select the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release images when you create a cluster.

A ClusterDeployment is a Hive custom resource that is used to control the lifecycle of a cluster.

Follow the Using Hive documentation to create the ClusterDeployment custom resource and create an individual cluster.

A ClusterPool is also a Hive custom resource that is used to create multiple clusters.

Follow the Cluster Pools documentation to create a cluster with the Hive ClusterPool API.

See the following prerequisites before creating a cluster on AWS:

See the following important information about creating an AWS cluster:

To create a new cluster, see the following procedure. If you have an existing cluster that you want to import instead, see Importing a target managed cluster to the hub cluster.

Note: You do not have to run the oc command that is provided with the cluster details to import the cluster. When you create the cluster, it is automatically configured under the management of multicluster engine operator.

If you need to create a credential, see Creating a credential for Amazon Web Services for more information.

The name of the cluster is used in the hostname of the cluster.

If you are using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and want to configure your managed cluster klusterlet to run on specific nodes, see Optional: Configuring the klusterlet to run on specific nodes for the required steps.

You must have the following prerequisites before creating an AWS GovCloud cluster:

Note: If you change your cloud provider access key on the cloud provider, you also need to manually update the corresponding credential for the cloud provider on the multicluster engine operator console. This is required when your credentials expire on the cloud provider where the managed cluster is hosted and you try to delete the managed cluster.

While creating a cluster on AWS GovCloud is almost identical to creating a cluster on standard AWS, you have to complete some additional steps to prepare an AWS PrivateLink for the cluster on AWS GovCloud.

spec:
  awsPrivateLink:
    ## The list of inventory of VPCs that can be used to create VPC
    ## endpoints by the controller.
    endpointVPCInventory:
    - region: us-east-1
      vpcID: vpc-1
      subnets:
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1a
        subnetID: subnet-11
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1b
        subnetID: subnet-12
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1c
        subnetID: subnet-13
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1d
        subnetID: subnet-14
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1e
        subnetID: subnet-15
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1f
        subnetID: subnet-16
    - region: us-east-1
      vpcID: vpc-2
      subnets:
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1a
        subnetID: subnet-21
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1b
        subnetID: subnet-22
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1c
        subnetID: subnet-23
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1d
        subnetID: subnet-24
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1e
        subnetID: subnet-25
      - availabilityZone: us-east-1f
        subnetID: subnet-26
    ## The credentialsSecretRef points to a secret with permissions to create.
    ## The resources in the account where the inventory of VPCs exist.
    credentialsSecretRef:
      name: <hub-account-credentials-secret-name>

    ## A list of VPC where various mce clusters exists.
    associatedVPCs:
    - region: region-mce1
      vpcID: vpc-mce1
      credentialsSecretRef:
        name: <credentials-that-have-access-to-account-where-MCE1-VPC-exists>
    - region: region-mce2
      vpcID: vpc-mce2
      credentialsSecretRef:
        name: <credentials-that-have-access-to-account-where-MCE2-VPC-exists>

To create a cluster from the console, navigate to Infrastructure > Clusters > Create cluster AWS > Standalone and complete the steps in the console.

Note: This procedure is for creating a cluster. If you have an existing cluster that you want to import, see Importing a target managed cluster to the hub cluster for those steps.

The credential that you select must have access to the resources in an AWS GovCloud region, if you create an AWS GovCloud cluster. You can use an AWS GovCloud secret that is already in the Hive namespace if it has the required permissions to deploy a cluster. Existing credentials are displayed in the console. If you need to create a credential, see Creating a credential for Amazon Web Services for more information.

The name of the cluster is used in the hostname of the cluster.

Important: When you create a cluster, the controller creates a namespace for the cluster and its resources. Ensure that you include only resources for that cluster instance in that namespace. Destroying the cluster deletes the namespace and all of the resources in it.

Tip: Select YAML: On to view content updates as you enter the information in the console.

If you want to add your cluster to an existing cluster set, you must have the correct permissions on the cluster set to add it. If you do not have cluster-admin privileges when you are creating the cluster, you must select a cluster set on which you have clusterset-admin permissions. If you do not have the correct permissions on the specified cluster set, the cluster creation fails. Contact your cluster administrator to provide you with clusterset-admin permissions to a cluster set if you do not have any cluster set options to select.

