$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -f <path>/<file_name> (1)
In OpenShift Container Platform version 4.16, you can install a cluster on Microsoft Azure Stack Hub with an installer-provisioned infrastructure. However, you must manually configure the install-config.yaml
file to specify values that are specific to Azure Stack Hub.
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You reviewed details about the OpenShift Container Platform installation and update processes.
You read the documentation on selecting a cluster installation method and preparing it for users.
You configured an Azure Stack Hub account to host the cluster.
If you use a firewall, you configured it to allow the sites that your cluster requires access to.
You verified that you have approximately 16 GB of local disk space. Installing the cluster requires that you download the RHCOS virtual hard disk (VHD) cluster image and upload it to your Azure Stack Hub environment so that it is accessible during deployment. Decompressing the VHD files requires this amount of local disk space.
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.16, 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.
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 required content and use it to populate a mirror registry with the installation packages. 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. |
During an OpenShift Container Platform installation, you can provide an SSH public key to the installation program. The key is passed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) nodes through their Ignition config files and is used to authenticate SSH access to the nodes. The key is added to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
list for the core
user on each node, which enables password-less authentication.
After the key is passed to the nodes, you can use the key pair to SSH in to the RHCOS nodes as the user core
. To access the nodes through SSH, the private key identity must be managed by SSH for your local user.
If you want to SSH in to your cluster nodes to perform installation debugging or disaster recovery, you must provide the SSH public key during the installation process. The ./openshift-install gather
command also requires the SSH public key to be in place on the cluster nodes.
Do not skip this procedure in production environments, where disaster recovery and debugging is required. |
You must use a local key, not one that you configured with platform-specific approaches such as AWS key pairs. |
If you do not have an existing SSH key pair on your local machine to use for authentication onto your cluster nodes, create one. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N '' -f <path>/<file_name> (1)
1 | Specify the path and file name, such as ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 , of the new SSH key. If you have an existing key pair, ensure your public key is in the your ~/.ssh directory. |
If you plan to install an OpenShift Container Platform cluster that uses the RHEL cryptographic libraries that have been submitted to NIST for FIPS 140-2/140-3 Validation on only the |
View the public SSH key:
$ cat <path>/<file_name>.pub
For example, run the following to view the ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
public key:
$ cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
Add the SSH private key identity to the SSH agent for your local user, if it has not already been added. SSH agent management of the key is required for password-less SSH authentication onto your cluster nodes, or if you want to use the ./openshift-install gather
command.
On some distributions, default SSH private key identities such as |
If the ssh-agent
process is not already running for your local user, start it as a background task:
$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
Agent pid 31874
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
:
$ ssh-add <path>/<file_name> (1)
1 | Specify the path and file name for your SSH private key, such as ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 |
Identity added: /home/<you>/<path>/<file_name> (<computer_name>)
When you install OpenShift Container Platform, provide the SSH public key to the installation program.
You must download the RHCOS virtual hard disk (VHD) cluster image and upload it to your Azure Stack Hub environment so that it is accessible during deployment.
Configure an Azure account.
Obtain the RHCOS VHD cluster image:
Export the URL of the RHCOS VHD to an environment variable.
$ export COMPRESSED_VHD_URL=$(openshift-install coreos print-stream-json | jq -r '.architectures.x86_64.artifacts.azurestack.formats."vhd.gz".disk.location')
Download the compressed RHCOS VHD file locally.
$ curl -O -L ${COMPRESSED_VHD_URL}
Decompress the VHD file.
The decompressed VHD file is approximately 16 GB, so be sure that your host system has 16 GB of free space available. The VHD file can be deleted once you have uploaded it. |
Upload the local VHD to the Azure Stack Hub environment, making sure that the blob is publicly available. For example, you can upload the VHD to a blob using the az
cli or the web portal.
Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, download the installation file on the host you are using for installation.
You have a computer that runs Linux or macOS, with at least 1.2 GB of local disk space.
Go to the Cluster Type page on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. If you have a Red Hat account, log in with your credentials. If you do not, create an account.
Select your infrastructure provider from the Run it yourself section of the page.
Select your host operating system and architecture from the dropdown menus under OpenShift Installer and click Download Installer.
Place the downloaded file in the directory where you want to store the installation configuration files.
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Extract the installation program. For example, on a computer that uses a Linux operating system, run the following command:
$ tar -xvf openshift-install-linux.tar.gz
Download your installation pull secret from 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.
Alternatively, you can retrieve the installation program from the Red Hat Customer Portal, where you can specify a version of the installation program to download. However, you must have an active subscription to access this page. |
Installing the cluster requires that you manually create the installation configuration file.
You have an SSH public key on your local machine to provide to the installation program. The key will be used for SSH authentication onto your cluster nodes for debugging and disaster recovery.
You have obtained the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
Create an installation directory to store your required installation assets in:
$ mkdir <installation_directory>
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 sample install-config.yaml
file template that is provided and save
it in the <installation_directory>
.
You must name this configuration file |
Make the following modifications:
Specify the required installation parameters.
Update the platform.azure
section to specify the parameters that are specific to Azure Stack Hub.
Optional: Update one or more of the default configuration parameters to customize the installation.
For more information about the parameters, see "Installation configuration parameters".
Back up the install-config.yaml
file so that you can use it to install multiple clusters.
The |
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.
This sample YAML file is provided for reference only. Use it as a resource to enter parameter values into the installation configuration file that you created manually. |
apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: example.com (1)
credentialsMode: Manual
controlPlane: (2) (3)
name: master
platform:
azure:
osDisk:
diskSizeGB: 1024 (4)
diskType: premium_LRS
replicas: 3
compute: (2)
- name: worker
platform:
azure:
osDisk:
diskSizeGB: 512 (4)
diskType: premium_LRS
replicas: 3
metadata:
name: test-cluster (1) (5)
networking:
clusterNetwork:
- cidr: 10.128.0.0/14
hostPrefix: 23
machineNetwork:
- cidr: 10.0.0.0/16
networkType: OVNKubernetes (6)
serviceNetwork:
- 172.30.0.0/16
platform:
azure:
armEndpoint: azurestack_arm_endpoint (1) (7)
baseDomainResourceGroupName: resource_group (1) (8)
region: azure_stack_local_region (1) (9)
resourceGroupName: existing_resource_group (10)
outboundType: Loadbalancer
cloudName: AzureStackCloud (1)
clusterOSimage: https://vhdsa.blob.example.example.com/vhd/rhcos-410.84.202112040202-0-azurestack.x86_64.vhd (1) (11)
pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}' (1) (12)
fips: false (13)
sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA... (14)
additionalTrustBundle: | (15)
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
<MY_TRUSTED_CA_CERT>
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
1 | Required. | ||
2 | If you do not provide these parameters and values, the installation program provides the default value. | ||
3 | 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. Although both sections currently define a single machine pool, it is possible that future versions of OpenShift Container Platform will support defining multiple compute pools during installation. Only one control plane pool is used. |
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4 | You can specify the size of the disk to use in GB. Minimum recommendation for control plane nodes is 1024 GB. | ||
5 | The name of the cluster. | ||
6 | The cluster network plugin to install. The default value OVNKubernetes is the only supported value. |
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7 | The Azure Resource Manager endpoint that your Azure Stack Hub operator provides. | ||
8 | The name of the resource group that contains the DNS zone for your base domain. | ||
9 | The name of your Azure Stack Hub local region. | ||
10 | The name of an existing resource group to install your cluster to. If undefined, a new resource group is created for the cluster. | ||
11 | The URL of a storage blob in the Azure Stack environment that contains an RHCOS VHD. | ||
12 | The pull secret required to authenticate your cluster. | ||
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.
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14 | You can optionally provide the sshKey value that you use to access the machines in your cluster.
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15 | If the Azure Stack Hub environment is using an internal Certificate Authority (CA), adding the CA certificate is required. |
The Cloud Credential Operator (CCO) only supports your cloud provider in manual mode. As a result, you must specify the identity and access management (IAM) secrets for your cloud provider.
If you have not previously created installation manifest files, do so by running the following command:
$ openshift-install create manifests --dir <installation_directory>
where <installation_directory>
is the directory in which the installation program creates files.
Set a $RELEASE_IMAGE
variable with the release image from your installation file by running the following command:
$ RELEASE_IMAGE=$(./openshift-install version | awk '/release image/ {print $3}')
Extract the list of CredentialsRequest
custom resources (CRs) from the OpenShift Container Platform release image by running the following command:
$ oc adm release extract \
--from=$RELEASE_IMAGE \
--credentials-requests \
--included \(1)
--install-config=<path_to_directory_with_installation_configuration>/install-config.yaml \(2)
--to=<path_to_directory_for_credentials_requests> (3)
1 | The --included parameter includes only the manifests that your specific cluster configuration requires. |
2 | Specify the location of the install-config.yaml file. |
3 | Specify the path to the directory where you want to store the CredentialsRequest objects. If the specified directory does not exist, this command creates it. |
This command creates a YAML file for each CredentialsRequest
object.
CredentialsRequest
objectapiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1
kind: CredentialsRequest
metadata:
name: <component_credentials_request>
namespace: openshift-cloud-credential-operator
...
spec:
providerSpec:
apiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1
kind: AzureProviderSpec
roleBindings:
- role: Contributor
...
Create YAML files for secrets in the openshift-install
manifests directory that you generated previously. The secrets must be stored using the namespace and secret name defined in the spec.secretRef
for each CredentialsRequest
object.
CredentialsRequest
object with secretsapiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1
kind: CredentialsRequest
metadata:
name: <component_credentials_request>
namespace: openshift-cloud-credential-operator
...
spec:
providerSpec:
apiVersion: cloudcredential.openshift.io/v1
kind: AzureProviderSpec
roleBindings:
- role: Contributor
...
secretRef:
name: <component_secret>
namespace: <component_namespace>
...
Secret
objectapiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: <component_secret>
namespace: <component_namespace>
data:
azure_subscription_id: <base64_encoded_azure_subscription_id>
azure_client_id: <base64_encoded_azure_client_id>
azure_client_secret: <base64_encoded_azure_client_secret>
azure_tenant_id: <base64_encoded_azure_tenant_id>
azure_resource_prefix: <base64_encoded_azure_resource_prefix>
azure_resourcegroup: <base64_encoded_azure_resourcegroup>
azure_region: <base64_encoded_azure_region>
Before upgrading a cluster that uses manually maintained credentials, you must ensure that the CCO is in an upgradeable state. |
If the Azure Stack Hub environment is using an internal Certificate Authority (CA), update the cluster-proxy-01-config.yaml file
to configure the cluster to use the internal CA.
Create the install-config.yaml
file and specify the certificate trust bundle in .pem
format.
Create the cluster manifests.
From the directory in which the installation program creates files, go to the manifests
directory.
Add user-ca-bundle
to the spec.trustedCA.name
field.
cluster-proxy-01-config.yaml
fileapiVersion: config.openshift.io/v1
kind: Proxy
metadata:
creationTimestamp: null
name: cluster
spec:
trustedCA:
name: user-ca-bundle
status: {}
Optional: Back up the manifests/ cluster-proxy-01-config.yaml
file. The installation program consumes the manifests/
directory when you deploy the cluster.
You can install OpenShift Container Platform on a compatible cloud platform.
You can run the |
You have configured an account with the cloud platform that hosts your cluster.
You have the OpenShift Container Platform installation program and the pull secret for your cluster.
You have verified that the cloud provider account on your host has the correct permissions to deploy the cluster. An account with incorrect permissions causes the installation process to fail with an error message that displays the missing permissions.
Change to the directory that contains the installation program and initialize the cluster deployment:
$ ./openshift-install create cluster --dir <installation_directory> \ (1)
--log-level=info (2)
1 | For <installation_directory> , specify the
location of your customized ./install-config.yaml file. |
2 | To view different installation details, specify warn , debug , or
error instead of info . |
When the cluster deployment completes successfully:
The terminal displays directions for accessing your cluster, including a link to the web console and credentials for the kubeadmin
user.
Credential information also outputs to <installation_directory>/.openshift_install.log
.
Do not delete the installation program or the files that the installation program creates. Both are required to delete the cluster. |
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INFO Install complete!
INFO To access the cluster as the system:admin user when using 'oc', run 'export KUBECONFIG=/home/myuser/install_dir/auth/kubeconfig'
INFO Access the OpenShift web-console here: https://console-openshift-console.apps.mycluster.example.com
INFO Login to the console with user: "kubeadmin", and password: "password"
INFO Time elapsed: 36m22s
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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.
If you installed an earlier version of |
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Linux by using the following procedure.
Navigate to the OpenShift Container Platform downloads page on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
Select the architecture from the Product Variant drop-down list.
Select the appropriate version from the Version drop-down list.
Click Download Now next to the OpenShift v4.16 Linux Client entry and save the file.
Unpack the archive:
$ tar xvf <file>
Place the oc
binary in a directory that is on your PATH
.
To check your PATH
, execute the following command:
$ echo $PATH
After you install the OpenShift CLI, it is available using the oc
command:
$ oc <command>
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on Windows by using the following procedure.
Navigate to the OpenShift Container Platform downloads page on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
Select the appropriate version from the Version drop-down list.
Click Download Now next to the OpenShift v4.16 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>
You can install the OpenShift CLI (oc
) binary on macOS by using the following procedure.
Navigate to the OpenShift Container Platform downloads page on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
Select the appropriate version from the Version drop-down list.
Click Download Now next to the OpenShift v4.16 macOS Client entry and save the file.
For macOS arm64, choose the OpenShift v4.16 macOS arm64 Client entry. |
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:
$ echo $PATH
Verify your installation by using an oc
command:
$ oc <command>
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.
You deployed an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
You installed the oc
CLI.
Export the kubeadmin
credentials:
$ 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:
$ oc whoami
system:admin
The kubeadmin
user exists by default after an OpenShift Container Platform installation. You can log in to your cluster as the kubeadmin
user by using the OpenShift Container Platform web console.
You have access to the installation host.
You completed a cluster installation and all cluster Operators are available.
Obtain the password for the kubeadmin
user from the kubeadmin-password
file on the installation host:
$ cat <installation_directory>/auth/kubeadmin-password
Alternatively, you can obtain the |
List the OpenShift Container Platform web console route:
$ oc get routes -n openshift-console | grep 'console-openshift'
Alternatively, you can obtain the OpenShift Container Platform route from the |
console console-openshift-console.apps.<cluster_name>.<base_domain> console https reencrypt/Redirect None
Navigate to the route detailed in the output of the preceding command in a web browser and log in as the kubeadmin
user.
In OpenShift Container Platform 4.16, 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.
If necessary, you can opt out of remote health reporting.
If necessary, you can remove cloud provider credentials.