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March 21, 2021April 10, 2021

Kubernetes Cluster API – Provision workload clusters on AWS

The past few months I have been following the progress of the Kubernetes Cluster API which is part of the Kubernetes SIG (special interest group) Cluster-Lifecycle because they made good progress and wanted to try out the AWS provider version to deploy Kubeadm clusters. There are multiple infrastructure / cloud providers available which can be used, have a look at supported providers.

RedHat has based the Machine API Operator for the OpenShift 4 platform on the Kubernetes Cluster API and forked some of the cloud provider integrations but in OpenShift 4 this has a different use-case for the cluster to managed itself without the need of a central management cluster. I actually like RedHat’s concept and adaptation of the Cluster API and I hope we will see something similar in the upstream project.

Bootstrapping workload clusters are pretty straight forward but before we can start with deploying the workload cluster we need a central Kubernetes management cluster for running the Cluster API components for your selected cloud provider. In The Cluster API Book for example they use a KinD (Kubernetes in Docker) cluster to provision the workload clusters.

To deploy the Cluster API components you need the clusterctl (Cluster API) and clusterawsadm (Cluster API AWS Provider) command-line utilities.

curl -L https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/releases/download/v0.3.14/clusterctl-linux-amd64 -o clusterctl
chmod +x ./clusterctl
sudo mv ./clusterctl /usr/local/bin/clusterctl
curl -L https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-aws/releases/download/v0.6.4/clusterawsadm-linux-amd64 -o clusterawsadm
chmod +x ./clusterawsadm
sudo mv ./clusterawsadm /usr/local/bin/clusterawsadm

Let’s start to prepare to initialise the management cluster. You need a AWS IAM service account and in my example I enabled the experimental features-gates for MachinePool and ClusterResourceSets before running clusterawsadm to apply the required AWS IAM configuration.

$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='<-YOUR-ACCESS-KEY->'
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='<-YOUR-SECRET-ACCESS-KEY->'
$ export EXP_MACHINE_POOL=true
$ export EXP_CLUSTER_RESOURCE_SET=true
$ clusterawsadm bootstrap iam create-cloudformation-stack
Attempting to create AWS CloudFormation stack cluster-api-provider-aws-sigs-k8s-io
I1206 22:23:19.620891  357601 service.go:59] AWS Cloudformation stack "cluster-api-provider-aws-sigs-k8s-io" already exists, updating

Following resources are in the stack: 

Resource                  |Type                                                                                |Status
AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile |control-plane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io                                  |CREATE_COMPLETE
AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile |controllers.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io                                    |CREATE_COMPLETE
AWS::IAM::InstanceProfile |nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io                                          |CREATE_COMPLETE
AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy   |arn:aws:iam::552276840222:policy/control-plane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io |CREATE_COMPLETE
AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy   |arn:aws:iam::552276840222:policy/nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io         |CREATE_COMPLETE
AWS::IAM::ManagedPolicy   |arn:aws:iam::552276840222:policy/controllers.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io   |CREATE_COMPLETE
AWS::IAM::Role            |control-plane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io                                  |CREATE_COMPLETE
AWS::IAM::Role            |controllers.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io                                    |CREATE_COMPLETE
AWS::IAM::Role            |nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io                                          |CREATE_COMPLETE

This might take a few minutes before you can continue and run clusterctl to initialise the Cluster API components on your Kubernetes management cluster with the option –watching-namespace where you can apply the cluster deployment manifests.

$ export AWS_B64ENCODED_CREDENTIALS=$(clusterawsadm bootstrap credentials encode-as-profile)

WARNING: `encode-as-profile` should only be used for bootstrapping.

$ clusterctl init --infrastructure aws --watching-namespace k8s
Fetching providers
Installing cert-manager Version="v0.16.1"
Waiting for cert-manager to be available...
Installing Provider="cluster-api" Version="v0.3.14" TargetNamespace="capi-system"
Installing Provider="bootstrap-kubeadm" Version="v0.3.14" TargetNamespace="capi-kubeadm-bootstrap-system"
Installing Provider="control-plane-kubeadm" Version="v0.3.14" TargetNamespace="capi-kubeadm-control-plane-system"
Installing Provider="infrastructure-aws" Version="v0.6.3" TargetNamespace="capa-system"

Your management cluster has been initialized successfully!

