Install StarlingX Kubernetes on Virtual Standard with Dedicated Storage

This section describes the steps to install the StarlingX Kubernetes platform on a StarlingX R6.0 virtual Standard with Dedicated Storage deployment configuration.

Install software on controller-0

In the last step of Prepare Host and Environment, the controller-0 virtual server ‘dedicatedstorage-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 dedicatedstorage-controller-0

Make the following menu selections in the installer:

  1. First menu: Select ‘Standard 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: duplex

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
external_oam_node_0_address: 10.10.10.3
external_oam_node_1_address: 10.10.10.4

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 and MGMT interfaces of controller-0 and specify the attached networks:

    OAM_IF=enp7s1
MGMT_IF=enp7s2
system host-if-modify controller-0 lo -c none
IFNET_UUIDS=$(system interface-network-list controller-0 | awk '{if ($6=="lo") print $4;}')
for UUID in $IFNET_UUIDS; do
    system interface-network-remove ${UUID}
done
system host-if-modify controller-0 $OAM_IF -c platform
system interface-network-assign controller-0 $OAM_IF oam
system host-if-modify controller-0 $MGMT_IF -c platform
system interface-network-assign controller-0 $MGMT_IF mgmt
system interface-network-assign controller-0 $MGMT_IF cluster-host

  3. Configure NTP servers for network time synchronization:

    Note

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

    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. 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

  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.

Unlock controller-0

Important

Make sure the Ceph storage backend is configured. If it is not configured, you will not be able to configure storage nodes.

Unlock virtual controller-0 in order to bring it into service:

system host-unlock controller-0

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

Install software on controller-1, storage nodes, and worker nodes

  1. On the host, power on the controller-1 virtual server, ‘dedicatedstorage-controller-1’. It will automatically attempt to network boot over the management network:

    virsh start dedicatedstorage-controller-1

  2. Attach to the console of virtual controller-1:

    virsh console dedicatedstorage-controller-1

  3. As controller-1 VM boots, a message appears on its console instructing you to configure the personality of the node.

  4. On the console of controller-0, list hosts to see newly discovered controller-1 host (hostname=None):

    system host-list
+----+--------------+-------------+----------------+-------------+--------------+
| id | hostname     | personality | administrative | operational | availability |
+----+--------------+-------------+----------------+-------------+--------------+
| 1  | controller-0 | controller  | unlocked       | enabled     | available    |
| 2  | None         | None        | locked         | disabled    | offline      |
+----+--------------+-------------+----------------+-------------+--------------+

  5. Using the host id, set the personality of this host to ‘controller’:

    system host-update 2 personality=controller

    This initiates software installation on controller-1. This can take 5-10 minutes, depending on the performance of the host machine.

  6. While waiting on the previous step to complete, start up and set the personality for ‘dedicatedstorage-storage-0’ and ‘dedicatedstorage-storage-1’. Set the personality to ‘storage’ and assign a unique hostname for each.

    For example, start ‘dedicatedstorage-storage-0’ from the host:

    virsh start dedicatedstorage-storage-0

    Wait for new host (hostname=None) to be discovered by checking ‘system host-list’ on virtual controller-0:

    system host-update 3 personality=storage

    Repeat for ‘dedicatedstorage-storage-1’. On the host:

    virsh start dedicatedstorage-storage-1

    And wait for new host (hostname=None) to be discovered by checking ‘system host-list’ on virtual controller-0:

    system host-update 4 personality=storage

    This initiates software installation on storage-0 and storage-1. This can take 5-10 minutes, depending on the performance of the host machine.

  7. While waiting on the previous step to complete, start up and set the personality for ‘dedicatedstorage-worker-0’ and ‘dedicatedstorage-worker-1’. Set the personality to ‘worker’ and assign a unique hostname for each.

    For example, start ‘dedicatedstorage-worker-0’ from the host:

    virsh start dedicatedstorage-worker-0

    Wait for new host (hostname=None) to be discovered by checking ‘system host-list’ on virtual controller-0:

    system host-update 5 personality=worker hostname=worker-0

    Repeat for ‘dedicatedstorage-worker-1’. On the host:

    virsh start dedicatedstorage-worker-1

    And wait for new host (hostname=None) to be discovered by checking ‘system host-list’ on virtual controller-0:

    system host-update 6 personality=worker hostname=worker-1

    This initiates software installation on worker-0 and worker-1.

    Note

    A node with Edgeworker personality is also available. See Deploy Edgeworker Nodes for details.

