OpenShift / OKD 4.x Cluster Deployment using OpenShift Hive

Before you continue to deploy an OpenShift or OKD cluster please check out my other posts about OpenShift Hive – API driven OpenShift cluster provisioning and management operator and Getting started with OpenShift Hive  because you need a running OpenShift Hive operator.

To install the OKD (OpenShift Origin Community Distribution) version we need a few things beforehand: a cluster namespace, AWS credentials, SSH keys, image pull secret, install-config, cluster image version and cluster deployment.

Let’s start to create the cluster namespace:

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: okd

Create a secret with your ssh key:

$ kubectl create secret generic ssh-key -n okd --from-file=ssh-privatekey=/home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_rsa --from-file=ssh-publickey=/home/ubuntu/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Create the AWS credential secret:

$ kubectl create secret generic aws-creds -n okd --from-literal=aws_secret_access_key=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY --from-literal=aws_access_key_id=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

Create an image pull secret, this is not important for installing a OKD 4.x cluster but needs to be present otherwise Hive will not start the cluster deployment. If you have an RedHat Enterprise subscription for OpenShift then you need to add here your RedHat image pull secret:

$ kubectl create secret generic pull-secret -n okd --from-file=.dockerconfigjson=/home/ubuntu/.docker/config.json --type=kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson 

Create a install-config.yaml for the cluster deployment and modify to your needs:

---
apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: kube.domain.com
compute:
- name: worker
  platform:
    aws:
      rootVolume:
        iops: 100
        size: 22
        type: gp2
      type: m4.xlarge
  replicas: 3
controlPlane:
  name: master
  platform:
    aws:
      rootVolume:
        iops: 100
        size: 22
        type: gp2
      type: m4.xlarge
replicas: 3
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: okd
networking:
  clusterNetwork:
  - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14
    hostPrefix: 23
  machineCIDR: 10.0.0.0/16
  networkType: OpenShiftSDN
  serviceNetwork:
  - 172.30.0.0/16
platform:
  aws:
    region: eu-west-1
pullSecret: ""
sshKey: ""

Create the install-config secret for the cluster deployment:

$ kubectl create secret generic install-config -n okd --from-file=install-config.yaml=./install-config.yaml

Create the ClusterImageSet for OKD. In my example I am using the latest OKD 4.4.0 release. More information about the available OKD release versions you find here: https://origin-release.svc.ci.openshift.org/

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
---
apiVersion: hive.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterImageSet
metadata:
  name: okd-4-4-0-imageset
spec:
  releaseImage: registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/origin/release:4.4.0-0.okd-2020-02-18-212654
EOF 

Below is an example of a RedHat Enterprise OpenShift 4 ClusterImageSet:

---
apiVersion: hive.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterImageSet
metadata:
  name: openshift-4-3-0-imageset
spec:
  releaseImage: quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.3.0-x86_64

For Hive to start with the cluster deployment, we need to modify the manifest below and add the references to the previous created secrets, install-config and cluster imageset version:

cat <<EOF | kubectl apply -f -
---
apiVersion: hive.openshift.io/v1
kind: ClusterDeployment
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: okd
  namespace: okd
spec:
  baseDomain: kube.domain.com
  clusterName: okd
  controlPlaneConfig:
    servingCertificates: {}
  installed: false
  platform:
    aws:
      credentialsSecretRef:
        name: aws-creds
      region: eu-west-1
  provisioning:
    imageSetRef:
      name: okd-4-4-0-imageset
    installConfigSecretRef:
      name: install-config 
  pullSecretRef:
    name: pull-secret
  sshKey:
    name: ssh-key
status:
  clusterVersionStatus:
    availableUpdates: null
    desired:
      force: false
      image: ""
      version: ""
    observedGeneration: 0
    versionHash: ""
EOF

Once you submitted the ClusterDeployment manifest, the Hive operator will start to deploy the cluster straightaway:

$ kubectl get clusterdeployments.hive.openshift.io -n okd
NAME   CLUSTERNAME   CLUSTERTYPE   BASEDOMAIN          INSTALLED   INFRAID     AGE
okd    okd                         kube.domain.com     false       okd-jcdkd   107s

Hive will create the provision (install) pod for the cluster deployment and inject the installer configuration:

$ kubectl get pods -n okd
NAME                          READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
okd-0-tbm9t-provision-c5hpf   1/3     Running   0          57s

You can view the logs to check the progress of the cluster deployment. You will see the terraform output for creating the infrastructure resources and feedback from the installer about the installation progress. At the end you will see when the installation completed successfully:

