IBM PowerVS External Cloud Provider
⚠️ WARNING: This feature is currently in experimental stage
Steps
- To deploy a PowerVS workload cluster with IBM PowerVS external cloud provider, create a cluster configuration with the external cloud provider template
- The external cloud provider template will use clusterresourceset and will create the necessary config map, secret and roles to run the cloud controller manager
- As a prerequisite set the
provider-id-fmtflag with value v2
Deploy PowerVS cluster with IBM PowerVS cloud provider
IBMPOWERVS_SSHKEY_NAME="my-pub-key" \
IBMPOWERVS_VIP="192.168.167.6" \
IBMPOWERVS_VIP_EXTERNAL="163.68.65.6" \
IBMPOWERVS_VIP_CIDR="29" \
IBMPOWERVS_IMAGE_NAME="capibm-powervs-centos-streams8-1-26-2" \
IBMPOWERVS_SERVICE_INSTANCE_ID="3229a94c-af54-4212-bf60-6202b6fd0a07" \
IBMPOWERVS_NETWORK_NAME="capi-test" \
IBMACCOUNT_ID="ibm-accountid" \
IBMPOWERVS_REGION="osa" \
IBMPOWERVS_ZONE="osa21" \
BASE64_API_KEY=$(echo -n $IBMCLOUD_API_KEY | base64) \
clusterctl generate cluster ibm-powervs-1 --kubernetes-version v1.26.2 \
--target-namespace default \
--control-plane-machine-count=3 \
--worker-machine-count=1 \
--flavor=powervs-cloud-provider | kubectl apply -f -
When the cluster is created with above parameters, The IBM PowerVS cloud provider will
- Initialize the node by fetching appropriate VM information such as IP, zone, region from Power Cloud.