Chapter 11. Installing on IBM Power Systems 11.1. Installing a cluster on IBM Power Systems In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.7, you can install a cluster on IBM Power Systems infrastructure that you provision. Important Additional considerations exist for non-bare metal platforms. Review the information in the guidelines for deploying OpenShift Container Platform on non-tested platforms before you install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. Prerequisites Before you begin the installation process, you must clean the installation directory. This ensures that the required installation files are created and updated during the installation process. Provision persistent storage using NFS for your cluster. To deploy a private image registry, your storage must provide ReadWriteMany access modes. Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes. If you use a firewall, you must configure it to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to. Note Be sure to also review this site list if you are configuring a proxy. 11.1.1. Internet access for OpenShift Container Platform In OpenShift Container Platform 4.7, you require access to the Internet to install your cluster. You must have Internet access to: Access OpenShift Cluster Manager to download the installation program and perform subscription management. If the cluster has internet access and you do not disable Telemetry, that service automatically entitles your cluster. Access Quay.io to obtain the packages that are required to install your cluster. Obtain the packages that are required to perform cluster updates. Important If your cluster cannot have direct Internet access, you can perform a restricted network installation on some types of infrastructure that you provision. During that process, you download the content that is required and use it to populate a mirror registry with the packages that you need to install a cluster and generate the installation program. With some installation types, the environment that you install your cluster in will not require Internet access. Before you update the cluster, you update the content of the mirror registry. 11.1.2. Machine requirements for a cluster with user-provisioned infrastructure For a cluster that contains user-provisioned infrastructure, you must deploy all of the required machines. 11.1.2.1. Required machines The smallest OpenShift Container Platform clusters require the following hosts: One temporary bootstrap machine Three control plane, or master, machines At least two compute machines, which are also known as worker machines. Note The cluster requires the bootstrap machine to deploy the OpenShift Container Platform cluster on the three control plane machines. You can remove the bootstrap machine after you install the cluster. Important To improve high availability of your cluster, distribute the control plane machines over different z/VM instances on at least two physical machines. The bootstrap and control plane machines must use Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) as the operating system. However, the compute machines can choose between Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9. Note that RHCOS is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and inherits all of its hardware certifications and requirements. See Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology capabilities and limits . 11.1.2.2. Network connectivity requirements All the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines require network in initramfs during boot to fetch Ignition config files from the Machine Config Server. The machines are configured with static IP addresses. No DHCP server is required. Additionally, each OpenShift Container Platform node in the cluster must have access to a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. 11.1.2.3. IBM Z network connectivity requirements To install on IBM Z under z/VM, you require a single z/VM virtual NIC in layer 2 mode. You also need: A direct-attached OSA or RoCE network adapter A z/VM VSwitch set up. For a preferred setup, use OSA link aggregation. 11.1.2.4. Minimum resource requirements Each cluster machine must meet the following minimum requirements: Table 11.1. Minimum resource requirements Machine Operating System vCPU [1] Virtual RAM Storage IOPS Bootstrap RHCOS 2 16 GB 100 GB N/A Control plane RHCOS 2 16 GB 100 GB N/A Compute RHCOS 2 8 GB 100 GB N/A One physical core (IFL) provides two logical cores (threads) when SMT-2 is enabled. The hypervisor can provide two or more vCPUs. 11.1.2.5. Minimum IBM Power Systems requirements You can install OpenShift Container Platform version 4.7 on the following IBM hardware: IBM POWER8 or POWER9 processor-based systems Hardware requirements 6 IBM Power bare metal servers or 6 LPARs across multiple PowerVM servers Operating system requirements One instance of an IBM POWER8 or POWER9 processor-based system On your IBM Power instance, set up: 3 guest virtual machines for OpenShift Container Platform control plane machines 2 guest virtual machines for OpenShift Container Platform compute machines 1 guest virtual machine for the temporary OpenShift Container Platform bootstrap machine Disk storage for the IBM Power guest virtual machines Storage provisioned by the Virtual I/O Server using vSCSI, NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) or SSP (shared storage pools) Network for the PowerVM guest virtual machines Virtualized by the Virtual I/O Server using Shared Ethernet Adapter Virtualized by the Virtual I/O Server using IBM vNIC Storage / main memory 100 GB / 16 GB for OpenShift Container Platform control plane machines 100 GB / 8 GB for OpenShift Container Platform compute machines 100 GB / 16 GB for the temporary OpenShift Container Platform bootstrap machine 11.1.2.6. Recommended IBM Power system requirements Hardware requirements 6 IBM Power bare metal servers or 6 LPARs across multiple PowerVM servers Operating system requirements One instance of an IBM POWER8 or POWER9 processor-based system On your IBM Power instance, set up: 3 guest virtual machines for OpenShift Container Platform control plane machines 2 guest virtual machines for OpenShift Container Platform compute machines 1 guest virtual machine for the temporary OpenShift Container Platform bootstrap machine Disk storage for the IBM Power guest virtual machines Storage provisioned by the Virtual I/O Server using vSCSI, NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) or SSP (shared storage pools) Network for the PowerVM guest virtual machines Virtualized by the Virtual I/O Server using Shared Ethernet Adapter Virtualized by the Virtual I/O Server using IBM vNIC Storage / main memory 120 GB / 32 GB for OpenShift Container Platform control plane machines 120 GB / 32 GB for OpenShift Container Platform compute machines 120 GB / 16 GB for the temporary OpenShift Container Platform bootstrap machine 11.1.2.7. Certificate signing requests management Because your cluster has limited access to automatic machine management when you use infrastructure that you provision, you must provide a mechanism for approving cluster certificate signing requests (CSRs) after installation. The kube-controller-manager only approves the kubelet client CSRs. The machine-approver cannot guarantee the validity of a serving certificate that is requested by using kubelet credentials because it cannot confirm that the correct machine issued the request. You must determine and implement a method of verifying the validity of the kubelet serving certificate requests and approving them. 11.1.3. Creating the user-provisioned infrastructure Before you deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses user-provisioned infrastructure, you must create the underlying infrastructure. Prerequisites Review the OpenShift Container Platform 4.x Tested Integrations page before you create the supporting infrastructure for your cluster. Procedure Set up static IP addresses. Set up an HTTP or HTTPS server to provide Ignition files to the cluster nodes. Provision the required load balancers. Configure the ports for your machines. Configure DNS. Ensure network connectivity. 11.1.3.1. Networking requirements for user-provisioned infrastructure All the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines require network in initramfs during boot to fetch Ignition config from the machine config server. During the initial boot, the machines require an HTTP or HTTPS server to establish a network connection to download their Ignition config files. Ensure that the machines have persistent IP addresses and host names. The Kubernetes API server must be able to resolve the node names of the cluster machines. If the API servers and worker nodes are in different zones, you can configure a default DNS search zone to allow the API server to resolve the node names. Another supported approach is to always refer to hosts by their fully-qualified domain names in both the node objects and all DNS requests. You must configure the network connectivity between machines to allow cluster components to communicate. Each machine must be able to resolve the host names of all other machines in the cluster. Table 11.2. All machines to all machines Protocol Port Description ICMP N/A Network reachability tests TCP 1936 Metrics 9000 - 9999 Host level services, including the node exporter on ports 9100 - 9101 and the Cluster Version Operator on port 9099 . 10250 - 10259 The default ports that Kubernetes reserves 10256 openshift-sdn UDP 4789 VXLAN and Geneve 6081 VXLAN and Geneve 9000 - 9999 Host level services, including the node exporter on ports 9100 - 9101 . TCP/UDP 30000 - 32767 Kubernetes node port Table 11.3. All machines to control plane Protocol Port Description TCP 6443 Kubernetes API Table 11.4. Control plane machines to control plane machines Protocol Port Description TCP 2379 - 2380 etcd server and peer ports Network topology requirements The infrastructure that you provision for your cluster must meet the following network topology requirements. Important OpenShift Container Platform requires all nodes to have internet access to pull images for platform containers and provide telemetry data to Red Hat. Load balancers Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, you must provision two load balancers that meet the following requirements: API load balancer : Provides a common endpoint for users, both human and machine, to interact with and configure the platform. Configure the following conditions: Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the API routes. A stateless load balancing algorithm. The options vary based on the load balancer implementation. Important Do not configure session persistence for an API load balancer. Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers: Table 11.5. API load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 6443 Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane. You must configure the /readyz endpoint for the API server health check probe. X X Kubernetes API server 22623 Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane. X Machine config server Note The load balancer must be configured to take a maximum of 30 seconds from the time the API server turns off the /readyz endpoint to the removal of the API server instance from the pool. Within the time frame after /readyz returns an error or becomes healthy, the endpoint must have been removed or added. Probing every 5 or 10 seconds, with two successful requests to become healthy and three to become unhealthy, are well-tested values. Application Ingress load balancer : Provides an Ingress point for application traffic flowing in from outside the cluster. Configure the following conditions: Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the Ingress routes. A connection-based or session-based persistence is recommended, based on the options available and types of applications that will be hosted on the platform. Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers: Table 11.6. Application Ingress load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 443 The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default. X X HTTPS traffic 80 The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default. X X HTTP traffic Tip If the true IP address of the client can be seen by the load balancer, enabling source IP-based session persistence can improve performance for applications that use end-to-end TLS encryption. Note A working configuration for the Ingress router is required for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. You must configure the Ingress router after the control plane initializes. NTP configuration OpenShift Container Platform clusters are configured to use a public Network Time Protocol (NTP) server by default. If you want to use a local enterprise NTP server, or if your cluster is being deployed in a disconnected network, you can configure the cluster to use a specific time server. For more information, see the documentation for Configuring chrony time service . Additional resources Configuring chrony time service 11.1.3.2. User-provisioned DNS requirements DNS is used for name resolution and reverse name resolution. DNS A/AAAA or CNAME records are used for name resolution and PTR records are used for reverse name resolution. The reverse records are important because Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) uses the reverse records to set the host name for all the nodes. Additionally, the reverse records are used to generate the certificate signing requests (CSR) that OpenShift Container Platform needs to operate. The following DNS records are required for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses user-provisioned infrastructure. In each record, <cluster_name> is the cluster name and <base_domain> is the cluster base domain that you specify in the install-config.yaml file. A complete DNS record takes the form: <component>.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. . Table 11.7. Required DNS records Component Record Description Kubernetes API api.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add a DNS A/AAAA or CNAME record, and a DNS PTR record, to identify the load balancer for the control plane machines. These records must be resolvable by both clients external to the cluster and from all the nodes within the cluster. api-int.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add a DNS A/AAAA or CNAME record, and a DNS PTR record, to identify the load balancer for the control plane machines. These records must be resolvable from all the nodes within the cluster. Important The API server must be able to resolve the worker nodes by the host names that are recorded in Kubernetes. If the API server cannot resolve the node names, then proxied API calls can fail, and you cannot retrieve logs from pods. Routes *.apps.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add a wildcard DNS A/AAAA or CNAME record that refers to the load balancer that targets the machines that run the Ingress router pods, which are the worker nodes by default. These records must be resolvable by both clients external to the cluster and from all the nodes within the cluster. Bootstrap bootstrap.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add a DNS A/AAAA or CNAME record, and a DNS PTR record, to identify the bootstrap machine. These records must be resolvable by the nodes within the cluster. Master hosts <master><n>.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. DNS A/AAAA or CNAME records and DNS PTR records to identify each machine for the control plane nodes (also known as the master nodes). These records must be resolvable by the nodes within the cluster. Worker hosts <worker><n>.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add DNS A/AAAA or CNAME records and DNS PTR records to identify each machine for the worker nodes. These records must be resolvable by the nodes within the cluster. Tip You can use the nslookup <hostname> command to verify name resolution. You can use the dig -x <ip_address> command to verify reverse name resolution for the PTR records. The following example of a BIND zone file shows sample A records for name resolution. The purpose of the example is to show the records that are needed. The example is not meant to provide advice for choosing one name resolution service over another. Example 11.1. Sample DNS zone database USDTTL 1W @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. root ( 2019070700 ; serial 3H ; refresh (3 hours) 30M ; retry (30 minutes) 2W ; expiry (2 weeks) 1W ) ; minimum (1 week) IN NS ns1.example.com. IN MX 10 smtp.example.com. ; ; ns1 IN A 192.168.1.5 smtp IN A 192.168.1.5 ; helper IN A 192.168.1.5 helper.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; The api identifies the IP of your load balancer. api.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 api-int.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; The wildcard also identifies the load balancer. *.apps.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; Create an entry for the bootstrap host. bootstrap.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.96 ; ; Create entries for the master hosts. master0.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.97 master1.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.98 master2.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.99 ; ; Create entries for the worker hosts. worker0.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.11 worker1.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.7 ; ;EOF The following example BIND zone file shows sample PTR records for reverse name resolution. Example 11.2. Sample DNS zone database for reverse records USDTTL 1W @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. root ( 2019070700 ; serial 3H ; refresh (3 hours) 30M ; retry (30 minutes) 2W ; expiry (2 weeks) 1W ) ; minimum (1 week) IN NS ns1.example.com. ; ; The syntax is "last octet" and the host must have an FQDN ; with a trailing dot. 97 IN PTR master0.ocp4.example.com. 98 IN PTR master1.ocp4.example.com. 99 IN PTR master2.ocp4.example.com. ; 96 IN PTR bootstrap.ocp4.example.com. ; 5 IN PTR api.ocp4.example.com. 5 IN PTR api-int.ocp4.example.com. ; 11 IN PTR worker0.ocp4.example.com. 7 IN PTR worker1.ocp4.example.com. ; ;EOF 11.1.4. Generating an SSH private key and adding it to the agent If you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery on your cluster, you must provide an SSH key to both your ssh-agent and the installation program. You can use this key to access the bootstrap machine in a public cluster to troubleshoot installation issues. Note In a production environment, you require disaster recovery and debugging. Important Do not skip this procedure in production environments where disaster recovery and debugging is required. You can use this key to SSH into the master nodes as the user core . When you deploy the cluster, the key is added to the core user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys list. Procedure If you do not have an SSH key that is configured for password-less authentication on your computer, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command: USD ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' \ -f <path>/<file_name> 1 1 Specify the path and file name, such as ~/.ssh/id_rsa , of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your ~/.ssh directory. Running this command generates an SSH key that does not require a password in the location that you specified. Note If you plan to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries on the x86_64 architecture, do not create a key that uses the ed25519 algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses the rsa or ecdsa algorithm. Start the ssh-agent process as a background task: USD eval "USD(ssh-agent -s)" Example output Agent pid 31874 Note If your cluster is in FIPS mode, only use FIPS-compliant algorithms to generate the SSH key. The key must be either RSA or ECDSA. Add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent : USD ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1 Example output Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>) 1 Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as ~/.ssh/id_rsa steps When you install OpenShift Container Platform, provide the SSH public key to the installation program. 