LCM agent

LCM agent handles a single machine that belongs to a management, regional, or managed cluster. It runs on the machine operating system but communicates with apiserver of the regional cluster. LCM agent is deployed as a systemd unit using cloud-init. LCM agent has a built-in self-upgrade mechanism.

LCM agent monitors the spec of a particular LCMMachine object to reconcile the machine state with the object StateItems and update the LCMMachine status accordingly. The actions that LCM agent performs while handling the StateItems are as follows:

• Download configuration files

• Run shell commands

• Run Ansible playbooks in headless mode

LCM agent provides the IP address and hostname of the machine for the LCMMachine status parameter.