Every managed cluster must be associated with a managed cluster set. If you do not assign the managed cluster to a ManagedClusterSet, it is automatically added to the default managed cluster set.

If there is already a base DNS domain that is associated with the selected credential that you configured with your AWS or AWS GovCloud account, that value is populated in the field. You can change the value by overwriting it. This name is used in the hostname of the cluster. See Configuring an AWS account for more information.

The release image identifies the version of the OpenShift Container Platform image that is used to create the cluster. If the version that you want to use is available, you can select the image from the list of images. If the image that you want to use is not a standard image, you can enter the URL to the image that you want to use. See Release images for more information about release images.

The node pools include the control plane pool and the worker pools. The control plane nodes share the management of the cluster activity. The information includes the following fields:

You can create zero or more worker nodes in a worker pool to run the container workloads for the cluster. They can be in a single worker pool, or distributed across multiple worker pools. If zero worker nodes are specified, the control plane nodes also function as worker nodes. The optional information includes the following fields:

Networking details are required for your cluster, and multiple networks are required for using IPv6. For an AWS GovCloud cluster, enter the values of the block of addresses of the Hive VPC in the Machine CIDR field. You can add an additional network by clicking Add network.

Proxy information that is provided in the credential is automatically added to the proxy fields. You can use the information as it is, overwrite it, or add the information if you want to enable a proxy. The following list contains the required information for creating a proxy:

When creating an AWS GovCloud cluster or using a private environment, complete the fields on the AWS private configuration page with the AMI ID and the subnet values. Ensure that the value of spec:platform:aws:privateLink:enabled is set to true in the ClusterDeployment.yaml file, which is automatically set when you select Use private configuration.

When you review your information and optionally customize it before creating the cluster, you can select YAML: On to view the install-config.yaml file content in the panel. You can edit the YAML file with your custom settings, if you have any updates.

Note: You do not have to run the oc command that is provided with the cluster details to import the cluster. When you create the cluster, it is automatically configured under the management of multicluster engine for Kubernetes operator.

If you are using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and want to configure your managed cluster klusterlet to run on specific nodes, see Optional: Configuring the klusterlet to run on specific nodes for the required steps.

Continue with Accessing your cluster for instructions for accessing your cluster.

See the following prerequisites before creating a cluster on Azure:

Note: If you change your cloud provider access key on the cloud provider, you also need to manually update the corresponding credential for the cloud provider on the console of multicluster engine operator. This is required when your credentials expire on the cloud provider where the managed cluster is hosted and you try to delete the managed cluster.

To create a cluster from the multicluster engine operator console, navigate to Infrastructure > Clusters. On the Clusters page, click Create cluster and complete the steps in the console.

Note: This procedure is for creating a cluster. If you have an existing cluster that you want to import, see Importing a target managed cluster to the hub cluster for those steps.

If you need to create a credential, see Creating a credential for Microsoft Azure for more information.

The name of the cluster is used in the hostname of the cluster.

Important: When you create a cluster, the controller creates a namespace for the cluster and its resources. Ensure that you include only resources for that cluster instance in that namespace. Destroying the cluster deletes the namespace and all of the resources in it.

Tip: Select YAML: On to view content updates as you enter the information in the console.

If you want to add your cluster to an existing cluster set, you must have the correct permissions on the cluster set to add it. If you do not have cluster-admin privileges when you are creating the cluster, you must select a cluster set on which you have clusterset-admin permissions. If you do not have the correct permissions on the specified cluster set, the cluster creation fails. Contact your cluster administrator to provide you with clusterset-admin permissions to a cluster set if you do not have any cluster set options to select.

Every managed cluster must be associated with a managed cluster set. If you do not assign the managed cluster to a ManagedClusterSet, it is automatically added to the default managed cluster set.

If there is already a base DNS domain that is associated with the selected credential that you configured for your Azure account, that value is populated in that field. You can change the value by overwriting it. See Configuring a custom domain name for an Azure cloud service for more information. This name is used in the hostname of the cluster.

