Add a bare metal host using CLI

This section describes how to add bare metal hosts using the Container Cloud CLI during a managed cluster creation.

To add a bare metal host using API:

1. Verify that you configured each bare metal host as follows:

   • Enable the boot NIC support for UEFI load. Usually, at least the built-in network interfaces support it.

   • Enable the UEFI-LAN-OPROM support in BIOS -> Advanced -> PCIPCIe.

   • Enable the IPv4-PXE stack.

   • Set the following boot order:

     1. UEFI-DISK

     2. UEFI-PXE

   • If your PXE network is not configured to use the first network interface, fix the UEFI-PXE boot order to speed up node discovering by selecting only one required network interface.

   • Power off all bare metal hosts.

   Warning

   Only one Ethernet port on a host must be connected to the Common/PXE network at any given time. The physical address (MAC) of this interface must be noted and used to configure the BareMetalHost object describing the host.

2. Optional. Create a custom bare metal host profile depending on your needs as described in Create a custom bare metal host profile.

3. Log in to the host where your management cluster kubeconfig is located and where kubectl is installed.

4. Create a secret YAML file that describes the unique credentials of the new bare metal host.

   Example of the bare metal host secret:

   apiVersion: v1
   data:
     password: <credentials-password>
     username: <credentials-user-name>
   kind: Secret
   metadata:
     labels:
       kaas.mirantis.com/credentials: "true"
       kaas.mirantis.com/provider: baremetal
       kaas.mirantis.com/region: region-one
     name: <credentials-name>
     namespace: <managed-cluster-project-name>
   type: Opaque
   

   In the data section, add the IPMI user name and password in the base64 encoding to access the BMC. To obtain the base64-encoded credentials, you can use the following command in your Linux console:

   echo -n <username|password> | base64
   

   Caution

   Each bare metal host must have a unique Secret.

5. Apply this secret YAML file to your deployment:

   kubectl create -f ${<bmh-cred-file-name>}.yaml
   

6. Create a YAML file that contains a description of the new bare metal host.

   Example of the bare metal host configuration file with the worker role:

   apiVersion: metal3.io/v1alpha1
   kind: BareMetalHost
   metadata:
     labels:
       kaas.mirantis.com/baremetalhost-id: <unique-bare-metal-host-hardware-node-id>
       hostlabel.bm.kaas.mirantis.com/worker: "true"
       kaas.mirantis.com/provider: baremetal
       kaas.mirantis.com/region: region-one
     name: <bare-metal-host-unique-name>
     namespace: <managed-cluster-project-name>
   spec:
     bmc:
       address: <ip_address_for-bmc-access>
       credentialsName: <credentials-name>
     bootMACAddress: <bare-metal-host-boot-mac-address>
     online: true
   

   For a detailed fields description, see BareMetalHost.

7. Apply this configuration YAML file to your deployment:

   kubectl create -f ${<bare-metal-host-config-file-name>}.yaml
   

   During provisioning, baremetal-operator inspects the bare metal host and moves it to the Preparing state. The host becomes ready to be linked to a bare metal machine.

8. Log in to the Container Cloud web UI with the with the operator permissions.

9. Verify the results of the hardware inspection to avoid unexpected errors during the host usage:

   1. In the BM Hosts tab, verify that the bare metal host is registered and switched to one of the following statuses:

      • Preparing for a newly added host

      • Ready for a previously used host or for a host that is already linked to a machine

   2. Click the name of the newly added bare metal host.

   3. In the window with the host details, scroll down to the Hardware section.

   4. Review the section and make sure that the number and models of disks, network interface cards, and CPUs match the hardware specification of the server.

      • If the hardware details are consistent with the physical server specifications for all your hosts, proceed to Create a managed cluster.

      • If you find any discrepancies in the hardware inspection results, it might indicate that the server has hardware issues or is not compatible with Container Cloud.