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Filip Brychta commented on SWSQE-1056:
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{color:#333333}Currently the only tested/working way is a bare metal IPI on single stack
IPv6, docs here [1]. I know about two teams which have a CI for that. Openshift-kni dev
team is using [2] and ocp-edge-qe team is using [3]. Both approaches are mocking bare
metal machines as VMs on one big hypervisor and using IPI way.{color}
{color:#333333}I tried [2] on our bare metal machine (
b24.jonqe.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com) in
BOS lab which has 64GB of memory and 32 CPUs which should match minimal resource
requirements. The cluster was provisioned fine (after several tries) but any change which
requires cluster reconciliation breaks it. Some cluster operators (authentication, dns,
kube-storage-version-migrator, network, openshift-apiserver) are stuck in progressing
state or degraded and the cluster never come back up. This is blocking SM installation as
on IPv6 it's necessary to mirror SM operators from redhat-operators (the same way like
in disconnected OCP) which is starting the cluster reconciliation.{color}
{color:#333333}I've not tried [3] yet as it requires machine with 144 GB of memory and
I don't have such a big machine.{color}
{color:#333333}Possible next steps:{color}
{color:#333333}- try [2] on bigger machine as the minimal required resources might not be
enough (cluster with minimal resources seems pretty fragile even on IPv4), bigger machine
might be available in
http://bagl.scalelab.redhat.com/ or
https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/{color}
{color:#333333}- wait for working UPI installer and update our existing provisioning
scripts for IPv6 (our scripts are mocking bare metal machines as VMs in PSI OpenStack and
using UPI way){color}
{color:#333333}- wait for working templates for Flexy, e.g. [4] and use the One OCP deploy
tool{color}
{color:#333333}Filip{color}
{color:#333333}[1] -
https://openshift-kni.github.io/baremetal-deploy/{color}
{color:#333333}[2] -
https://github.com/openshift-metal3/dev-scripts{color}
{color:#333333}[3] -
https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/ocp-edge-qe/ocp-edge{color}
{color:#333333}[4] -
http://git.app.eng.bos.redhat.com/git/openshift-misc.git/plain/v3-launch-...
Try OCP 4.4 on IPv6 in PSI
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Key: SWSQE-1056
URL:
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SWSQE-1056
Project: Kiali QE
Issue Type: QE Task
Reporter: Filip Brychta
Assignee: Filip Brychta
Priority: Major
Labels: infrastructure
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