$ kubectl logs okd-0-tbm9t-provision-c5hpf -n okd -c hive -f
...
time="2020-02-23T13:31:41Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_zone.int: Creating..."
time="2020-02-23T13:31:42Z" level=debug msg="aws_ami_copy.main: Still creating... [3m40s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:31:51Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_zone.int: Still creating... [10s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:31:52Z" level=debug msg="aws_ami_copy.main: Still creating... [3m50s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:01Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_zone.int: Still creating... [20s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:02Z" level=debug msg="aws_ami_copy.main: Still creating... [4m0s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:11Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_zone.int: Still creating... [30s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:12Z" level=debug msg="aws_ami_copy.main: Still creating... [4m10s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:21Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_zone.int: Still creating... [40s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:22Z" level=debug msg="aws_ami_copy.main: Still creating... [4m20s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:31Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_zone.int: Still creating... [50s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:32Z" level=debug msg="aws_ami_copy.main: Still creating... [4m30s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:41Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_zone.int: Still creating... [1m0s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:41Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_zone.int: Creation complete after 1m0s [id=Z10411051RAEUMMAUH39E]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:41Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.etcd_a_nodes[0]: Creating..."
time="2020-02-23T13:32:41Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.api_internal: Creating..."
time="2020-02-23T13:32:41Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.api_external_internal_zone: Creating..."
time="2020-02-23T13:32:41Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.etcd_a_nodes[2]: Creating..."
time="2020-02-23T13:32:41Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.etcd_a_nodes[1]: Creating..."
time="2020-02-23T13:32:42Z" level=debug msg="aws_ami_copy.main: Still creating... [4m40s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:51Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.etcd_a_nodes[0]: Still creating... [10s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:51Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.api_internal: Still creating... [10s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:51Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.api_external_internal_zone: Still creating... [10s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:51Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.etcd_a_nodes[2]: Still creating... [10s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:51Z" level=debug msg="module.dns.aws_route53_record.etcd_a_nodes[1]: Still creating... [10s elapsed]"
time="2020-02-23T13:32:52Z" level=debug msg="aws_ami_copy.main: Still creating... [4m50s elapsed]"
...
time="2020-02-23T13:34:43Z" level=debug msg="Apply complete! Resources: 123 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed."
time="2020-02-23T13:34:43Z" level=debug msg="OpenShift Installer unreleased-master-2446-gc108297de972e1a6a5fb502a7668079d16e501f9-dirty"
time="2020-02-23T13:34:43Z" level=debug msg="Built from commit c108297de972e1a6a5fb502a7668079d16e501f9"
time="2020-02-23T13:34:43Z" level=info msg="Waiting up to 20m0s for the Kubernetes API at https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443..."
time="2020-02-23T13:35:13Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the Kubernetes API: Get https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443/version?timeout=32s: dial tcp 52.17.210.160:6443: connect: connection refused"
time="2020-02-23T13:35:50Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the Kubernetes API: Get https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443/version?timeout=32s: dial tcp 52.211.227.216:6443: connect: connection refused"
time="2020-02-23T13:36:20Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the Kubernetes API: Get https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443/version?timeout=32s: dial tcp 52.17.210.160:6443: connect: connection refused"
time="2020-02-23T13:36:51Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the Kubernetes API: Get https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443/version?timeout=32s: dial tcp 52.211.227.216:6443: connect: connection refused"
time="2020-02-23T13:37:58Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the Kubernetes API: Get https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443/version?timeout=32s: dial tcp 52.211.227.216:6443: connect: connection refused"
time="2020-02-23T13:38:00Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the Kubernetes API: the server could not find the requested resource"
time="2020-02-23T13:38:30Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the Kubernetes API: the server could not find the requested resource"
time="2020-02-23T13:38:58Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the Kubernetes API: Get https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443/version?timeout=32s: dial tcp 52.211.227.216:6443: connect: connection refused"
time="2020-02-23T13:39:28Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the Kubernetes API: Get https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443/version?timeout=32s: dial tcp 63.35.50.149:6443: connect: connection refused"
time="2020-02-23T13:39:36Z" level=info msg="API v1.17.1 up"
