Pre-provisioned Create Necessary Secrets and Overrides

Create necessary secrets and overrides for pre-provisioned clusters

DKP requires SSH access to your infrastructure with superuser privileges. You must provide an unencrypted SSH private key to DKP.

Populate this key and create the required secret, on your bootstrap cluster using the following procedure.

Name your cluster

Give your cluster a unique name suitable for your environment.

Set the environment variable to be used throughout this procedure:

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export CLUSTER_NAME=preprovisioned-example

Create a unique cluster name

(Optional) If you want to create a unique cluster name, use this command. This creates a unique name every time you run it, so use it carefully.

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export CLUSTER_NAME=preprovisioned-example-$(LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc 'a-z0-9' </dev/urandom | fold -w 5 | head -n1)
echo $CLUSTER_NAME

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preprovisioned-example-pf4a3

Create a secret

Create a secret that contains the SSH key with these commands:

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export SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE="<path-to-ssh-private-key>"

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export SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_SECRET_NAME=$CLUSTER_NAME-ssh-key

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kubectl create secret generic ${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_SECRET_NAME} --from-file=ssh-privatekey=${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE}
kubectl label secret ${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY_SECRET_NAME} clusterctl.cluster.x-k8s.io/move=

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secret/preprovisioned-example-ssh-key created
secret/preprovisioned-example-ssh-key labeled

Create overrides

If your pre-provisioned machines need to have override files, you must create a secret that includes all of the overrides you want to provide in one file. For example, if you want to provide an override with Docker credentials and a different source for EPEL on a CentOS7 machine, you should create a file like this:

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cat > overrides.yaml << EOF 
image_registries_with_auth:
- host: "registry-1.docker.io"
  username: "my-user"
  password: "my-password"
  auth: ""
  identityToken: ""

epel_centos_7_rpm: https://my-rpm-repostory.org/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
EOF

You can then create the related secret by running the following command:

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kubectl create secret generic $CLUSTER_NAME-user-overrides --from-file=overrides.yaml=overrides.yaml
kubectl label secret $CLUSTER_NAME-user-overrides clusterctl.cluster.x-k8s.io/move=

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secret/preprovisioned-example-user-overrides-md-1 created
secret/preprovisioned-example-user-overrides-md-1 labeled

When using Oracle 7 OS, you may wish to to deploy the RHCK kernel instead of the default UEK kernel. To do so, add the following text to your overrides.yaml:

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cat > overrides.yaml << EOF 
---
oracle_kernel: RHCK
EOF

You can then create the related secret by running the following command:

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kubectl create secret generic $CLUSTER_NAME-user-overrides --from-file=overrides.yaml=overrides.yaml
kubectl label secret $CLUSTER_NAME-user-overrides clusterctl.cluster.x-k8s.io/move=

When this step is complete, define the infrastructure nodes and partitions.