The release image identifies the version of the OpenShift Container Platform image that is used to create the cluster. If the version that you want to use is available, you can select the image from the list of images. If the image that you want to use is not a standard image, you can enter the URL to the image that you want to use. See Release images for more information about release images.

The Node pools include the control plane pool and the worker pools. The control plane nodes share the management of the cluster activity. The information includes the following optional fields:

You can change the type and size of the Instance type and Root storage allocation (required) of your control plane pool after your cluster is created.

You can create one or more worker nodes in a worker pool to run the container workloads for the cluster. They can be in a single worker pool, or distributed across multiple worker pools. If zero worker nodes are specified, the control plane nodes also function as worker nodes. The information includes the following fields:

You can add an additional network by clicking Add network. You must have more than one network if you are using IPv6 addresses.

Proxy information that is provided in the credential is automatically added to the proxy fields. You can use the information as it is, overwrite it, or add the information if you want to enable a proxy. The following list contains the required information for creating a proxy:

When you review your information and optionally customize it before creating the cluster, you can click the YAML switch On to view the install-config.yaml file content in the panel. You can edit the YAML file with your custom settings, if you have any updates.

If you are using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and want to configure your managed cluster klusterlet to run on specific nodes, see Optional: Configuring the klusterlet to run on specific nodes for the required steps.

Note: You do not have to run the oc command that is provided with the cluster details to import the cluster. When you create the cluster, it is automatically configured under the management of multicluster engine operator.

Continue with Accessing your cluster for instructions for accessing your cluster.

See the following prerequisites before creating a cluster on GCP:

Note: If you change your cloud provider access key on the cloud provider, you also need to manually update the corresponding credential for the cloud provider on the console of multicluster engine operator. This is required when your credentials expire on the cloud provider where the managed cluster is hosted and you try to delete the managed cluster.

To create clusters from the multicluster engine operator console, navigate to Infrastructure > Clusters. On the Clusters page, click Create cluster and complete the steps in the console.

Note: This procedure is for creating a cluster. If you have an existing cluster that you want to import, see Importing a target managed cluster to the hub cluster for those steps.

If you need to create a credential, see Creating a credential for Google Cloud Platform for more information.

The name of your cluster is used in the hostname of the cluster. There are some restrictions that apply to naming your GCP cluster. These restrictions include not beginning the name with goog or containing a group of letters and numbers that resemble google anywhere in the name. See Bucket naming guidelines for the complete list of restrictions.

Important: When you create a cluster, the controller creates a namespace for the cluster and its resources. Ensure that you include only resources for that cluster instance in that namespace. Destroying the cluster deletes the namespace and all of the resources in it.

Tip: Select YAML: On to view content updates as you enter the information in the console.

If you want to add your cluster to an existing cluster set, you must have the correct permissions on the cluster set to add it. If you do not have cluster-admin privileges when you are creating the cluster, you must select a cluster set on which you have clusterset-admin permissions. If you do not have the correct permissions on the specified cluster set, the cluster creation fails. Contact your cluster administrator to provide you with clusterset-admin permissions to a cluster set if you do not have any cluster set options to select.

Every managed cluster must be associated with a managed cluster set. If you do not assign the managed cluster to a ManagedClusterSet, it is automatically added to the default managed cluster set.

If there is already a base DNS domain that is associated with the selected credential for your GCP account, that value is populated in the field. You can change the value by overwriting it. See Setting up a custom domain for more information. This name is used in the hostname of the cluster.

The release image identifies the version of the OpenShift Container Platform image that is used to create the cluster. If the version that you want to use is available, you can select the image from the list of images. If the image that you want to use is not a standard image, you can enter the URL to the image that you want to use. See Release images for more information about release images.

The Node pools include the control plane pool and the worker pools. The control plane nodes share the management of the cluster activity. The information includes the following fields:

You can specify the instance type of your control plane pool. You can change the type and size of your instance after it is created.

You can create one or more worker nodes in a worker pool to run the container workloads for the cluster. They can be in a single worker pool, or distributed across multiple worker pools. If zero worker nodes are specified, the control plane nodes also function as worker nodes. The information includes the following fields:

The networking details are required, and multiple networks are required for using IPv6 addresses. You can add an additional network by clicking Add network.