time="2020-02-23T13:39:36Z" level=info msg="Waiting up to 40m0s for bootstrapping to complete..."
...
time="2020-02-23T13:55:14Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the cluster to initialize: Working towards 4.4.0-0.okd-2020-02-18-212654: 97% complete"
time="2020-02-23T13:55:24Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the cluster to initialize: Working towards 4.4.0-0.okd-2020-02-18-212654: 99% complete"
time="2020-02-23T13:57:39Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the cluster to initialize: Working towards 4.4.0-0.okd-2020-02-18-212654: 99% complete, waiting on authentication, console, monitoring"
time="2020-02-23T13:57:39Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the cluster to initialize: Working towards 4.4.0-0.okd-2020-02-18-212654: 99% complete, waiting on authentication, console, monitoring"
time="2020-02-23T13:58:54Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the cluster to initialize: Working towards 4.4.0-0.okd-2020-02-18-212654: 99% complete"
time="2020-02-23T14:01:40Z" level=debug msg="Still waiting for the cluster to initialize: Working towards 4.4.0-0.okd-2020-02-18-212654: 100% complete, waiting on authentication"
time="2020-02-23T14:03:24Z" level=debug msg="Cluster is initialized"
time="2020-02-23T14:03:24Z" level=info msg="Waiting up to 10m0s for the openshift-console route to be created..."
time="2020-02-23T14:03:24Z" level=debug msg="Route found in openshift-console namespace: console"
time="2020-02-23T14:03:24Z" level=debug msg="Route found in openshift-console namespace: downloads"
time="2020-02-23T14:03:24Z" level=debug msg="OpenShift console route is created"
time="2020-02-23T14:03:24Z" level=info msg="Install complete!"
time="2020-02-23T14:03:24Z" level=info msg="To access the cluster as the system:admin user when using 'oc', run 'export KUBECONFIG=/output/auth/kubeconfig'"
time="2020-02-23T14:03:24Z" level=info msg="Access the OpenShift web-console here: https://console-openshift-console.apps.okd.kube.domain.com"
REDACTED LINE OF OUTPUT
time="2020-02-23T14:03:25Z" level=info msg="command completed successfully" installID=jcdkd
time="2020-02-23T14:03:25Z" level=info msg="saving installer output" installID=jcdkd
time="2020-02-23T14:03:25Z" level=debug msg="installer console log: level=info msg=\"Credentials loaded from default AWS environment variables\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Consuming Install Config from target directory\"\nlevel=warning msg=\"Found override for release image. Please be warned, this is not advised\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Consuming Master Machines from target directory\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Consuming Common Manifests from target directory\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Consuming OpenShift Install from target directory\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Consuming Worker Machines from target directory\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Consuming Openshift Manifests from target directory\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Consuming Master Ignition Config from target directory\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Consuming Worker Ignition Config from target directory\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Consuming Bootstrap Ignition Config from target directory\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Creating infrastructure resources...\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Waiting up to 20m0s for the Kubernetes API at https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443...\"\nlevel=info msg=\"API v1.17.1 up\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Waiting up to 40m0s for bootstrapping to complete...\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Destroying the bootstrap resources...\"\nlevel=error\nlevel=error msg=\"Warning: Resource targeting is in effect\"\nlevel=error\nlevel=error msg=\"You are creating a plan with the -target option, which means that the result\"\nlevel=error msg=\"of this plan may not represent all of the changes requested by the current\"\nlevel=error msg=configuration.\nlevel=error msg=\"\\t\\t\"\nlevel=error msg=\"The -target option is not for routine use, and is provided only for\"\nlevel=error msg=\"exceptional situations such as recovering from errors or mistakes, or when\"\nlevel=error msg=\"Terraform specifically suggests to use it as part of an error message.\"\nlevel=error\nlevel=error\nlevel=error msg=\"Warning: Applied changes may be incomplete\"\nlevel=error\nlevel=error msg=\"The plan was created with the -target option in effect, so some changes\"\nlevel=error msg=\"requested in the configuration may have been ignored and the output values may\"\nlevel=error msg=\"not be fully updated. Run the following command to verify that no other\"\nlevel=error msg=\"changes are pending:\"\nlevel=error msg=\"    terraform plan\"\nlevel=error msg=\"\\t\"\nlevel=error msg=\"Note that the -target option is not suitable for routine use, and is provided\"\nlevel=error msg=\"only for exceptional situations such as recovering from errors or mistakes, or\"\nlevel=error msg=\"when Terraform specifically suggests to use it as part of an error message.\"\nlevel=error\nlevel=info msg=\"Waiting up to 30m0s for the cluster at https://api.okd.kube.domain.com:6443 to initialize...\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Waiting up to 10m0s for the openshift-console route to be created...\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Install complete!\"\nlevel=info msg=\"To access the cluster as the system:admin user when using 'oc', run 'export KUBECONFIG=/output/auth/kubeconfig'\"\nlevel=info msg=\"Access the OpenShift web-console here: https://console-openshift-console.apps.okd.kube.domain.com\"\nREDACTED LINE OF OUTPUT\n" installID=vxghr9br
time="2020-02-23T14:03:25Z" level=info msg="install completed successfully" installID=jcdkd

