Deploy a machine to a specific bare metal host

A Kubernetes machine requires a dedicated bare metal host for deployment. The bare metal hosts are represented by the BareMetalHost objects in Kubernetes API. All BareMetalHost objects are labeled by the Operator when created. A label reflects the hardware capabilities of a host. As a result of labeling, all bare metal hosts are divided into three types: Control Plane, Worker, and Storage.

In some cases, you may need to deploy a machine to a specific bare metal host. This is especially useful when some of your bare metal hosts have different hardware configuration than the rest.

To deploy a machine to a specific bare metal host:

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

2. Identify the bare metal host that you want to associate with the specific machine. For example, host host-1.

   kubectl get baremetalhost host-1 -o yaml
   

3. Add a label that will uniquely identify this host, for example, by the name of the host and machine that you want to deploy on it.

   Caution

   Do not remove any existing labels from the BareMetalHost resource. For more details about labels, see BareMetalHost.

   kubectl edit baremetalhost host-1
   

   Configuration example:

   kind: BareMetalHost
   metadata:
     name: host-1
     namespace: myProjectName
     labels:
       kaas.mirantis.com/baremetalhost-id: host-1-worker-HW11-cad5
       ...
   

4. Create a new text file with the YAML definition of the Machine object, as defined in Machine.

   Note

   Ubuntu 20.04 is used by default for greenfield deployments.

5. Add a label selector that matches the label you have added to the BareMetalHost object in the previous step.

   Example:

   kind: Machine
   metadata:
     name: worker-HW11-cad5
     namespace: myProjectName
   spec:
     ...
     providerSpec:
       value:
         apiVersion: baremetal.k8s.io/v1alpha1
         kind: BareMetalMachineProviderSpec
         ...
         hostSelector:
           matchLabels:
             kaas.mirantis.com/baremetalhost-id: host-1-worker-HW11-cad5
     ...
   

6. Specify the details of the machine configuration in the object created in the previous step. For example:

   • Add a reference to a custom BareMetalHostProfile object, as defined in Machine.

   • Specify an override for the ordering and naming of the NICs for the machine. For details, see Override network interfaces naming and order.

   • If you use a specific L2 template for the machine, set the unique name or label of the corresponding L2 template in the L2templateSelector section of the Machine object.

7. Add the configured machine to the cluster:

   kubectl create -f worker-HW11-cad5.yaml
   

   Once done, this machine will be associated with the specified bare metal host.

Caution

The required minimum number of machines:

• 3 manager nodes for HA

• 3 worker storage nodes for a minimal Ceph cluster