Proxy information that is provided in the credential is automatically added to the proxy fields. You can use the information as it is, overwrite it, or add the information if you want to enable a proxy. The following list contains the required information for creating a proxy:

When you review your information and optionally customize it before creating the cluster, you can select YAML: On to view the install-config.yaml file content in the panel. You can edit the YAML file with your custom settings, if you have any updates.

If you are using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and want to configure your managed cluster klusterlet to run on specific nodes, see Optional: Configuring the klusterlet to run on specific nodes for the required steps.

Note: You do not have to run the oc command that is provided with the cluster details to import the cluster. When you create the cluster, it is automatically configured under the management of multicluster engine operator.

Continue with Accessing your cluster for instructions for accessing your cluster.

See the following prerequisites before creating a cluster on vSphere:

To create a cluster from the multicluster engine operator console, navigate to Infrastructure > Clusters. On the Clusters page, click Create cluster and complete the steps in the console.

Note: This procedure is for creating a cluster. If you have an existing cluster that you want to import, see Importing a target managed cluster to the hub cluster for those steps.

If you need to create a credential, see Creating a credential for VMware vSphere for more information about creating a credential.

The name of your cluster is used in the hostname of the cluster.

Important: When you create a cluster, the controller creates a namespace for the cluster and its resources. Ensure that you include only resources for that cluster instance in that namespace. Destroying the cluster deletes the namespace and all of the resources in it.

Tip: Select YAML: On to view content updates as you enter the information in the console.

If you want to add your cluster to an existing cluster set, you must have the correct permissions on the cluster set to add it. If you do not have cluster-admin privileges when you are creating the cluster, you must select a cluster set on which you have clusterset-admin permissions. If you do not have the correct permissions on the specified cluster set, the cluster creation fails. Contact your cluster administrator to provide you with clusterset-admin permissions to a cluster set if you do not have any cluster set options to select.

Every managed cluster must be associated with a managed cluster set. If you do not assign the managed cluster to a ManagedClusterSet, it is automatically added to the default managed cluster set.

If there is already a base domain associated with the selected credential that you configured for your vSphere account, that value is populated in the field. You can change the value by overwriting it. See Installing a cluster on vSphere with customizations for more information. This value must match the name that you used to create the DNS records listed in the prerequisites section. This name is used in the hostname of the cluster.

The release image identifies the version of the OpenShift Container Platform image that is used to create the cluster. If the version that you want to use is available, you can select the image from the list of images. If the image that you want to use is not a standard image, you can enter the URL to the image that you want to use. See Release images for more information about release images

Note: Only release images for OpenShift Container Platform versions 4.5.x and higher are supported.

The node pools include the control plane pool and the worker pools. The control plane nodes share the management of the cluster activity. The information includes the CPU architecture field. View the following field description:

You can create one or more worker nodes in a worker pool to run the container workloads for the cluster. They can be in a single worker pool, or distributed across multiple worker pools. If zero worker nodes are specified, the control plane nodes also function as worker nodes. The information includes Cores per socket, CPUs, Memory_min MiB, _Disk size in GiB, and Node count.

Networking information is required. Multiple networks are required for using IPv6. Some of the required networking information is included the following fields:

You can add an additional network by clicking Add network. You must have more than one network if you are using IPv6 addresses.

Proxy information that is provided in the credential is automatically added to the proxy fields. You can use the information as it is, overwrite it, or add the information if you want to enable a proxy. The following list contains the required information for creating a proxy:

You can define the disconnected installation image by clicking Disconnected installation. When creating a cluster by using Red Hat OpenStack Platform provider and disconnected installation, if a certificate is required to access the mirror registry, you must enter it in the Additional trust bundle field in the Configuration for disconnected installation section when configuring your credential or the Disconnected installation section when creating a cluster.

You can click Add automation template to create a template.

When you review your information and optionally customize it before creating the cluster, you can click the YAML switch On to view the install-config.yaml file content in the panel. You can edit the YAML file with your custom settings, if you have any updates.