After the installation of the cluster deployment has finished, the Installed value is set to True:

$ kubectl get clusterdeployments.hive.openshift.io  -n okd
NAME   CLUSTERNAME   CLUSTERTYPE   BASEDOMAIN          INSTALLED   INFRAID      AGE
okd    okd                         kube.domain.com     true        okd-jcdkd    54m

At this point you can start using the platform by getting the login credentials from the cluster credential secret Hive created during the installation:

$ kubectl get secrets -n okd okd-0-tbm9t-admin-password -o jsonpath='{.data.username}' | base64 -d
kubeadmin
$ kubectl get secrets -n okd okd-0-tbm9t-admin-password -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 -d
2T38d-aETpX-dj2YU-UBN4a

Log in via the command-line or the web console:

To delete the cluster simply delete the ClusterDeployment resources which initiates a cluster deprovision and will delete all related AWS resources. If the deprovision gets stuck, manually delete the uninstall finalizer allowing the cluster deployment to be deleted, but note that this may leave artifacts in your AWS account:

$ kubectl delete clusterdeployments.hive.openshift.io okd -n okd --wait=false
clusterdeployment.hive.openshift.io "okd" deleted

Please visit the OpenShift Hive documentation for more information about using Hive.

In the next article I will explain how you can use OpenShift Hive to create, update, delete, patch cluster resources using SyncSets.

Deploy OpenShift 3.11 Container Platform on AWS using Terraform

I have done a few changes on my Terraform configuration for OpenShift 3.11 on Amazon AWS. I have downsized the environment because I didn’t needed that many nodes for a quick test setup. I have added CloudFlare DNS to automatically create CNAME for the AWS load balancers on the DNS zone. I have also added an AWS S3 Bucket for storing the backend state. You can find the new Terraform configuration on my Github repository: https://github.com/berndonline/openshift-terraform/tree/aws-dev

From OpenShift 3.10 and later versions the environment variables changes and I modified the ansible-hosts template for the new configuration. You can see the changes in the hosts template: https://github.com/berndonline/openshift-terraform/blob/aws-dev/helper_scripts/ansible-hosts.template.txt

OpenShift 3.11 has changed a few things and put an focus on an Cluster Operator console which is pretty nice and runs on Kubernetes 1.11. I recommend reading the release notes for the 3.11 release for more details: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/3.11/release_notes/ocp_3_11_release_notes.html

I don’t wanted to get into too much detail, just follow the steps below and start with cloning my repository, and choose the dev branch:

git clone -b aws-dev https://github.com/berndonline/openshift-terraform.git
cd ./openshift-terraform/
ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa -f ./helper_scripts/id_rsa -q -N ""
chmod 600 ./helper_scripts/id_rsa

You need to modify the cloudflare.tf and add your CloudFlare API credentials otherwise just delete the file. The same for the S3 backend provider, you find the configuration in the main.tf and it can be removed if not needed.

CloudFlare and Amazon AWS credentials can be added through environment variables:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='<-YOUR-AWS-ACCESS-KEY->'
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='<-YOUR-AWS-SECRET-KEY->'
export TF_VAR_email='<-YOUR-CLOUDFLARE-EMAIL-ADDRESS->'
export TF_VAR_token='<-YOUR-CLOUDFLARE-TOKEN->'
export TF_VAR_domain='<-YOUR-CLOUDFLARE-DOMAIN->'
export TF_VAR_htpasswd='<-YOUR-OPENSHIFT-DEMO-USER-HTPASSWD->'

Run terraform init and apply to create the environment.

terraform init && terraform apply -auto-approve

Copy the ssh key and ansible-hosts file to the bastion host from where you need to run the Ansible OpenShift playbooks.

scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -i ./helper_scripts/id_rsa -r ./helper_scripts/id_rsa [email protected]$(terraform output bastion):/home/centos/.ssh/
scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -i ./helper_scripts/id_rsa -r ./inventory/ansible-hosts  [email protected]$(terraform output bastion):/home/centos/ansible-hosts

I recommend waiting a few minutes as the AWS cloud-init script prepares the bastion host. Afterwards continue with the pre and install playbooks. You can connect to the bastion host and run the playbooks directly.

ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -i ./helper_scripts/id_rsa -l centos $(terraform output bastion) -A "cd /openshift-ansible/ && ansible-playbook ./playbooks/openshift-pre.yml -i ~/ansible-hosts"
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -i ./helper_scripts/id_rsa -l centos $(terraform output bastion) -A "cd /openshift-ansible/ && ansible-playbook ./playbooks/openshift-install.yml -i ~/ansible-hosts"

If for whatever reason the cluster deployment fails, you can run the uninstall playbook to bring the nodes back into a clean state and start from the beginning and run deploy_cluster.

ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -i ./helper_scripts/id_rsa -l centos $(terraform output bastion) -A "cd /openshift-ansible/ && ansible-playbook ./openshift-ansible/playbooks/adhoc/uninstall.yml -i ~/ansible-hosts"

Here are some screenshots of the new cluster console:

Let’s create a project and import my hello-openshift.yml build configuration:

Successful completed the build and deployed the hello-openshift container:

My example hello openshift application:

When you are finished with the testing, run terraform destroy.

terraform destroy -force 

 

Deploy OpenShift 3.9 Container Platform using Terraform and Ansible on Amazon AWS

After my previous articles on OpenShift and Terraform I wanted to show how to create the necessary infrastructure and to deploy an OpenShift Container Platform in a more real-world scenario. I highly recommend reading my other posts about using Terraform to deploy an Amazon AWS VPC and AWS EC2 Instances and Load Balancers. Once the infrastructure is created we will use the Bastion Host to connect to the environment and deploy OpenShift Origin using Ansible.

I think this might be an interesting topic to show what tools like Terraform and Ansible can do together:

I will not go into detail about the configuration and only show the output of deploying the infrastructure. Please checkout my Github repository to see the detailed configuration: https://github.com/berndonline/openshift-terraform

Before we start you need to clone the repository and generate the ssh key used from the bastion host to access the OpenShift nodes:

git clone https://github.com/berndonline/openshift-terraform.git
cd ./openshift-terraform/
ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa -f ./helper_scripts/id_rsa -q -N ""
chmod 600 ./helper_scripts/id_rsa

We are ready to create the infrastructure and run terraform apply:

[email protected]:~/openshift-terraform$ terraform apply

...

Plan: 56 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.

Do you want to perform these actions?
  Terraform will perform the actions described above.
  Only 'yes' will be accepted to approve.

  Enter a value: yes

...

Apply complete! Resources: 19 added, 0 changed, 16 destroyed.

Outputs:

bastion = ec2-34-244-225-35.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com
openshift master = master-35563dddc8b2ea9c.elb.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
openshift subdomain = infra-1994425986.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com
[email protected]:~/openshift-terraform$

Terraform successfully creates the VPC, load balancers and all needed instances. Before we continue wait 5 to 10 minutes because the cloud-init script takes a bit time and all the instance reboot at the end.

Instances:

Security groups:

Target groups for the Master and the Infra load balancers:

Master and the Infra load balancers:

Terraform also automatically creates the inventory file for the OpenShift installation and adds the hostnames for master, infra and worker nodes to the correct inventory groups. The next step is to copy the private ssh key and the inventory file to the bastion host. I am using the terraform output command to get the public hostname from the bastion host:

scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -r ./helper_scripts/id_rsa [email protected]$(terraform output bastion):/home/centos/.ssh/
scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -r ./inventory/ansible-hosts  [email protected]$(terraform output bastion):/home/centos/ansible-hosts
ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -l centos $(terraform output bastion)

On the bastion node, change to the /openshift-ansible/ folder and start running the prerequisites and the deploy-cluster playbooks:

cd /openshift-ansible/
ansible-playbook ./playbooks/prerequisites.yml -i ~/ansible-hosts
ansible-playbook ./playbooks/deploy_cluster.yml -i ~/ansible-hosts

Here the output from running the prerequisites playbook:

[[email protected] ~]$ cd /openshift-ansible/
[[email protected] openshift-ansible]$ ansible-playbook ./playbooks/prerequisites.yml -i ~/ansible-hosts

PLAY [Initialization Checkpoint Start] ****************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Set install initialization 'In Progress'] *******************************************************************************************************************
Saturday 15 September 2018  11:04:50 +0000 (0:00:00.407)       0:00:00.407 ****
ok: [ip-10-0-1-237.eu-west-1.compute.internal]

PLAY [Populate config host groups] ********************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Load group name mapping variables] **************************************************************************************************************************
Saturday 15 September 2018  11:04:50 +0000 (0:00:00.110)       0:00:00.517 ****
ok: [localhost]