11.1.5. Obtaining the installation program Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, download the installation file on your provisioning machine. Prerequisites You have a machine that runs Linux, for example Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, with 500 MB of local disk space Procedure Access the Infrastructure Provider page on the OpenShift Cluster Manager site. If you have a Red Hat account, log in with your credentials. If you do not, create an account. Select your infrastructure provider. Navigate to the page for your installation type, download the installation program for your operating system, and place the file in the directory where you will store the installation configuration files. Important The installation program creates several files on the computer that you use to install your cluster. You must keep the installation program and the files that the installation program creates after you finish installing the cluster. Both files are required to delete the cluster. Important Deleting the files created by the installation program does not remove your cluster, even if the cluster failed during installation. To remove your cluster, complete the OpenShift Container Platform uninstallation procedures for your specific cloud provider. Extract the installation program. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command: USD tar xvf openshift-install-linux.tar.gz Download your installation pull secret from the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager . This pull secret allows you to authenticate with the services that are provided by the included authorities, including Quay.io, which serves the container images for OpenShift Container Platform components. 11.1.6. Installing the OpenShift CLI by downloading the binary You can install the OpenShift CLI ( oc ) to interact with OpenShift Container Platform from a command-line interface. You can install oc on Linux, Windows, or macOS. Important If you installed an earlier version of oc , you cannot use it to complete all of the commands in OpenShift Container Platform 4.7. Download and install the new version of oc . 11.1.6.1. Installing the OpenShift CLI on Linux You can install the OpenShift CLI ( oc ) binary on Linux by using the following procedure. Procedure Navigate to the OpenShift Container Platform downloads page on the Red Hat Customer Portal. Select the appropriate version in the Version drop-down menu. Click Download Now to the OpenShift v4.7 Linux Client entry and save the file. Unpack the archive: USD tar xvzf <file> Place the oc binary in a directory that is on your PATH . To check your PATH , execute the following command: USD echo USDPATH After you install the OpenShift CLI, it is available using the oc command: USD oc <command> 11.1.6.2. Installing the OpenShift CLI on Windows You can install the OpenShift CLI ( oc ) binary on Windows by using the following procedure. Procedure Navigate to the OpenShift Container Platform downloads page on the Red Hat Customer Portal. Select the appropriate version in the Version drop-down menu. Click Download Now to the OpenShift v4.7 Windows Client entry and save the file. Unzip the archive with a ZIP program. Move the oc binary to a directory that is on your PATH . To check your PATH , open the command prompt and execute the following command: C:\> path After you install the OpenShift CLI, it is available using the oc command: C:\> oc <command> 11.1.6.3. Installing the OpenShift CLI on macOS You can install the OpenShift CLI ( oc ) binary on macOS by using the following procedure. Procedure Navigate to the OpenShift Container Platform downloads page on the Red Hat Customer Portal. Select the appropriate version in the Version drop-down menu. Click Download Now to the OpenShift v4.7 MacOSX Client entry and save the file. Unpack and unzip the archive. Move the oc binary to a directory on your PATH. To check your PATH , open a terminal and execute the following command: USD echo USDPATH After you install the OpenShift CLI, it is available using the oc command: USD oc <command> 11.1.7. Manually creating the installation configuration file For installations of OpenShift Container Platform that use user-provisioned infrastructure, you manually generate your installation configuration file. Prerequisites Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the access token for your cluster. Procedure Create an installation directory to store your required installation assets in: USD mkdir <installation_directory> Important You must create a directory. Some installation assets, like bootstrap X.509 certificates have short expiration intervals, so you must not reuse an installation directory. If you want to reuse individual files from another cluster installation, you can copy them into your directory. However, the file names for the installation assets might change between releases. Use caution when copying installation files from an earlier OpenShift Container Platform version. Customize the following install-config.yaml file template and save it in the <installation_directory> . Note You must name this configuration file install-config.yaml . Back up the install-config.yaml file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters. Important The install-config.yaml file is consumed during the step of the installation process. You must back it up now. 11.1.7.1. Sample install-config.yaml file for IBM Z 11.1.7.2. Sample install-config.yaml file for IBM Power Systems You can customize the install-config.yaml file to specify more details about your OpenShift Container Platform cluster's platform or modify the values of the required parameters. apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: example.com 1 compute: 2 - hyperthreading: Enabled 3 name: worker replicas: 0 4 architecture : ppc64le controlPlane: 5 hyperthreading: Enabled 6 name: master replicas: 3 7 architecture : ppc64le metadata: name: test 8 networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 9 hostPrefix: 23 10 networkType: OpenShiftSDN serviceNetwork: 11 - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: none: {} 12 fips: false 13 pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}' 14 sshKey: 'ssh-ed25519 AAAA...' 15 1 The base domain of the cluster. All DNS records must be sub-domains of this base and include the cluster name. 2 5 The controlPlane section is a single mapping, but the compute section is a sequence of mappings. To meet the requirements of the different data structures, the first line of the compute section must begin with a hyphen, - , and the first line of the controlPlane section must not. Only one control plane pool is used. 3 6 Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading (SMT), or hyperthreading . By default, SMT is enabled to increase the performance of your machines' cores. You can disable it by setting the parameter value to Disabled . If you disable SMT, you must disable it in all cluster machines; this includes both control plane and compute machines. Note Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is enabled by default. If SMT is not enabled in your BIOS settings, the hyperthreading parameter has no effect. Important If you disable hyperthreading , whether in the BIOS or in the install-config.yaml , ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. 4 You must set the value of the replicas parameter to 0 . This parameter controls the number of workers that the cluster creates and manages for you, which are functions that the cluster does not perform when you use user-provisioned infrastructure. You must manually deploy worker machines for the cluster to use before you finish installing OpenShift Container Platform. 7 The number of control plane machines that you add to the cluster. Because the cluster uses these values as the number of etcd endpoints in the cluster, the value must match the number of control plane machines that you deploy. 8 The cluster name that you specified in your DNS records. 9 A block of IP addresses from which pod IP addresses are allocated. This block must not overlap with existing physical networks. These IP addresses are used for the pod network. If you need to access the pods from an external network, you must configure load balancers and routers to manage the traffic. Note Class E CIDR range is reserved for a future use. To use the Class E CIDR range, you must ensure your networking environment accepts the IP addresses within the Class E CIDR range. 10 The subnet prefix length to assign to each individual node. For example, if hostPrefix is set to 23 , then each node is assigned a /23 subnet out of the given cidr , which allows for 510 (2^(32 - 23) - 2) pod IPs addresses. If you are required to provide access to nodes from an external network, configure load balancers and routers to manage the traffic. 11 The IP address pool to use for service IP addresses. You can enter only one IP address pool. This block must not overlap with existing physical networks. If you need to access the services from an external network, configure load balancers and routers to manage the traffic. 12 You must set the platform to none . You cannot provide additional platform configuration variables for IBM Z infrastructure. IBM Power Systems infrastructure. Warning Red Hat Virtualization does not currently support installation with user-provisioned infrastructure on the oVirt platform. Therefore, you must set the platform to none , allowing OpenShift Container Platform to identify each node as a bare-metal node and the cluster as a bare-metal cluster. This is the same as installing a cluster on any platform , and has the following limitations: There will be no cluster provider so you must manually add each machine and there will be no node scaling capabilities. The oVirt CSI driver will not be installed and there will be no CSI capabilities. 13 Whether to enable or disable FIPS mode. By default, FIPS mode is not enabled. If FIPS mode is enabled, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines that OpenShift Container Platform runs on bypass the default Kubernetes cryptography suite and use the cryptography modules that are provided with RHCOS instead. Important The use of FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries is only supported on OpenShift Container Platform deployments on the x86_64 architecture. 14 The pull secret from the Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager . This pull secret allows you to authenticate with the services that are provided by the included authorities, including Quay.io, which serves the container images for OpenShift Container Platform components. 15 The public portion of the default SSH key for the core user in Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS). Note For production OpenShift Container Platform clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, specify an SSH key that your ssh-agent process uses. 11.1.7.3. Configuring the cluster-wide proxy during installation Production environments can deny direct access to the Internet and instead have an HTTP or HTTPS proxy available. You can configure a new OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use a proxy by configuring the proxy settings in the install-config.yaml file. Prerequisites You have an existing install-config.yaml file. You reviewed the sites that your cluster requires access to and determined whether any of them need to bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster egress traffic is proxied, including calls to hosting cloud provider APIs. You added sites to the Proxy object's spec.noProxy field to bypass the proxy if necessary. Note The Proxy object status.noProxy field is populated with the values of the networking.machineNetwork[].cidr , networking.clusterNetwork[].cidr , and networking.serviceNetwork[] fields from your installation configuration. For installations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP), the Proxy object status.noProxy field is also populated with the instance metadata endpoint ( 169.254.169.254 ). Procedure Edit your install-config.yaml file and add the proxy settings. For example: apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: my.domain.com proxy: httpProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 1 httpsProxy: https://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 additionalTrustBundle: | 4 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT> -----END CERTIFICATE----- ... 1 A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be http . 2 A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster. 3 A comma-separated list of destination domain names, IP addresses, or other network CIDRs to exclude from proxying. Preface a domain with . to match subdomains only. For example, .y.com matches x.y.com , but not y.com . Use * to bypass the proxy for all destinations. 4 If provided, the installation program generates a config map that is named user-ca-bundle in the openshift-config namespace to hold the additional CA certificates. If you provide additionalTrustBundle and at least one proxy setting, the Proxy object is configured to reference the user-ca-bundle config map in the trustedCA field. The Cluster Network Operator then creates a trusted-ca-bundle config map that merges the contents specified for the trustedCA parameter with the RHCOS trust bundle. The additionalTrustBundle field is required unless the proxy's identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle. Note The installation program does not support the proxy readinessEndpoints field. Save the file and reference it when installing OpenShift Container Platform. The installation program creates a cluster-wide proxy that is named cluster that uses the proxy settings in the provided install-config.yaml file. If no proxy settings are provided, a cluster Proxy object is still created, but it will have a nil spec . Note Only the Proxy object named cluster is supported, and no additional proxies can be created. 11.1.8. Creating the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files Because you must modify some cluster definition files and manually start the cluster machines, you must generate the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files that the cluster needs to make its machines. The installation configuration file transforms into the Kubernetes manifests. The manifests wrap into the Ignition configuration files, which are later used to create the cluster. Important The Ignition config files that the installation program generates contain certificates that expire after 24 hours, which are then renewed at that time. If the cluster is shut down before renewing the certificates and the cluster is later restarted after the 24 hours have elapsed, the cluster automatically recovers the expired certificates. The exception is that you must manually approve the pending node-bootstrapper certificate signing requests (CSRs) to recover kubelet certificates. See the documentation for Recovering from expired control plane certificates for more information. Note The installation program that generates the manifest and Ignition files is architecture specific and can be obtained from the client image mirror . The Linux version of the installation program runs on s390x only. This installer program is also available as a Mac OS version. Note The installation program that generates the manifest and Ignition files is architecture specific and can be obtained from the client image mirror . The Linux version of the installation program runs on ppc64le only. This installer program is also available as a Mac OS version. Prerequisites You obtained the OpenShift Container Platform installation program. You created the install-config.yaml installation configuration file. Procedure Change to the directory that contains the installation program and generate the Kubernetes manifests for the cluster: USD ./openshift-install create manifests --dir <installation_directory> 1 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the installation directory that contains the install-config.yaml file you created. Warning If you are installing a three-node cluster, skip the following step to allow the control plane nodes to be schedulable. Important When you configure control plane nodes from the default unschedulable to schedulable, additional subscriptions are required. This is because control plane nodes then become worker nodes. Check that the mastersSchedulable parameter in the <installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml Kubernetes manifest file is set to false . This setting prevents pods from being scheduled on the control plane machines: Open the <installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml file. Locate the mastersSchedulable parameter and ensure that it is set to false . Save and exit the file. To create the Ignition configuration files, run the following command from the directory that contains the installation program: USD ./openshift-install create ignition-configs --dir <installation_directory> 1 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the same installation directory. The following files are generated in the directory: 11.1.9. Creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines Before you install a cluster on IBM Power Systems infrastructure that you provision, you must create RHCOS machines for it to use. Follow either the steps to use an ISO image or network PXE booting to create the machines. 11.1.9.1. Creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines using an ISO image Before you install a cluster on IBM Power Systems infrastructure that you provision, you must create RHCOS machines for it to use. You can use an ISO image to create the machines. Prerequisites Obtain the Ignition config files for your cluster. Have access to an HTTP server that can be accessed from your computer, and from the machines that you create. Procedure Upload the control plane, compute, and bootstrap Ignition config files that the installation program created to your HTTP server. Note the URLs of these files. Important If you plan to add more compute machines to your cluster after you finish installation, do not delete these files. Obtain the RHCOS images that are required for your preferred method of installing operating system instances from the RHCOS image mirror page. Important The RHCOS images might not change with every release of OpenShift Container Platform. You must download images with the highest version that is less than or equal to the OpenShift Container Platform version that you install. Use the image versions that match your OpenShift Container Platform version if they are available. Use only ISO images for this procedure. RHCOS qcow2 images are not supported for this installation type. ISO file names resemble the following example: rhcos-<version>-live.<architecture>.iso Use the ISO to start the RHCOS installation. Use one of the following installation options: Burn the ISO image to a disk and boot it directly. Use ISO redirection via a LOM interface. Boot the ISO image. You can interrupt the installation boot process to add kernel arguments. However, for this ISO procedure you should use the coreos-installer command instead of adding kernel arguments. If you run the live installer without options or interruption, the installer boots up to a shell prompt on the live system, ready for you to install RHCOS to disk. Review the Advanced RHCOS installation reference section for different ways of configuring features, such as networking and disk partitions, before running the coreos-installer . Run the coreos-installer command. At a minimum, you must identify the Ignition config file location for your node type, and the location of the disk you are installing to. Here is an example: USD sudo coreos-installer install \ --ignition-url=https://host/worker.ign /dev/sda After RHCOS installs, the system reboots. During the system reboot, it applies the Ignition config file that you specified. Continue to create the other machines for your cluster. Important You must create the bootstrap and control plane machines at this time. If the control plane machines are not made schedulable, which is the default, also create at least two compute machines before you install the cluster. 