If you are using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and want to configure your managed cluster klusterlet to run on specific nodes, see Optional: Configuring the klusterlet to run on specific nodes for the required steps.

Note: You do not have to run the oc command that is provided with the cluster details to import the cluster. When you create the cluster, it is automatically configured under the management of multicluster engine operator.

Continue with Accessing your cluster for instructions for accessing your cluster.

See the following prerequisites before creating a cluster on Red Hat OpenStack Platform:

To create a cluster from the multicluster engine operator console, navigate to Infrastructure > Clusters. On the Clusters page, click Create cluster and complete the steps in the console.

Note: This procedure is for creating a cluster. If you have an existing cluster that you want to import, see Importing a target managed cluster to the hub cluster for those steps.

If you need to create a credential, see Creating a credential for Red Hat OpenStack Platform for more information.

The name of the cluster is used in the hostname of the cluster. The name must contain fewer than 15 characters. This value must match the name that you used to create the DNS records listed in the credential prerequisites section.

Important: When you create a cluster, the controller creates a namespace for the cluster and its resources. Ensure that you include only resources for that cluster instance in that namespace. Destroying the cluster deletes the namespace and all of the resources in it.

Tip: Select YAML: On to view content updates as you enter the information in the console.

If you want to add your cluster to an existing cluster set, you must have the correct permissions on the cluster set to add it. If you do not have cluster-admin privileges when you are creating the cluster, you must select a cluster set on which you have clusterset-admin permissions. If you do not have the correct permissions on the specified cluster set, the cluster creation fails. Contact your cluster administrator to provide you with clusterset-admin permissions to a cluster set if you do not have any cluster set options to select.

Every managed cluster must be associated with a managed cluster set. If you do not assign the managed cluster to a ManagedClusterSet, it is automatically added to the default managed cluster set.

If there is already a base DNS domain that is associated with the selected credential that you configured for your Red Hat OpenStack Platform account, that value is populated in the field. You can change the value by overwriting it. See Managing domains in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform documentation for more information. This name is used in the hostname of the cluster.

The release image identifies the version of the OpenShift Container Platform image that is used to create the cluster. If the version that you want to use is available, you can select the image from the list of images. If the image that you want to use is not a standard image, you can enter the URL to the image that you want to use. See Release images for more information about release images. Only release images for OpenShift Container Platform versions 4.6.x and higher are supported.

The node pools include the control plane pool and the worker pools. The control plane nodes share the management of the cluster activity. If the architecture type of the managed cluster is not the same as the architecture of your hub cluster, enter a value for the instruction set architecture of the machines in the pool. Valid values are amd64, ppc64le, s390x, and arm64.

You must add an instance type for your control plane pool, but you can change the type and size of your instance after it is created.

You can create one or more worker nodes in a worker pool to run the container workloads for the cluster. They can be in a single worker pool, or distributed across multiple worker pools. If zero worker nodes are specified, the control plane nodes also function as worker nodes. The information includes the following fields:

Networking details are required for your cluster. You must provide the values for one or more networks for an IPv4 network. For an IPv6 network, you must define more than one network.

You can add an additional network by clicking Add network. You must have more than one network if you are using IPv6 addresses.

Proxy information that is provided in the credential is automatically added to the proxy fields. You can use the information as it is, overwrite it, or add the information if you want to enable a proxy. The following list contains the required information for creating a proxy:

You can define the disconnected installation image by clicking Disconnected installation. When creating a cluster by using Red Hat OpenStack Platform provider and disconnected installation, if a certificate is required to access the mirror registry, you must enter it in the Additional trust bundle field in the Configuration for disconnected installation section when configuring your credential or the Disconnected installation section when creating a cluster.

When you review your information and optionally customize it before creating the cluster, you can click the YAML switch On to view the install-config.yaml file content in the panel. You can edit the YAML file with your custom settings, if you have any updates.

When creating a cluster that uses an internal certificate authority (CA), you need to customize the YAML file for your cluster by completing the following steps:

If you are using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and want to configure your managed cluster klusterlet to run on specific nodes, see Optional: Configuring the klusterlet to run on specific nodes for the required steps.

