Ansible Bootstrap Configurations¶

This section describes additional Ansible bootstrap configurations for advanced Ansible bootstrap scenarios.

IPv6 ¶

If you are using IPv6, provide IPv6 configuration overrides for the Ansible bootstrap playbook. Note that all addressing, except pxeboot_subnet, should be updated to IPv6 addressing.

Example IPv6 override values are shown below:

dns_servers:
‐ 2001:4860:4860::8888
‐ 2001:4860:4860::8844
pxeboot_subnet: 169.254.202.0/24
management_subnet: 2001:db8:2::/64
cluster_host_subnet: 2001:db8:3::/64
cluster_pod_subnet: 2001:db8:4::/64
cluster_service_subnet: 2001:db8:4::/112
external_oam_subnet: 2001:db8:1::/64
external_oam_gateway_address: 2001:db8::1
external_oam_floating_address: 2001:db8::2
external_oam_node_0_address: 2001:db8::3
external_oam_node_1_address: 2001:db8::4
management_multicast_subnet: ff08::1:1:0/124

Note

The external_oam_node_0_address, and external_oam_node_1_address parameters are not required for the AIO‐SX installation.

Private registry ¶

To bootstrap StarlingX requires pulling container images for multiple system services. By default these container images are pulled from public registries: k8s.gcr.io, gcr.io, quay.io, and docker.io.

It may be required (or desired) to copy the container images to a private registry and pull the images from the private registry (instead of the public registries) as part of the StarlingX bootstrap. For example, a private registry would be required if a StarlingX system was deployed in an air-gapped network environment.

Use the docker_registries structure in the bootstrap overrides file to specify alternate registry(s) for the public registries from which container images are pulled. These alternate registries are used during the bootstrapping of controller-0, and on system application-apply of application packages.

The docker_registries structure is a map of public registries and the alternate registry values for each public registry. For each public registry the key is a fully scoped registry name of a public registry (for example “k8s.gcr.io”) and the alternate registry URL and username/password (if authenticated).

url

The fully scoped registry name (and optionally namespace/) for the alternate registry location where the images associated with this public registry should now be pulled from.

Valid formats for the url value are:

Domain. For example:

::
example.domain
Domain with port. For example:

::
example.domain:5000
IPv4 address. For example:

::
1.2.3.4
IPv4 address with port. For example:

::
1.2.3.4:5000
IPv6 address. For example:

::
FD01::0100
IPv6 address with port. For example:

::
[FD01::0100]:5000

username

The username for logging into the alternate registry, if authenticated.

password

The password for logging into the alternate registry, if authenticated.

Additional configuration options in the docker_registries structure are:

unified: A special public registry key which, if defined, will specify that images from all public registries should be retrieved from this single source. Alternate registry values, if specified, are ignored. The unified key supports the same set of alternate registry values of url, username, and password.
is_secure_registry: Specifies whether the registry(s) supports HTTPS (secure) or HTTP (not secure). Applies to all alternate registries. A boolean value. The default value is True (secure, HTTPS).

If an alternate registry is specified to be secure (using HTTPS), the certificate used by the registry may not be signed by a well-known Certificate Authority (CA). This results in the docker pull of images from this registry to fail. Use the ssl_ca_cert override to specify the public certificate of the CA that signed the alternate registry’s certificate. This will add the CA as a trusted CA to the StarlingX system.

ssl_ca_cert: The ssl_ca_cert value is the absolute path of the certificate file. The certificate must be in PEM format and the file may contain a single CA certificate or multiple CA certificates in a bundle.

The following example specifies a single alternate registry from which to bootstrap StarlingX, where the images of the public registries have been copied to the single alternate registry. It additionally defines an alternate registry certificate:

docker_registries:
   k8s.gcr.io:
     url:
   gcr.io:
     url:
   quay.io:
     url:
   docker.io:
     url:
   unified:
     url: my.registry.io
     username: myreguser
     password: myregP@ssw0rd
   is_secure_registry: True

ssl_ca_cert: /path/to/ssl_ca_cert_file

Docker proxy ¶

If the StarlingX OAM interface or network is behind a http/https proxy, relative to the Docker registries used by StarlingX or applications running on StarlingX, then Docker within StarlingX must be configured to use these http/https proxies.

Use the following configuration overrides to configure your Docker proxy settings.

docker_http_proxy

Specify the HTTP proxy URL to use. For example:

docker_http_proxy: http://my.proxy.com:1080

docker_https_proxy

Specify the HTTPS proxy URL to use. For example:

docker_https_proxy: https://my.proxy.com:1443

docker_no_proxy

A no-proxy address list can be provided for registries not on the other side of the proxies. This list will be added to the default no-proxy list derived from localhost, loopback, management, and OAM floating addresses at run time. Each address in the no-proxy list must neither contain a wildcard nor have subnet format. For example:

docker_no_proxy:
  - 1.2.3.4
  - 5.6.7.8

K8S Root CA Certificate and Key ¶

By default the K8S Root CA Certificate and Key are auto-generated and result in the use of self-signed certificates for the Kubernetes API server. In the case where self-signed certificates are not acceptable, use the bootstrap override values k8s_root_ca_cert and k8s_root_ca_key to specify the certificate and key for the Kubernetes root CA.

k8s_root_ca_cert: Specifies the certificate for the Kubernetes root CA. The k8s_root_ca_cert value is the absolute path of the certificate file. The certificate must be in PEM format and the value must be provided as part of a pair with k8s_root_ca_key. The playbook will not proceed if only one value is provided.
k8s_root_ca_key: Specifies the key for the Kubernetes root CA. The k8s_root_ca_key value is the absolute path of the certificate file. The certificate must be in PEM format and the value must be provided as part of a pair with k8s_root_ca_cert. The playbook will not proceed if only one value is provided.

Important

The default length for the generated Kubernetes root CA certificate is 10 years. Replacing the root CA certificate is an involved process so the custom certificate expiry should be as long as possible. We recommend ensuring root CA certificate has an expiry of at least 5-10 years.

The administrator can also provide values to add to the Kubernetes API server certificate Subject Alternative Name list using the ‘apiserver_cert_sans` override parameter.

apiserver_cert_sans

Specifies a list of Subject Alternative Name entries that will be added to the Kubernetes API server certificate. Each entry in the list must be an IP address or domain name. For example:

apiserver_cert_sans:
  - hostname.domain
  - 198.51.100.75

StarlingX automatically updates this parameter to include IP records for the OAM floating IP and both OAM unit IP addresses.