Before you begin

Before you start the cluster deployment, verify that your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements for an Azure-based management cluster.

Warning

Some of the Azure features required for Container Cloud may not be included into your Azure account quota. Therefore, carefully consider the Azure fees applied to your account that may increase for the Container Cloud infrastructure.

Note

For the bootstrap node, you can use any local machine running Ubuntu 20.04 with the following resources:

• 2 vCPUs

• 4 GB of RAM

• 5 GB of available storage

Minimum hardware requirements for a management cluster

Resource	Requirement
# of nodes	3
# of vCPUs	8 per node
RAM in GB	24 per node
Storage in GB	128 per node
Virtual machine size	Standard_F16s_v2
# of Azure resource groups	1
# of Azure networks	1
# of Azure subnets	1
# of Azure security groups	1
# of Azure network interfaces	3
# of Azure route tables	3
# of Azure load balancers	2
# of public IP addresses	12
# of OS disks	3 (128 GB each)

Minimum software requirements for a management cluster

Software	Version
Operating system distribution	Ubuntu 20.04
Docker	Current version available for Ubuntu 20.04