How to install OpenShift 4 on Bare Metal – User Provisioned Infrastructure (UPI)

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• While booting coreos getting an error cant find /dev/sda….could anyone help on this please?

• I'm stuck on bring up the worker node. anybody know why? the error is worker node failed to fetch ignition file. worker.ign

• Thank you very much! Great howto!

• sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt, is this anything to do with the masking or DNS setup?

• trying to ping github to get argo working

• Hi Ryan, an awesome video. One addition, you need to add a firewall rule to ocp-svc – firewall-cmd –zone=internal –add-port=53/tcp –permanent. I found that random Pods would fail DNS lookup. Further investigation showed that happened when the DNS response exceeded 512 bytes on UDP.

• Hi Ryan, i tried your mentioned method but two operators (Console and Authentication) shows not available, can you guide me on that i am stuck here.

• Hi
  Is it workable on my laptop (8 Core , 64GB RAM).
  Regards
  Zaheer

• Hello Ryan, I am trying to setup the lab by following this video. I am using VMware Vsphere to setup the openshift container cluster. I have a VLAn created for internal network but for external network, I don't know how to create an external VM network which you added as an additional network for the helper machine. I got struck here for past 1 week. I don't know how to take it further. Since I new to VMware and linux , learning it. Please guide me how to setup the external network and connect?

• Hi, I am facing issue while bootstraping process, I have tried it several times and my bootstrap process is getting failed. from bootstrap node

  I am following exactly what is mentioning in this video

  [root@ocp-bootstrap ~]# journalctl -b -f -u bootkube.service
  
  — Logs begin at Sun 2023-09-03 18:26:26 UTC. —
  
  Sep 03 19:48:32 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: Error: unhealthy cluster
  
  Sep 03 19:48:33 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: etcdctl failed. Retrying in 5 seconds…
  
  Sep 03 19:48:43 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: {"level":"warn","ts":"2023-09-03T19:48:43.415866Z","logger":"client","caller":"v3@v3.5.9/retry_interceptor.go:62","msg":"retrying of unary invoker failed","target":"etcd-endpoints://0xc0003d4a80/localhost:2379","attempt":0,"error":"rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = latest balancer error: last connection error: connection error: desc = "transport: Error while dialing dial tcp [::1]:2379: connect: connection refused""}
  
  Sep 03 19:48:43 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: https://localhost:2379 is unhealthy: failed to commit proposal: context deadline exceeded
  
  Sep 03 19:48:43 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: Error: unhealthy cluster
  
  Sep 03 19:48:43 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: etcdctl failed. Retrying in 5 seconds…
  
  Sep 03 19:48:53 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: {"level":"warn","ts":"2023-09-03T19:48:53.903948Z","logger":"client","caller":"v3@v3.5.9/retry_interceptor.go:62","msg":"retrying of unary invoker failed","target":"etcd-endpoints://0xc0003c0a80/localhost:2379","attempt":0,"error":"rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = latest balancer error: last connection error: connection error: desc = "transport: Error while dialing dial tcp [::1]:2379: connect: connection refused""}
  
  Sep 03 19:48:53 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: https://localhost:2379 is unhealthy: failed to commit proposal: context deadline exceeded
  
  Sep 03 19:48:53 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: Error: unhealthy cluster
  
  Sep 03 19:48:54 ocp-bootstrap.lab.ocp.lan bootkube.sh[2463]: etcdctl failed. Retrying in 5 seconds…
  
  ^C

• Useful information. Tks Ryan.

• Hi Ryan
  I have separate servers for DNS,AD and DHCP so which part I have to skip for creating it. As there are 18 section for building UPI.

• Is this installation possible on Hyper V

• Hi Ryan,

  OKD port group is the interface that facing to internet right ?

• Hi Ryan , thank you for your effort , just want to inform you that I have problem follwing your steps , as the redhat interface has been changed and I cannot find the redhat coreOS

• Can this be installed any regions? Is it payable?

• How i can access to dashboard from my laptop?

• Can it be like 3 control planes as VM and 2 worker nodes as baremetal ?

• Hi Ryan,
  many thanks for this excellent tutorial, i have done on 4.12 successfully.
  Now I am able to login with kube:admin user only, not from other admin users. Can you or anyone can help on this?

• Thank you. Very clear.

• quickly, LOL, uh no…..but so far that best instructions I have found!

• super video

• Great video, I have a question, does bootstrap have to have internet? I did the lab but bootstrap doesn't have internet, how did you get it to?

• Great Explanation. Could you please create more videos for OpenShift related? Not much videos for openShift in the Youtube found… Ty

• Many thanks Rayan👍👍👍

• Hello Ryan I was not able to find the CentOS 8 ISO image for linux online, instead I installed CentOS 8 Stream. Is there any difference? I am stuck at the Deploy Openshift step, the bootstrap command on git is not working. Is it because of the different vesion I installed. Any suggestion how to fix it?

• What an amazing video Ryan. You ROCK !!. Thank you so much Sir. Really helpful and beneficial.

• Can we do openshift on bare metal using azure?

• wow this video is excellent resource , thanks for your hard work. keep working like this.

• Excellent video Ryan!, It helped me a lot to understand the whole installation process. I would like to know how to add advanced network configuration, for example to add bonding, I found related information on the RedHat documentation:

  bond=bond0:em1,em2:mode=active-backup
  ip=bond0:dhcp

  Where em1 and em2 are the physical network devices. Those two lines should be added during PXE booting on the RHCOS machines? I found also that we could modify a live install ISO image, with customized network settings profile (using coreos-installer binary). Could you please help me to clarify?

• Hey Ryan , can l use just 1 network , for example if l dedicate complete 1 esxi to ocp ??

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