Data plane node requirements

You can use pre-provisioned or unprovisioned bare-metal nodes to create the data plane.

The minimum requirements for data plane nodes are as follows:

  • Pre-provisioned nodes:
    • RHEL 9.4 or 9.6.
    • Configured for SSH access with the SSH keys generated during data plane creation. The SSH user must either be root or have unrestricted and password-less sudo enabled. For more information, see Create data plane Secret CRs.
    • Routable IP address on the control plane network to enable Ansible access through SSH.
  • Unprovisioned nodes:
    • The RHEL system time zone and the date and time of the system firmware (UEFI/BIOS) clock for each unprovisioned, bare-metal data plane node must be UTC.