Deploying the MetalSoft Global Controller¶

The MetalSoft Global Controller is a Kubernetes application and as such it runs as a collection of containers, services, configurations etc. Any flavor of Kubernetes is supported: Vanilla Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift, AWS EKS etc.

Kubernetes cluster compute requirements¶

The MetalSoft Global Controller requires a Kubernetes cluster as per this link to deploy successfully:
Kubernetes Cluster Requirements

Other requirements¶

An SSL certificate is required for the domain that will be mapped to the MetalSoft application in DNS.
A load balancer mechanism such as MetalLB. (1 or 2 IPAddresses)
- Setup with 1 IP Address will use ports HTTP 80, 443 and TCP port 9091
- Setup with 2 IP Addresses, will use HTTP 80, 443 on one IP and port 443 on the other

Installing the MetalSoft controller kubernetes application¶

Copy the manifests to /opt/metalsoft/manifests/ && cd /opt/metalsoft/manifests/
Run ./initial_create_of_env.sh -i
Check if the controller components are all running:

administrator@dtsy1lvpmsc001:~$ kubectl get pods -n metalsoft
NAME                                       READY   STATUS    RESTARTS       AGE
auth-microservice-5d848c9789-z48cv         1/1     Running   40 (26d ago)   44d
config-microservice-76565b74d8-flgfp       1/1     Running   10 (26d ago)   66d
controller-64c79f9dcc-4d5zj                1/1     Running   0              37h
couchdb-8475576f55-mgc59                   1/1     Running   3              66d
dell-redfish-6857f69cbd-8kvsf              1/1     Running   0              32h
event-microservice-794d797847-wnjt4        1/1     Running   20 (26d ago)   66d
gateway-api-84b5f69d4d-rphm7               1/1     Running   0              26d
image-builder-59fd97b95f-t5pl9             1/1     Running   0              22h
kafka-74fb7b999c-4gkpv                     1/1     Running   2              42d
metal-cloud-ui-7db8657b75-4r4js            1/1     Running   0              37h
mysql-9594dfb87-sb4wc                      1/1     Running   0              26d
pdns-8f747c64c-fszgn                       1/1     Running   0              26d
redis-84864d55d7-9cz9b                     1/1     Running   3              66d
repo-678df55b7b-6sf9l                      1/1     Running   3              66d
servers-5f45ff6955-6qqbg                   1/1     Running   0              31h
traefik-metalsoft-prod-6f5bcb7c65-nnbwr    1/1     Running   0              37h
websocket-tunnel-server-57887d758d-n77r2   1/1     Running   0              32h
zookeeper-d587fc894-6nmc6                  1/1     Running   3              66d

Required controller firewall configuration¶

Ports open for inbound from Site Controllers¶

The following ports open on the controller, on the MetalLB IP (the ip that moves between hosts), need to be accessible by Site Controller:

web: TCP port 80
websecure: TCP port 443
ms-tunnel-9091: TCP port 9091
powerdns: UDP port 53

Ports open for inbound from clients¶

The following ports, on the MetalLB IP (the ip that moves between hosts), need to be accessed by end-clients (or admins).

web: TCP port 80
websecure: TCP port 443
dns: TCP/UDP port 53

Outbound traffic¶

The controller generates traffic towards the following destinations:

For Firmware Upgrades:¶

downloads.dell.com TCP port 443
downloads.linux.hpe.com TCP port 80

For pulling ISO files, can be hosted on customers own http storage:¶

repo.metalsoft.io TCP ports 80,443

For installing/upgrading Kubernetes:¶

apt.kubernetes.io TCP ports 80,443
k8s.io TCP port 443
registry.k8s.io TCP port 80,443
git.k8s.io TCP port 443
k8s.gcr.io TCP port 80,443
gcr.io TCP port 80,443 
cloud.google.com TCP port 80,443

For pulling MetalSoft images at installation/upgrade time:¶

registry.metalsoft.dev TCP port 443 or registry-qts.metalsoft.dev TCP port 443 => Based on country Global Controller will be installed in

For pulling standard images at installation/upgrade time:¶

quay.io TCP ports 80,443 => MetalLB and Ceph images
cdn.quay.io TCP ports 80,443 => MetalLB and Ceph images
cdn01.quay.io TCP ports 80,443 => MetalLB and Ceph images
cdn02.quay.io TCP ports 80,443 => MetalLB and Ceph images
cdn03.quay.io TCP ports 80,443 => MetalLB and Ceph images
helm.traefik.io TCP port 443 => Helm chart for Traefik
docker.io TCP ports 80,443 => traefik, busybox and Rancher images
hub.docker.com TCP ports 80,443 => traefik, busybox and Rancher images
registry.hub.docker.com TCP ports 80,443 => traefik, busybox and Rancher images
registry-1.docker.io TCP ports 80,443  => traefik, busybox and Rancher images

Mail Server requirements If using Office365 for email alerts:¶

smtp.office365.com TCP port 587

For base OS package updates:¶

archive.ubuntu.com TCP port 80
security.ubuntu.com TCP port 80

For testing connectivity:

1.1.1.1 ICMP
1.1.1.1 TCP ports 80,443

For installing kubernetes¶

download.opensuse.org TCP port 80,443
packages.cloud.google.com TCP port 443
github.com TCP port 80,443
raw.githubusercontent.com TCP port 80,443
metallb.universe.tf TCP port 80,443
helm.traefik.io TCP port 443

Inter-cluster traffic¶

kubernetes api TCP 6443
storage traffic (depends on the storage solution used)