11.1.9.1.1. Advanced RHCOS installation reference This section illustrates the networking configuration and other advanced options that allow you to modify the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) manual installation process. The following tables describe the kernel arguments and command-line options you can use with the RHCOS live installer and the coreos-installer command. Routing and bonding options at RHCOS boot prompt If you install RHCOS from an ISO image, you can add kernel arguments manually when you boot that image to configure the node's networking. If no networking arguments are used, the installation defaults to using DHCP. Important When adding networking arguments, you must also add the rd.neednet=1 kernel argument. The following table describes how to use ip= , nameserver= , and bond= kernel arguments for live ISO installs. Note Ordering is important when adding kernel arguments: ip= , nameserver= , and then bond= . Routing and bonding options for ISO The following table provides examples for configuring networking of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) nodes. These are networking options that are passed to the dracut tool during system boot. For more information about the networking options supported by dracut , see the dracut.cmdline manual page. Description Examples To configure an IP address, either use DHCP ( ip=dhcp ) or set an individual static IP address ( ip=<host_ip> ). Then identify the DNS server IP address ( nameserver=<dns_ip> ) on each node. This example sets: The node's IP address to 10.10.10.2 The gateway address to 10.10.10.254 The netmask to 255.255.255.0 The hostname to core0.example.com The DNS server address to 4.4.4.41 Specify multiple network interfaces by specifying multiple ip= entries. Optional: You can configure routes to additional networks by setting an rd.route= value. If the additional network gateway is different from the primary network gateway, the default gateway must be the primary network gateway. To configure the default gateway: To configure the route for the additional network: Disable DHCP on a single interface, such as when there are two or more network interfaces and only one interface is being used. You can combine DHCP and static IP configurations on systems with multiple network interfaces. Optional: You can configure VLANs on individual interfaces by using the vlan= parameter. To configure a VLAN on a network interface and use a static IP address: To configure a VLAN on a network interface and to use DHCP: You can provide multiple DNS servers by adding a nameserver= entry for each server. Optional: Bonding multiple network interfaces to a single interface is supported using the bond= option. In these two examples: The syntax for configuring a bonded interface is: bond=name[:network_interfaces][:options] name is the bonding device name ( bond0 ), network_interfaces represents a comma-separated list of physical (ethernet) interfaces ( em1,em2 ), and options is a comma-separated list of bonding options. Enter modinfo bonding to see available options. When you create a bonded interface using bond= , you must specify how the IP address is assigned and other information for the bonded interface. To configure the bonded interface to use DHCP, set the bond's IP address to dhcp . For example: To configure the bonded interface to use a static IP address, enter the specific IP address you want and related information. For example: Optional: You can configure VLANs on bonded interfaces by using the vlan= parameter. To configure the bonded interface with a VLAN and to use DHCP: To configure the bonded interface with a VLAN and to use a static IP address: Optional: Network teaming can be used as an alternative to bonding by using the team= parameter. In this example: The syntax for configuring a team interface is: team=name[:network_interfaces] name is the team device name ( team0 ) and network_interfaces represents a comma-separated list of physical (ethernet) interfaces ( em1, em2 ). Note Teaming is planned to be deprecated when RHCOS switches to an upcoming version of RHEL. For more information, see this Red Hat Knowledgebase Article . To configure a network team: 11.1.9.2. Creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines by PXE or iPXE booting Before you install a cluster that uses manually-provisioned RHCOS nodes, such as bare metal, you must create RHCOS machines for it to use. You can use PXE or iPXE booting to create the machines. Prerequisites Obtain the Ignition config files for your cluster. Configure suitable PXE or iPXE infrastructure. Have access to an HTTP server that you can access from your computer. Procedure Upload the master, worker, and bootstrap Ignition config files that the installation program created to your HTTP server. Note the URLs of these files. Important You can add or change configuration settings in your Ignition configs before saving them to your HTTP server. If you plan to add more compute machines to your cluster after you finish installation, do not delete these files. Obtain the RHCOS kernel , initramfs and rootfs files from the RHCOS image mirror page. Important The RHCOS artifacts might not change with every release of OpenShift Container Platform. You must download artifacts with the highest version that is less than or equal to the OpenShift Container Platform version that you install. Only use the appropriate kernel , initramfs , and rootfs artifacts described below for this procedure. RHCOS qcow2 images are not supported for this installation type. The file names contain the OpenShift Container Platform version number. They resemble the following examples: kernel : rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> initramfs : rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img rootfs : rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img Upload the additional files that are required for your booting method: For traditional PXE, upload the kernel and initramfs files to your TFTP server and the rootfs file to your HTTP server. For iPXE, upload the kernel , initramfs , and rootfs files to your HTTP server. Important If you plan to add more compute machines to your cluster after you finish installation, do not delete these files. Configure the network boot infrastructure so that the machines boot from their local disks after RHCOS is installed on them. Configure PXE or iPXE installation for the RHCOS images. Modify one of the following example menu entries for your environment and verify that the image and Ignition files are properly accessible: For PXE: 1 Specify the location of the live kernel file that you uploaded to your HTTP server. The URL must be HTTP, TFTP, or FTP; HTTPS and NFS are not supported. 2 If you use multiple NICs, specify a single interface in the ip option. For example, to use DHCP on a NIC that is named eno1 , set ip=eno1:dhcp . 3 Specify locations of the RHCOS files that you uploaded to your HTTP server. The initrd parameter value is the location of the initramfs file, the coreos.live.rootfs_url parameter value is the location of the rootfs file, and the coreos.inst.ignition_url parameter value is the location of the bootstrap Ignition config file. You can also add more kernel arguments to the APPEND line to configure networking or other boot options. Note This configuration does not enable serial console access on machines with a graphical console. To configure a different console, add one or more console= arguments to the APPEND line. For example, add console=tty0 console=ttyS0 to set the first PC serial port as the primary console and the graphical console as a secondary console. For more information, see How does one set up a serial terminal and/or console in Red Hat Enterprise Linux? . For iPXE: 1 Specify locations of the RHCOS files that you uploaded to your HTTP server. The kernel parameter value is the location of the kernel file, the initrd=main argument is needed for booting on UEFI systems, the coreos.live.rootfs_url parameter value is the location of the rootfs file, and the coreos.inst.ignition_url parameter value is the location of the bootstrap Ignition config file. 2 If you use multiple NICs, specify a single interface in the ip option. For example, to use DHCP on a NIC that is named eno1 , set ip=eno1:dhcp . 3 Specify the location of the initramfs file that you uploaded to your HTTP server. Note This configuration does not enable serial console access on machines with a graphical console. To configure a different console, add one or more console= arguments to the kernel line. For example, add console=tty0 console=ttyS0 to set the first PC serial port as the primary console and the graphical console as a secondary console. For more information, see How does one set up a serial terminal and/or console in Red Hat Enterprise Linux? . If you use PXE UEFI, perform the following actions: Provide the shimx64.efi and grubx64.efi EFI binaries and the grub.cfg file that are required for booting the system. Extract the necessary EFI binaries by mounting the RHCOS ISO to your host and then mounting the images/efiboot.img file to your host: USD mkdir -p /mnt/iso USD mkdir -p /mnt/efiboot USD mount -o loop rhcos-installer.x86_64.iso /mnt/iso USD mount -o loop,ro /mnt/iso/images/efiboot.img /mnt/efiboot From the efiboot.img mount point, copy the EFI/redhat/shimx64.efi and EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi files to your TFTP server: USD cp /mnt/efiboot/EFI/redhat/shimx64.efi . USD cp /mnt/efiboot/EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi . USD umount /mnt/efiboot USD umount /mnt/iso Copy the EFI/redhat/grub.cfg file that is included in the RHCOS ISO to your TFTP server. Edit the grub.cfg file to include arguments similar to the following: where: rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> Specifies the kernel file that you uploaded to your TFTP server. http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img Specifies the location of the live rootfs image that you uploaded to your HTTP server. http://<HTTP_server>/bootstrap.ign Specifies the location of the bootstrap Ignition config file that you uploaded to your HTTP server. rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img Specifies the location of the initramfs file that you uploaded to your TFTP server. Note For more information on how to configure a PXE server for UEFI boot, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase article: How to configure/setup a PXE server for UEFI boot for Red Hat Enterprise Linux? . Continue to create the machines for your cluster. Important You must create the bootstrap and control plane machines at this time. If the control plane machines are not made schedulable, which is the default, also create at least two compute machines before you install the cluster. 11.1.10. Creating the cluster To create the OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you wait for the bootstrap process to complete on the machines that you provisioned by using the Ignition config files that you generated with the installation program. Prerequisites Create the required infrastructure for the cluster. You obtained the installation program and generated the Ignition config files for your cluster. You used the Ignition config files to create RHCOS machines for your cluster. Your machines have direct Internet access or have an HTTP or HTTPS proxy available. Procedure Monitor the bootstrap process: USD ./openshift-install --dir <installation_directory> wait-for bootstrap-complete \ 1 --log-level=info 2 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in. 2 To view different installation details, specify warn , debug , or error instead of info . Example output INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the Kubernetes API at https://api.test.example.com:6443... INFO API v1.20.0 up INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for bootstrapping to complete... INFO It is now safe to remove the bootstrap resources The command succeeds when the Kubernetes API server signals that it has been bootstrapped on the control plane machines. After bootstrap process is complete, remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer. Important You must remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer at this point. You can also remove or reformat the machine itself. 11.1.11. Logging in to the cluster by using the CLI You can log in to your cluster as a default system user by exporting the cluster kubeconfig file. The kubeconfig file contains information about the cluster that is used by the CLI to connect a client to the correct cluster and API server. The file is specific to a cluster and is created during OpenShift Container Platform installation. Prerequisites You deployed an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. You installed the oc CLI. Procedure Export the kubeadmin credentials: USD export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in. Verify you can run oc commands successfully using the exported configuration: USD oc whoami Example output system:admin 11.1.12. Approving the certificate signing requests for your machines When you add machines to a cluster, two pending certificate signing requests (CSRs) are generated for each machine that you added. You must confirm that these CSRs are approved or, if necessary, approve them yourself. The client requests must be approved first, followed by the server requests. Prerequisites You added machines to your cluster. Procedure Confirm that the cluster recognizes the machines: USD oc get nodes Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 63m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 63m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 64m v1.20.0 The output lists all of the machines that you created. Note The preceding output might not include the compute nodes, also known as worker nodes, until some CSRs are approved. Review the pending CSRs and ensure that you see the client requests with the Pending or Approved status for each machine that you added to the cluster: USD oc get csr Example output NAME AGE REQUESTOR CONDITION csr-mddf5 20m system:node:master-01.example.com Approved,Issued csr-z5rln 16m system:node:worker-21.example.com Approved,Issued If the CSRs were not approved, after all of the pending CSRs for the machines you added are in Pending status, approve the CSRs for your cluster machines: Note Because the CSRs rotate automatically, approve your CSRs within an hour of adding the machines to the cluster. If you do not approve them within an hour, the certificates will rotate, and more than two certificates will be present for each node. You must approve all of these certificates. Once the client CSR is approved, the Kubelet creates a secondary CSR for the serving certificate, which requires manual approval. Then, subsequent serving certificate renewal requests are automatically approved by the machine-approver if the Kubelet requests a new certificate with identical parameters. Note For clusters running on platforms that are not machine API enabled, such as bare metal and other user-provisioned infrastructure, you must implement a method of automatically approving the kubelet serving certificate requests (CSRs). If a request is not approved, then the oc exec , oc rsh , and oc logs commands cannot succeed, because a serving certificate is required when the API server connects to the kubelet. Any operation that contacts the Kubelet endpoint requires this certificate approval to be in place. The method must watch for new CSRs, confirm that the CSR was submitted by the node-bootstrapper service account in the system:node or system:admin groups, and confirm the identity of the node. To approve them individually, run the following command for each valid CSR: USD oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> 1 1 <csr_name> is the name of a CSR from the list of current CSRs. To approve all pending CSRs, run the following command: USD oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty oc adm certificate approve Note Some Operators might not become available until some CSRs are approved. Now that your client requests are approved, you must review the server requests for each machine that you added to the cluster: USD oc get csr Example output NAME AGE REQUESTOR CONDITION csr-bfd72 5m26s system:node:ip-10-0-50-126.us-east-2.compute.internal Pending csr-c57lv 5m26s system:node:ip-10-0-95-157.us-east-2.compute.internal Pending ... If the remaining CSRs are not approved, and are in the Pending status, approve the CSRs for your cluster machines: To approve them individually, run the following command for each valid CSR: USD oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> 1 1 <csr_name> is the name of a CSR from the list of current CSRs. To approve all pending CSRs, run the following command: USD oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs oc adm certificate approve After all client and server CSRs have been approved, the machines have the Ready status. Verify this by running the following command: USD oc get nodes Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 74m v1.20.0 worker-0 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0 worker-1 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0 Note It can take a few minutes after approval of the server CSRs for the machines to transition to the Ready status. Additional information For more information on CSRs, see Certificate Signing Requests . 11.1.13. Initial Operator configuration After the control plane initializes, you must immediately configure some Operators so that they all become available. Prerequisites Your control plane has initialized. Procedure Watch the cluster components come online: USD watch -n5 oc get clusteroperators Example output NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m baremetal 4.7.0 True False False 29h cloud-credential 4.7.0 True False False 29h cluster-autoscaler 4.7.0 True False False 29h config-operator 4.7.0 True False False 6h39m console 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m csi-snapshot-controller 4.7.0 True False False 4h12m dns 4.7.0 True False False 4h15m etcd 4.7.0 True False False 29h image-registry 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m ingress 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m insights 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-scheduler 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-storage-version-migrator 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m machine-api 4.7.0 True False False 29h machine-approver 4.7.0 True False False 6h34m machine-config 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m marketplace 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m monitoring 4.7.0 True False False 6h31m network 4.7.0 True False False 29h node-tuning 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m openshift-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m openshift-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 4h36m openshift-samples 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m service-ca 4.7.0 True False False 29h storage 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m Configure the Operators that are not available. 11.1.13.1. Image registry storage configuration The Image Registry Operator is not initially available for platforms that do not provide default storage. After installation, you must configure your registry to use storage so that the Registry Operator is made available. Instructions are shown for configuring a persistent volume, which is required for production clusters. Where applicable, instructions are shown for configuring an empty directory as the storage location, which is available for only non-production clusters. Additional instructions are provided for allowing the image registry to use block storage types by using the Recreate rollout strategy during upgrades. 