Chapter 4. Interactive cluster creation mode reference This section provides an overview of the options that are presented when you use the interactive mode to create the OCM role, the user role, and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters by using the ROSA CLI ( rosa ). 4.1. Interactive OCM and user role creation mode options Before you can use Red Hat OpenShift Cluster Manager to create Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters that use the AWS Security Token Service (STS), you must associate your AWS account with your Red Hat organization by creating and linking the OCM and user roles. You can enable interactive mode by specifying the --interactive option when you run the rosa create ocm-role command or the rosa create user-role command. The following tables describe the interactive OCM role creation mode options: Table 4.1. --interactive OCM role creation mode options Field Description Role prefix Specify the prefix to include in the OCM IAM role name. The default is ManagedOpenShift . You can create only one OCM role per AWS account for your Red Hat organization. Enable admin capabilities for the OCM role (optional) Enable the admin OCM IAM role, which is equivalent to specifying the --admin argument. The admin role is required if you want to use auto mode to automatically provision the cluster-specific Operator roles and the OIDC provider by using OpenShift Cluster Manager. Permissions boundary ARN (optional) Specify a permissions boundary Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the OCM role. For more information, see Permissions boundaries for IAM entities in the AWS documentation. Role Path (optional) Specify a custom ARN path for your OCM role. The path must contain alphanumeric characters only and start and end with / , for example /test/path/dev/ . For more information, see ARN path customization for IAM roles and policies . Role creation mode Select the role creation mode. You can use auto mode to automatically create the OCM role and link it to your Red Hat organization account. In manual mode, the ROSA CLI ( rosa ) generates the aws commands needed to create and link the role. In manual mode, the corresponding policy JSON files are also saved to the current directory. manual mode enables you to review the details before running the aws commands manually. Create the '<ocm_role_name>' role? Confirm if you want to create the OCM role. Link the '<ocm_role_arn>' role with organization '<red_hat_organization_id>'? Confirm if you want to link the OCM role with your Red Hat organization. The following tables describe the interactive user role creation mode options: Table 4.2. --interactive user role creation mode options Field Description Role prefix Specify the prefix to include in the user role name. The default is ManagedOpenShift . Permissions boundary ARN (optional) Specify a permissions boundary Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the user role. For more information, see Permissions boundaries for IAM entities in the AWS documentation. Role Path (optional) Specify a custom ARN path for your user role. The path must contain alphanumeric characters only and start and end with / , for example /test/path/dev/ . For more information, see ARN path customization for IAM roles and policies . Role creation mode Selects the role creation mode. You can use auto mode to automatically create the user role and link it to your OpenShift Cluster Manager user account. In manual mode, the ROSA CLI generates the aws commands needed to create and link the role. In manual mode, the corresponding policy JSON files are also saved to the current directory. manual mode enables you to review the details before running the aws commands manually. Create the '<user_role_name>' role? Confirm if you want to create the user role. Link the '<user_role_arn>' role with account '<red_hat_user_account_id>'? Confirm if you want to link the user role with your Red Hat user account. 4.2. Interactive cluster creation mode options You can create a Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS cluster with the AWS Security Token Service (STS) by using the interactive mode. You can enable the mode by specifying the --interactive option when you run the rosa create cluster command. The following table describes the interactive cluster creation mode options: Table 4.3. --interactive cluster creation mode options Field Description Cluster name Enter a name for your cluster, for example my-rosa-cluster . Domain prefix Enter a name for the domain prefix for the subdomain of your cluster, for example my-rosa-cluster . Deploy cluster with Hosted Control Plane (optional) Enable the use of Hosted Control Planes. Create cluster admin user Create a local administrator user ( cluster-admin ) for your cluster. This automatically configures a htpasswd identity provider for the cluster-admin user. Create custom password for cluster admin Create a custom password for the cluster-admin user, or use a system-generated password. If you create a custom password, the password must be at least 14 characters (ASCII-standard) and contain no whitespace characters. If you do not create a custom password, the system generates a password and displays it in the command line output. Deploy cluster using AWS STS Create an OpenShift cluster that uses the AWS Security Token Service (STS) to allocate temporary, limited-privilege credentials for component-specific AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles. The service enables cluster components to make AWS API calls using secure cloud resource management practices. The default is Yes . OpenShift version Select the version of OpenShift to install, for example 4. The default is the latest version. Configure the use of IMDSv2 for ec2 instances optional/required (optional) Specify whether all EC2 instances will use both v1 and v2 endpoints of EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)(optional) or only IMDSv2 (required). Installer role ARN If you have more than one set of account roles in your AWS account for your cluster version, a list of installer role ARNs are provided. Select the ARN for the installer role that you want to use with your cluster. The cluster uses the account-wide roles and policies that relate to the selected installer role. External ID (optional) Specify an unique identifier that is passed by OpenShift Cluster Manager and the OpenShift installer when an account role is assumed. This option is only required for custom account roles that expect an external ID. Operator roles prefix Enter a prefix to assign to the cluster-specific Operator IAM roles. The default is the name of the cluster and a 4-digit random string, for example my-rosa-cluster-a0b1 . Deploy cluster using pre registered OIDC Configuration ID Specify if you want to use a preconfigured OIDC configuration or if you want to create a new OIDC configuration as part of the cluster creation process. Tags (optional) Specify a tag that is used on all resources created by Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS in AWS. Tags can help you manage, identify, organize, search for, and filter resources within AWS. Tags are comma separated, for example: "key value, foo bar". Important Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS only supports custom tags to Red Hat OpenShift resources during cluster creation. Once added, the tags cannot be removed or edited. Tags that are added by Red Hat are required for clusters to stay in compliance with Red Hat production service level agreements (SLAs). These tags must not be removed. Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS does not support adding additional tags outside of ROSA cluster-managed resources. These tags can be lost when AWS resources are managed by the ROSA cluster. In these cases, you might need custom solutions or tools to reconcile the tags and keep them intact. Multiple availability zones (optional) Deploy the cluster to multiple availability zones in the AWS region. The default is No , which results in a cluster being deployed to a single availability zone. If you deploy a cluster into multiple availability zones, the AWS region must have at least 3 availability zones. Multiple availability zones are recommended for production workloads. AWS region Specify the AWS region to deploy the cluster in. This overrides the AWS_REGION environment variable. PrivateLink cluster (optional) Create a cluster using AWS PrivateLink. This option provides private connectivity between Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), AWS services, and your on-premise networks, without exposing your traffic to the public internet. To provide support, Red Hat Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) can connect to the cluster by using AWS PrivateLink Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. This option cannot be changed after a cluster is created. The default is No . Machine CIDR Specify the IP address range for machines (cluster nodes), which must encompass all CIDR address ranges for your VPC subnets. Subnets must be contiguous. A minimum IP address range of 128 addresses, using the subnet prefix /25 , is supported for single availability zone deployments. A minimum address range of 256 addresses, using the subnet prefix /24 , is supported for deployments that use multiple availability zones. The default is 10.0.0.0/16 . This range must not conflict with any connected networks. Service CIDR Specify the IP address range for services. It is recommended, but not required, that the address block is the same between clusters. This will not create IP address conflicts. The range must be large enough to accommodate your workload. The address block must not overlap with any external service accessed from within the cluster. The default is 172.30.0.0/16 . Pod CIDR Specify the IP address range for pods. It is recommended, but not required, that the address block is the same between clusters. This will not create IP address conflicts. The range must be large enough to accommodate your workload. The address block must not overlap with any external service accessed from within the cluster. The default is 10.128.0.0/14 . Install into an existing VPC (optional) Install a cluster into an existing AWS VPC. To use this option, your VPC must have 2 subnets for each availability zone that you are installing the cluster into. The default is No . Select availability zones (optional) Specify the availability zones that are used when installing into an existing AWS VPC. Use a comma-separated list to provide the availability zones. If you specify No , the installer selects the availability zones automatically. Enable customer managed key (optional) Enable this option to use a specific AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key as the encryption key for persistent data. This key functions as the encryption key for control plane, infrastructure, and worker node root volumes. The key is also configured on the default storage class to ensure that persistent volumes created with the default storage class will be encrypted with the specific KMS key. When disabled, the account KMS key for the specified region is used by default to ensure persistent data is always encrypted. The default is No . Compute nodes instance type Select a compute node instance type. The default is m5.xlarge . Enable autoscaling (optional) Enable compute node autoscaling. The autoscaler adjusts the size of the cluster to meet your deployment demands. The default is No . Additional Compute Security Group IDs (optional) Select the additional