Deploy OpenShift Clusters to vSphere using vRealize Automation

vRA Code Stream Pipeline to deploy OpenShift clusters and register with Tanzu Mission Control.

Getting started

Blog Post - Deploying OpenShift Clusters using vRA Code Stream

Pre-reqs

• Red Hat Cloud Account
  • With the ability to download and use a Pull Secret for creating OpenShift Clusters
• vRA access to create Code Stream Pipelines and associated objects inside the pipeline when it runs.
  • Get CSP API access token for vRA Cloud or on-premises edition.
• Tanzu Mission Control access with ability to attach new clusters
  • Get an CSP API access token for TMC
• vRA Code Stream configured with an available Docker Host that can connect to the network you will deploy the OpenShift clusters to.
  • This Docker container is used for the pipeline
  • You can find the Dockerfile here, and alter per your needs, including which versions of OpenShift you want to deploy.
• SSH Key for a bastion host access to your OpenShift nodes.
• vCenter account with appropriate permissions to deploy OpenShift
  • You can use this PowerCLI script to create the role permissions.
• DNS records created for the OpenShift cluster deployment
  • api.{cluster_id}.{base_domain}
  • *.apps.{cluster_id}.{base_domain}

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