11.1.13.1.1. Configuring registry storage for IBM Z 11.1.13.1.2. Configuring registry storage for IBM Power Systems As a cluster administrator, following installation you must configure your registry to use storage. Prerequisites Cluster administrator permissions. A cluster on IBM Z. on IBM Power Systems. Persistent storage provisioned for your cluster. Important OpenShift Container Platform supports ReadWriteOnce access for image registry storage when you have only one replica. To deploy an image registry that supports high availability with two or more replicas, ReadWriteMany access is required. Must have 100Gi capacity. Procedure To configure your registry to use storage, change the spec.storage.pvc in the configs.imageregistry/cluster resource. Note When using shared storage, review your security settings to prevent outside access. Verify that you do not have a registry pod: USD oc get pod -n openshift-image-registry -l docker-registry=default Example output No resourses found in openshift-image-registry namespace Note If you do have a registry pod in your output, you do not need to continue with this procedure. Check the registry configuration: USD oc edit configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io Example output storage: pvc: claim: Leave the claim field blank to allow the automatic creation of an image-registry-storage PVC. Check the clusteroperator status: USD oc get clusteroperator image-registry Example output NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE MESSAGE image-registry 4.7 True False False 6h50m Ensure that your registry is set to managed to enable building and pushing of images. Run: Then, change the line to 11.1.13.1.3. Configuring storage for the image registry in non-production clusters You must configure storage for the Image Registry Operator. For non-production clusters, you can set the image registry to an empty directory. If you do so, all images are lost if you restart the registry. Procedure To set the image registry storage to an empty directory: USD oc patch configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io cluster --type merge --patch '{"spec":{"storage":{"emptyDir":{}}}}' Warning Configure this option for only non-production clusters. If you run this command before the Image Registry Operator initializes its components, the oc patch command fails with the following error: Error from server (NotFound): configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io "cluster" not found Wait a few minutes and run the command again. 11.1.14. Completing installation on user-provisioned infrastructure After you complete the Operator configuration, you can finish installing the cluster on infrastructure that you provide. Prerequisites Your control plane has initialized. You have completed the initial Operator configuration. Procedure Confirm that all the cluster components are online with the following command: USD watch -n5 oc get clusteroperators Example output NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m baremetal 4.7.0 True False False 29h cloud-credential 4.7.0 True False False 29h cluster-autoscaler 4.7.0 True False False 29h config-operator 4.7.0 True False False 6h39m console 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m csi-snapshot-controller 4.7.0 True False False 4h12m dns 4.7.0 True False False 4h15m etcd 4.7.0 True False False 29h image-registry 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m ingress 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m insights 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-scheduler 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-storage-version-migrator 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m machine-api 4.7.0 True False False 29h machine-approver 4.7.0 True False False 6h34m machine-config 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m marketplace 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m monitoring 4.7.0 True False False 6h31m network 4.7.0 True False False 29h node-tuning 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m openshift-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m openshift-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 4h36m openshift-samples 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m service-ca 4.7.0 True False False 29h storage 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m Alternatively, the following command notifies you when all of the clusters are available. It also retrieves and displays credentials: USD ./openshift-install --dir <installation_directory> wait-for install-complete 1 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in. Example output INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the cluster to initialize... The command succeeds when the Cluster Version Operator finishes deploying the OpenShift Container Platform cluster from Kubernetes API server. Important The Ignition config files that the installation program generates contain certificates that expire after 24 hours, which are then renewed at that time. If the cluster is shut down before renewing the certificates and the cluster is later restarted after the 24 hours have elapsed, the cluster automatically recovers the expired certificates. The exception is that you must manually approve the pending node-bootstrapper certificate signing requests (CSRs) to recover kubelet certificates. See the documentation for Recovering from expired control plane certificates for more information. It is recommended that you use Ignition config files within 12 hours after they are generated because the 24-hour certificate rotates from 16 to 22 hours after the cluster is installed. By using the Ignition config files within 12 hours, you can avoid installation failure if the certificate update runs during installation. Confirm that the Kubernetes API server is communicating with the pods. To view a list of all pods, use the following command: USD oc get pods --all-namespaces Example output NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE openshift-apiserver-operator openshift-apiserver-operator-85cb746d55-zqhs8 1/1 Running 1 9m openshift-apiserver apiserver-67b9g 1/1 Running 0 3m openshift-apiserver apiserver-ljcmx 1/1 Running 0 1m openshift-apiserver apiserver-z25h4 1/1 Running 0 2m openshift-authentication-operator authentication-operator-69d5d8bf84-vh2n8 1/1 Running 0 5m ... View the logs for a pod that is listed in the output of the command by using the following command: USD oc logs <pod_name> -n <namespace> 1 1 Specify the pod name and namespace, as shown in the output of the command. If the pod logs display, the Kubernetes API server can communicate with the cluster machines. For an installation with Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), additional steps are required to enable multipathing. Do not enable multipathing during installation. See "Enabling multipathing with kernel arguments on RHCOS" in the Post-installation configuration documentation for more information. To display a boot list and specify the possible boot devices if the system is booted in normal mode, enter the following command: USD bootlist -m normal -o sda To update the boot list for normal mode and add alternate device names, enter the following command: USD bootlist -m normal -o /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde sdc sdd sde If the original boot disk path is down, the node reboots from the alternate device registered in the normal boot device list. All the worker nodes are restarted. To monitor the process, enter the following command: USD oc get nodes -w Note If you have additional machine types such as infrastructure nodes, repeat the process for these types. 11.1.15. Telemetry access for OpenShift Container Platform In OpenShift Container Platform 4.7, the Telemetry service, which runs by default to provide metrics about cluster health and the success of updates, requires internet access. If your cluster is connected to the internet, Telemetry runs automatically, and your cluster is registered to OpenShift Cluster Manager . After you confirm that your OpenShift Cluster Manager inventory is correct, either maintained automatically by Telemetry or manually by using OpenShift Cluster Manager, use subscription watch to track your OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions at the account or multi-cluster level. Additional resources See About remote health monitoring for more information about the Telemetry service 11.1.16. steps Customize your cluster . If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting . 11.2. Installing a cluster on IBM Power Systems in a restricted network In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.7, you can install a cluster on IBM Power Systems infrastructure that you provision in a restricted network. Important Additional considerations exist for non-bare metal platforms. Review the information in the guidelines for deploying OpenShift Container Platform on non-tested platforms before you install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. Prerequisites Create a mirror registry for installation in a restricted network and obtain the imageContentSources data for your version of OpenShift Container Platform. Before you begin the installation process, you must move or remove any existing installation files. This ensures that the required installation files are created and updated during the installation process. Important Ensure that installation steps are performed on a machine with access to the installation media. Provision persistent storage for your cluster. To deploy a private image registry, your storage must provide ReadWriteMany access modes. Review details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes. If you use a firewall and plan to use telemetry, you must configure the firewall to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to. Note Be sure to also review this site list if you are configuring a proxy. 11.2.1. About installations in restricted networks In OpenShift Container Platform 4.7, you can perform an installation that does not require an active connection to the Internet to obtain software components. Restricted network installations can be completed using installer-provisioned infrastructure or user-provisioned infrastructure, depending on the cloud platform to which you are installing the cluster. To complete a restricted network installation, you must create a registry that mirrors the contents of the OpenShift Container Platform registry and contains the installation media. You can create this registry on a mirror host, which can access both the Internet and your closed network, or by using other methods that meet your restrictions. Important Because of the complexity of the configuration for user-provisioned installations, consider completing a standard user-provisioned infrastructure installation before you attempt a restricted network installation using user-provisioned infrastructure. Completing this test installation might make it easier to isolate and troubleshoot any issues that might arise during your installation in a restricted network. 11.2.1.1. Additional limits Clusters in restricted networks have the following additional limitations and restrictions: The ClusterVersion status includes an Unable to retrieve available updates error. By default, you cannot use the contents of the Developer Catalog because you cannot access the required image stream tags. 11.2.2. Internet access for OpenShift Container Platform In OpenShift Container Platform 4.7, you require access to the Internet to obtain the images that are necessary to install your cluster. You must have Internet access to: Access OpenShift Cluster Manager to download the installation program and perform subscription management. If the cluster has internet access and you do not disable Telemetry, that service automatically entitles your cluster. Access Quay.io to obtain the packages that are required to install your cluster. Obtain the packages that are required to perform cluster updates. Important If your cluster cannot have direct Internet access, you can perform a restricted network installation on some types of infrastructure that you provision. During that process, you download the content that is required and use it to populate a mirror registry with the packages that you need to install a cluster and generate the installation program. With some installation types, the environment that you install your cluster in will not require Internet access. Before you update the cluster, you update the content of the mirror registry. 11.2.3. Machine requirements for a cluster with user-provisioned infrastructure For a cluster that contains user-provisioned infrastructure, you must deploy all of the required machines. 11.2.3.1. Required machines The smallest OpenShift Container Platform clusters require the following hosts: One temporary bootstrap machine Three control plane, or master, machines At least two compute machines, which are also known as worker machines. Note The cluster requires the bootstrap machine to deploy the OpenShift Container Platform cluster on the three control plane machines. You can remove the bootstrap machine after you install the cluster. Important To improve high availability of your cluster, distribute the control plane machines over different z/VM instances on at least two physical machines. The bootstrap and control plane machines must use Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) as the operating system. However, the compute machines can choose between Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9. Note that RHCOS is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 and inherits all of its hardware certifications and requirements. See Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology capabilities and limits . 11.2.3.2. Network connectivity requirements All the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines require network in initramfs during boot to fetch Ignition config files from the Machine Config Server. The machines are configured with static IP addresses. No DHCP server is required. Additionally, each OpenShift Container Platform node in the cluster must have access to a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. 11.2.3.3. IBM Z network connectivity requirements To install on IBM Z under z/VM, you require a single z/VM virtual NIC in layer 2 mode. You also need: A direct-attached OSA or RoCE network adapter A z/VM VSwitch set up. For a preferred setup, use OSA link aggregation. 11.2.3.4. Minimum resource requirements Each cluster machine must meet the following minimum requirements: Table 11.8. Minimum resource requirements Machine Operating System vCPU [1] Virtual RAM Storage IOPS Bootstrap RHCOS 2 16 GB 100 GB N/A Control plane RHCOS 2 16 GB 100 GB N/A Compute RHCOS 2 8 GB 100 GB N/A One physical core (IFL) provides two logical cores (threads) when SMT-2 is enabled. The hypervisor can provide two or more vCPUs. 11.2.3.5. Minimum IBM Power Systems requirements You can install OpenShift Container Platform version 4.7 on the following IBM hardware: IBM POWER8 or POWER9 processor-based systems Hardware requirements 6 IBM Power bare metal servers or 6 LPARs across multiple PowerVM servers Operating system requirements One instance of an IBM POWER8 or POWER9 processor-based system On your IBM Power instance, set up: 3 guest virtual machines for OpenShift Container Platform control plane machines 2 guest virtual machines for OpenShift Container Platform compute machines 1 guest virtual machine for the temporary OpenShift Container Platform bootstrap machine Disk storage for the IBM Power guest virtual machines Storage provisioned by the Virtual I/O Server using vSCSI, NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) or SSP (shared storage pools) Network for the PowerVM guest virtual machines Virtualized by the Virtual I/O Server using Shared Ethernet Adapter Virtualized by the Virtual I/O Server using IBM vNIC Storage / main memory 100 GB / 16 GB for OpenShift Container Platform control plane machines 100 GB / 8 GB for OpenShift Container Platform compute machines 100 GB / 16 GB for the temporary OpenShift Container Platform bootstrap machine 11.2.3.6. Recommended IBM Power system requirements Hardware requirements 6 IBM Power bare metal servers or 6 LPARs across multiple PowerVM servers Operating system requirements One instance of an IBM POWER8 or POWER9 processor-based system On your IBM Power instance, set up: 3 guest virtual machines for OpenShift Container Platform control plane machines 2 guest virtual machines for OpenShift Container Platform compute machines 1 guest virtual machine for the temporary OpenShift Container Platform bootstrap machine Disk storage for the IBM Power guest virtual machines Storage provisioned by the Virtual I/O Server using vSCSI, NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) or SSP (shared storage pools) Network for the PowerVM guest virtual machines Virtualized by the Virtual I/O Server using Shared Ethernet Adapter Virtualized by the Virtual I/O Server using IBM vNIC Storage / main memory 120 GB / 32 GB for OpenShift Container Platform control plane machines 120 GB / 32 GB for OpenShift Container Platform compute machines 120 GB / 16 GB for the temporary OpenShift Container Platform bootstrap machine 11.2.3.7. Certificate signing requests management Because your cluster has limited access to automatic machine management when you use infrastructure that you provision, you must provide a mechanism for approving cluster certificate signing requests (CSRs) after installation. The kube-controller-manager only approves the kubelet client CSRs. The machine-approver cannot guarantee the validity of a serving certificate that is requested by using kubelet credentials because it cannot confirm that the correct machine issued the request. You must determine and implement a method of verifying the validity of the kubelet serving certificate requests and approving them. 11.2.4. Creating the user-provisioned infrastructure Before you deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses user-provisioned infrastructure, you must create the underlying infrastructure. Prerequisites Review the OpenShift Container Platform 4.x Tested Integrations page before you create the supporting infrastructure for your cluster. Procedure Set up static IP addresses. Set up an HTTP or HTTPS server to provide Ignition files to the cluster nodes. Provision the required load balancers. Configure the ports for your machines. Configure DNS. Ensure network connectivity. 11.2.4.1. Networking requirements for user-provisioned infrastructure All the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines require network in initramfs during boot to fetch Ignition config from the machine config server. During the initial boot, the machines require an HTTP or HTTPS server to establish a network connection to download their Ignition config files. Ensure that the machines have persistent IP addresses and host names. The Kubernetes API server must be able to resolve the node names of the cluster machines. If the API servers and worker nodes are in different zones, you can configure a default DNS search zone to allow the API server to resolve the node names. Another supported approach is to always refer to hosts by their fully-qualified domain names in both the node objects and all DNS requests. You must configure the network connectivity between machines to allow cluster components to communicate. Each machine must be able to resolve the host names of all other machines in the cluster. Table 11.9. All machines to all machines Protocol Port Description ICMP N/A Network reachability tests TCP 1936 Metrics 9000 - 9999 Host level services, including the node exporter on ports 9100 - 9101 and the Cluster Version Operator on port 9099 . 10250 - 10259 The default ports that Kubernetes reserves 10256 openshift-sdn UDP 4789 VXLAN and Geneve 6081 VXLAN and Geneve 9000 - 9999 Host level services, including the node exporter on ports 9100 - 9101 . TCP/UDP 30000 - 32767 Kubernetes node port Table 11.10. All machines to control plane Protocol Port Description TCP 6443 Kubernetes API Table 11.11. Control plane machines to control plane machines Protocol Port Description TCP 2379 - 2380 etcd server and peer ports Network topology requirements The infrastructure that you provision for your cluster must meet the following network topology requirements. Load balancers Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, you must provision two load balancers that meet the following requirements: API load balancer : Provides a common endpoint for users, both human and machine, to interact with and configure the platform. Configure the following conditions: Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the API routes. A stateless load balancing algorithm. The options vary based on the load balancer implementation. Important Do not configure session persistence for an API load balancer. Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers: Table 11.12. API load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 6443 Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane. You must configure the /readyz endpoint for the API server health check probe. X X Kubernetes API server 22623 Bootstrap and control plane. You remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer after the bootstrap machine initializes the cluster control plane. X Machine config server Note The load balancer must be configured to take a maximum of 30 seconds from the time the API server turns off the /readyz endpoint to the removal of the API server instance from the pool. Within the time frame after /readyz returns an error or becomes healthy, the endpoint must have been removed or added. Probing every 5 or 10 seconds, with two successful requests to become healthy and three to become unhealthy, are well-tested values. Application Ingress load balancer : Provides an Ingress point for application traffic flowing in from outside the cluster. Configure the following conditions: Layer 4 load balancing only. This can be referred to as Raw TCP, SSL Passthrough, or SSL Bridge mode. If you use SSL Bridge mode, you must enable Server Name Indication (SNI) for the Ingress routes. A connection-based or session-based persistence is recommended, based on the options available and types of applications that will be hosted on the platform. Configure the following ports on both the front and back of the load balancers: Table 11.13. Application Ingress load balancer Port Back-end machines (pool members) Internal External Description 443 The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default. X X HTTPS traffic 80 The machines that run the Ingress router pods, compute, or worker, by default. X X HTTP traffic Tip If the true IP address of the client can be seen by the load balancer, enabling source IP-based session persistence can improve performance for applications that use end-to-end TLS encryption. Note A working configuration for the Ingress router is required for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. You must configure the Ingress router after the control plane initializes. NTP configuration OpenShift Container Platform clusters are configured to use a public Network Time Protocol (NTP) server by default. If you want to use a local enterprise NTP server, or if your cluster is being deployed in a disconnected network, you can configure the cluster to use a specific time server. For more information, see the documentation for Configuring chrony time service . Additional resources Configuring chrony time service 11.2.4.2. User-provisioned DNS requirements DNS is used for name resolution and reverse name resolution. DNS A/AAAA or CNAME records are used for name resolution and PTR records are used for reverse name resolution. The reverse records are important because Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) uses the reverse records to set the host name for all the nodes. Additionally, the reverse records are used to generate the certificate signing requests (CSR) that OpenShift Container Platform needs to operate. The following DNS records are required for an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses user-provisioned infrastructure. In each record, <cluster_name> is the cluster name and <base_domain> is the cluster base domain that you specify in the install-config.yaml file. A complete DNS record takes the form: <component>.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. . Table 11.14. Required DNS records Component Record Description Kubernetes API api.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add a DNS A/AAAA or CNAME record, and a DNS PTR record, to identify the load balancer for the control plane machines. These records must be resolvable by both clients external to the cluster and from all the nodes within the cluster. api-int.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add a DNS A/AAAA or CNAME record, and a DNS PTR record, to identify the load balancer for the control plane machines. These records must be resolvable from all the nodes within the cluster. Important The API server must be able to resolve the worker nodes by the host names that are recorded in Kubernetes. If the API server cannot resolve the node names, then proxied API calls can fail, and you cannot retrieve logs from pods. Routes *.apps.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add a wildcard DNS A/AAAA or CNAME record that refers to the load balancer that targets the machines that run the Ingress router pods, which are the worker nodes by default. These records must be resolvable by both clients external to the cluster and from all the nodes within the cluster. Bootstrap bootstrap.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add a DNS A/AAAA or CNAME record, and a DNS PTR record, to identify the bootstrap machine. These records must be resolvable by the nodes within the cluster. Master hosts <master><n>.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. DNS A/AAAA or CNAME records and DNS PTR records to identify each machine for the control plane nodes (also known as the master nodes). These records must be resolvable by the nodes within the cluster. Worker hosts <worker><n>.<cluster_name>.<base_domain>. Add DNS A/AAAA or CNAME records and DNS PTR records to identify each machine for the worker nodes. These records must be resolvable by the nodes within the cluster. Tip You can use the nslookup <hostname> command to verify name resolution. You can use the dig -x <ip_address> command to verify reverse name resolution for the PTR records. The following example of a BIND zone file shows sample A records for name resolution. The purpose of the example is to show the records that are needed. The example is not meant to provide advice for choosing one name resolution service over another. Example 11.3. Sample DNS zone database USDTTL 1W @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. root ( 2019070700 ; serial 3H ; refresh (3 hours) 30M ; retry (30 minutes) 2W ; expiry (2 weeks) 1W ) ; minimum (1 week) IN NS ns1.example.com. IN MX 10 smtp.example.com. ; ; ns1 IN A 192.168.1.5 smtp IN A 192.168.1.5 ; helper IN A 192.168.1.5 helper.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; The api identifies the IP of your load balancer. api.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 api-int.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; The wildcard also identifies the load balancer. *.apps.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; Create an entry for the bootstrap host. bootstrap.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.96 ; ; Create entries for the master hosts. master0.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.97 master1.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.98 master2.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.99 ; ; Create entries for the worker hosts. worker0.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.11 worker1.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.7 ; ;EOF The following example BIND zone file shows sample PTR records for reverse name resolution. Example 11.4. Sample DNS zone database for reverse records USDTTL 1W @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. root ( 2019070700 ; serial 3H ; refresh (3 hours) 30M ; retry (30 minutes) 2W ; expiry (2 weeks) 1W ) ; minimum (1 week) IN NS ns1.example.com. ; ; The syntax is "last octet" and the host must have an FQDN ; with a trailing dot. 97 IN PTR master0.ocp4.example.com. 98 IN PTR master1.ocp4.example.com. 99 IN PTR master2.ocp4.example.com. ; 96 IN PTR bootstrap.ocp4.example.com. ; 5 IN PTR api.ocp4.example.com. 5 IN PTR api-int.ocp4.example.com. ; 11 IN PTR worker0.ocp4.example.com. 7 IN PTR worker1.ocp4.example.com. ; ;EOF 11.2.5. Generating an SSH private key and adding it to the agent If you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery on your cluster, you must provide an SSH key to both your ssh-agent and the installation program. You can use this key to access the bootstrap machine in a public cluster to troubleshoot installation issues. Note In a production environment, you require disaster recovery and debugging. Important Do not skip this procedure in production environments where disaster recovery and debugging is required. You can use this key to SSH into the master nodes as the user core . When you deploy the cluster, the key is added to the core user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys list. Procedure If you do not have an SSH key that is configured for password-less authentication on your computer, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command: USD ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' \ -f <path>/<file_name> 1 1 Specify the path and file name, such as ~/.ssh/id_rsa , of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your ~/.ssh directory. Running this command generates an SSH key that does not require a password in the location that you specified. Note If you plan to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries on the x86_64 architecture, do not create a key that uses the ed25519 algorithm. Instead, create a key that uses the rsa or ecdsa algorithm. Start the ssh-agent process as a background task: USD eval "USD(ssh-agent -s)" Example output Agent pid 31874 Note If your cluster is in FIPS mode, only use FIPS-compliant algorithms to generate the SSH key. The key must be either RSA or ECDSA. Add your SSH private key to the ssh-agent : USD ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1 Example output Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>) 1 Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as ~/.ssh/id_rsa steps When you install OpenShift Container Platform, provide the SSH public key to the installation program. 11.2.6. Manually creating the installation configuration file For installations of OpenShift Container Platform that use user-provisioned infrastructure, you manually generate your installation configuration file. Prerequisites Obtain the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the access token for your cluster. Procedure Create an installation directory to store your required installation assets in: USD mkdir <installation_directory> Important You must create a directory. Some installation assets, like bootstrap X.509 certificates have short expiration intervals, so you must not reuse an installation directory. If you want to reuse individual files from another cluster installation, you can copy them into your directory. However, the file names for the installation assets might change between releases. Use caution when copying installation files from an earlier OpenShift Container Platform version. Customize the following install-config.yaml file template and save it in the <installation_directory> . Note You must name this configuration file install-config.yaml . Back up the install-config.yaml file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters. Important The install-config.yaml file is consumed during the step of the installation process. You must back it up now. 11.2.6.1. Sample install-config.yaml file for IBM Z 11.2.6.2. Sample install-config.yaml file for IBM Power Systems You can customize the install-config.yaml file to specify more details about your OpenShift Container Platform cluster's platform or modify the values of the required parameters. apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: example.com 1 compute: 2 - hyperthreading: Enabled 3 name: worker replicas: 0 4 architecture : ppc64le controlPlane: 5 hyperthreading: Enabled 6 name: master replicas: 3 7 architecture : ppc64le metadata: name: test 8 networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 9 hostPrefix: 23 10 networkType: OpenShiftSDN serviceNetwork: 11 - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: none: {} 12 fips: false 13 pullSecret: '{"auths":{"<local_registry>": {"auth": "<credentials>","email": "you@example.com"}}}' 14 sshKey: 'ssh-ed25519 AAAA...' 15 additionalTrustBundle: | 16 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ -----END CERTIFICATE----- imageContentSources: 17 - mirrors: - <local_repository>/ocp4/openshift4 source: quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release - mirrors: - <local_repository>/ocp4/openshift4 source: quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev 1 The base domain of the cluster. All DNS records must be sub-domains of this base and include the cluster name. 2 5 The controlPlane section is a single mapping, but the compute section is a sequence of mappings. To meet the requirements of the different data structures, the first line of the compute section must begin with a hyphen, - , and the first line of the controlPlane section must not. Only one control plane pool is used. 3 6 Whether to enable or disable simultaneous multithreading (SMT), or hyperthreading . By default, SMT is enabled to increase the performance of your machines' cores. You can disable it by setting the parameter value to Disabled . If you disable SMT, you must disable it in all cluster machines; this includes both control plane and compute machines. Note Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is enabled by default. If SMT is not enabled in your BIOS settings, the hyperthreading parameter has no effect. Important If you disable hyperthreading , whether in the BIOS or in the install-config.yaml , ensure that your capacity planning accounts for the dramatically decreased machine performance. 4 You must set the value of the replicas parameter to 0 . This parameter controls the number of workers that the cluster creates and manages for you, which are functions that the cluster does not perform when you use user-provisioned infrastructure. You must manually deploy worker machines for the cluster to use before you finish installing OpenShift Container Platform. 7 The number of control plane machines that you add to the cluster. Because the cluster uses these values as the number of etcd endpoints in the cluster, the value must match the number of control plane machines that you deploy. 8 The cluster name that you specified in your DNS records. 9 A block of IP addresses from which pod IP addresses are allocated. This block must not overlap with existing physical networks. These IP addresses are used for the pod network. If you need to access the pods from an external network, you must configure load balancers and routers to manage the traffic. Note Class E CIDR range is reserved for a future use. To use the Class E CIDR range, you must ensure your networking environment accepts the IP addresses within the Class E CIDR range. 10 The subnet prefix length to assign to each individual node. For example, if hostPrefix is set to 23 , then each node is assigned a /23 subnet out of the given cidr , which allows for 510 (2^(32 - 23) - 2) pod IPs addresses. If you are required to provide access to nodes from an external network, configure load balancers and routers to manage the traffic. 11 The IP address pool to use for service IP addresses. You can enter only one IP address pool. This block must not overlap with existing physical networks. If you need to access the services from an external network, configure load balancers and routers to manage the traffic. 12 You must set the platform to none . You cannot provide additional platform configuration variables for IBM Z infrastructure. IBM Power Systems infrastructure. Warning Red Hat Virtualization does not currently support installation with user-provisioned infrastructure on the oVirt platform. Therefore, you must set the platform to none , allowing OpenShift Container Platform to identify each node as a bare-metal node and the cluster as a bare-metal cluster. This is the same as installing a cluster on any platform , and has the following limitations: There will be no cluster provider so you must manually add each machine and there will be no node scaling capabilities. The oVirt CSI driver will not be installed and there will be no CSI capabilities. 13 Whether to enable or disable FIPS mode. By default, FIPS mode is not enabled. If FIPS mode is enabled, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines that OpenShift Container Platform runs on bypass the default Kubernetes cryptography suite and use the cryptography modules that are provided with RHCOS instead. Important The use of FIPS Validated / Modules in Process cryptographic libraries is only supported on OpenShift Container Platform deployments on the x86_64 architecture. 14 For <local_registry> , specify the registry domain name, and optionally the port, that your mirror registry uses to serve content. For example, registry.example.com or registry.example.com:5000 . For <credentials> , specify the base64-encoded user name and password for your mirror registry. 15 The public portion of the default SSH key for the core user in Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS). Note For production OpenShift Container Platform clusters on which you want to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, specify an SSH key that your ssh-agent process uses. 16 Add the additionalTrustBundle parameter and value. The value must be the contents of the certificate file that you used for your mirror registry, which can be an existing, trusted certificate authority or the self-signed certificate that you generated for the mirror registry. 17 Provide the imageContentSources section from the output of the command to mirror the repository. 11.2.6.3. Configuring the cluster-wide proxy during installation Production environments can deny direct access to the Internet and instead have an HTTP or HTTPS proxy available. You can configure a new OpenShift Container Platform cluster to use a proxy by configuring the proxy settings in the install-config.yaml file. Prerequisites You have an existing install-config.yaml file. You reviewed the sites that your cluster requires access to and determined whether any of them need to bypass the proxy. By default, all cluster egress traffic is proxied, including calls to hosting cloud provider APIs. You added sites to the Proxy object's spec.noProxy field to bypass the proxy if necessary. Note The Proxy object status.noProxy field is populated with the values of the networking.machineNetwork[].cidr , networking.clusterNetwork[].cidr , and networking.serviceNetwork[] fields from your installation configuration. For installations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP), the Proxy object status.noProxy field is also populated with the instance metadata endpoint ( 169.254.169.254 ). Procedure Edit your install-config.yaml file and add the proxy settings. For example: apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: my.domain.com proxy: httpProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 1 httpsProxy: https://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 additionalTrustBundle: | 4 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT> -----END CERTIFICATE----- ... 1 A proxy URL to use for creating HTTP connections outside the cluster. The URL scheme must be http . 2 A proxy URL to use for creating HTTPS connections outside the cluster. 3 A comma-separated list of destination domain names, IP addresses, or other network CIDRs to exclude from proxying. Preface a domain with . to match subdomains only. For example, .y.com matches x.y.com , but not y.com . Use * to bypass the proxy for all destinations. 4 If provided, the installation program generates a config map that is named user-ca-bundle in the openshift-config namespace to hold the additional CA certificates. If you provide additionalTrustBundle and at least one proxy setting, the Proxy object is configured to reference the user-ca-bundle config map in the trustedCA field. The Cluster Network Operator then creates a trusted-ca-bundle config map that merges the contents specified for the trustedCA parameter with the RHCOS trust bundle. The additionalTrustBundle field is required unless the proxy's identity certificate is signed by an authority from the RHCOS trust bundle. Note The installation program does not support the proxy readinessEndpoints field. Save the file and reference it when installing OpenShift Container Platform. The installation program creates a cluster-wide proxy that is named cluster that uses the proxy settings in the provided install-config.yaml file. If no proxy settings are provided, a cluster Proxy object is still created, but it will have a nil spec . Note Only the Proxy object named cluster is supported, and no additional proxies can be created. 