#+TITLE: OpenShift Advanced Cluster Management Observability
#+AUTHOR: James Blair
#+DATE: <2024-01-09 Tue 08:00>

* Introduction

This document captures the environment setup steps for a ~30 minute live demo of the [[https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/advanced-cluster-management][Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management]] observability feature for [[https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift][Openshift]].


* Pre-requisites

This guide assumes you:

- Have access to an Amazon Web Services account with permissions to be able to create resources including ~s3~ buckets and ~ec2~ instances. In my case I have an AWS Blank Open Environment provisioned through the Red Hat [[https://demo.redhat.com][demo system]].

- Already have the ~aws~ and ~oc~ cli utilities installed.

- Have registered for a Red Hat account (required for obtaining an OpenShift install image pull secret).


* 1 - Logging into aws locally

Our first step is to login to our aws account locally via the ~aws~ cli which will prompt for four values:

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aws configure
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* 2 - Creating s3 bucket

After logging into aws lets confirm our permissions are working by creating the ~s3~ bucket we will need later on.

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aws s3 mb "s3://open-cluster-management-observability" --region "$(aws configure get region)"
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* 3 - Install openshift clusters

With our aws credentials working let's move on to deploying the hub and single node openshift cluster required for the live demo.


** 3.1 Download installer tools

Our first step will be to ensure we have the ~openshift-install~ cli tool. We can download it as follows:

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# Download the installer
wget "https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/$(uname -m)/clients/ocp/stable/openshift-install-linux.tar.gz"

# Extract the archive
tar xf openshift-install-linux.tar.gz
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** 3.2 Obtain install pull secret

Next we have a manual step to login to the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console and obtain our **Pull Secret** which will be required for our installation configuration.

Open the [[https://console.redhat.com/openshift/create/local][Console]] and click **Download pull secret**. This will download a file called ~pull-secret.txt~ which will be used later on.


** 3.3 Initiate the hub cluster install

Once our install tooling is available let's kick off the installation of our hub cluster by creating a configuration file and then running ~openshift-install~.

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cat << EOF > hub-install-config-yaml
additionalTrustBundlePolicy: Proxyonly
apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: $(aws route53 list-hosted-zones | jq '.HostedZones[].Name' -r | sed 's/.$//')
compute:
- architecture: amd64
  hyperthreading: Enabled
  name: worker
  platform: {}
  replicas: 3
controlPlane:
  architecture: amd64
  hyperthreading: Enabled
  name: master
  platform: {}
  replicas: 3
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: hub
networking:
  clusterNetwork:
  - cidr: 10.128.0.0/14
    hostPrefix: 23
  machineNetwork:
  - cidr: 10.0.0.0/16
  networkType: OVNKubernetes
  serviceNetwork:
  - 172.30.0.0/16
platform:
  aws:
    region: $(aws configure get region)
publish: External
pullSecret: '<add your pull-secret>'
sshKey: |
  <add your public ssh key>
EOF
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