TASK [Evaluate groups - g_etcd_hosts or g_new_etcd_hosts required] ************************************************************************************************
Saturday 15 September 2018  11:04:51 +0000 (0:00:00.033)       0:00:00.551 ****
skipping: [localhost]

TASK [Evaluate groups - g_master_hosts or g_new_master_hosts required] ********************************************************************************************
Saturday 15 September 2018  11:04:51 +0000 (0:00:00.024)       0:00:00.575 ****
skipping: [localhost]

TASK [Evaluate groups - g_node_hosts or g_new_node_hosts required] ************************************************************************************************
Saturday 15 September 2018  11:04:51 +0000 (0:00:00.024)       0:00:00.599 ****
skipping: [localhost]

...

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ip-10-0-1-192.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=56   changed=14   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-1-237.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=64   changed=15   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-1-248.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=56   changed=14   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-5-174.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=56   changed=14   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-5-235.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=58   changed=14   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-5-35.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=56   changed=14   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-9-130.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=56   changed=14   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-9-51.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=58   changed=14   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-9-85.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=56   changed=14   unreachable=0    failed=0
localhost                  : ok=11   changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0


INSTALLER STATUS **************************************************************************************************************************************************
Initialization             : Complete (0:00:41)

[[email protected] openshift-ansible]$

Continue with the deploy cluster playbook:

[[email protected] openshift-ansible]$ ansible-playbook ./playbooks/deploy_cluster.yml -i ~/ansible-hosts

PLAY [Initialization Checkpoint Start] ****************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Set install initialization 'In Progress'] *******************************************************************************************************************
Saturday 15 September 2018  11:08:38 +0000 (0:00:00.102)       0:00:00.102 ****
ok: [ip-10-0-1-237.eu-west-1.compute.internal]

PLAY [Populate config host groups] ********************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Load group name mapping variables] **************************************************************************************************************************
Saturday 15 September 2018  11:08:38 +0000 (0:00:00.064)       0:00:00.167 ****
ok: [localhost]

TASK [Evaluate groups - g_etcd_hosts or g_new_etcd_hosts required] ************************************************************************************************
Saturday 15 September 2018  11:08:38 +0000 (0:00:00.031)       0:00:00.198 ****
skipping: [localhost]

TASK [Evaluate groups - g_master_hosts or g_new_master_hosts required] ********************************************************************************************
Saturday 15 September 2018  11:08:38 +0000 (0:00:00.026)       0:00:00.225 ****
skipping: [localhost]

...

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ip-10-0-1-192.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=132  changed=57   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-1-237.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=591  changed=256  unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-1-248.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=132  changed=57   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-5-174.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=132  changed=57   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-5-235.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=325  changed=145  unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-5-35.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=132  changed=57   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-9-130.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=132  changed=57   unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-9-51.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=325  changed=145  unreachable=0    failed=0
ip-10-0-9-85.eu-west-1.compute.internal : ok=132  changed=57   unreachable=0    failed=0
localhost                  : ok=13   changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0

INSTALLER STATUS **************************************************************************************************************************************************
Initialization             : Complete (0:00:55)
Health Check               : Complete (0:00:01)
etcd Install               : Complete (0:01:03)
Master Install             : Complete (0:05:17)
Master Additional Install  : Complete (0:00:26)
Node Install               : Complete (0:08:24)
Hosted Install             : Complete (0:00:57)
Web Console Install        : Complete (0:00:28)
Service Catalog Install    : Complete (0:01:19)

[[email protected] openshift-ansible]$

Once the deploy playbook finishes we have a working Openshift cluster:

Login with username: demo, and password: demo

For the infra load balancers you cannot access OpenShift routes via the Amazon DNS, this is not allowed. You need to create a wildcard DNS CNAME record like *.paas.domain.com and point to the AWS load balancer DNS record.