Note: You do not have to run the oc command that is provided with the cluster details to import the cluster. When you create the cluster, it is automatically configured under the management of multicluster engine operator.

Continue with Accessing your cluster for instructions for accessing your cluster.

See the following prerequisites before creating a cluster on Red Hat Virtualization:

Note: If you change your cloud provider access key on the cloud provider, you also need to manually update the corresponding credential for the cloud provider on the console of multicluster engine operator. This is required when your credentials expire on the cloud provider where the managed cluster is hosted and you try to delete the managed cluster.

To create a cluster from the multicluster engine operator console, navigate to Infrastructure > Clusters. On the Clusters page, click Create cluster and complete the steps in the console.

Note: This procedure is for creating a cluster. If you have an existing cluster that you want to import, see Importing a target managed cluster to the hub cluster for those steps.

If you need to create a credential, see Creating a credential for Red Hat Virtualization for more information.

The name of your cluster is used in the hostname of the cluster.

Important: When you create a cluster, the controller creates a namespace for the cluster and its resources. Ensure that you include only resources for that cluster instance in that namespace. Destroying the cluster deletes the namespace and all of the resources in it.

Tip: Select YAML: On to view content updates as you enter the information in the console.

If you want to add your cluster to an existing cluster set, you must have the correct permissions on the cluster set to add it. If you do not have cluster-admin privileges when you are creating the cluster, you must select a cluster set on which you have clusterset-admin permissions. If you do not have the correct permissions on the specified cluster set, the cluster creation fails. Contact your cluster administrator to provide you with clusterset-admin permissions to a cluster set if you do not have any cluster set options to select.

Every managed cluster must be associated with a managed cluster set. If you do not assign the managed cluster to a ManagedClusterSet, it is automatically added to the default managed cluster set.

If there is already a base DNS domain that is associated with the selected credential that you configured for your Red Hat Virtualization account, that value is populated in that field. You can overwrite the value to change it.

The release image identifies the version of the OpenShift Container Platform image that is used to create the cluster. If the version that you want to use is available, you can select the image from the list of images. If the image that you want to use is not a standard image, you can enter the URL to the image that you want to use. See Release images for more information about release images.

The information for your node pools includes the number of Cores, Sockets, Memory, and Disk size for the control plane pool. The three control plane nodes share the management of the cluster activity. The information includes the Architecture field. View the following field description:

The worker pool information requires the pool name, number of cores, memory allocation, disk size allocation, and node count for your worker pools. Your worker nodes within the worker pool can be in a single worker pool, or distributed across multiple worker pools.

The following networking details are required from your preconfigured oVirt environment.

Proxy information that is provided in the credential is automatically added to the proxy fields. You can use the information as it is, overwrite it, or add the information if you want to enable a proxy. The following list contains the required information for creating a proxy:

When you review your information and optionally customize it before creating the cluster, you can click the YAML switch On to view the install-config.yaml file content in the panel. You can edit the YAML file with your custom settings, if you have any updates.

If you are using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and want to configure your managed cluster klusterlet to run on specific nodes, see Optional: Configuring the klusterlet to run on specific nodes for the required steps.

Note: You do not have to run the oc command that is provided with the cluster details to import the cluster. When you create the cluster, it is automatically configured under the management of multicluster engine operator.

Continue with Accessing your cluster for instructions for accessing your cluster.

See the following prerequisites before creating a cluster in an on-premises environment:

To create a cluster from the console, complete the following steps:

The following options are available for your assisted installation:

If you need to create a credential, see Creating a credential for an on-premises environment for more information.

The name of your cluster is used in the hostname of the cluster.

Important: When you create a cluster, the controller creates a namespace for the cluster and its resources. Ensure that you include only resources for that cluster instance in that namespace. Destroying the cluster deletes the namespace and all of the resources in it.

Note: Select YAML: On to view content updates as you enter the information in the console.

If you want to add your cluster to an existing cluster set, you must have the correct permissions on the cluster set to add it. If you do not have cluster-admin privileges when you are creating the cluster, you must select a cluster set on which you have clusterset-admin permissions. If you do not have the correct permissions on the specified cluster set, the cluster creation fails. Contact your cluster administrator to provide you with clusterset-admin permissions to a cluster set if you do not have any cluster set options to select.