You can now create your first workload cluster by running the following:

  clusterctl config cluster [name] --kubernetes-version [version] | kubectl apply -f -

Now we have finished deploying the needed Cluster API components and are ready to create your first Kubernetes workload cluster. I go through the different custom resources and configuration options for the cluster provisioning. This starts with the cloud infrastructure configuration as you see in the example below for the VPC setup. You don’t have to use all three Availability Zone and can start with a single AZ in a region.

---
apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: AWSCluster
metadata:
  name: cluster-1
  namespace: k8s
spec:
  region: eu-west-1
  sshKeyName: default
  networkSpec:
    vpc:
      cidrBlock: "10.0.0.0/23"
    subnets:
    - availabilityZone: eu-west-1a
      cidrBlock: "10.0.0.0/27"
      isPublic: true
    - availabilityZone: eu-west-1b
      cidrBlock: "10.0.0.32/27"
      isPublic: true
    - availabilityZone: eu-west-1c
      cidrBlock: "10.0.0.64/27"
      isPublic: true
    - availabilityZone: eu-west-1a
      cidrBlock: "10.0.1.0/27"
    - availabilityZone: eu-west-1b
      cidrBlock: "10.0.1.32/27"
    - availabilityZone: eu-west-1c
      cidrBlock: "10.0.1.64/27"

Alternatively you can also provision the workload cluster into an existing VPC, in this case your cloud infrastructure configuration looks slightly different and you need to specify VPC and subnet IDs.

---
apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: AWSCluster
metadata:
  name: cluster-1
  namespace: k8s
spec:
  region: eu-west-1
  sshKeyName: default
  networkSpec:
    vpc:
      id: vpc-0425c335226437144
    subnets:
    - id: subnet-0261219d564bb0dc5
    - id: subnet-0fdcccba78668e013
...

Next we define the Kubeadm control-plane configuration and start with the AWS Machine Template to define the instance type and custom node configuration. Then follows the Kubeadm control-plane config referencing the machine template and amounts of replicas and Kubernetes control-plane version:

---
apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: AWSMachineTemplate
metadata:
  name: cluster-1
  namespace: k8s
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      iamInstanceProfile: control-plane.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
      instanceType: t3.small
      sshKeyName: default
---
apiVersion: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: KubeadmControlPlane
metadata:
  name: cluster-1-control-plane
  namespace: k8s
spec:
  infrastructureTemplate:
    apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
    kind: AWSMachineTemplate
    name: cluster-1-control-plane
  kubeadmConfigSpec:
    clusterConfiguration:
      apiServer:
        extraArgs:
          cloud-provider: aws
      controllerManager:
        extraArgs:
          cloud-provider: aws
    initConfiguration:
      nodeRegistration:
        kubeletExtraArgs:
          cloud-provider: aws
        name: '{{ ds.meta_data.local_hostname }}'
    joinConfiguration:
      nodeRegistration:
        kubeletExtraArgs:
          cloud-provider: aws
        name: '{{ ds.meta_data.local_hostname }}'
  replicas: 1
  version: v1.20.4

We continue with the data-plane (worker) nodes which also starts with the AWS machine template, additionally we need a Kubeadm Config Template and then the Machine Deployment for the worker nodes with a number of replicas and used Kubernetes version.

---
apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: AWSMachineTemplate
metadata:
  name: cluster-1-data-plane-0
  namespace: k8s
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      iamInstanceProfile: nodes.cluster-api-provider-aws.sigs.k8s.io
      instanceType: t3.small
      sshKeyName: default
---
apiVersion: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: KubeadmConfigTemplate
metadata:
  name: cluster-1-data-plane-0
  namespace: k8s
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      joinConfiguration:
        nodeRegistration:
          kubeletExtraArgs:
            cloud-provider: aws
          name: '{{ ds.meta_data.local_hostname }}'
---
apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: MachineDeployment
metadata:
  name: cluster-1-data-plane-0
  namespace: k8s
spec:
  clusterName: cluster-1
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels: null
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        "nodepool": "nodepool-0"
    spec:
      bootstrap:
        configRef:
          apiVersion: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
          kind: KubeadmConfigTemplate
          name: cluster-1-data-plane-0
      clusterName: cluster-1
      infrastructureRef:
        apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
        kind: AWSMachineTemplate
        name: cluster-1-data-plane-0
      version: v1.20.4

A workload cluster can be very easily upgraded by changing the .spec.version in the MachineDeployment and KubeadmControlPlane configuration. You can’t jump over a Kubernetes versions and can only upgrade to the next available version example: v1.18.4 to v1.19.8 or v1.19.8 to v1.20.4. See the list of supported AMIs and Kubernetes versions for the AWS provider.

