Configuration, Installation, and Use of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift

Access Your Lab Environment

During this lab you will be instructed to ssh to your hypervisor at IP address {bastion_public_hostname}. Use username {bastion_ssh_user_name} and password {bastion_ssh_password}.

Once logged in the hypervisor you can access to the bastion at IP address 192.168.123.100 as root using password redhat.

If needed, you can navigate to the OpenShift console URL: {ocp_console_url}[{ocp_console_url}^] using user admin and password {ocp_admin_password}

Prerequisites for Installation

Some prerequisites needed to install Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) are already included in the lab environment such as:

  • An operational OpenShift cluster which supports Multus CNI

  • oc command line tool on your workstation (bastion host)

  • k9s command line tool on your workstation (bastion host)

  • podman command line tool on your workstation (bastion host)

  • Access to repositories which contain the Dev Preview code

  • Access to an existing registry or create a local Quay registry

  • Example YAML files are available in this repository which can be cloned or copy and pasted for use. For ease of instructions it will be assumed the repo has been cloned

Install the Prerequisite Operators

There are three operators that are required to be installed before you can install the OpenStack Operator, the NMState Operator the MetalLB Operator and the Cert-Manager + Operator

Accessing the Cluster

From the hypervisor, log in to the bastion

sudo -i
ssh root@192.168.123.100

Password is redhat.

Sample Output
[root@ocp4-bastion ~]

Make sure you can reach out to the OpenShift cluster, for instance, by listing the nodes in your cluster:

oc get nodes
Sample Output
NAME                           STATUS   ROLES                  AGE   VERSION
ocp4-master1.aio.example.com   Ready    control-plane,master   26h   v1.25.16+9946c63
ocp4-master2.aio.example.com   Ready    control-plane,master   26h   v1.25.16+9946c63
ocp4-master3.aio.example.com   Ready    control-plane,master   26h   v1.25.16+9946c63
ocp4-worker1.aio.example.com   Ready    worker                 25h   v1.25.16+9946c63
ocp4-worker2.aio.example.com   Ready    worker                 25h   v1.25.16+9946c63
ocp4-worker3.aio.example.com   Ready    worker                 25h   v1.25.16+9946c63

Install Argocd

Create the argocd Operator namespace:

cat << EOF | oc apply -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
    name: openshift-gitops-operator
    labels:
      pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce: privileged
      security.openshift.io/scc.podSecurityLabelSync: "false"
EOF

Create the OperatorGroup:

cat << EOF | oc apply -f -
apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1
kind: OperatorGroup
metadata:
  generateName: openshift-gitops-operator-
  name: openshift-gitops-operator-b8wcv
  namespace: openshift-gitops-operator
spec:
  upgradeStrategy: Default
EOF

Confirm the OperatorGroup is installed in the namespace:

oc get operatorgroup -n openshift-gitops-operator

Subscribe to the argocd Operator:

cat << EOF | oc apply -f -
apiVersion: operators.coreos.com/v1alpha1
kind: Subscription
metadata:
  generation: 1
  labels:
    operators.coreos.com/openshift-gitops-operator.openshift-gitops-operator: ""
  name: openshift-gitops-operator
  namespace: openshift-gitops-operator
spec:
  channel: latest
  installPlanApproval: Automatic
  name: openshift-gitops-operator
  source: redhat-operators
  sourceNamespace: openshift-marketplace
  startingCSV: openshift-gitops-operator.v1.12.0
EOF

Confirm that argocd operator is running. Execute the following command until you see the Phase Field is succeeded (Press Control+C to exit the command):

oc get clusterserviceversion -n openshift-gitops-operator  -o custom-columns=Name:.metadata.name,Phase:.status.phase -w

Give the ServiceAccount for ArgoCD the ability to manage the cluster:

oc adm policy add-cluster-role-to-user cluster-admin -z openshift-gitops-argocd-application-controller -n openshift-gitops

Connecting to OpenShift Gitops OpenShift Gitops generates a default admin user, and a random password when first deployed.

Extract the password from the admin user Secret:

argoPass=$(oc get secret/openshift-gitops-cluster -n openshift-gitops -o jsonpath='{.data.admin\.password}' | base64 -d)
echo $argoPass

Get the Route for the OpenShift Gitops/OpenShift GitOps server:

argoURL=$(oc get route openshift-gitops-server -n openshift-gitops -o jsonpath='{.spec.host}{"\n"}')
echo $argoURL

Access the OpenShift Gitops console by logging in with the username admin and the password extracted in the previous step.

Argocd Prerequisites