Chapter 3. Installing and preparing the Operators


You install the Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) OpenStack Operator (openstack-operator) and create the RHOSO control plane on an operational Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) cluster. You install the OpenStack Operator by using the RHOCP web console. You perform the control plane installation tasks and all data plane creation tasks on a workstation that has access to the RHOCP cluster.

3.1. Prerequisites

  • An operational RHOCP cluster, version 4.18. For the RHOCP system requirements, see Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster requirements in Planning your deployment.
  • The oc command line tool is installed on your workstation.
  • You are logged in to the RHOCP cluster as a user with cluster-admin privileges.

3.2. Installing the OpenStack Operator

You use OperatorHub on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) web console to install the OpenStack Operator (openstack-operator) on your RHOCP cluster. After you install the Operator, you configure a single instance of the OpenStack Operator initialization resource to start the OpenStack Operator on your cluster.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the RHOCP web console as a user with cluster-admin permissions.
  2. Select Operators OperatorHub.
  3. In the Filter by keyword field, type OpenStack.
  4. Click the OpenStack Operator tile with the Red Hat source label.
  5. Read the information about the Operator and click Install.
  6. On the Install Operator page, select "Operator recommended Namespace: openstack-operators" from the Installed Namespace list.
  7. On the Install Operator page, select "Manual" from the Update approval list. For information about how to manually approve a pending Operator update, see Manually approving a pending Operator update in the RHOCP Operators guide.
  8. Click Install to make the Operator available to the openstack-operators namespace. The OpenStack Operator is installed when the Status is Succeeded.
  9. Click Create OpenStack to open the Create OpenStack page.
  10. On the Create OpenStack page, click Create to create an instance of the OpenStack Operator initialization resource. The OpenStack Operator is ready to use when the Status of the openstack instance is Conditions: Ready.
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