OpenShift Installation

External

• https://install.openshift.com/

Internal

• OpenShift

Overview

There are two installation methods: quick install, which uses a CLI tool available in the "atomic-openshift-utils" package, which, in turn, uses Ansible in the background, and advanced install. The advanced install assumes familiarity with Ansible.

Prerequisites

System Requirements

Relevance OpenShift 3.3.

Master

• Physical or virtual system.
• RHEL 7.1 installed with the "minimal" installation option.
• 2 CPUs
• 8 GB RAM
• 30 GB storage space.

Node

• Physical or virtual system.
• RHEL 7.1 installed with the "minimal" installation option.
• 1 CPU
• 8 GB RAM
• 15 GB storage space.
• Docker 1.9.1 or later
• 15 GB to allocated to Docker storage.

External DNS Setup

An external DNS server is required.

After setup, the DNS server needs to be configured to resolve a public wildcard DNS entry to the public IP address of the node that executes the default router, by adding an A record, with a low TTL. If the environment has multiple routers, an external load balancer is required.

*.myapp.example.com. 300 IN  A 1.2.3.4

O/S Installation

Execute a minimal installation on one host, and perform the following steps. Then the same image can be used for as a base for the other nodes.

Register all hosts with Red Hat Subscription Manager to RHEL 7.x and OpenShift 3 repositories.

Extra packages required:

yum install wget git net-tools bind-utils iptables-services bridge-utils bash-completion
yum update -y

Manage services:

• Turn off firewalld and configure the iptables service
• Install Docker
• Make sure master can issue remote commands on the nodes without requiring password. Ansible, who runs the installation process, requires a user that has password-less access to all hosts.

From the master, as root:

# ssh-keygen
# ssh-copy-id root@node1.example.com

• Configure iptables. iptables must be running and the following ports must be open. Most of the ports will be configured by the installer, automatically - verify that.:

OpenShift Ports

Post-Install

Set up NFS

The NFS server is required for persistent volumes.