11.2.7. Creating the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files Because you must modify some cluster definition files and manually start the cluster machines, you must generate the Kubernetes manifest and Ignition config files that the cluster needs to make its machines. The installation configuration file transforms into the Kubernetes manifests. The manifests wrap into the Ignition configuration files, which are later used to create the cluster. Important The Ignition config files that the installation program generates contain certificates that expire after 24 hours, which are then renewed at that time. If the cluster is shut down before renewing the certificates and the cluster is later restarted after the 24 hours have elapsed, the cluster automatically recovers the expired certificates. The exception is that you must manually approve the pending node-bootstrapper certificate signing requests (CSRs) to recover kubelet certificates. See the documentation for Recovering from expired control plane certificates for more information. Note The installation program that generates the manifest and Ignition files is architecture specific and can be obtained from the client image mirror . The Linux version of the installation program runs on s390x only. This installer program is also available as a Mac OS version. Note The installation program that generates the manifest and Ignition files is architecture specific and can be obtained from the client image mirror . The Linux version of the installation program runs on ppc64le only. This installer program is also available as a Mac OS version. Prerequisites You obtained the OpenShift Container Platform installation program. For a restricted network installation, these files are on your mirror host. You created the install-config.yaml installation configuration file. Procedure Change to the directory that contains the installation program and generate the Kubernetes manifests for the cluster: USD ./openshift-install create manifests --dir <installation_directory> 1 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the installation directory that contains the install-config.yaml file you created. Warning If you are installing a three-node cluster, skip the following step to allow the control plane nodes to be schedulable. Important When you configure control plane nodes from the default unschedulable to schedulable, additional subscriptions are required. This is because control plane nodes then become worker nodes. Check that the mastersSchedulable parameter in the <installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml Kubernetes manifest file is set to false . This setting prevents pods from being scheduled on the control plane machines: Open the <installation_directory>/manifests/cluster-scheduler-02-config.yml file. Locate the mastersSchedulable parameter and ensure that it is set to false . Save and exit the file. To create the Ignition configuration files, run the following command from the directory that contains the installation program: USD ./openshift-install create ignition-configs --dir <installation_directory> 1 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the same installation directory. The following files are generated in the directory: 11.2.8. Creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines Before you install a cluster on IBM Power Systems infrastructure that you provision, you must create RHCOS machines for it to use. Follow either the steps to use an ISO image or network PXE booting to create the machines. 11.2.8.1. Creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines using an ISO image Before you install a cluster on IBM Power Systems infrastructure that you provision, you must create RHCOS machines for it to use. You can use an ISO image to create the machines. Prerequisites Obtain the Ignition config files for your cluster. Have access to an HTTP server that can be accessed from your computer, and from the machines that you create. Procedure Upload the control plane, compute, and bootstrap Ignition config files that the installation program created to your HTTP server. Note the URLs of these files. Important If you plan to add more compute machines to your cluster after you finish installation, do not delete these files. Obtain the RHCOS images that are required for your preferred method of installing operating system instances from the RHCOS image mirror page. Important The RHCOS images might not change with every release of OpenShift Container Platform. You must download images with the highest version that is less than or equal to the OpenShift Container Platform version that you install. Use the image versions that match your OpenShift Container Platform version if they are available. Use only ISO images for this procedure. RHCOS qcow2 images are not supported for this installation type. ISO file names resemble the following example: rhcos-<version>-live.<architecture>.iso Use the ISO to start the RHCOS installation. Use one of the following installation options: Burn the ISO image to a disk and boot it directly. Use ISO redirection via a LOM interface. Boot the ISO image. You can interrupt the installation boot process to add kernel arguments. However, for this ISO procedure you should use the coreos-installer command instead of adding kernel arguments. If you run the live installer without options or interruption, the installer boots up to a shell prompt on the live system, ready for you to install RHCOS to disk. Review the Advanced RHCOS installation reference section for different ways of configuring features, such as networking and disk partitions, before running the coreos-installer . Run the coreos-installer command. At a minimum, you must identify the Ignition config file location for your node type, and the location of the disk you are installing to. Here is an example: USD sudo coreos-installer install \ --ignition-url=https://host/worker.ign /dev/sda After RHCOS installs, the system reboots. During the system reboot, it applies the Ignition config file that you specified. Continue to create the other machines for your cluster. Important You must create the bootstrap and control plane machines at this time. If the control plane machines are not made schedulable, which is the default, also create at least two compute machines before you install the cluster. 11.2.8.1.1. Advanced RHCOS installation reference This section illustrates the networking configuration and other advanced options that allow you to modify the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) manual installation process. The following tables describe the kernel arguments and command-line options you can use with the RHCOS live installer and the coreos-installer command. Routing and bonding options at RHCOS boot prompt If you install RHCOS from an ISO image, you can add kernel arguments manually when you boot that image to configure the node's networking. If no networking arguments are used, the installation defaults to using DHCP. Important When adding networking arguments, you must also add the rd.neednet=1 kernel argument. The following table describes how to use ip= , nameserver= , and bond= kernel arguments for live ISO installs. Note Ordering is important when adding kernel arguments: ip= , nameserver= , and then bond= . Routing and bonding options for ISO The following table provides examples for configuring networking of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) nodes. These are networking options that are passed to the dracut tool during system boot. For more information about the networking options supported by dracut , see the dracut.cmdline manual page. Description Examples To configure an IP address, either use DHCP ( ip=dhcp ) or set an individual static IP address ( ip=<host_ip> ). Then identify the DNS server IP address ( nameserver=<dns_ip> ) on each node. This example sets: The node's IP address to 10.10.10.2 The gateway address to 10.10.10.254 The netmask to 255.255.255.0 The hostname to core0.example.com The DNS server address to 4.4.4.41 Specify multiple network interfaces by specifying multiple ip= entries. Optional: You can configure routes to additional networks by setting an rd.route= value. If the additional network gateway is different from the primary network gateway, the default gateway must be the primary network gateway. To configure the default gateway: To configure the route for the additional network: Disable DHCP on a single interface, such as when there are two or more network interfaces and only one interface is being used. You can combine DHCP and static IP configurations on systems with multiple network interfaces. Optional: You can configure VLANs on individual interfaces by using the vlan= parameter. To configure a VLAN on a network interface and use a static IP address: To configure a VLAN on a network interface and to use DHCP: You can provide multiple DNS servers by adding a nameserver= entry for each server. Optional: Bonding multiple network interfaces to a single interface is supported using the bond= option. In these two examples: The syntax for configuring a bonded interface is: bond=name[:network_interfaces][:options] name is the bonding device name ( bond0 ), network_interfaces represents a comma-separated list of physical (ethernet) interfaces ( em1,em2 ), and options is a comma-separated list of bonding options. Enter modinfo bonding to see available options. When you create a bonded interface using bond= , you must specify how the IP address is assigned and other information for the bonded interface. To configure the bonded interface to use DHCP, set the bond's IP address to dhcp . For example: To configure the bonded interface to use a static IP address, enter the specific IP address you want and related information. For example: Optional: You can configure VLANs on bonded interfaces by using the vlan= parameter. To configure the bonded interface with a VLAN and to use DHCP: To configure the bonded interface with a VLAN and to use a static IP address: Optional: Network teaming can be used as an alternative to bonding by using the team= parameter. In this example: The syntax for configuring a team interface is: team=name[:network_interfaces] name is the team device name ( team0 ) and network_interfaces represents a comma-separated list of physical (ethernet) interfaces ( em1, em2 ). Note Teaming is planned to be deprecated when RHCOS switches to an upcoming version of RHEL. For more information, see this Red Hat Knowledgebase Article . To configure a network team: 11.2.8.2. Creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines by PXE or iPXE booting Before you install a cluster that uses manually-provisioned RHCOS nodes, such as bare metal, you must create RHCOS machines for it to use. You can use PXE or iPXE booting to create the machines. Prerequisites Obtain the Ignition config files for your cluster. Configure suitable PXE or iPXE infrastructure. Have access to an HTTP server that you can access from your computer. Procedure Upload the master, worker, and bootstrap Ignition config files that the installation program created to your HTTP server. Note the URLs of these files. Important You can add or change configuration settings in your Ignition configs before saving them to your HTTP server. If you plan to add more compute machines to your cluster after you finish installation, do not delete these files. Obtain the RHCOS kernel , initramfs and rootfs files from the RHCOS image mirror page. Important The RHCOS artifacts might not change with every release of OpenShift Container Platform. You must download artifacts with the highest version that is less than or equal to the OpenShift Container Platform version that you install. Only use the appropriate kernel , initramfs , and rootfs artifacts described below for this procedure. RHCOS qcow2 images are not supported for this installation type. The file names contain the OpenShift Container Platform version number. They resemble the following examples: kernel : rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> initramfs : rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img rootfs : rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img Upload the additional files that are required for your booting method: For traditional PXE, upload the kernel and initramfs files to your TFTP server and the rootfs file to your HTTP server. For iPXE, upload the kernel , initramfs , and rootfs files to your HTTP server. Important If you plan to add more compute machines to your cluster after you finish installation, do not delete these files. Configure the network boot infrastructure so that the machines boot from their local disks after RHCOS is installed on them. Configure PXE or iPXE installation for the RHCOS images. Modify one of the following example menu entries for your environment and verify that the image and Ignition files are properly accessible: For PXE: 1 Specify the location of the live kernel file that you uploaded to your HTTP server. The URL must be HTTP, TFTP, or FTP; HTTPS and NFS are not supported. 2 If you use multiple NICs, specify a single interface in the ip option. For example, to use DHCP on a NIC that is named eno1 , set ip=eno1:dhcp . 3 Specify locations of the RHCOS files that you uploaded to your HTTP server. The initrd parameter value is the location of the initramfs file, the coreos.live.rootfs_url parameter value is the location of the rootfs file, and the coreos.inst.ignition_url parameter value is the location of the bootstrap Ignition config file. You can also add more kernel arguments to the APPEND line to configure networking or other boot options. Note This configuration does not enable serial console access on machines with a graphical console. To configure a different console, add one or more console= arguments to the APPEND line. For example, add console=tty0 console=ttyS0 to set the first PC serial port as the primary console and the graphical console as a secondary console. For more information, see How does one set up a serial terminal and/or console in Red Hat Enterprise Linux? . For iPXE: 1 Specify locations of the RHCOS files that you uploaded to your HTTP server. The kernel parameter value is the location of the kernel file, the initrd=main argument is needed for booting on UEFI systems, the coreos.live.rootfs_url parameter value is the location of the rootfs file, and the coreos.inst.ignition_url parameter value is the location of the bootstrap Ignition config file. 2 If you use multiple NICs, specify a single interface in the ip option. For example, to use DHCP on a NIC that is named eno1 , set ip=eno1:dhcp . 3 Specify the location of the initramfs file that you uploaded to your HTTP server. Note This configuration does not enable serial console access on machines with a graphical console. To configure a different console, add one or more console= arguments to the kernel line. For example, add console=tty0 console=ttyS0 to set the first PC serial port as the primary console and the graphical console as a secondary console. For more information, see How does one set up a serial terminal and/or console in Red Hat Enterprise Linux? . If you use PXE UEFI, perform the following actions: Provide the shimx64.efi and grubx64.efi EFI binaries and the grub.cfg file that are required for booting the system. Extract the necessary EFI binaries by mounting the RHCOS ISO to your host and then mounting the images/efiboot.img file to your host: USD mkdir -p /mnt/iso USD mkdir -p /mnt/efiboot USD mount -o loop rhcos-installer.x86_64.iso /mnt/iso USD mount -o loop,ro /mnt/iso/images/efiboot.img /mnt/efiboot From the efiboot.img mount point, copy the EFI/redhat/shimx64.efi and EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi files to your TFTP server: USD cp /mnt/efiboot/EFI/redhat/shimx64.efi . USD cp /mnt/efiboot/EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi . USD umount /mnt/efiboot USD umount /mnt/iso Copy the EFI/redhat/grub.cfg file that is included in the RHCOS ISO to your TFTP server. Edit the grub.cfg file to include arguments similar to the following: where: rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> Specifies the kernel file that you uploaded to your TFTP server. http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img Specifies the location of the live rootfs image that you uploaded to your HTTP server. http://<HTTP_server>/bootstrap.ign Specifies the location of the bootstrap Ignition config file that you uploaded to your HTTP server. rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img Specifies the location of the initramfs file that you uploaded to your TFTP server. Note For more information on how to configure a PXE server for UEFI boot, see the Red Hat Knowledgebase article: How to configure/setup a PXE server for UEFI boot for Red Hat Enterprise Linux? . Continue to create the machines for your cluster. Important You must create the bootstrap and control plane machines at this time. If the control plane machines are not made schedulable, which is the default, also create at least two compute machines before you install the cluster. 11.2.9. Creating the cluster To create the OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you wait for the bootstrap process to complete on the machines that you provisioned by using the Ignition config files that you generated with the installation program. Prerequisites Create the required infrastructure for the cluster. You obtained the installation program and generated the Ignition config files for your cluster. You used the Ignition config files to create RHCOS machines for your cluster. Procedure Monitor the bootstrap process: USD ./openshift-install --dir <installation_directory> wait-for bootstrap-complete \ 1 --log-level=info 2 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in. 2 To view different installation details, specify warn , debug , or error instead of info . Example output INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the Kubernetes API at https://api.test.example.com:6443... INFO API v1.20.0 up INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for bootstrapping to complete... INFO It is now safe to remove the bootstrap resources The command succeeds when the Kubernetes API server signals that it has been bootstrapped on the control plane machines. After bootstrap process is complete, remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer. Important You must remove the bootstrap machine from the load balancer at this point. You can also remove or reformat the machine itself. 