Let’s continue to do some basic cluster checks to see the nodes are in ready state:

[[email protected] ~]$ oc get nodes
NAME                                       STATUS    ROLES     AGE       VERSION
ip-10-0-1-192.eu-west-1.compute.internal   Ready     compute   11m       v1.9.1+a0ce1bc657
ip-10-0-1-237.eu-west-1.compute.internal   Ready     master    16m       v1.9.1+a0ce1bc657
ip-10-0-1-248.eu-west-1.compute.internal   Ready         11m       v1.9.1+a0ce1bc657
ip-10-0-5-174.eu-west-1.compute.internal   Ready     compute   11m       v1.9.1+a0ce1bc657
ip-10-0-5-235.eu-west-1.compute.internal   Ready     master    15m       v1.9.1+a0ce1bc657
ip-10-0-5-35.eu-west-1.compute.internal    Ready         11m       v1.9.1+a0ce1bc657
ip-10-0-9-130.eu-west-1.compute.internal   Ready     compute   11m       v1.9.1+a0ce1bc657
ip-10-0-9-51.eu-west-1.compute.internal    Ready     master    14m       v1.9.1+a0ce1bc657
ip-10-0-9-85.eu-west-1.compute.internal    Ready         11m       v1.9.1+a0ce1bc657
[[email protected] ~]$
[[email protected] ~]$ oc get projects
NAME                                DISPLAY NAME   STATUS
default                                            Active
kube-public                                        Active
kube-service-catalog                               Active
kube-system                                        Active
logging                                            Active
management-infra                                   Active
openshift                                          Active
openshift-ansible-service-broker                   Active
openshift-infra                                    Active
openshift-node                                     Active
openshift-template-service-broker                  Active
openshift-web-console                              Active
[[email protected] ~]$
[[email protected] ~]$ oc get pods -o wide
NAME                       READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE       IP           NODE
docker-registry-1-8798r    1/1       Running   0          10m       10.128.2.2   ip-10-0-5-35.eu-west-1.compute.internal
registry-console-1-zh9m4   1/1       Running   0          10m       10.129.2.3   ip-10-0-9-85.eu-west-1.compute.internal
router-1-96zzf             1/1       Running   0          10m       10.0.9.85    ip-10-0-9-85.eu-west-1.compute.internal
router-1-nfh7h             1/1       Running   0          10m       10.0.1.248   ip-10-0-1-248.eu-west-1.compute.internal
router-1-pcs68             1/1       Running   0          10m       10.0.5.35    ip-10-0-5-35.eu-west-1.compute.internal
[[email protected] ~]$

At the end just destroy the infrastructure with terraform destroy:

[email protected]:~/openshift-terraform$ terraform destroy

...

Destroy complete! Resources: 56 destroyed.
[email protected]:~/openshift-terraform$

I will continue improving the configuration and I plan to use Jenkins to deploy the AWS infrastructure and OpenShift fully automatically.

Please let me know if you like the article or have questions in the comments below.

Deploy OpenShift 3.7 Origin Cluster with Ansible

Something completely different to my more network related posts, this time it is about Platform as a Service with OpenShift Origin. There is a big push for containerized platform services from development.

I was testing the official OpenShift Origin Ansible Playbook to install a small 5 node cluster and created an OpenShift Vagrant environment for this.

Cluster overview:

I recommend having a look at the official RedHat OpenShift documentation to understand the architecture because it is quite a complex platform.

As a pre-requisite, you need to install the vagrant hostmanager because Openshift needs to resolve hostnames and I don’t want to install a separate DNS server. Here you find more information: https://github.com/devopsgroup-io/vagrant-hostmanager

vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager

sudo bash -c 'cat << EOF > /etc/sudoers.d/vagrant_hostmanager2
Cmnd_Alias VAGRANT_HOSTMANAGER_UPDATE = /bin/cp <your-home-folder>/.vagrant.d/tmp/hosts.local /etc/hosts
%sudo ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: VAGRANT_HOSTMANAGER_UPDATE
EOF'

Next, clone my Vagrant repository and the official OpenShift Origin ansible:

git clone [email protected]:berndonline/openshift-origin-vagrant.git
git clone [email protected]:openshift/openshift-ansible.git

Let’s start first by booting the OpenShift vagrant environment:

cd openshift-origin-vagrant/
./vagrant_up.sh

The vagrant host manager will update dynamically the /etc/hosts file on both the Guest and the Host machine:

...
## vagrant-hostmanager-start id: 55ed9acf-25e9-4b19-bfab-e0812a292dc0
10.255.1.81	origin-master

10.255.1.231	origin-etcd

10.255.1.182	origin-infra

10.255.1.72	origin-node-1

10.255.1.145	origin-node-2

## vagrant-hostmanager-end
...

Let’s have a quick look at the OpenShift inventory file. This has settings for the different node types and custom OpenShift and Vagrant variables. You need to modify a few things like public hostname and default subdomain:

OSEv3:children]
masters
nodes
etcd

[OSEv3:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=vagrant
ansible_become=yes

deployment_type=origin
openshift_release=v3.7.0
containerized=true
openshift_install_examples=true
enable_excluders=false
openshift_check_min_host_memory_gb=4
openshift_disable_check=docker_image_availability,docker_storage,disk_availability

