K33G's website

# 🇬🇧 Install OpenShift with Vagrant

I'm a developer, and I'm often not comfortable with LAN, system administration ... stuff, but I am usually stubborn. I'm struggling for several days (weeks?) with a specific configuration to prepare a future demonstration. And finally, I succeeded. I'm not sure that I understood all that I did, but I can reproduce it, so I wrote all the steps.

But first, this is my configuration (or my requirements)

# Requirements

  • I need an OpenShift server (a ssingle-node cluster), and I will install it on a NUC (OS: Linux) inside a Virtual Machine thanks to Vagrant.
  • I need to connect to my OpenShift server from a Mac laptop.
  • The NUC and the Mac computer are connected to the same local network (my home wifi box).

# Prerequisites on the NUC side

You need to install:

  • VirtualBox
  • Vagrant

My NUC is under Ubuntu 18.04

# OpenShift setup

This is my Vagrantfile: so, create a directory on your Linux server (in my case, it's on my NUC)

OC_DOMAIN = "oc-chewie.test"
OC_IP = "172.16.245.100"
OC_PUB_IP = "192.168.1.100"
OC_NAME = "oc-chewie"

BOX_IMAGE = "bento/ubuntu-16.04"
VERSION = "1.0"

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = BOX_IMAGE

  ENV['LC_ALL']="en_US.UTF-8"

  config.vm.define "#{OC_NAME}" do |node|

    node.vm.hostname = "#{OC_NAME}"
    
    # perhaps you will need to adapt the bridge, it's relate to your material
    # usually on OSX, its `bridge: "en0: Wi-Fi (AirPort)"`
    
    node.vm.network "public_network", ip:"#{OC_PUB_IP}",  bridge: "wlp58s0"
    node.vm.network "private_network", ip: "#{OC_IP}"

    node.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8443, host: 8443

    node.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
      vb.memory = 10240
      vb.cpus = 4
      vb.name = "#{OC_NAME}"
    end

    node.vm.provision :docker

    node.vm.provision :shell, inline: <<-SHELL
      apt-get update
      apt-get install -y curl

      # openshift cluster
      cd /tmp/
      curl -Lso oc-cli.tgz  https://github.com/openshift/origin/releases/download/v3.11.0/openshift-origin-client-tools-v3.11.0-0cbc58b-linux-64bit.tar.gz
      tar -xvzf oc-cli.tgz
      cp openshift-origin-client-tools-v3.11.0-0cbc58b-linux-64bit/oc /usr/local/bin/
      cp openshift-origin-client-tools-v3.11.0-0cbc58b-linux-64bit/kubectl /usr/local/bin/
      chmod +x /usr/local/bin/oc
      chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubectl

      # Optionally add what you want:
      echo "" >> /etc/hosts
      echo '#{OC_PUB_IP} #{OC_DOMAIN}' >> /etc/hosts
      echo "" >> /etc/hosts

      # Add unsecure registry (this is a prerequisite - see the official documentation)
      echo "" >> /etc/docker/daemon.json
      echo '{' >> /etc/docker/daemon.json
      echo '  "insecure-registries" : ["172.30.0.0/16"]' >> /etc/docker/daemon.json
      echo '}' >> /etc/docker/daemon.json
      echo "" >> /etc/docker/daemon.json

      service docker restart

    SHELL

    # start the cluster
    node.vm.provision "start", type: "shell" , run: "always" , inline: <<-SHELL
      oc cluster up --public-hostname=#{OC_PUB_IP}
    SHELL

  ends

end

And run this command vagrant up, take a ☕️ and wait some minutes.

# First application deployment (on the linux side)

If all is ok, you should be able to connect to the OpenShift server with this url: https://192.168.1.100:8443

After some warnings (about the fact that the connection isn't safe) you should get this:

text

You can connect with this credentials:

  • user:system
  • password: admin

This is the "welcome" page:

text

Click on the nodejs icon to create a new webapplication

text

Click on the Next > button

text

  • Then you can add your application to an existing project or create a new project
  • Give a name to your application (in my case it's hey)
  • Choose a Git repository (use the Git project sample: click on Try Sample Repository)
  • And finally, click on the Create button

text

After the confirmation pop-up, click on the Close button

text

At, the top right corner, you can see the node project, so, select it:

text

You see that the hey application has been deployed, and the proposed url is http://hey-node.192.168.1.100.nip.io/ (opens new window), and now, the most important thing of this document is that:

If your computer refuses to resolve the nip.io domain:

  • On OSX, go to the Network Settings
    • Choose your network
    • Click on the Advanced... button
    • Chose the DNS panel
    • add this DNS: 8.8.8.8 and click on Ok, then Apply
  • On Linux,
    • Edit (as root) this file /etc/resolv.conf
    • add this line nameserver 8.8.8.8
    • save it

Now you can acces to your webapp on http://hey-node.192.168.1.100.nip.io/ (opens new window):

text

🎉 next step (tomorrow?) deploy your own project from a GitLab repository (and with a GitLab runner)

👋 Have a nice day

Last Articles