11.2.10. Logging in to the cluster by using the CLI You can log in to your cluster as a default system user by exporting the cluster kubeconfig file. The kubeconfig file contains information about the cluster that is used by the CLI to connect a client to the correct cluster and API server. The file is specific to a cluster and is created during OpenShift Container Platform installation. Prerequisites You deployed an OpenShift Container Platform cluster. You installed the oc CLI. Procedure Export the kubeadmin credentials: USD export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in. Verify you can run oc commands successfully using the exported configuration: USD oc whoami Example output system:admin 11.2.11. Approving the certificate signing requests for your machines When you add machines to a cluster, two pending certificate signing requests (CSRs) are generated for each machine that you added. You must confirm that these CSRs are approved or, if necessary, approve them yourself. The client requests must be approved first, followed by the server requests. Prerequisites You added machines to your cluster. Procedure Confirm that the cluster recognizes the machines: USD oc get nodes Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 63m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 63m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 64m v1.20.0 The output lists all of the machines that you created. Note The preceding output might not include the compute nodes, also known as worker nodes, until some CSRs are approved. Review the pending CSRs and ensure that you see the client requests with the Pending or Approved status for each machine that you added to the cluster: USD oc get csr Example output NAME AGE REQUESTOR CONDITION csr-mddf5 20m system:node:master-01.example.com Approved,Issued csr-z5rln 16m system:node:worker-21.example.com Approved,Issued If the CSRs were not approved, after all of the pending CSRs for the machines you added are in Pending status, approve the CSRs for your cluster machines: Note Because the CSRs rotate automatically, approve your CSRs within an hour of adding the machines to the cluster. If you do not approve them within an hour, the certificates will rotate, and more than two certificates will be present for each node. You must approve all of these certificates. Once the client CSR is approved, the Kubelet creates a secondary CSR for the serving certificate, which requires manual approval. Then, subsequent serving certificate renewal requests are automatically approved by the machine-approver if the Kubelet requests a new certificate with identical parameters. Note For clusters running on platforms that are not machine API enabled, such as bare metal and other user-provisioned infrastructure, you must implement a method of automatically approving the kubelet serving certificate requests (CSRs). If a request is not approved, then the oc exec , oc rsh , and oc logs commands cannot succeed, because a serving certificate is required when the API server connects to the kubelet. Any operation that contacts the Kubelet endpoint requires this certificate approval to be in place. The method must watch for new CSRs, confirm that the CSR was submitted by the node-bootstrapper service account in the system:node or system:admin groups, and confirm the identity of the node. To approve them individually, run the following command for each valid CSR: USD oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> 1 1 <csr_name> is the name of a CSR from the list of current CSRs. To approve all pending CSRs, run the following command: USD oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty oc adm certificate approve Note Some Operators might not become available until some CSRs are approved. Now that your client requests are approved, you must review the server requests for each machine that you added to the cluster: USD oc get csr Example output NAME AGE REQUESTOR CONDITION csr-bfd72 5m26s system:node:ip-10-0-50-126.us-east-2.compute.internal Pending csr-c57lv 5m26s system:node:ip-10-0-95-157.us-east-2.compute.internal Pending ... If the remaining CSRs are not approved, and are in the Pending status, approve the CSRs for your cluster machines: To approve them individually, run the following command for each valid CSR: USD oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> 1 1 <csr_name> is the name of a CSR from the list of current CSRs. To approve all pending CSRs, run the following command: USD oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs oc adm certificate approve After all client and server CSRs have been approved, the machines have the Ready status. Verify this by running the following command: USD oc get nodes Example output NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 74m v1.20.0 worker-0 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0 worker-1 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0 Note It can take a few minutes after approval of the server CSRs for the machines to transition to the Ready status. Additional information For more information on CSRs, see Certificate Signing Requests . 11.2.12. Initial Operator configuration After the control plane initializes, you must immediately configure some Operators so that they all become available. Prerequisites Your control plane has initialized. Procedure Watch the cluster components come online: USD watch -n5 oc get clusteroperators Example output NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m baremetal 4.7.0 True False False 29h cloud-credential 4.7.0 True False False 29h cluster-autoscaler 4.7.0 True False False 29h config-operator 4.7.0 True False False 6h39m console 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m csi-snapshot-controller 4.7.0 True False False 4h12m dns 4.7.0 True False False 4h15m etcd 4.7.0 True False False 29h image-registry 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m ingress 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m insights 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-scheduler 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-storage-version-migrator 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m machine-api 4.7.0 True False False 29h machine-approver 4.7.0 True False False 6h34m machine-config 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m marketplace 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m monitoring 4.7.0 True False False 6h31m network 4.7.0 True False False 29h node-tuning 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m openshift-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m openshift-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 4h36m openshift-samples 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m service-ca 4.7.0 True False False 29h storage 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m Configure the Operators that are not available. 11.2.12.1. Disabling the default OperatorHub sources Operator catalogs that source content provided by Red Hat and community projects are configured for OperatorHub by default during an OpenShift Container Platform installation. In a restricted network environment, you must disable the default catalogs as a cluster administrator. Procedure Disable the sources for the default catalogs by adding disableAllDefaultSources: true to the OperatorHub object: USD oc patch OperatorHub cluster --type json \ -p '[{"op": "add", "path": "/spec/disableAllDefaultSources", "value": true}]' Tip Alternatively, you can use the web console to manage catalog sources. From the Administration Cluster Settings Global Configuration OperatorHub page, click the Sources tab, where you can create, delete, disable, and enable individual sources. 11.2.12.2. Image registry storage configuration The Image Registry Operator is not initially available for platforms that do not provide default storage. After installation, you must configure your registry to use storage so that the Registry Operator is made available. Instructions are shown for configuring a persistent volume, which is required for production clusters. Where applicable, instructions are shown for configuring an empty directory as the storage location, which is available for only non-production clusters. Additional instructions are provided for allowing the image registry to use block storage types by using the Recreate rollout strategy during upgrades. 11.2.12.2.1. Changing the image registry's management state To start the image registry, you must change the Image Registry Operator configuration's managementState from Removed to Managed . Procedure Change managementState Image Registry Operator configuration from Removed to Managed . For example: USD oc patch configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io cluster --type merge --patch '{"spec":{"managementState":"Managed"}}' 11.2.12.2.2. Configuring registry storage for IBM Z 11.2.12.2.3. Configuring registry storage for IBM Power Systems As a cluster administrator, following installation you must configure your registry to use storage. Prerequisites Cluster administrator permissions. A cluster on IBM Z. on IBM Power Systems. Persistent storage provisioned for your cluster. Important OpenShift Container Platform supports ReadWriteOnce access for image registry storage when you have only one replica. To deploy an image registry that supports high availability with two or more replicas, ReadWriteMany access is required. Must have 100Gi capacity. Procedure To configure your registry to use storage, change the spec.storage.pvc in the configs.imageregistry/cluster resource. Note When using shared storage, review your security settings to prevent outside access. Verify that you do not have a registry pod: USD oc get pod -n openshift-image-registry -l docker-registry=default Example output No resourses found in openshift-image-registry namespace Note If you do have a registry pod in your output, you do not need to continue with this procedure. Check the registry configuration: USD oc edit configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io Example output storage: pvc: claim: Leave the claim field blank to allow the automatic creation of an image-registry-storage PVC. Check the clusteroperator status: USD oc get clusteroperator image-registry Example output NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE MESSAGE image-registry 4.7 True False False 6h50m Ensure that your registry is set to managed to enable building and pushing of images. Run: Then, change the line to 11.2.12.2.4. Configuring storage for the image registry in non-production clusters You must configure storage for the Image Registry Operator. For non-production clusters, you can set the image registry to an empty directory. If you do so, all images are lost if you restart the registry. Procedure To set the image registry storage to an empty directory: USD oc patch configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io cluster --type merge --patch '{"spec":{"storage":{"emptyDir":{}}}}' Warning Configure this option for only non-production clusters. If you run this command before the Image Registry Operator initializes its components, the oc patch command fails with the following error: Error from server (NotFound): configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io "cluster" not found Wait a few minutes and run the command again. 11.2.13. Completing installation on user-provisioned infrastructure After you complete the Operator configuration, you can finish installing the cluster on infrastructure that you provide. Prerequisites Your control plane has initialized. You have completed the initial Operator configuration. Procedure Confirm that all the cluster components are online with the following command: USD watch -n5 oc get clusteroperators Example output NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m baremetal 4.7.0 True False False 29h cloud-credential 4.7.0 True False False 29h cluster-autoscaler 4.7.0 True False False 29h config-operator 4.7.0 True False False 6h39m console 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m csi-snapshot-controller 4.7.0 True False False 4h12m dns 4.7.0 True False False 4h15m etcd 4.7.0 True False False 29h image-registry 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m ingress 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m insights 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-scheduler 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-storage-version-migrator 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m machine-api 4.7.0 True False False 29h machine-approver 4.7.0 True False False 6h34m machine-config 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m marketplace 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m monitoring 4.7.0 True False False 6h31m network 4.7.0 True False False 29h node-tuning 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m openshift-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m openshift-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 4h36m openshift-samples 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m service-ca 4.7.0 True False False 29h storage 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m Alternatively, the following command notifies you when all of the clusters are available. It also retrieves and displays credentials: USD ./openshift-install --dir <installation_directory> wait-for install-complete 1 1 For <installation_directory> , specify the path to the directory that you stored the installation files in. Example output INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the cluster to initialize... The command succeeds when the Cluster Version Operator finishes deploying the OpenShift Container Platform cluster from Kubernetes API server. Important The Ignition config files that the installation program generates contain certificates that expire after 24 hours, which are then renewed at that time. If the cluster is shut down before renewing the certificates and the cluster is later restarted after the 24 hours have elapsed, the cluster automatically recovers the expired certificates. The exception is that you must manually approve the pending node-bootstrapper certificate signing requests (CSRs) to recover kubelet certificates. See the documentation for Recovering from expired control plane certificates for more information. It is recommended that you use Ignition config files within 12 hours after they are generated because the 24-hour certificate rotates from 16 to 22 hours after the cluster is installed. By using the Ignition config files within 12 hours, you can avoid installation failure if the certificate update runs during installation. Confirm that the Kubernetes API server is communicating with the pods. To view a list of all pods, use the following command: USD oc get pods --all-namespaces Example output NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE openshift-apiserver-operator openshift-apiserver-operator-85cb746d55-zqhs8 1/1 Running 1 9m openshift-apiserver apiserver-67b9g 1/1 Running 0 3m openshift-apiserver apiserver-ljcmx 1/1 Running 0 1m openshift-apiserver apiserver-z25h4 1/1 Running 0 2m openshift-authentication-operator authentication-operator-69d5d8bf84-vh2n8 1/1 Running 0 5m ... View the logs for a pod that is listed in the output of the command by using the following command: USD oc logs <pod_name> -n <namespace> 1 1 Specify the pod name and namespace, as shown in the output of the command. If the pod logs display, the Kubernetes API server can communicate with the cluster machines. For an installation with Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP), additional steps are required to enable multipathing. Do not enable multipathing during installation. See "Enabling multipathing with kernel arguments on RHCOS" in the Post-installation configuration documentation for more information. To display a boot list and specify the possible boot devices if the system is booted in normal mode, enter the following command: USD bootlist -m normal -o sda To update the boot list for normal mode and add alternate device names, enter the following command: USD bootlist -m normal -o /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde sdc sdd sde If the original boot disk path is down, the node reboots from the alternate device registered in the normal boot device list. All the worker nodes are restarted. To monitor the process, enter the following command: USD oc get nodes -w Note If you have additional machine types such as infrastructure nodes, repeat the process for these types. Register your cluster on the Cluster registration page. 11.2.14. Telemetry access for OpenShift Container Platform In OpenShift Container Platform 4.7, the Telemetry service, which runs by default to provide metrics about cluster health and the success of updates, requires internet access. If your cluster is connected to the internet, Telemetry runs automatically, and your cluster is registered to OpenShift Cluster Manager . After you confirm that your OpenShift Cluster Manager inventory is correct, either maintained automatically by Telemetry or manually by using OpenShift Cluster Manager, use subscription watch to track your OpenShift Container Platform subscriptions at the account or multi-cluster level. Additional resources See About remote health monitoring for more information about the Telemetry service 11.2.15. steps Customize your cluster . If the mirror registry that you used to install your cluster has a trusted CA, add it to the cluster by configuring additional trust stores .

Commands:
USDTTL 1W @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. root ( 2019070700 ; serial 3H ; refresh (3 hours) 30M ; retry (30 minutes) 2W ; expiry (2 weeks) 1W ) ; minimum (1 week) IN NS ns1.example.com. IN MX 10 smtp.example.com. ; ; ns1 IN A 192.168.1.5 smtp IN A 192.168.1.5 ; helper IN A 192.168.1.5 helper.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; The api identifies the IP of your load balancer. api.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 api-int.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; The wildcard also identifies the load balancer. *.apps.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; Create an entry for the bootstrap host. bootstrap.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.96 ; ; Create entries for the master hosts. master0.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.97 master1.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.98 master2.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.99 ; ; Create entries for the worker hosts. worker0.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.11 worker1.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.7 ; ;EOF
USDTTL 1W @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. root ( 2019070700 ; serial 3H ; refresh (3 hours) 30M ; retry (30 minutes) 2W ; expiry (2 weeks) 1W ) ; minimum (1 week) IN NS ns1.example.com. ; ; The syntax is "last octet" and the host must have an FQDN ; with a trailing dot. 97 IN PTR master0.ocp4.example.com. 98 IN PTR master1.ocp4.example.com. 99 IN PTR master2.ocp4.example.com. ; 96 IN PTR bootstrap.ocp4.example.com. ; 5 IN PTR api.ocp4.example.com. 5 IN PTR api-int.ocp4.example.com. ; 11 IN PTR worker0.ocp4.example.com. 7 IN PTR worker1.ocp4.example.com. ; ;EOF
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -f <path>/<file_name> 1
eval "USD(ssh-agent -s)"
Agent pid 31874
ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
tar xvf openshift-install-linux.tar.gz
tar xvzf <file>
echo USDPATH
oc <command>
C:\> path
C:\> oc <command>
echo USDPATH
oc <command>
mkdir <installation_directory>
apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: example.com 1 compute: 2 - hyperthreading: Enabled 3 name: worker replicas: 0 4 architecture : ppc64le controlPlane: 5 hyperthreading: Enabled 6 name: master replicas: 3 7 architecture : ppc64le metadata: name: test 8 networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 9 hostPrefix: 23 10 networkType: OpenShiftSDN serviceNetwork: 11 - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: none: {} 12 fips: false 13 pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}' 14 sshKey: 'ssh-ed25519 AAAA...' 15
apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: my.domain.com proxy: httpProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 1 httpsProxy: https://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 additionalTrustBundle: | 4 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT> -----END CERTIFICATE-----
./openshift-install create manifests --dir <installation_directory> 1
./openshift-install create ignition-configs --dir <installation_directory> 1
. ├── auth │ ├── kubeadmin-password │ └── kubeconfig ├── bootstrap.ign ├── master.ign ├── metadata.json └── worker.ign
sudo coreos-installer install --ignition-url=https://host/worker.ign /dev/sda
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp1s0:none nameserver=4.4.4.41
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp1s0:none ip=10.10.10.3::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp2s0:none
ip=::10.10.10.254::::
rd.route=20.20.20.0/24:20.20.20.254:enp2s0
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp1s0:none ip=::::core0.example.com:enp2s0:none
ip=enp1s0:dhcp ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp2s0:none
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp2s0.100:none vlan=enp2s0.100:enp2s0
ip=enp2s0.100:dhcp vlan=enp2s0.100:enp2s0
nameserver=1.1.1.1 nameserver=8.8.8.8
bond=bond0:em1,em2:mode=active-backup ip=bond0:dhcp
bond=bond0:em1,em2:mode=active-backup ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:bond0:none
ip=bond0.100:dhcp bond=bond0:em1,em2:mode=active-backup vlan=bond0.100:bond0
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:bond0.100:none bond=bond0:em1,em2:mode=active-backup vlan=bond0.100:bond0
team=team0:em1,em2 ip=team0:dhcp
DEFAULT pxeboot TIMEOUT 20 PROMPT 0 LABEL pxeboot KERNEL http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> 1 APPEND initrd=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img coreos.live.rootfs_url=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img coreos.inst.install_dev=/dev/sda coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://<HTTP_server>/bootstrap.ign 2 3
kernel http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> initrd=main coreos.live.rootfs_url=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img coreos.inst.install_dev=/dev/sda coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://<HTTP_server>/bootstrap.ign 1 2 initrd --name main http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img 3 boot
mkdir -p /mnt/iso
mkdir -p /mnt/efiboot
mount -o loop rhcos-installer.x86_64.iso /mnt/iso
mount -o loop,ro /mnt/iso/images/efiboot.img /mnt/efiboot
cp /mnt/efiboot/EFI/redhat/shimx64.efi .
