Install StarlingX Kubernetes on Virtual AIO-SX

This section describes the steps to install the StarlingX Kubernetes platform on a StarlingX R4.0 virtual All-in-one Simplex deployment configuration.

Install software on controller-0

In the last step of Prepare Host and Environment, the controller-0 virtual server ‘simplex-controller-0’ was started by the setup_configuration.sh command.

On the host, attach to the console of virtual controller-0 and select the appropriate installer menu options to start the non-interactive install of StarlingX software on controller-0.

Note

When entering the console, it is very easy to miss the first installer menu selection. Use ESC to navigate to previous menus, to ensure you are at the first installer menu.

virsh console simplex-controller-0

Make the following menu selections in the installer:

1. First menu: Select ‘All-in-one Controller Configuration’

2. Second menu: Select ‘Serial Console’

Wait for the non-interactive install of software to complete and for the server to reboot. This can take 5-10 minutes, depending on the performance of the host machine.

Bootstrap system on controller-0

On virtual controller-0:

1. Log in using the username / password of “sysadmin” / “sysadmin”. When logging in for the first time, you will be forced to change the password.

   Login: sysadmin
   Password:
   Changing password for sysadmin.
   (current) UNIX Password: sysadmin
   New Password:
   (repeat) New Password:
   

2. External connectivity is required to run the Ansible bootstrap playbook.

   export CONTROLLER0_OAM_CIDR=10.10.10.3/24
   export DEFAULT_OAM_GATEWAY=10.10.10.1
   sudo ip address add $CONTROLLER0_OAM_CIDR dev enp7s1
   sudo ip link set up dev enp7s1
   sudo ip route add default via $DEFAULT_OAM_GATEWAY dev enp7s1
   

3. Specify user configuration overrides for the Ansible bootstrap playbook.

   Ansible is used to bootstrap StarlingX on controller-0. Key files for Ansible configuration are:

   /etc/ansible/hosts

   The default Ansible inventory file. Contains a single host: localhost.

   /usr/share/ansible/stx-ansible/playbooks/bootstrap.yml

   The Ansible bootstrap playbook.

   /usr/share/ansible/stx-ansible/playbooks/host_vars/bootstrap/default.yml

   The default configuration values for the bootstrap playbook.

   sysadmin home directory ($HOME)

   The default location where Ansible looks for and imports user configuration override files for hosts. For example: $HOME/<hostname>.yml.

   Important

   Some Ansible bootstrap parameters cannot be changed or are very difficult to change after installation is complete.

   Review the set of install-time-only parameters before installation and confirm that your values for these parameters are correct for the desired installation.

   Refer to Ansible install-time-only parameters for details.

   Specify the user configuration override file for the Ansible bootstrap playbook using one of the following methods:

   • Copy the default.yml file listed above to $HOME/localhost.yml and edit the configurable values as desired (use the commented instructions in the file).

   or

   • Create the minimal user configuration override file as shown in the example below:

     cd ~
     cat <<EOF > localhost.yml
     system_mode: simplex
     
     dns_servers:
     - 8.8.8.8
     - 8.8.4.4
     
     external_oam_subnet: 10.10.10.0/24
     external_oam_gateway_address: 10.10.10.1
     external_oam_floating_address: 10.10.10.2
     
     admin_username: admin
     admin_password: <admin-password>
     ansible_become_pass: <sysadmin-password>
     
     # Add these lines to configure Docker to use a proxy server
     # docker_http_proxy: http://my.proxy.com:1080
     # docker_https_proxy: https://my.proxy.com:1443
     # docker_no_proxy:
     #   - 1.2.3.4
     
     EOF
     

   Refer to Ansible Bootstrap Configurations for information on additional Ansible bootstrap configurations for advanced Ansible bootstrap scenarios, such as Docker proxies when deploying behind a firewall, etc. Refer to Docker Proxy Configuration for details about Docker proxy settings.

4. Run the Ansible bootstrap playbook:

   ansible-playbook /usr/share/ansible/stx-ansible/playbooks/bootstrap.yml
   

   Wait for Ansible bootstrap playbook to complete. This can take 5-10 minutes, depending on the performance of the host machine.

Configure controller-0

On virtual controller-0:

1. Acquire admin credentials:

   source /etc/platform/openrc
   

2. Configure the OAM interface of controller-0 and specify the attached network as “oam”. Use the OAM port name, for example eth0, that is applicable to your deployment environment:

   OAM_IF=enp7s1
   system host-if-modify controller-0 $OAM_IF -c platform
   system interface-network-assign controller-0 $OAM_IF oam
   

3. Configure NTP servers for network time synchronization:

   Note

   In a virtual environment, this can sometimes cause Ceph clock skew alarms. Also, the virtual instances clock is synchronized with the host clock, so it is not absolutely required to configure NTP in this step.

   system ntp-modify ntpservers=0.pool.ntp.org,1.pool.ntp.org
   

4. Configure Ceph storage backend

   Important

   This step required only if your application requires persistent storage.

   If you want to install the StarlingX Openstack application (stx-openstack) this step is mandatory.

   system storage-backend-add ceph --confirmed
   

5. Configure data interfaces for controller-0.

   Important

   This step is required only if the StarlingX OpenStack application (stx-openstack) will be installed.

