Install OKD/OCP on OCI using an agnostic method

This document is under development on https://github.com/mtulio/ansible-collection-okd-installer/pull/26

Install OCP/OKD Cluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using agnostic installation/UPI.

Prerequisites
Installing OCP
- Install the Clientes
- Option 1 - Install quickly
- Option 2 - Install step-by-stack
  - Create the Install config
  - Create the manifests
  - Setup IAM Stack
  - Setup Network Stack
  - Setup DNS Stack
  - Setup Load Balancer Stack
  - Patch the manifests
  - Create the ignitions
  - Setup Compute Stack
    - Setup Bootstrap
    - Setup Control Plane nodes
    - Setup Compute nodes
    - Check/Approve the certificates
Review the Installation
Destroy the Cluster

Prerequisites

Installing OpenShift/OKD

Create the vars file

cat <<EOF > ~/.oci/env
# Compartment where the cluster will be installed
OCI_COMPARTMENT_ID="<CHANGE_ME:ocid1.compartment.oc1.UUID>"

# Compartment that the DNS Zone is created (based domain)
# Only RR will be added
OCI_COMPARTMENT_ID_DNS="<CHANGE_ME:ocid1.compartment.oc1.UUID>"

# Compartment that the OS Image will be created
OCI_COMPARTMENT_ID_IMAGE="<CHANGE_ME:ocid1.compartment.oc1.UUID>"
EOF
source ~/.oci/env

cat <<EOF > ~/.openshift/env
export OCP_CUSTOM_RELEASE="quay.io/mtulio/ocp-release:latest"

OCP_RELEASE_413="quay.io/mrbraga/ocp-release:4.13.0-rc.0-x86_64_platexternal-kcmo-mco-3cmo"
EOF
source ~/.openshift/env

CLUSTER_NAME=oci-bm2
VAR_FILE=./vars-oci-ha_${CLUSTER_NAME}.yaml

cat <<EOF > ${VAR_FILE}
provider: oci
cluster_name: ${CLUSTER_NAME}
config_cluster_region: us-sanjose-1

#TODO: create compartment validations
#TODO: allow create compartment from a parent
oci_compartment_id: ${OCI_COMPARTMENT_ID}
oci_compartment_id_dns: ${OCI_COMPARTMENT_ID_DNS}
oci_compartment_id_image: ${OCI_COMPARTMENT_ID_IMAGE}

cluster_profile: ha
destroy_bootstrap: no

config_base_domain: splat-oci.devcluster.openshift.com
config_ssh_key: "$(cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub;cat ~/.ssh/openshift-dev.pub)"
config_pull_secret_file: "${HOME}/.openshift/pull-secret-latest.json"

config_cluster_version: 4.13.0-rc.0
version: 4.13.0-rc.0
config_installer_environment:
  OPENSHIFT_INSTALL_RELEASE_IMAGE_OVERRIDE: "quay.io/mrbraga/ocp-release:4.13.0-rc.0-x86_64_platexternal-kcmo-mco-3cmo"

# Define the OS Image mirror
# custom_image_id: rhcos-412.86.202212081411-0-openstack.x86_64

os_mirror: yes
os_mirror_from: stream_artifacts
os_mirror_stream:
  architecture: x86_64
  artifact: openstack
  format: qcow2.gz

os_mirror_to_provider: oci
os_mirror_to_oci:
  compartment_id: ${OCI_COMPARTMENT_ID_IMAGE}
  bucket: rhcos-images
  image_type: QCOW2

## Apply patches to installer manifests (WIP)
# TODO: we must keep the OCI CCM manifests patch more generic

config_patches:
- rm-capi-machines
- mc-kubelet-providerid
- deploy-oci-ccm
- deploy-oci-csi
- yaml_patch

cfg_patch_yaml_patch_specs:
    ## patch infra object to create External provider
  - manifest: /manifests/cluster-infrastructure-02-config.yml
    patch: '{"spec":{"platformSpec":{"type":"External","external":{"platformName":"oci"}}},"status":{"platform":"External","platformStatus":{"type":"External","external":{}}}}'

cfg_patch_kubelet_providerid_script: |
    PROVIDERID=\$(curl -H "Authorization: Bearer Oracle" -sL http://169.254.169.254/opc/v2/instance/ | jq -r .id);

