Creating ROSA with HCP clusters without a CNI plugin | Install ROSA with HCP clusters

Creating a ROSA with HCP cluster without a CNI plugin
Creating the cluster
Next steps

You can use your own Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin when creating a Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes (HCP) cluster. You can create a ROSA with HCP cluster without a CNI and install your own CNI plugin after cluster creation.

For customers who choose to use their own CNI, the responsibility of CNI plugin support belongs to the customer in coordination with their chosen CNI vendor.

Creating a ROSA with HCP cluster without a CNI plugin

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Prerequisites

Ensure that you have completed the AWS prerequisites.
Ensure that you have a configured virtual private cloud (VPC).

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Creating the account-wide STS roles and policies

Before using the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) CLI (rosa) to create Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes (HCP) clusters, create the required account-wide roles and policies, including the Operator policies.

ROSA with HCP clusters require account and Operator roles with AWS managed policies attached. Customer managed policies are not supported. For more information regarding AWS managed policies for ROSA with HCP clusters, see AWS managed policies for ROSA account roles.

Prerequisites

You have completed the AWS prerequisites for ROSA with HCP.
You have available AWS service quotas.
You have enabled the ROSA service in the AWS Console.
You have installed and configured the latest ROSA CLI (rosa) on your installation host.
You have logged in to your Red Hat account by using the ROSA CLI.

Procedure

If they do not exist in your AWS account, create the required account-wide STS roles and attach the policies by running the following command:
```
$ rosa create account-roles --hosted-cp
```
Optional: Set your prefix as an environmental variable by running the following command:
```
$ export ACCOUNT_ROLES_PREFIX=<account_role_prefix>
```
- View the value of the variable by running the following command:
  $ echo $ACCOUNT_ROLES_PREFIX
  Example output
  ManagedOpenShift

For more information regarding AWS managed IAM policies for ROSA, see AWS managed IAM policies for ROSA.

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Creating an OpenID Connect configuration

When using a Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS cluster, you can create the OpenID Connect (OIDC) configuration prior to creating your cluster. This configuration is registered to be used with OpenShift Cluster Manager.

Prerequisites

You have installed and configured the latest Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) CLI, rosa, on your installation host.

Procedure

To create your OIDC configuration alongside the AWS resources, run the following command:

$ rosa create oidc-config --mode=auto --yes

This command returns the following information.

Example output

? Would you like to create a Managed (Red Hat hosted) OIDC Configuration Yes
I: Setting up managed OIDC configuration
I: To create Operator Roles for this OIDC Configuration, run the following command and remember to replace <user-defined> with a prefix of your choice:
	rosa create operator-roles --prefix <user-defined> --oidc-config-id 13cdr6b
If you are going to create a Hosted Control Plane cluster please include '--hosted-cp'
I: Creating OIDC provider using 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:user/userName'
? Create the OIDC provider? Yes
I: Created OIDC provider with ARN 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:oidc-provider/dvbwgdztaeq9o.cloudfront.net/13cdr6b'

When creating your cluster, you must supply the OIDC config ID. The CLI output provides this value for --mode auto, otherwise you must determine these values based on aws CLI output for --mode manual.

Optional: you can save the OIDC configuration ID as a variable to use later. Run the following command to save the variable:
$ export OIDC_ID=<oidc_config_id>(1)
1 In the example output above, the OIDC configuration ID is 13cdr6b.
- View the value of the variable by running the following command:
  $ echo $OIDC_ID
  Example output
  13cdr6b

Verification

You can list the possible OIDC configurations available for your clusters that are associated with your user organization. Run the following command:

$ rosa list oidc-config

Example output

ID                                MANAGED  ISSUER URL                                                             SECRET ARN
2330dbs0n8m3chkkr25gkkcd8pnj3lk2  true     https://dvbwgdztaeq9o.cloudfront.net/2330dbs0n8m3chkkr25gkkcd8pnj3lk2
233hvnrjoqu14jltk6lhbhf2tj11f8un  false    https://oidc-r7u1.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com                           aws:secretsmanager:us-east-1:242819244:secret:rosa-private-key-oidc-r7u1-tM3MDN

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Creating Operator roles and policies

When using a ROSA with HCP cluster, you must create the Operator IAM roles that are required for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) with hosted control planes (HCP) deployments. The cluster Operators use the Operator roles to obtain the temporary permissions required to carry out cluster operations, such as managing back-end storage, cloud provider credentials, and external access to a cluster.