   1G Huge Pages are not supported in the virtual environment and there is no virtual NIC supporting SRIOV. For that reason, data interfaces are not applicable in the virtual environment for the Kubernetes-only scenario.

   For OpenStack only:

   DATA0IF=eth1000
   DATA1IF=eth1001
   export NODE=controller-0
   PHYSNET0='physnet0'
   PHYSNET1='physnet1'
   SPL=/tmp/tmp-system-port-list
   SPIL=/tmp/tmp-system-host-if-list
   system host-port-list ${NODE} --nowrap > ${SPL}
   system host-if-list -a ${NODE} --nowrap > ${SPIL}
   DATA0PCIADDR=$(cat $SPL | grep $DATA0IF |awk '{print $8}')
   DATA1PCIADDR=$(cat $SPL | grep $DATA1IF |awk '{print $8}')
   DATA0PORTUUID=$(cat $SPL | grep ${DATA0PCIADDR} | awk '{print $2}')
   DATA1PORTUUID=$(cat $SPL | grep ${DATA1PCIADDR} | awk '{print $2}')
   DATA0PORTNAME=$(cat $SPL | grep ${DATA0PCIADDR} | awk '{print $4}')
   DATA1PORTNAME=$(cat  $SPL | grep ${DATA1PCIADDR} | awk '{print $4}')
   DATA0IFUUID=$(cat $SPIL | awk -v DATA0PORTNAME=$DATA0PORTNAME '($12 ~ DATA0PORTNAME) {print $2}')
   DATA1IFUUID=$(cat $SPIL | awk -v DATA1PORTNAME=$DATA1PORTNAME '($12 ~ DATA1PORTNAME) {print $2}')
   
   system datanetwork-add ${PHYSNET0} vlan
   system datanetwork-add ${PHYSNET1} vlan
   
   system host-if-modify -m 1500 -n data0 -c data ${NODE} ${DATA0IFUUID}
   system host-if-modify -m 1500 -n data1 -c data ${NODE} ${DATA1IFUUID}
   system interface-datanetwork-assign ${NODE} ${DATA0IFUUID} ${PHYSNET0}
   system interface-datanetwork-assign ${NODE} ${DATA1IFUUID} ${PHYSNET1}
   

6. Add an OSD on controller-0 for Ceph:

   Important

   This step requires a configured Ceph storage backend

   system host-disk-list controller-0
   system host-disk-list controller-0 | awk '/\/dev\/sdb/{print $2}' | xargs -i system host-stor-add controller-0 {}
   system host-stor-list controller-0
   

7. If required, and not already done as part of bootstrap, configure Docker to use a proxy server.

   1. List Docker proxy parameters:

      system service-parameter-list platform docker
      

   2. Refer to Docker Proxy Configuration for details about Docker proxy settings.

OpenStack-specific host configuration

Important

This step is required only if the StarlingX OpenStack application (stx-openstack) will be installed.

1. For OpenStack only: Assign OpenStack host labels to controller-0 in support of installing the stx-openstack manifest/helm-charts later.

   system host-label-assign controller-0 openstack-control-plane=enabled
   system host-label-assign controller-0 openstack-compute-node=enabled
   system host-label-assign controller-0 openvswitch=enabled
   system host-label-assign controller-0 sriov=enabled
   

2. For OpenStack only: A vSwitch is required.

   The default vSwitch is containerized OVS that is packaged with the stx-openstack manifest/helm-charts. StarlingX provides the option to use OVS-DPDK on the host, however, in the virtual environment OVS-DPDK is NOT supported, only OVS is supported. Therefore, simply use the default OVS vSwitch here.

3. For OpenStack Only: Set up disk partition for nova-local volume group, which is needed for stx-openstack nova ephemeral disks.

   export NODE=controller-0
   
   echo ">>> Getting root disk info"
   ROOT_DISK=$(system host-show ${NODE} | grep rootfs | awk '{print $4}')
   ROOT_DISK_UUID=$(system host-disk-list ${NODE} --nowrap | grep ${ROOT_DISK} | awk '{print $2}')
   echo "Root disk: $ROOT_DISK, UUID: $ROOT_DISK_UUID"
   
   echo ">>>> Configuring nova-local"
   NOVA_SIZE=34
   NOVA_PARTITION=$(system host-disk-partition-add -t lvm_phys_vol ${NODE} ${ROOT_DISK_UUID} ${NOVA_SIZE})
   NOVA_PARTITION_UUID=$(echo ${NOVA_PARTITION} | grep -ow "| uuid | [a-z0-9\-]* |" | awk '{print $4}')
   system host-lvg-add ${NODE} nova-local
   system host-pv-add ${NODE} nova-local ${NOVA_PARTITION_UUID}
   sleep 2
   

Unlock controller-0

Unlock virtual controller-0 to bring it into service:

system host-unlock controller-0

Controller-0 will reboot to apply configuration changes and come into service. This can take 5-10 minutes, depending on the performance of the host machine.

Next steps

Your Kubernetes cluster is now up and running.

For instructions on how to access StarlingX Kubernetes see Access StarlingX Kubernetes R4.0.

For instructions on how to install and access StarlingX OpenStack see StarlingX OpenStack.