custom security group IDs that are used with the standard machine pool created along side the cluster. The default is none selected. Only security groups associated with the selected VPC are displayed. You can select a maximum of 5 additional security groups. Additional Infra Security Group IDs (optional) Select the additional custom security group IDs that are used with the infra nodes created along side the cluster. The default is none selected. Only security groups associated with the selected VPC are displayed. You can select a maximum of 5 additional security groups. Additional Control Plane Security Group IDs (optional) Select the additional custom security group IDs that are used with the control plane nodes created along side the cluster. The default is none selected. Only security groups associated with the selected VPC are displayed. You can select a maximum of 5 additional security groups. Compute nodes Specify the number of compute nodes to provision into each availability zone. Clusters deployed in a single availability zone require at least 2 nodes. Clusters deployed in multiple zones must have at least 3 nodes. The maximum number of worker nodes is 249 nodes. The default value is 2 . Default machine pool labels (optional) Specify the labels for the default machine pool. The label format should be a comma-separated list of key-value pairs. This list will overwrite any modifications made to node labels on an ongoing basis. Host prefix Specify the subnet prefix length assigned to pods scheduled to individual machines. The host prefix determines the pod IP address pool for each machine. For example, if the host prefix is set to /23 , each machine is assigned a /23 subnet from the pod CIDR address range. The default is /23 , allowing 512 cluster nodes and 512 pods per node, both of which are beyond our supported maximums. For information on the supported maximums, see the Additional resources section below. Machine pool root disk size (GiB or TiB) Specify the size of the machine pool root disk. This value must include a unit suffix like GiB or TiB, for example the default value of 300GiB . Enable FIPS support (optional) Enable or disable FIPS mode. The default is false (disabled). If FIPS mode is enabled, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines that Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS runs on bypass the default Kubernetes cryptography suite and use the cryptography modules that are provided with RHCOS instead. Important To enable FIPS mode for your cluster, you must run the installation program from a {op-system-base-full} computer configured to operate in FIPS mode. For more information about configuring FIPS mode on {op-system-base}, see Switching {op-system-base} to FIPS mode . When running {op-system-base-full} or Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) booted in FIPS mode, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS core components use the {op-system-base} cryptographic libraries that have been submitted to NIST for FIPS 140-2/140-3 Validation on only the x86_64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. Encrypt etcd data (optional) In Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, the control plane storage is encrypted at rest by default and this includes encryption of the etcd volumes. You can additionally enable the Encrypt etcd data option to encrypt the key values for some resources in etcd, but not the keys. Important By enabling etcd encryption for the key values in etcd, you will incur a performance overhead of approximately 20%. The overhead is a result of introducing this second layer of encryption, in addition to the default control plane storage encryption that encrypts the etcd volumes. Red Hat recommends that you enable etcd encryption only if you specifically require it for your use case. Disable workload monitoring (optional) Disable monitoring for user-defined projects. Monitoring for user-defined projects is enabled by default. Route Selector for ingress (optional) Specify the route selector for your ingress. The format should be a comma-separated list of key-value pairs. If you do not specify a label, all routes will be exposed on both routers. For legacy ingress support, these labels are inclusion labels; otherwise, they are treated as exclusion labels. Excluded namespaces for ingress (optional) Specify the excluded namespaces for your ingress. The format should be a comma-separated list value1, value2... . If you do not specify any values, all namespaces will be exposed. Wildcard Policy (optional, choose 'Skip' to skip selection. The default value will be supplied.) Choose the wildcard policy for your ingress. The options are WildcardsDisallowed and WildcardsAllowed . Default is WildcardsDisallowed . Namespace Ownership Policy (optional, choose 'Skip' to skip selection. The default value will be supplied.) Choose the namespace ownership policy for your ingress. The options are Strict and InterNamespaceAllowed . The default is Strict . 4.3. Additional resources For more information about using custom ARN paths for the OCM role, user role, and account-wide roles, see ARN path customization for IAM roles and policies . For a list of the supported maximums, see ROSA tested cluster maximums . For detailed steps to quickly create a ROSA cluster with STS, including the AWS IAM resources, see Creating a ROSA cluster with STS using the default options . For detailed steps to create a ROSA cluster with STS using customizations, including the AWS IAM resources, see Creating a ROSA cluster with STS using customizations . For more information about etcd encryption, see the etcd encryption service definition . For an example VPC architecture, see this sample VPC architecture .

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