cp /mnt/efiboot/EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi .
umount /mnt/efiboot
umount /mnt/iso
menuentry 'Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { linuxefi rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> coreos.inst.install_dev=/dev/sda coreos.live.rootfs_url=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://<HTTP_server>/bootstrap.ign initrdefi rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img }
./openshift-install --dir <installation_directory> wait-for bootstrap-complete \ 1 --log-level=info 2
INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the Kubernetes API at https://api.test.example.com:6443 INFO API v1.20.0 up INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for bootstrapping to complete INFO It is now safe to remove the bootstrap resources
export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
oc whoami
system:admin
oc get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 63m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 63m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 64m v1.20.0
oc get csr
NAME AGE REQUESTOR CONDITION csr-mddf5 20m system:node:master-01.example.com Approved,Issued csr-z5rln 16m system:node:worker-21.example.com Approved,Issued
oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> 1
oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty oc adm certificate approve
oc get csr
NAME AGE REQUESTOR CONDITION csr-bfd72 5m26s system:node:ip-10-0-50-126.us-east-2.compute.internal Pending csr-c57lv 5m26s system:node:ip-10-0-95-157.us-east-2.compute.internal Pending
oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> 1
oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs oc adm certificate approve
oc get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 74m v1.20.0 worker-0 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0 worker-1 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0
watch -n5 oc get clusteroperators
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m baremetal 4.7.0 True False False 29h cloud-credential 4.7.0 True False False 29h cluster-autoscaler 4.7.0 True False False 29h config-operator 4.7.0 True False False 6h39m console 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m csi-snapshot-controller 4.7.0 True False False 4h12m dns 4.7.0 True False False 4h15m etcd 4.7.0 True False False 29h image-registry 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m ingress 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m insights 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-scheduler 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-storage-version-migrator 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m machine-api 4.7.0 True False False 29h machine-approver 4.7.0 True False False 6h34m machine-config 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m marketplace 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m monitoring 4.7.0 True False False 6h31m network 4.7.0 True False False 29h node-tuning 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m openshift-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m openshift-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 4h36m openshift-samples 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m service-ca 4.7.0 True False False 29h storage 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m
oc get pod -n openshift-image-registry -l docker-registry=default
No resourses found in openshift-image-registry namespace
oc edit configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io
storage: pvc: claim:
oc get clusteroperator image-registry
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE MESSAGE image-registry 4.7 True False False 6h50m
oc edit configs.imageregistry/cluster
managementState: Removed
managementState: Managed
oc patch configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io cluster --type merge --patch '{"spec":{"storage":{"emptyDir":{}}}}'
Error from server (NotFound): configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io "cluster" not found
watch -n5 oc get clusteroperators
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m baremetal 4.7.0 True False False 29h cloud-credential 4.7.0 True False False 29h cluster-autoscaler 4.7.0 True False False 29h config-operator 4.7.0 True False False 6h39m console 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m csi-snapshot-controller 4.7.0 True False False 4h12m dns 4.7.0 True False False 4h15m etcd 4.7.0 True False False 29h image-registry 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m ingress 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m insights 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-scheduler 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-storage-version-migrator 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m machine-api 4.7.0 True False False 29h machine-approver 4.7.0 True False False 6h34m machine-config 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m marketplace 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m monitoring 4.7.0 True False False 6h31m network 4.7.0 True False False 29h node-tuning 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m openshift-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m openshift-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 4h36m openshift-samples 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m service-ca 4.7.0 True False False 29h storage 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m
./openshift-install --dir <installation_directory> wait-for install-complete 1
INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the cluster to initialize
oc get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE openshift-apiserver-operator openshift-apiserver-operator-85cb746d55-zqhs8 1/1 Running 1 9m openshift-apiserver apiserver-67b9g 1/1 Running 0 3m openshift-apiserver apiserver-ljcmx 1/1 Running 0 1m openshift-apiserver apiserver-z25h4 1/1 Running 0 2m openshift-authentication-operator authentication-operator-69d5d8bf84-vh2n8 1/1 Running 0 5m
oc logs <pod_name> -n <namespace> 1
bootlist -m normal -o sda
bootlist -m normal -o /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde sdc sdd sde
oc get nodes -w
USDTTL 1W @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. root ( 2019070700 ; serial 3H ; refresh (3 hours) 30M ; retry (30 minutes) 2W ; expiry (2 weeks) 1W ) ; minimum (1 week) IN NS ns1.example.com. IN MX 10 smtp.example.com. ; ; ns1 IN A 192.168.1.5 smtp IN A 192.168.1.5 ; helper IN A 192.168.1.5 helper.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; The api identifies the IP of your load balancer. api.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 api-int.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; The wildcard also identifies the load balancer. *.apps.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.5 ; ; Create an entry for the bootstrap host. bootstrap.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.96 ; ; Create entries for the master hosts. master0.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.97 master1.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.98 master2.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.99 ; ; Create entries for the worker hosts. worker0.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.11 worker1.ocp4 IN A 192.168.1.7 ; ;EOF
USDTTL 1W @ IN SOA ns1.example.com. root ( 2019070700 ; serial 3H ; refresh (3 hours) 30M ; retry (30 minutes) 2W ; expiry (2 weeks) 1W ) ; minimum (1 week) IN NS ns1.example.com. ; ; The syntax is "last octet" and the host must have an FQDN ; with a trailing dot. 97 IN PTR master0.ocp4.example.com. 98 IN PTR master1.ocp4.example.com. 99 IN PTR master2.ocp4.example.com. ; 96 IN PTR bootstrap.ocp4.example.com. ; 5 IN PTR api.ocp4.example.com. 5 IN PTR api-int.ocp4.example.com. ; 11 IN PTR worker0.ocp4.example.com. 7 IN PTR worker1.ocp4.example.com. ; ;EOF
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -f <path>/<file_name> 1
eval "USD(ssh-agent -s)"
Agent pid 31874
ssh-add <path>/<file_name> 1
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
mkdir <installation_directory>
apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: example.com 1 compute: 2 - hyperthreading: Enabled 3 name: worker replicas: 0 4 architecture : ppc64le controlPlane: 5 hyperthreading: Enabled 6 name: master replicas: 3 7 architecture : ppc64le metadata: name: test 8 networking: clusterNetwork: - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14 9 hostPrefix: 23 10 networkType: OpenShiftSDN serviceNetwork: 11 - 172.30.0.0/16 platform: none: {} 12 fips: false 13 pullSecret: '{"auths":{"<local_registry>": {"auth": "<credentials>","email": "you@example.com"}}}' 14 sshKey: 'ssh-ed25519 AAAA...' 15 additionalTrustBundle: | 16 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ -----END CERTIFICATE----- imageContentSources: 17 - mirrors: - <local_repository>/ocp4/openshift4 source: quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release - mirrors: - <local_repository>/ocp4/openshift4 source: quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-v4.0-art-dev
apiVersion: v1 baseDomain: my.domain.com proxy: httpProxy: http://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 1 httpsProxy: https://<username>:<pswd>@<ip>:<port> 2 noProxy: example.com 3 additionalTrustBundle: | 4 -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT> -----END CERTIFICATE-----
./openshift-install create manifests --dir <installation_directory> 1
./openshift-install create ignition-configs --dir <installation_directory> 1
. ├── auth │ ├── kubeadmin-password │ └── kubeconfig ├── bootstrap.ign ├── master.ign ├── metadata.json └── worker.ign
sudo coreos-installer install --ignition-url=https://host/worker.ign /dev/sda
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp1s0:none nameserver=4.4.4.41
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp1s0:none ip=10.10.10.3::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp2s0:none
ip=::10.10.10.254::::
rd.route=20.20.20.0/24:20.20.20.254:enp2s0
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp1s0:none ip=::::core0.example.com:enp2s0:none
ip=enp1s0:dhcp ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp2s0:none
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:enp2s0.100:none vlan=enp2s0.100:enp2s0
ip=enp2s0.100:dhcp vlan=enp2s0.100:enp2s0
nameserver=1.1.1.1 nameserver=8.8.8.8
bond=bond0:em1,em2:mode=active-backup ip=bond0:dhcp
bond=bond0:em1,em2:mode=active-backup ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:bond0:none
ip=bond0.100:dhcp bond=bond0:em1,em2:mode=active-backup vlan=bond0.100:bond0
ip=10.10.10.2::10.10.10.254:255.255.255.0:core0.example.com:bond0.100:none bond=bond0:em1,em2:mode=active-backup vlan=bond0.100:bond0
team=team0:em1,em2 ip=team0:dhcp
DEFAULT pxeboot TIMEOUT 20 PROMPT 0 LABEL pxeboot KERNEL http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> 1 APPEND initrd=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img coreos.live.rootfs_url=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img coreos.inst.install_dev=/dev/sda coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://<HTTP_server>/bootstrap.ign 2 3
kernel http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> initrd=main coreos.live.rootfs_url=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img coreos.inst.install_dev=/dev/sda coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://<HTTP_server>/bootstrap.ign 1 2 initrd --name main http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img 3 boot
mkdir -p /mnt/iso
mkdir -p /mnt/efiboot
mount -o loop rhcos-installer.x86_64.iso /mnt/iso
mount -o loop,ro /mnt/iso/images/efiboot.img /mnt/efiboot
cp /mnt/efiboot/EFI/redhat/shimx64.efi .
cp /mnt/efiboot/EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi .
umount /mnt/efiboot
umount /mnt/iso
menuentry 'Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { linuxefi rhcos-<version>-live-kernel-<architecture> coreos.inst.install_dev=/dev/sda coreos.live.rootfs_url=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-live-rootfs.<architecture>.img coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://<HTTP_server>/bootstrap.ign initrdefi rhcos-<version>-live-initramfs.<architecture>.img }
./openshift-install --dir <installation_directory> wait-for bootstrap-complete \ 1 --log-level=info 2
INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the Kubernetes API at https://api.test.example.com:6443 INFO API v1.20.0 up INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for bootstrapping to complete INFO It is now safe to remove the bootstrap resources
export KUBECONFIG=<installation_directory>/auth/kubeconfig 1
oc whoami
system:admin
oc get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 63m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 63m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 64m v1.20.0
oc get csr
NAME AGE REQUESTOR CONDITION csr-mddf5 20m system:node:master-01.example.com Approved,Issued csr-z5rln 16m system:node:worker-21.example.com Approved,Issued
oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> 1
oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs --no-run-if-empty oc adm certificate approve
oc get csr
NAME AGE REQUESTOR CONDITION csr-bfd72 5m26s system:node:ip-10-0-50-126.us-east-2.compute.internal Pending csr-c57lv 5m26s system:node:ip-10-0-95-157.us-east-2.compute.internal Pending
oc adm certificate approve <csr_name> 1
oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs oc adm certificate approve
oc get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-1 Ready master 73m v1.20.0 master-2 Ready master 74m v1.20.0 worker-0 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0 worker-1 Ready worker 11m v1.20.0
watch -n5 oc get clusteroperators
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m baremetal 4.7.0 True False False 29h cloud-credential 4.7.0 True False False 29h cluster-autoscaler 4.7.0 True False False 29h config-operator 4.7.0 True False False 6h39m console 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m csi-snapshot-controller 4.7.0 True False False 4h12m dns 4.7.0 True False False 4h15m etcd 4.7.0 True False False 29h image-registry 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m ingress 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m insights 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-scheduler 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-storage-version-migrator 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m machine-api 4.7.0 True False False 29h machine-approver 4.7.0 True False False 6h34m machine-config 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m marketplace 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m monitoring 4.7.0 True False False 6h31m network 4.7.0 True False False 29h node-tuning 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m openshift-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m openshift-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 4h36m openshift-samples 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m service-ca 4.7.0 True False False 29h storage 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m
oc patch OperatorHub cluster --type json -p '[{"op": "add", "path": "/spec/disableAllDefaultSources", "value": true}]'
oc patch configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io cluster --type merge --patch '{"spec":{"managementState":"Managed"}}'
oc get pod -n openshift-image-registry -l docker-registry=default
No resourses found in openshift-image-registry namespace
oc edit configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io
storage: pvc: claim:
oc get clusteroperator image-registry
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE MESSAGE image-registry 4.7 True False False 6h50m
oc edit configs.imageregistry/cluster
managementState: Removed
managementState: Managed
oc patch configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io cluster --type merge --patch '{"spec":{"storage":{"emptyDir":{}}}}'
Error from server (NotFound): configs.imageregistry.operator.openshift.io "cluster" not found
watch -n5 oc get clusteroperators
NAME VERSION AVAILABLE PROGRESSING DEGRADED SINCE authentication 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m baremetal 4.7.0 True False False 29h cloud-credential 4.7.0 True False False 29h cluster-autoscaler 4.7.0 True False False 29h config-operator 4.7.0 True False False 6h39m console 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m csi-snapshot-controller 4.7.0 True False False 4h12m dns 4.7.0 True False False 4h15m etcd 4.7.0 True False False 29h image-registry 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m ingress 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m insights 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-scheduler 4.7.0 True False False 29h kube-storage-version-migrator 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m machine-api 4.7.0 True False False 29h machine-approver 4.7.0 True False False 6h34m machine-config 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m marketplace 4.7.0 True False False 4h2m monitoring 4.7.0 True False False 6h31m network 4.7.0 True False False 29h node-tuning 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m openshift-apiserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h56m openshift-controller-manager 4.7.0 True False False 4h36m openshift-samples 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m operator-lifecycle-manager 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-catalog 4.7.0 True False False 29h operator-lifecycle-manager-packageserver 4.7.0 True False False 3h59m service-ca 4.7.0 True False False 29h storage 4.7.0 True False False 4h30m
./openshift-install --dir <installation_directory> wait-for install-complete 1
INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the cluster to initialize
oc get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE openshift-apiserver-operator openshift-apiserver-operator-85cb746d55-zqhs8 1/1 Running 1 9m openshift-apiserver apiserver-67b9g 1/1 Running 0 3m openshift-apiserver apiserver-ljcmx 1/1 Running 0 1m openshift-apiserver apiserver-z25h4 1/1 Running 0 2m openshift-authentication-operator authentication-operator-69d5d8bf84-vh2n8 1/1 Running 0 5m
oc logs <pod_name> -n <namespace> 1
bootlist -m normal -o sda
bootlist -m normal -o /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde sdc sdd sde
oc get nodes -w