baremetal-upi-sandbox

OCP4.x BareMetal UPI (User Provided Infrastructure) Virtual Sandbox

Introduction

The Baremetal UPI Sandbox is a fun way to get a OCP 4.x baremetal install running on a Linux server. It currently uses libvirt, Vagrant, dnsmasq, matchbox, Terraform, CoreDNS, and HA Proxy. It is for educational purposes only.

Instructions

Prerequisites

Using mksetup.py

root@host:~/baremetal-upi-sandbox# ./mksetup.py -h
usage: mksetup.py [-h] [-d CLUSTER_DOMAIN] [-n CLUSTER_NAME]
                  [-m CLUSTER_MASTERS] [-w CLUSTER_WORKERS]
                  [-k CLUSTER_SSH_KEY] [-s CLUSTER_PULL_SECRET]

Pythonn script to create matchbox node setup script

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d CLUSTER_DOMAIN, --cluster-domain CLUSTER_DOMAIN
                        Domain of cluster; i.e. example.com
  -n CLUSTER_NAME, --cluster-name CLUSTER_NAME
                        Cluster name to be used before domain
  -m CLUSTER_MASTERS, --masters CLUSTER_MASTERS
                        Number of masters to create
  -w CLUSTER_WORKERS, --workers CLUSTER_WORKERS
                        Number of workers to create
  -k CLUSTER_SSH_KEY, --ssh-key CLUSTER_SSH_KEY
                        SSH key to inject
  -s CLUSTER_PULL_SECRET, --pull-secret CLUSTER_PULL_SECRET
                        Pull secret for Red Hat registry

Using launcher.py

TODO

• Consolidate to single Vagrantfile
• IPMI support

Credits

Special thanks to Matthew Dorn and Yolanda Robla Mota for all the work on https://github.com/redhat-nfvpe/upi-rt.

Also check out:
https://github.com/e-minguez/ocp4-upi-bm-pxeless-staticips
https://github.com/openshift/installer/tree/master/upi/metal
https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.1/installing/installing_bare_metal/installing-bare-metal.html