This section describes the bare metal host profile settings and instructs how to configure this profile before deploying Mirantis Container Cloud on physical servers.
The bare metal host profile is a Kubernetes custom resource. It allows the Infrastructure Operator to define how the storage devices and the operating system are provisioned and configured.
The bootstrap templates for a bare metal deployment include the template for
the default BareMetalHostProfile object in the following file
that defines the default bare metal host profile:
templates/bm/baremetalhostprofiles.yaml.template
The customization procedure of BareMetalHostProfile is almost the same for
the management and managed clusters, with the following differences:
For a management cluster, the customization automatically applies
to machines during bootstrap. And for a managed cluster, you apply
the changes using kubectl before creating a managed cluster.
For a management cluster, you edit the default
baremetalhostprofiles.yaml.template. And for a managed cluster, you
create a new BareMetalHostProfile with the necessary configuration.
For the procedure details, see Create a custom bare metal host profile. Use this procedure for both types of clusters considering the differences described above.