# use htpasswd authentication with demo/demo
openshift_master_identity_providers=[{'name': 'htpasswd_auth', 'login': 'true', 'challenge': 'true', 'kind': 'HTPasswdPasswordIdentityProvider', 'filename': '/etc/origin/master/htpasswd'}]
openshift_master_htpasswd_users={'demo': '$apr1$.MaA77kd$Rlnn6RXq9kCjnEfh5I3w/.'}

# put the router on dedicated infra node
openshift_hosted_router_selector='region=infra'
openshift_master_default_subdomain=origin.paas.domain.com

# put the image registry on dedicated infra node
openshift_hosted_registry_selector='region=infra'

# project pods should be placed on primary nodes
osm_default_node_selector='region=primary'

# Vagrant variables
ansible_port='22' 
ansible_user='vagrant'
ansible_ssh_private_key_file='/home/berndonline/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key'

[masters]
origin-master  openshift_public_hostname="console.paas.domain.com"

[etcd]
origin-etcd

[nodes]
# master needs to be included in the node to be configured in the SDN
origin-master
origin-infra openshift_node_labels="{'region': 'infra', 'zone': 'default'}"
origin-node-[1:2] openshift_node_labels="{'region': 'primary', 'zone': 'default'}"

Now that we are ready, we need to check out the latest release and execute the Ansible Playbook:

cd openshift-ansible/
git checkout release-3.7
ansible-playbook ./playbooks/byo/config.yml -i ../openshift-origin-vagrant/inventory

The playbook takes forever to run, so do something else for the next 10 to 15 mins.

...

PLAY RECAP **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=13   changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0
origin-etcd                : ok=147  changed=47   unreachable=0    failed=0
origin-infra               : ok=202  changed=61   unreachable=0    failed=0
origin-master              : ok=561  changed=224  unreachable=0    failed=0
origin-node                : ok=201  changed=61   unreachable=0    failed=0


INSTALLER STATUS ****************************************************************************************************************************************************
Initialization             : Complete
Health Check               : Complete
etcd Install               : Complete
Master Install             : Complete
Master Additional Install  : Complete
Node Install               : Complete
Hosted Install             : Complete
Service Catalog Install    : Complete

Sunday 21 January 2018  20:55:16 +0100 (0:00:00.011)       0:11:56.549 ********
===============================================================================
etcd : Pull etcd container ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 79.51s
openshift_hosted : Ensure OpenShift pod correctly rolls out (best-effort today) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31.54s
openshift_node : Pre-pull node image when containerized ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31.28s
template_service_broker : Verify that TSB is running -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30.87s
docker : Install Docker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30.41s
docker : Install Docker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26.32s
openshift_cli : Pull CLI Image ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 23.03s
openshift_service_catalog : wait for api server to be ready ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21.32s
openshift_hosted : Ensure OpenShift pod correctly rolls out (best-effort today) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16.27s
restart master api ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10.69s
restart master controllers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.62s
openshift_node : Start and enable node ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.42s
openshift_node : Start and enable node ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.30s
openshift_master : Start and enable master api on first master ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.21s
openshift_master : Start and enable master controller service ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.19s
os_firewall : Install iptables packages --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.15s
os_firewall : Wait 10 seconds after disabling firewalld ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10.07s
os_firewall : need to pause here, otherwise the iptables service starting can sometimes cause ssh to fail --------------------------------------------------- 10.05s
openshift_node : Pre-pull node image when containerized ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7.85s
openshift_service_catalog : oc_process ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.44s

To publish both the openshift_public_hostname and openshift_master_default_subdomain, I have a Nginx reverse proxy running and publish 8443 from the origin-master and 80, 443 from the origin-infra nodes.

Here a Nginx example:

server {
  listen 8443 ssl;
  listen [::]:8443 ssl;
  server_name console.paas.domain.com;

  ssl on;
  ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/paas.domain.com-cert.pem;
  ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/paas.domain.com-key.pem;

  access_log  /var/log/nginx/openshift-console_access.log;
  error_log   /var/log/nginx/openshift-console_error.log;

location / {
  proxy_pass https://10.255.1.81:8443;
  proxy_http_version 1.1;
  proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
  proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;

  }
}

I will try to write more about OpenShift and Platform as a Service and how to deploy small applications like WordPress.

Have fun testing OpenShift and please share your feedback.

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