Prerequisites

You have completed the AWS prerequisites for ROSA with HCP.
You have installed and configured the latest Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS ROSA CLI (rosa), on your installation host.
You created the account-wide AWS roles.

Procedure

Set your prefix name to an environment variable using the following command:
```
$ export OPERATOR_ROLES_PREFIX=<prefix_name>
```

To create your Operator roles, run the following command:

$ rosa create operator-roles --hosted-cp --prefix=$OPERATOR_ROLES_PREFIX --oidc-config-id=$OIDC_ID --installer-role-arn arn:aws:iam::${AWS_ACCOUNT_ID}:role/${ACCOUNT_ROLES_PREFIX}-HCP-ROSA-Installer-Role

The following breakdown provides options for the Operator role creation.

$ rosa create operator-roles --hosted-cp
	--prefix=$OPERATOR_ROLES_PREFIX (1)
	--oidc-config-id=$OIDC_ID (2)
	--installer-role-arn arn:aws:iam::${AWS_ACCOUNT_ID}:role/${ACCOUNT_ROLES_PREFIX}-HCP-ROSA-Installer-Role (3)

1	You must supply a prefix when creating these Operator roles. Failing to do so produces an error. See the Additional resources of this section for information on the Operator prefix.
2	This value is the OIDC configuration ID that you created for your ROSA with HCP cluster.
3	This value is the installer role ARN that you created when you created the ROSA account roles.

You must include the --hosted-cp parameter to create the correct roles for ROSA with HCP clusters. This command returns the following information.

Example output

? Role creation mode: auto
? Operator roles prefix: <pre-filled_prefix> (1)
? OIDC Configuration ID: 23soa2bgvpek9kmes9s7os0a39i13qm4 | https://dvbwgdztaeq9o.cloudfront.net/23soa2bgvpek9kmes9s7os0a39i13qm4 (2)
? Create hosted control plane operator roles: Yes
W: More than one Installer role found
? Installer role ARN: arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-HCP-ROSA-Installer-Role
? Permissions boundary ARN (optional):
I: Reusable OIDC Configuration detected. Validating trusted relationships to operator roles:
I: Creating roles using 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:user/<userName>'
I: Created role '<prefix>-openshift-cluster-csi-drivers-ebs-cloud-credentials' with ARN 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-openshift-cluster-csi-drivers-ebs-cloud-credentials'
I: Created role '<prefix>-openshift-cloud-network-config-controller-cloud-credenti' with ARN 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-openshift-cloud-network-config-controller-cloud-credenti'
I: Created role '<prefix>-kube-system-kube-controller-manager' with ARN 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-kube-system-kube-controller-manager'
I: Created role '<prefix>-kube-system-capa-controller-manager' with ARN 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-kube-system-capa-controller-manager'
I: Created role '<prefix>-kube-system-control-plane-operator' with ARN 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-kube-system-control-plane-operator'
I: Created role '<prefix>-kube-system-kms-provider' with ARN 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-kube-system-kms-provider'
I: Created role '<prefix>-openshift-image-registry-installer-cloud-credentials' with ARN 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-openshift-image-registry-installer-cloud-credentials'
I: Created role '<prefix>-openshift-ingress-operator-cloud-credentials' with ARN 'arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-openshift-ingress-operator-cloud-credentials'
I: To create a cluster with these roles, run the following command:
	rosa create cluster --sts --oidc-config-id 23soa2bgvpek9kmes9s7os0a39i13qm4 --operator-roles-prefix <prefix> --hosted-cp

1	This field is prepopulated with the prefix that you set in the initial creation command.
2	This field requires you to select an OIDC configuration that you created for your ROSA with HCP cluster.

The Operator roles are now created and ready to use for creating your ROSA with HCP cluster.

