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TL;DR Full run with vDU profile

  • Define a few environment variables:
export SEED_IMAGE=quay.io/whatever/ostbackup:seed
export PULL_SECRET=$(jq -c . /path/to/my/pull-secret.json)
export BACKUP_SECRET=$(jq -c . /path/to/my/repo/credentials.json)
  • Create seed VM with vDU profile
make seed vdu
  • Create and push seed image
make seed-image-create SEED_IMAGE=$SEED_IMAGE
  • Create target VM
make target
  • Restore seed image in target
make sno-upgrade SEED_IMAGE=$SEED_IMAGE

Prerequisites

  • virt-install
sudo dnf install virt-install
  • In case you don't have nmstatectl installed please install it
sudo dnf install nmstate
  • Set PULL_SECRET environment variable to the contents of your cluster pull secret
  • Set BACKUP_SECRET environment variable with the credentials needed to push/pull the seed image, in standard pull-secret format

Fedora prerequisites

If using systemd-resolved as a system DNS resolver

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Add the NetworkManager dnsmasq instance as a DNS server for resolved:

sudo mkdir /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d

Then create /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/dns_servers.conf with:

[Resolve]
DNS=127.0.0.1
Domains=~.

And finally restart systemd-resolved:

sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved

Note that by default in this repo the cluster domain ends with redhat.com, so make sure you're not connected to the redhat VPN, otherwise resolved will prefer using the Red Hat DNS servers for any domain ending with redhat.com

If using authselect as nsswitch manager

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Install libvirt-nss

sudo dnf install libvirt-nss

Add authselect libvirt feature

sudo authselect enable-feature with-libvirt

This makes it so that libvirt guest names resolve to IP addresses

Libvirt no route to host issue

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Sometimes your libvirt bridge interface will not contain your VM's interfaces, which means you'll have a "no route to host" errors when trying to contact services on your VM.

To fix this, install the bridge-utils package, run brctl show. If the tt0 bridge has no vnet* interfaces listed, you'll need to add them with sudo brctl addif tt0 <vnet interface>.

How this works

Generate the seed image template

This process can be done in a single step, or run each step separately to have more control

Single step

There is a makefile target that does all the steps for us

make seed

Step by step

To generate a seed image we want to:

  • Provision a VM and install SNO in it
make seed-vm-create wait-for-seed
  • Prepare the seed cluster to have a couple of needed extras
make seed-cluster-prepare

Customize seed SNO

  • (OPTIONAL) Modify that installation to suit the use-case that we want to have in the seed image. In this example we install the components of a vDU profile
make vdu

Create a seed image using seed VM

To create a seed image we will use LifeCycle Agent, and manage everything with the CR SeedGenerator

This process will stop openshift and launch lca-cli as a podman container, and afterwards restore the openshift cluster and update SeedGenerator CR

make seed-image-create SEED_IMAGE=quay.io/whatever/repo:tag

Create and prepare a target cluster

As with the seed image, this process can be done in a single step, or run each step manually

Single step

There is a makefile target that does all the steps for us

make target

Step by step

Or we can choose to run each step manually, to have more control of each step

  • Provision a VM and install SNO in it
make target-vm-create wait-for-target
  • Prepare the target cluster for a couple of extras (LCA operator, shared /var/lib/containers)
make target-cluster-prepare

Upgrade target SNO with a seed image

To upgrade the target cluster using a seed image we will use LifeCycle Agent, and manage everything with the CR ImageBasedUpgrade

This process will upgrade the target cluster using the seed image and reboot into it

make sno-upgrade SEED_IMAGE=quay.io/whatever/repo:tag

To follow the logs and see what is going on in real time, we can run:

make lca-logs CLUSTER=seed

Extra goodies

Descriptive help for the Makefile

You can run

make help

and get a description of the main Makefile targets that you can use

Backup and reuse VM qcow2 files

To be able to reuse the VMs, we can backup the qcow2 files of both seed and target VM This will allow us to skip the initial provision, allowing for faster iterations when testing To create a backup run:

make seed-vm-backup

or

make target-vm-backup

To restore an image, we run the complementary restore command

make seed-vm-restore

or

make target-vm-restore

Remember that certificates expire, so if a backed up image is old, certificates will expire and openshift wont be usable If certs have expired, you can run recert to issue new certificates:

make seed-vm-recert

or

make target-vm-recert

vDU profile

A vDU profile can be applied to the image before baking with

make vdu

Use shared directorty for /var/lib/containers

A shared directory /sysroot/containers can be used to mount and share /var/lib/containers among ostree deployments Run:

make seed-varlibcontainers

or

make target-varlibcontainers

This will create a /sysroot/containers in the SNO (when not specifying the cluster with the CLUSTER variable, it defaults to the seed image) to be mounted in /var/lib/containers The use case for this is to easily precache all the images that the cluster in the seed image will need, while original target cluster is still running

WARNING

It is important to note that for precaching to work, this change must be applied both in seed image and target cluster

Examples

Installing the backup into some running SNO

make seed-image-restore SNO_KUBECONFIG=path/to/target/sno/kubeconfig SEED_IMAGE=$SEED_IMAGE
  • Reboot the target host

Extras

  • Set DHCP environment variable in order to run with dhcp, default is static ip