Every managed cluster must be associated with a managed cluster set. If you do not assign the managed cluster to a ManagedClusterSet, it is automatically added to the default managed cluster set.

If there is already a base DNS domain that is associated with the selected credential that you configured for your provider account, that value is populated in that field. You can change the value by overwriting it, but this setting cannot be changed after the cluster is created. The base domain of your provider is used to create routes to your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster components. It is configured in the DNS of your cluster provider as a Start of Authority (SOA) record.

The OpenShift version identifies the version of the OpenShift Container Platform image that is used to create the cluster. If the version that you want to use is available, you can select the image from the list of images. If the image that you want to use is not a standard image, you can enter the URL to the image that you want to use. See Release images to learn more.

Select Install single-node OpenShift (SNO) if you are installing a single-node OpenShift cluster. A single-node OpenShift cluster contains a single node which hosts the control plane services and the user workloads.

If you want your cluster to be a single-node OpenShift cluster, select the single-node OpenShift option. You can add additional workers to single-node OpenShift clusters by completing the following steps:

Note: The single-node OpenShift control plane requires 8 CPU cores, while a control plane node for a multinode control plane cluster only requires 4 CPU cores.

After you review and save the cluster, your cluster is saved as a draft cluster. You can close the creation process and finish the process later by selecting the cluster name on the Clusters page.

If you are using existing hosts, select whether you want to select the hosts yourself, or if you want them to be selected automatically. The number of hosts is based on the number of nodes that you selected. For example, a SNO cluster only requires one host, while a standard three-node cluster requires three hosts.

The locations of the available hosts that meet the requirements for this cluster are displayed in the list of Host locations. For distribution of the hosts and a more high-availability configuration, select multiple locations.

If you are discovering new hosts with no existing infrastructure environment, complete the steps in Adding hosts to the host inventory by using the Discovery Image.

After the hosts are bound, and the validations pass, complete the networking information for your cluster by adding the following IP addresses:

If you are using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and want to configure your managed cluster klusterlet to run on specific nodes, see Optional: Configuring the klusterlet to run on specific nodes for the required steps.

You can view the status of the installation on the Clusters navigation page.

Continue with Accessing your cluster to access your cluster.

You can also create a cluster without the console by using the assisted installer feature within the central infrastructure management component. After you complete this procedure, you can boot the host from the discovery image that is generated. The order of the procedures is generally not important, but is noted when there is a required order.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: sample-namespace

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
metadata:
  name: pull-secret
  namespace: sample-namespace
stringData:
  .dockerconfigjson: 'your-pull-secret-json' 1

apiVersion: hive.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterImageSet
metadata:
  name: openshift-v4.12.0
spec:
  releaseImage: quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.12.0-rc.0-x86_64

apiVersion: hive.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterDeployment
metadata:
  name: single-node
  namespace: demo-worker4
spec:
  baseDomain: hive.example.com
  clusterInstallRef:
    group: extensions.hive.openshift.io
    kind: AgentClusterInstall
    name: test-agent-cluster-install 1
    version: v1beta1
  clusterName: test-cluster
  controlPlaneConfig:
    servingCertificates: {}
  platform:
    agentBareMetal:
      agentSelector:
        matchLabels:
          location: internal
  pullSecretRef:
    name: pull-secret 2

apiVersion: extensions.hive.openshift.io/v1beta1
kind: AgentClusterInstall
metadata:
  name: test-agent-cluster-install
  namespace: demo-worker4
spec:
  platformType: BareMetal 1
  clusterDeploymentRef:
    name: single-node 2
  imageSetRef:
    name: openshift-v4.12.0 3
  networking:
    clusterNetwork:
    - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14
      hostPrefix: 23
    machineNetwork:
    - cidr: 192.168.111.0/24
    serviceNetwork:
    - 172.30.0.0/16
  provisionRequirements:
    controlPlaneAgents: 1
  sshPublicKey: ssh-rsa your-public-key-here 4

