Chapter 1. Installing a cluster on Alibaba Cloud by using the Assisted Installer

1. Create the cluster with the Assisted Installer and download the generated image.
2. Convert the image to QCOW2 format. For more information, see the following section.
3. Upload the image to the Object Storage Service bucket in Alibaba Cloud.
4. Import the image to the Elastic Compute Service in Alibaba Cloud.

5. Provision the Alibaba Cloud resources:

   1. In the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) console, set the networking configurations.
   2. In the Alibaba Cloud DNS console, define the Domain Name System.
   3. In the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) console, provision the compute instances.
6. Complete host discovery in the Assisted Installer.
7. Complete the network configurations in Alibaba Cloud.
8. Complete the cluster configuration and installation in the Assisted Installer.

Procedure

1. Open the command-line interface on the Linux machine.

2. Verify that the system has virtualization flags enabled by running the following command:

   $ grep -e lm -e svm -e vmx /proc/cpuinfo

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3. Install the qemu-img package on a RHEL or Fedora machine by running the following command:

   $ sudo dnf install -y qemu-img

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   Note

   If your system uses the APT package manager, install the package using the name qemu-utils instead.

4. Convert the image to QCOW2 by running the following command:

   $ qemu-img convert -O qcow2 ${CLUSTER_NAME}.iso ${CLUSTER_NAME}.qcow2

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