Chapter 11. Running the IPI test The installer-provisioned infrastructure (IPI) test validates whether your BMC-capable bare-metal nodes can be accessed, deployed, and rebooted on an established RHOCP environment. The test uses the Ironic service already running on the RHOCP environment to provision the bare-metal node undergoing certification. Prerequisites You have the installer-provisioned cluster prepared already. You have added the bare-metal node to the RHOCP cluster . This node must: Have no operating system installed. Have not been provisioned. Have access to the baremetal and the provisioning networks if both are available on the RHOCP environment. If you only configured the baremetal network, the server must be connected to it. Important The test must validate that the server can be turned on and off remotely. When creating the bmh.yaml file for the bare-metal node, set the online field to false . For example: Failure to set this field appropriately will cause the test to fail. Procedure Identify the IP address of the node where the Ironic service is running. For example: The metal3 pod runs the Ironic service that the test uses to install the bare-metal node undergoing certification. Make a note of its IP address; this is the Ironic API endpoint that you will use in a later step. Get the credentials of the Ironic service and make a note of them. You will use them in a later step. Log in to any cluster node. For example: Prepare the node to run the certification test: Install podman if it is not already installed. Create the /tmp/results directory. The test will store the results in this directory Note The node must have access to the baremetal and the provisioning networks if both are available on the RHOCP environment. If you only configured the baremetal network, the node must be connected to it. Log in to the Red Hat Certification image registry: Download the redhat-certification-baremetal image from the Red Hat catalog : Run the IPI test: Table 11.1. IPI test parameter description Parameter Description -it Starts an interactive session. --net host Podman uses the network stack of the host for the container. The network configuration of the container is the same as that of the host. The container shares the same service ports that are available to the host. -v tmp/results:/var/rhcert_results Allows mounting the content of a host folder /tmp/results to /var/rhcert_results . :Z Ensures you have read and write permissions on the mount point. Enter the username, password, and the URL of the Ironic service that you acquired before. The URL must be in the format https://<Ironic_IP_address>:6385 . Select the bare-metal node on which you want to run the test. The UUID, Name, Power State, and Provision State of the selected node displays. The test will start after you select the node. Confirm whether the bare-metal node is powered on when prompted. After you confirm this, the test restarts the bare-metal node. Test result files are generated at /tmp/results . At the Red Hat certification website, submit the results to the supplemental RHOCP certification for your server. Additional resources For more information on IPI test, see Red Hat OpenStack Platform Hardware Bare Metal Certification Policy Guide . Installing Red Hat OpenShift Container platform Preparing the bare metal node

Commands:
apiVersion: metal3.io/v1alpha1 kind: BareMetalHost metadata: name: openshift-worker-<num> spec: online: false
oc -n openshift-machine-api get pods -o wide | egrep -v 'image|controller|operator' NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE metal3-78b556db65-lgkrp 7/7 Running 0 12d 172.22.0.111 worker-0
oc -n openshift-machine-api get secret/metal3-ironic-password -o template --template '{{.data.username}}' | base64 -d oc -n openshift-machine-api get secret/metal3-ironic-password -o template --template '{{.data.password}}' | base64 -d
oc debug host/master-0
podman login registry.redhat.io Username: <registry_service_account_username> Password: <registry_service_account_password> Login Succeeded!
podman pull registry.redhat.io/rhcertification/redhat-certification-baremetal
podman run -it --net host -v /tmp/results:/var/rhcert_results:Z redhat-certification-baremetal