apiVersion: agent-install.openshift.io/v1beta1
kind: NMStateConfig
metadata:
  name: <mynmstateconfig>
  namespace: <demo-worker4>
  labels:
    demo-nmstate-label: <value>
spec:
  config:
    interfaces:
      - name: eth0
        type: ethernet
        state: up
        mac-address: 02:00:00:80:12:14
        ipv4:
          enabled: true
          address:
            - ip: 192.168.111.30
              prefix-length: 24
          dhcp: false
      - name: eth1
        type: ethernet
        state: up
        mac-address: 02:00:00:80:12:15
        ipv4:
          enabled: true
          address:
            - ip: 192.168.140.30
              prefix-length: 24
          dhcp: false
    dns-resolver:
      config:
        server:
          - 192.168.126.1
    routes:
      config:
        - destination: 0.0.0.0/0
          next-hop-address: 192.168.111.1
          next-hop-interface: eth1
          table-id: 254
        - destination: 0.0.0.0/0
          next-hop-address: 192.168.140.1
          next-hop-interface: eth1
          table-id: 254
  interfaces:
    - name: "eth0"
      macAddress: "02:00:00:80:12:14"
    - name: "eth1"
      macAddress: "02:00:00:80:12:15"

apiVersion: agent-install.openshift.io/v1beta1
kind: InfraEnv
metadata:
  name: myinfraenv
  namespace: demo-worker4
spec:
  clusterRef:
    name: single-node  1
    namespace: demo-worker4 2
  pullSecretRef:
    name: pull-secret
    sshAuthorizedKey: 'your_public_key_here' 3
  nmStateConfigLabelSelector:
    matchLabels:
      demo-nmstate-label: value 4

To use the console to hibernate a cluster that was created by multicluster engine operator, complete the following steps:

The status for the cluster on the Clusters page is Hibernating when the process completes.

Tip: You can hibernate multiple clusters by selecting the clusters that you want to hibernate on the Clusters page, and selecting Actions > Hibernate clusters.

Your selected cluster is hibernating.

To use the CLI to hibernate a cluster that was created by multicluster engine operator, complete the following steps:

Your selected cluster is hibernating.

To resume normal operation of a hibernating cluster by using the console, complete the following steps:

The status for the cluster on the Clusters page is Ready when the process completes.

Tip: You can resume multiple clusters by selecting the clusters that you want to resume on the Clusters page, and selecting Actions > Resume clusters.

Your selected cluster is resuming normal operation.

To resume normal operation of a hibernating cluster by using the CLI, complete the following steps:

Your selected cluster is resuming normal operation.

Required user type or access level: Cluster administrator

If you need to create a new pull secret, complete the following steps:

You can import existing clusters from the console for each of the available cloud providers.

Note: A hub cluster cannot manage a different hub cluster. A hub cluster is set up to automatically import and manage itself, so you do not have to manually import a hub cluster to manage itself.

By default, the namespace is used for the cluster name and namespace, but you can change it.

Important: When you create a cluster, the controller creates a namespace for the cluster and its resources. Ensure that you include only resources for that cluster instance in that namespace. Destroying the cluster deletes the namespace and all of the resources in it.

Every managed cluster must be associated with a managed cluster set. If you do not assign the managed cluster to a ManagedClusterSet, the cluster is automatically added to the default managed cluster set.

If you want to add the cluster to a different cluster set, you must have clusterset-admin privileges to the cluster set. If you do not have cluster-admin privileges when you are importing the cluster, you must select a cluster set on which you have clusterset-admin permissions. If you do not have the correct permissions on the specified cluster set, the cluster importing fails. Contact your cluster administrator to provide you with clusterset-admin permissions to a cluster set if you do not have cluster set options to select.

If you import a OpenShift Container Platform Dedicated cluster and do not specify a vendor by adding a label for vendor=OpenShiftDedicated, or if you add a label for vendor=auto-detect, a managed-by=platform label is automatically added to the cluster. You can use this added label to identify the cluster as a OpenShift Container Platform Dedicated cluster and retrieve the OpenShift Container Platform Dedicated clusters as a group.

The following table provides the available options for import mode, which specifies the method for importing the cluster: