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Adding compute machines to bare metal

Prerequisites

Creating Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines

Before you add more compute machines to a cluster that you installed on bare metal infrastructure, 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.

Creating more Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines using an ISO image

You can create more compute machines for your bare metal cluster by using an ISO image to create the machines.

Prerequisites

  • Obtain the URL of the Ignition config file for the compute machines for your cluster. You uploaded this file to your HTTP server during installation.

  • Obtain the URL of the BIOS or UEFI RHCOS image file that you uploaded to your HTTP server during cluster installation.

Procedure

  1. Use the ISO file to install RHCOS on more compute machines. Use the same method that you used when you created machines before you installed the cluster:

    • Burn the ISO image to a disk and boot it directly.

    • Use ISO redirection with a LOM interface.

  2. After the instance boots, press the TAB or E key to edit the kernel command line.

  3. Add the parameters to the kernel command line:

    coreos.inst=yes
coreos.inst.install_dev=sda (1)
coreos.inst.image_url=<bare_metal_image_URL> (2)
coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://example.com/worker.ign (3)
    1 Specify the block device of the system to install to.
    2 Specify the URL of the UEFI or BIOS image that you uploaded to your server.
    3 Specify the URL of the compute Ignition config file.

  4. Press Enter to complete the installation. After RHCOS installs, the system reboots. After the system reboots, it applies the Ignition config file that you specified.

  5. Continue to create more compute machines for your cluster.

Creating more Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) machines by PXE or iPXE booting

You can create more compute machines for your bare metal cluster by using PXE or iPXE booting.

Prerequisites

  • Obtain the URL of the Ignition config file for the compute machines for your cluster. You uploaded this file to your HTTP server during installation.

  • Obtain the URLs of the RHCOS ISO image, compressed metal BIOS, kernel, and initramfs files that you uploaded to your HTTP server during cluster installation.

  • You have access to the PXE booting infrastructure that you used to create the machines for your OpenShift Container Platform cluster during installation. The machines must boot from their local disks after RHCOS is installed on them.

  • If you use UEFI, you have access to the grub.conf file that you modified during OpenShift Container Platform installation.

Procedure

  1. Confirm that your PXE or iPXE installation for the RHCOS images is correct.

    • For PXE:

      DEFAULT pxeboot
TIMEOUT 20
PROMPT 0
LABEL pxeboot
    KERNEL http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-installer-kernel-<architecture> (1)
    APPEND ip=dhcp rd.neednet=1 initrd=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-installer-initramfs.<architecture>.img console=tty0 console=ttyS0 coreos.inst=yes coreos.inst.install_dev=sda coreos.inst.image_url=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-metal.<architecture>.raw.gz coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://<HTTP_server>/worker.ign (2) (3)
      1 Specify the location of the kernel file that you uploaded to your HTTP server.
      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.inst.image_url parameter value is the location of the compressed metal RAW image, and the coreos.inst.ignition_url parameter value is the location of the worker Ignition config file.

    • For iPXE:

      kernel http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-installer-kernel-<architecture> ip=dhcp rd.neednet=1 initrd=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-installer-initramfs.<architecture>.img console=tty0 console=ttyS0 coreos.inst=yes coreos.inst.install_dev=sda coreos.inst.image_url=http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-metal.<arhcitectutre>.raw.gz coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://<HTTP_server>/worker.ign (1) (2)
initrd http://<HTTP_server>/rhcos-<version>-installer-initramfs.<architecture>.img (3)
boot
      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 parameter value is the location of the initramfs file, the coreos.inst.image_url parameter value is the location of the compressed metal RAW image, and the coreos.inst.ignition_url parameter value is the location of the worker 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.

  2. Use the PXE or iPXE infrastructure to create the required compute machines for your cluster.

Approving the CSRs 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.

Prerequisites

  • You added machines to your cluster.

Procedure

  1. Confirm that the cluster recognizes the machines:

    $ oc get nodes

NAME      STATUS    ROLES   AGE  VERSION
master-0  Ready     master  63m  v1.16.2
master-1  Ready     master  63m  v1.16.2
master-2  Ready     master  64m  v1.16.2
worker-0  NotReady  worker  76s  v1.16.2
worker-1  NotReady  worker  70s  v1.16.2

    The output lists all of the machines that you created.

  2. Review the pending CSRs and ensure that you see a client and server request with the Pending or Approved status for each machine that you added to the cluster:

    $ oc get csr

NAME        AGE     REQUESTOR                                                                   CONDITION
csr-8b2br   15m     system:serviceaccount:openshift-machine-config-operator:node-bootstrapper   Pending (1)
csr-8vnps   15m     system:serviceaccount:openshift-machine-config-operator:node-bootstrapper   Pending
csr-bfd72   5m26s   system:node:ip-10-0-50-126.us-east-2.compute.internal                       Pending (2)
csr-c57lv   5m26s   system:node:ip-10-0-95-157.us-east-2.compute.internal                       Pending
...
    1 A client request CSR.
    2 A server request CSR.

    In this example, two machines are joining the cluster. You might see more approved CSRs in the list.

  3. 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:

    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. After you approve the initial CSRs, the subsequent node client CSRs are automatically approved by the cluster kube-controller-manager. You must implement a method of automatically approving the kubelet serving certificate requests.

    • To approve them individually, run the following command for each valid CSR:

      $ 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:

      $ oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs oc adm certificate approve
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