Create and operate a baremetal-based managed cluster

After bootstrapping your baremetal-based Mirantis Container Cloud management cluster as described in Deploy a baremetal-based management cluster, you can start creating the baremetal-based managed clusters using the Container Cloud web UI.

• Add a bare metal host
  • Add a bare metal host using web UI
  • Add a bare metal host using CLI
• Create a custom bare metal host profile
  • Default configuration of the host system storage
  • Create a custom host profile
  • Enable huge pages in a host profile
• Configure RAID support
  • Create an LVM software RAID level 1 (raid1)
  • Create an mdadm software RAID level 1 (raid1)
• Create a managed cluster
• Advanced networking configuration
  • Workflow of network interface naming
  • Create subnets
  • Automate multiple subnet creation using SubnetPool
  • Create L2 templates
    • L2 template example with bonds and bridges
      • Dedicated network for the Kubernetes pods traffic
      • Dedicated network for the Kubernetes services traffic (MetalLB)
      • Dedicated network for the Ceph distributed storage traffic
      • Example of an L2 template with interfaces bonding
    • L2 template example for automatic multiple subnet creation
  • Assign L2 templates to machines
  • Example of a complete L2 templates configuration for cluster creation
• Add a machine
  • Create a machine using web UI
  • Create a machine using CLI
    • Deploy a machine to a specific bare metal host
    • Override network interfaces naming and order
• Delete a managed cluster