Verification

You can list the Operator roles associated with your ROSA account. Run the following command:

$ rosa list operator-roles

Example output

I: Fetching operator roles
ROLE PREFIX  AMOUNT IN BUNDLE
<prefix>      8
? Would you like to detail a specific prefix Yes (1)
? Operator Role Prefix: <prefix>
ROLE NAME                                                         ROLE ARN                                                                                         VERSION  MANAGED
<prefix>-kube-system-capa-controller-manager                       arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-kube-system-capa-controller-manager                       4.13     No
<prefix>-kube-system-control-plane-operator                        arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-kube-system-control-plane-operator                        4.13     No
<prefix>-kube-system-kms-provider                                  arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-kube-system-kms-provider                                  4.13     No
<prefix>-kube-system-kube-controller-manager                       arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-kube-system-kube-controller-manager                       4.13     No
<prefix>-openshift-cloud-network-config-controller-cloud-credenti  arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-openshift-cloud-network-config-controller-cloud-credenti  4.13     No
<prefix>-openshift-cluster-csi-drivers-ebs-cloud-credentials       arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-openshift-cluster-csi-drivers-ebs-cloud-credentials       4.13     No
<prefix>-openshift-image-registry-installer-cloud-credentials      arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-openshift-image-registry-installer-cloud-credentials      4.13     No
<prefix>-openshift-ingress-operator-cloud-credentials              arn:aws:iam::4540112244:role/<prefix>-openshift-ingress-operator-cloud-credentials              4.13     No

1	After the command runs, it displays all the prefixes associated with your AWS account and notes how many roles are associated with this prefix. If you need to see all of these roles and their details, enter "Yes" on the detail prompt to have these roles listed out with specifics.

Additional resources

See About custom Operator IAM role prefixes for information on the Operator prefixes.

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Creating the cluster

When using the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) command line interface (CLI), rosa, to create a cluster, you can add an optional flag --no-cni to create a cluster without a CNI plugin.

Prerequisites

You have completed the AWS prerequisites for ROSA with HCP.
You have available AWS service quotas.
You have enabled the ROSA service in the AWS Console.
You have installed and configured the latest ROSA CLI (rosa) on your installation host. Run rosa version to see your currently installed version of the ROSA CLI. If a newer version is available, the CLI provides a link to download this upgrade.
You have logged in to your Red Hat account by using the ROSA CLI.
You have created an OIDC configuration.
You have verified that the AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service role exists in your AWS account.

Procedure

You can create your ROSA with HCP cluster with one of the following commands.

When creating a ROSA with HCP cluster, the default machine Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) is 10.0.0.0/16. If this does not correspond to the CIDR range for your VPC subnets, add --machine-cidr <address_block> to the following commands. To learn more about the default CIDR ranges for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, see CIDR range definitions.

Create a cluster with a single, initial machine pool, publicly available API, publicly available Ingress, and no CNI plugin by running the following command:

$ rosa create cluster --cluster-name=<cluster_name> \
    --sts --mode=auto --hosted-cp --operator-roles-prefix <operator-role-prefix> \
    --oidc-config-id <ID-of-OIDC-configuration> --subnet-ids=<public-subnet-id>,<private-subnet-id> --no-cni

Create a cluster with a single, initial machine pool, privately available API, privately available Ingress, and no CNI plugin by running the following command:
```
$ rosa create cluster --private --cluster-name=<cluster_name> \
    --sts --mode=auto --hosted-cp --subnet-ids=<private-subnet-id> --no-cni
```
If you used the OIDC_ID, SUBNET_IDS, and OPERATOR_ROLES_PREFIX variables to prepare your environment, you can continue to use those variables when creating your cluster without a CNI plugin. For example, run the following command:
```
$ rosa create cluster --hosted-cp --subnet-ids=$SUBNET_IDS --oidc-config-id=$OIDC_ID --cluster-name=<cluster_name> --operator-roles-prefix=$OPERATOR_ROLES_PREFIX --no-cni
```

Check the status of your cluster by running the following command:

$ rosa describe cluster --cluster=<cluster_name>

The following State field changes are listed in the output as the cluster installation progresses:

pending (Preparing account)
installing (DNS setup in progress)
installing

ready

If the installation fails or the State field does not change to ready after more than 10 minutes, check the installation troubleshooting documentation for details. For more information, see Troubleshooting installations. For steps to contact Red Hat Support for assistance, see Getting support for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS.

When you first log in to the cluster after it reaches ready status, the nodes will still be in the not ready state until you install your own CNI plugin. After CNI installation, the nodes will change to ready.

Track the progress of the cluster creation by watching the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS installation program logs. To check the logs, run the following command:
```
$ rosa logs install --cluster=<cluster_name> --watch (1)
```
1 Optional: To watch for new log messages as the installation progresses, use the --watch argument.

Next steps

Install your CNI plugin. The nodes will then change from the not ready to ready state.
Access your ROSA cluster with the Accessing a ROSA cluster documentation.