Metal³ Development Environment

This repository includes scripts to set up a Metal³ development environment.

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Instructions

Instructions can be found here: https://metal3.io/try-it.html

Quickstart

Versions v1alpha3 or v1alpha4 are later referred as v1alphaX.

The v1alphaX deployment can be done with Ubuntu 18.04 or Centos 8 target host images.

Requirements

Dev env size

The requirements for the dev env machine are, when deploying Ubuntu target hosts:

• 16GB of memory
• 4 cpus

And when deploying Centos target hosts:

• 32GB of memory
• 4 cpus

The Minikube machine is deployed with 4GB of RAM, and 2 vCPUs, and the target hosts with 4 vCPUs and either 4GB of RAM (Ubuntu) or 8GB of RAM (Centos).

Environment variables

Select:

export CAPI_VERSION=v1alpha3

or

export CAPI_VERSION=v1alpha4

The following environment variables need to be set for Centos:

export IMAGE_OS=Centos
export DEFAULT_HOSTS_MEMORY=8192

And the following environment variables need to be set for Ubuntu:

export IMAGE_OS=Ubuntu
export DEFAULT_HOSTS_MEMORY=4096

Deploy the metal3 Dev env

./01_prepare_host.sh
./02_configure_host.sh
./03_launch_mgmt_cluster.sh

Deploy the target cluster

./scripts/v1alphaX/provision_cluster.sh
./scripts/v1alphaX/provision_controlplane.sh
./scripts/v1alphaX/provision_worker.sh

Delete the target cluster

kubectl delete cluster "${CLUSTER_NAME:-"test1"}" -n metal3