# Customize instance type
#compute_shape: "BM.Standard.E2.64"
#compute_shape_config: {}

EOF

Install the clients

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.install_clients -e @$VARS_FILE

Installing option 1: quickly install

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.create_all \
    -e certs_max_retries=20 \
    -e cert_wait_interval_sec=60 \
    -e @$VAR_FILE

Installing option 2: step-by-step

Create the Installer Configuration

Create the installation configuration:

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.config -e mode=create-config -e @$VARS_FILE

The rendered install-config.yaml will be available on the following path:

~/.ansible/okd-installer/clusters/$CLUSTER_NAME/install-config.yaml

If you want to skip this part, place your own install-config.yaml on the same path and go to the next step.

Create the Installer manifests

Create the installation configuration:

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.config -e mode=create-manifests -e @$VARS_FILE

The manifests will be rendered and saved on the install directory:

~/.ansible/okd-installer/clusters/$CLUSTER_NAME/

If you want to skip that part, with your manifests, you must be able to run the openshift-install create manifests under the install directory, and the file manifests/cluster-config.yaml is created correctly.

The infrastructure manifest also must exist on the path: manifests/cluster-infrastructure-02-config.yml.

After this stage, the file $install_dir/cluster_state.json will be created and populated with the stack results.

IAM Stack

N/A

TODO: create Compartment validations

Create the Network Stack

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.stack_network -e @$VARS_FILE

DNS Stack

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.stack_dns -e @$VARS_FILE

Load Balancer Stack

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.stack_loadbalancer -e @$VARS_FILE

Config Commit

This stage allows the user to modify the cluster configurations (manifests), then generate the ignition files used to create the cluster.

Manifest patches (pre-ign)

In this step, the playbooks will apply any patches to the manifests, according to the vars file config_patches.

The config_patches are predefined tasks that will run to reach specific goals.

If you wouldn't like to apply patches, leave the empty value config_patches: [].

If you would like to apply patches manually, you can do it by changing the manifests on the install dir. Default install dir path: ~/.ansible/okd-installer/clusters/${cluster_name}/*

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.config -e mode=patch-manifests -e @$VARS_FILE

Config generation (ignitions)

These steps should be the last before the configuration be 'committed':

create ignitions when using openshift-install as the config provider

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.config -e mode=create-ignitions -e @$VARS_FILE

Mirror OS boot image

Download the image from the URL provided by openshift-install coreos-stream

Example: $ jq -r '.architectures["x86_64"].artifacts.openstack.formats["qcow2.gz"].disk.location' ~/.ansible/okd-installer/clusters/ocp-oci/coreos-stream.json

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.os_mirror -e @$VARS_FILE

Compute Stack

Bootstrap node

Upload the bootstrap ignition to blob and Create the Bootstrap Instance

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.create_node -e node_role=bootstrap -e @$VARS_FILE

Control Plane nodes

Create the Control Plane nodes

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.create_node -e node_role=controlplane -e @$VARS_FILE

Compute/worker nodes

Create the Compute nodes

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.create_node -e node_role=compute -e @$VARS_FILE

Approve worker nodes' certificates signing requests (CSR)

oc adm certificate approve $(oc get csr  -o json |jq -r '.items[] | select(.status.certificate == null).metadata.name')

# OR

oc get csr -o go-template='{{range .items}}{{if not .status}}{{.metadata.name}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}{{end}}' | xargs oc adm certificate approve

Review the installation

export KUBECONFIG=${HOME}/.ansible/okd-installer/clusters/${cluster_name}/auth/kubeconfig

oc get nodes
oc get co

Destroy cluster

ansible-playbook mtulio.okd_installer.destroy_cluster -e @$VARS_FILE