  8. Wait for the software installation on controller-1, storage-0, storage-1, worker-0, and worker-1 to complete, for all virtual servers to reboot, and for all to show as locked/disabled/online in ‘system host-list’.

    system host-list
+----+--------------+-------------+----------------+-------------+--------------+
| id | hostname     | personality | administrative | operational | availability |
+----+--------------+-------------+----------------+-------------+--------------+
| 1  | controller-0 | controller  | unlocked       | enabled     | available    |
| 2  | controller-1 | controller  | locked         | disabled    | online       |
| 3  | storage-0    | storage     | locked         | disabled    | online       |
| 4  | storage-1    | storage     | locked         | disabled    | online       |
| 5  | worker-0     | worker      | locked         | disabled    | online       |
| 6  | worker-1     | worker      | locked         | disabled    | online       |
+----+--------------+-------------+----------------+-------------+--------------+

Configure controller-1

Configure the OAM and MGMT interfaces of virtual controller-0 and specify the attached networks. Note that the MGMT interface is partially set up by the network install procedure.

OAM_IF=enp7s1
system host-if-modify controller-1 $OAM_IF -c platform
system interface-network-assign controller-1 $OAM_IF oam
system interface-network-assign controller-1 mgmt0 cluster-host

OpenStack-specific host configuration

Important

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

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

system host-label-assign controller-1 openstack-control-plane=enabled

Unlock controller-1

Unlock virtual controller-1 in order to bring it into service:

system host-unlock controller-1

Controller-1 will reboot in order to apply configuration changes and come into service. This can take 5-10 minutes, depending on the performance of the host machine.

Configure storage nodes

On virtual controller-0:

  1. Assign the cluster-host network to the MGMT interface for the storage nodes.

    Note that the MGMT interfaces are partially set up by the network install procedure.

    for NODE in storage-0 storage-1; do
   system interface-network-assign $NODE mgmt0 cluster-host
done

  2. Add OSDs to storage-0:

    HOST=storage-0
DISKS=$(system host-disk-list ${HOST})
TIERS=$(system storage-tier-list ceph_cluster)
OSDs="/dev/sdb"
for OSD in $OSDs; do
   system host-stor-add ${HOST} $(echo "$DISKS" | grep "$OSD" | awk '{print $2}') --tier-uuid $(echo "$TIERS" | grep storage | awk '{print $2}')
done

system host-stor-list $HOST

  3. Add OSDs to storage-1:

    HOST=storage-1
DISKS=$(system host-disk-list ${HOST})
TIERS=$(system storage-tier-list ceph_cluster)
OSDs="/dev/sdb"
for OSD in $OSDs; do
    system host-stor-add ${HOST} $(echo "$DISKS" | grep "$OSD" | awk '{print $2}') --tier-uuid $(echo "$TIERS" | grep storage | awk '{print $2}')
done

system host-stor-list $HOST

Unlock storage nodes

Unlock virtual storage nodes in order to bring them into service:

for STORAGE in storage-0 storage-1; do
   system host-unlock $STORAGE
done

The storage nodes will reboot in order to apply configuration changes and come into service. This can take 5-10 minutes, depending on the performance of the host machine.

Configure worker nodes

On virtual controller-0:

  1. Assign the cluster-host network to the MGMT interface for the worker nodes.

    Note that the MGMT interfaces are partially set up automatically by the network install procedure.

    for NODE in worker-0 worker-1; do
   system interface-network-assign $NODE mgmt0 cluster-host
done

  2. Configure data interfaces for worker nodes.

    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
PHYSNET0='physnet0'
PHYSNET1='physnet1'
SPL=/tmp/tmp-system-port-list
SPIL=/tmp/tmp-system-host-if-list

    Configure the datanetworks in sysinv, prior to referencing it in the system host-if-modify command.

    system datanetwork-add ${PHYSNET0} vlan
system datanetwork-add ${PHYSNET1} vlan

for NODE in worker-0 worker-1; do
  echo "Configuring interface for: $NODE"
  set -ex
  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 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}
  set +ex
done

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 the worker nodes in support of installing the stx-openstack manifest/helm-charts later:

    for NODE in worker-0 worker-1; do
  system host-label-assign $NODE  openstack-compute-node=enabled
  kubectl taint nodes $NODE openstack-compute-node:NoSchedule
  system host-label-assign $NODE  openvswitch=enabled
  system host-label-assign $NODE  sriov=enabled
done

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

    for NODE in worker-0 worker-1; do
  echo "Configuring Nova local for: $NODE"
  ROOT_DISK=$(system host-show ${NODE} | grep rootfs | awk '{print $4}')
  ROOT_DISK_UUID=$(system host-disk-list ${NODE} --nowrap | grep ${ROOT_DISK} | awk '{print $2}')
  PARTITION_SIZE=10
  NOVA_PARTITION=$(system host-disk-partition-add -t lvm_phys_vol ${NODE} ${ROOT_DISK_UUID} ${PARTITION_SIZE})
  NOVA_PARTITION_UUID=$(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}
done

Unlock worker nodes

Unlock virtual worker nodes to bring them into service:

for NODE in worker-0 worker-1; do
   system host-unlock $NODE
done

The worker nodes will reboot in order 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 R6.0.

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