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, including, 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

1. An SSL certificate is required for the domain that will be mapped to the MetalSoft application in DNS.
2. 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

1. Copy the manifests to /opt/metalsoft/manifests/ && cd /opt/metalsoft/manifests/

2. Apply the manifests to the cluster: kubectl -n <namespace> apply -f .

3. Check if the controller components are all running:

K8S ng-metal root@k8s01: /opt/metalsoft/manifests/ng-qa $ kubectl -n <namespace> get pods
NAME                                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS        AGE
auth-66fd54f9d8-pftpn                       1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   4h15m
couchdb-6c869cb756-rc2sz                    1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h
eli-5bc878bc7-cj4l6                         1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
extensions-769b54d49b-vj2gv                 1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
gateway-api-86476dbb7c-ml6w6                1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   4h15m
image-builder-5565dbd9c7-hk5gq              1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   4h15m
inventory-5c44c99f89-hdwpc                  1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   4h15m
ipam-6dc74bcf78-7plp9                       1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
kafka-74b77ddd5b-f9lzc                      1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h
license-674bcc66b9-xgg78                    1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   4h15m
metalsoft-docs-5d45b56479-rx4kk             1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h
ms-agent-8c9c4cdbc-fxqv5                    1/1     Running   8 (4h11m ago)   10h
ms-tunnel-86ddbf8c86-6gjw5                  1/1     Running   3 (4h11m ago)   10h
mysql-697f56958d-58tt2                      1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h
network-microservice-86cf6dc8fc-nqpb4       1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
notification-microservice-d685c974b-65zxc   1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
orchestrator-6cd869cb45-4st69               1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   4h15m
pdns-6b658c4554-zt9km                       1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h
redis-764bff6bd6-bvdkz                      1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h
registry-local-5967b98b4c-6tz6n             1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h
repo-7bdc745c68-7qcvr                       1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h
sc-ansible-runner-7b94846fdd-wmhcx          1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h
servers-54bc6dc79b-j299l                    1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
storage-6986748575-skk67                    1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
switch-64f87c8659-s6dxz                     1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
template-75cc88c59b-m2hg2                   1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   4h15m
traefik-demo-metalsoft-7dc8574dc9-ddz5p     1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   4h15m
ui-admin-75f9977d54-chfzx                   1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
ui-customer-68797dbf44-cjmv8                1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
vm-microservice-66d8d8b76-hlvjf             1/1     Running   1 (4h11m ago)   10h
zookeeper-b796dd65b-ffzw2                   1/1     Running   2 (4h11m ago)   10h

Firewall rules

Refer to the Network Flows and Firewall Requirements for more details.