At the beginning we enabled the feature-gates when we were initialising the management cluster to allow us to use ClusterResourceSets. This is incredible useful because I can define a set of resources which gets applied during the provisioning of the cluster. This only get executed one time during the bootstrap and will be not reconciled afterwards. In the configuration you see the reference to two configmaps for adding the Calico CNI plugin and the Nginx Ingress controller.

---
apiVersion: addons.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: ClusterResourceSet
metadata:
  name: cluster-1-crs-0
  namespace: k8s
spec:
  clusterSelector:
    matchLabels:
      cluster.x-k8s.io/cluster-name: cluster-1
  resources:
  - kind: ConfigMap
    name: calico-cni
  - kind: ConfigMap
    name: nginx-ingress

Example of the two configmaps which contain the YAML manifests:

apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: calico-cni
  namespace: k8s
data:
  calico.yaml: |+
    ---
    # Source: calico/templates/calico-config.yaml
    # This ConfigMap is used to configure a self-hosted Calico installation.
    kind: ConfigMap
    apiVersion: v1
    metadata:
      name: calico-config
      namespace: kube-system
...
---
apiVersion: v1
data:
  deploy.yaml: |+
    ---
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Namespace
    metadata:
      name: ingress-nginx
      labels:
        app.kubernetes.io/name: ingress-nginx
        app.kubernetes.io/instance: ingress-nginx
...

Without ClusterResourceSet you would need to manually apply the CNI and ingress controller manifests which is not great because you need the CNI plugin for all nodes to go into Ready state.

$ kubectl --kubeconfig=./cluster-1.kubeconfig   apply -f https://docs.projectcalico.org/v3.15/manifests/calico.yaml

$ kubectl --kubeconfig=./cluster-1.kubeconfig apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/controller-v0.41.2/deploy/static/provider/aws/deploy.yaml

Finally after we have created the configuration of the workload cluster we can apply cluster manifest with the option for setting custom clusterNetwork and specify with service and pod IP range.

---
apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: Cluster
metadata:
  name: cluster-1
  namespace: k8s
  labels:
    cluster.x-k8s.io/cluster-name: cluster-1
spec:
  clusterNetwork:
    services:
      cidrBlocks:
      - 172.30.0.0/16
    pods:
      cidrBlocks:
      - 10.128.0.0/14
  controlPlaneRef:
    apiVersion: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
    kind: KubeadmControlPlane
    name: cluster-1-control-plane
  infrastructureRef:
    apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
    kind: AWSCluster
    name: cluster-1

The provisioning of the workload cluster will take around 10 to 15 mins and you can follow the progress by checking the status of different configurations we have applied previously.

You can scale both Kubeadm control-plane and MachineDeployment afterwards to change the size of your cluster. MachineDeployment can be scaled down to zero to save cost.

$ kubectl scale KubeadmControlPlane cluster-1-control-plane --replicas=1
$ kubectl scale MachineDeployment cluster-1-data-plane-0 --replicas=0

After the provisioning is completed you can get kubeconfig of the cluster from the secret which got created during the bootstrap:

$ kubectl --namespace=k8s get secret cluster-1-kubeconfig    -o jsonpath={.data.value} | base64 --decode    > cluster-1.kubeconfig

Example check the node state.

$ kubectl --kubeconfig=./cluster-1.kubeconfig get nodes

When your cluster is provisioned and nodes are in Ready state you can apply the MachineHealthCheck for the data-plane (worker) nodes. This automatically remediate unhealthy nodes and provisions new nodes to join them into the cluster.

---
apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha3
kind: MachineHealthCheck
metadata:
  name: cluster-1-node-unhealthy-5m
  namespace: k8s
spec:
  # clusterName is required to associate this MachineHealthCheck with a particular cluster
  clusterName: cluster-1
  # (Optional) maxUnhealthy prevents further remediation if the cluster is already partially unhealthy
  maxUnhealthy: 40%
  # (Optional) nodeStartupTimeout determines how long a MachineHealthCheck should wait for
  # a Node to join the cluster, before considering a Machine unhealthy
  nodeStartupTimeout: 10m
  # selector is used to determine which Machines should be health checked
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      nodepool: nodepool-0 
  # Conditions to check on Nodes for matched Machines, if any condition is matched for the duration of its timeout, the Machine is considered unhealthy
  unhealthyConditions:
  - type: Ready
    status: Unknown
    timeout: 300s
  - type: Ready
    status: "False"
    timeout: 300s

I hope this is a useful article for getting started with the Kubernetes Cluster API.

February 16, 2020March 1, 2020

Getting started with OpenShift Hive

If you don’t know OpenShift Hive I recommend having a look at the video of my talk at RedHat OpenShift Commons about OpenShift Hive where I also talk about how you can provision and manage the lifecycle of OpenShift 4 clusters using the Kubernetes API and the OpenShift Hive operator.

The Hive operator has three main components the admission controller, the Hive controller and the Hive operator itself. For more information about the Hive architecture visit the Hive docs:

You can use an OpenShift or native Kubernetes cluster to run the operator, in my case I use a EKS cluster. Let’s go through the prerequisites which are required to generate the manifests and the hiveutil:

$ curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/\
> kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/master/hack/install_kustomize.sh"  | bash
$ sudo mv ./kustomize /usr/bin/
$ wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.13.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ tar -xvf go1.13.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
$ sudo mv go /usr/local

To setup the Go environment copy the content below and add to your .profile:

export GOPATH="${HOME}/.go"
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin"
export PATH="$PATH:${GOPATH}/bin:${GOROOT}/bin"

Continue with installing the Go dependencies and clone the OpenShift Hive Github repository:

$ mkdir -p ~/.go/src/github.com/openshift/
$ go get github.com/golang/mock/mockgen
$ go get github.com/golang/mock/gomock
$ go get github.com/cloudflare/cfssl/cmd/cfssl
$ go get github.com/cloudflare/cfssl/cmd/cfssljson
$ cd ~/.go/src/github.com/openshift/
$ git clone https://github.com/openshift/hive.git
$ cd hive/
$ git checkout remotes/origin/master

Before we run make deploy I would recommend modifying the Makefile that we only generate the Hive manifests without deploying them to Kubernetes:

$ sed -i -e 's#oc apply -f config/crds# #' -e 's#kustomize build overlays/deploy | oc apply -f -#kustomize build overlays/deploy > hive.yaml#' Makefile
$ make deploy
# The apis-path is explicitly specified so that CRDs are not created for v1alpha1
go run tools/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/cmd/controller-gen/main.go crd --apis-path=pkg/apis/hive/v1
CRD files generated, files can be found under path /home/ubuntu/.go/src/github.com/openshift/hive/config/crds.
go generate ./pkg/... ./cmd/...
hack/update-bindata.sh
# Deploy the operator manifests:
mkdir -p overlays/deploy
cp overlays/template/kustomization.yaml overlays/deploy
cd overlays/deploy && kustomize edit set image registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/openshift/hive-v4.0:hive=registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/openshift/hivev1:hive
kustomize build overlays/deploy > hive.yaml
rm -rf overlays/deploy

Quick look at the content of the hive.yaml manifest:

$ cat hive.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: hive
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: hive-operator
  namespace: hive

...

---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  labels:
    control-plane: hive-operator
    controller-tools.k8s.io: "1.0"
  name: hive-operator
  namespace: hive
spec:
  replicas: 1
  revisionHistoryLimit: 4
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      control-plane: hive-operator
      controller-tools.k8s.io: "1.0"
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        control-plane: hive-operator
        controller-tools.k8s.io: "1.0"
    spec:
      containers:
      - command:
        - /opt/services/hive-operator
        - --log-level
        - info
        env:
        - name: CLI_CACHE_DIR
          value: /var/cache/kubectl
        image: registry.svc.ci.openshift.org/openshift/hive-v4.0:hive
        imagePullPolicy: Always
        livenessProbe:
          failureThreshold: 1
          httpGet:
            path: /debug/health
            port: 8080
          initialDelaySeconds: 10
          periodSeconds: 10
        name: hive-operator
        resources:
          requests:
            cpu: 100m
            memory: 256Mi
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /var/cache/kubectl
          name: kubectl-cache
      serviceAccountName: hive-operator
      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
      volumes:
      - emptyDir: {}
        name: kubectl-cache

Now we can apply the Hive custom resource definition (crds):

$ kubectl apply -f ./config/crds/
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/checkpoints.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/clusterdeployments.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/clusterdeprovisions.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/clusterimagesets.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/clusterprovisions.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/clusterstates.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/dnszones.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/hiveconfigs.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/machinepools.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/selectorsyncidentityproviders.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/selectorsyncsets.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/syncidentityproviders.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/syncsets.hive.openshift.io created
customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/syncsetinstances.hive.openshift.io created

And continue to apply the hive.yaml manifest for deploying the OpenShift Hive operator and its components:

$ kubectl apply -f hive.yaml
namespace/hive created
serviceaccount/hive-operator created
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hive-frontend created
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hive-operator-role created
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/manager-role created
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/system:openshift:hive:hiveadmission created
rolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/extension-server-authentication-reader-hiveadmission created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/auth-delegator-hiveadmission created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hive-frontend created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hive-operator-rolebinding created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hiveadmission-hive-hiveadmission created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/hiveapi-cluster-admin created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/manager-rolebinding created
deployment.apps/hive-operator created

For the Hive admission controller you need to generate a SSL certifcate:

$ ./hack/hiveadmission-dev-cert.sh
~/Dropbox/hive/hiveadmission-certs ~/Dropbox/hive
2020/02/03 22:17:30 [INFO] generate received request
2020/02/03 22:17:30 [INFO] received CSR
2020/02/03 22:17:30 [INFO] generating key: ecdsa-256
2020/02/03 22:17:30 [INFO] encoded CSR
certificatesigningrequest.certificates.k8s.io/hiveadmission.hive configured
certificatesigningrequest.certificates.k8s.io/hiveadmission.hive approved
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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-----END CERTIFICATE-----
secret/hiveadmission-serving-cert created
~/Dropbox/hive

Afterwards we can check if all the pods are running, this might take a few seconds:

$ kubectl get pods -n hive
NAME                                READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
hive-controllers-7c6ccc84b9-q7k7m   1/1     Running   0          31s
hive-operator-f9f4447fd-jbmkh       1/1     Running   0          55s
hiveadmission-6766c5bc6f-9667g      1/1     Running   0          27s
hiveadmission-6766c5bc6f-gvvlq      1/1     Running   0          27s

The Hive operator is successfully installed on your Kubernetes cluster but we are not finished yet. To create the required Cluster Deployment manifests we need to generate the hiveutil binary:

$ make hiveutil
go generate ./pkg/... ./cmd/...
hack/update-bindata.sh
go build -o bin/hiveutil github.com/openshift/hive/contrib/cmd/hiveutil

To generate Hive Cluster Deployment manifests just run the following hiveutil command below, I output the definition with -o into yaml:

$ bin/hiveutil create-cluster --base-domain=mydomain.example.com --cloud=aws mycluster -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
items:
- apiVersion: hive.openshift.io/v1
  kind: ClusterImageSet
  metadata:
    creationTimestamp: null
    name: mycluster-imageset
  spec:
    releaseImage: quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release:4.3.2-x86_64
  status: {}
- apiVersion: v1
  kind: Secret
  metadata:
    creationTimestamp: null
    name: mycluster-aws-creds
  stringData:
    aws_access_key_id: <-YOUR-AWS-ACCESS-KEY->
    aws_secret_access_key: <-YOUR-AWS-SECRET-KEY->
  type: Opaque
- apiVersion: v1
  data:
    install-config.yaml: <-BASE64-ENCODED-OPENSHIFT4-INSTALL-CONFIG->
  kind: Secret
  metadata:
    creationTimestamp: null
    name: mycluster-install-config
  type: Opaque
- apiVersion: hive.openshift.io/v1
  kind: ClusterDeployment
  metadata:
    creationTimestamp: null
    name: mycluster
  spec:
    baseDomain: mydomain.example.com
    clusterName: mycluster
    controlPlaneConfig:
      servingCertificates: {}
    installed: false
    platform:
      aws:
        credentialsSecretRef:
          name: mycluster-aws-creds
        region: us-east-1
    provisioning:
      imageSetRef:
        name: mycluster-imageset
      installConfigSecretRef:
        name: mycluster-install-config
  status:
    clusterVersionStatus:
      availableUpdates: null
      desired:
        force: false
        image: ""
        version: ""
      observedGeneration: 0
      versionHash: ""
- apiVersion: hive.openshift.io/v1
  kind: MachinePool
  metadata:
    creationTimestamp: null
    name: mycluster-worker
  spec:
    clusterDeploymentRef:
      name: mycluster
    name: worker
    platform:
      aws:
        rootVolume:
          iops: 100
          size: 22
          type: gp2
        type: m4.xlarge
    replicas: 3
  status:
    replicas: 0
kind: List
metadata: {}

I hope this post is useful in getting you started with OpenShift Hive. In my next article I will go through the details of the OpenShift 4 cluster deployment with Hive.

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