Red Hat CodeReady Containers Collection

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Use Ansible to deploy Red Hat CodeReady Containers with HACKS

CodeReady Containers brings a minimal, preconfigured OpenShift 4.1 or newer cluster to your local laptop or desktop computer for development and testing purposes. CodeReady Containers is delivered as a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine that supports native hypervisors for Linux, macOS, and Windows 10.

Requirements

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• Ansible
• Fedora or RHEL 8.x
• IF using RHEL make sure it is registered
• OpenShift CodeReady WorkSpaces pull secret
  • https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/crc/installer-provisioned
• Anisble post fix module
  • ansible-galaxy collection install ansible.posix

Inspriation

Accessing CodeReady Containers on a Remote Server by Jason Dobies
Overview: running crc on a remote server by Trevor McKay
Deploy Bare-Metal Clusters with CRC by Brandon B. Jozsa

Features

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• CodeReady Containers Remote Server Access
• CodeReady Containers on local host

Role Variables

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Type	Description	Default Value
crc_version	Target CRC version	latest
crc_url	CRC download URL	https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/crc/
crc_file_name	CRC filename	crc-linux-amd64.tar.xz
use_all_in_one_haproxy	Use current machine as haproxy LB	true
haproxy_ip	Set ha proxy ip if above is set to flase NOT TESTED	""
log_level	Change log level of crc start command	info
crc_ip_address	Default CRC ip address	192.168.130.11
ocp4_release	OCP release folder for cli	latest
ocp4_version	OCP cli version	latest
ocp4_release_url	OCP release url	"https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/{{ ocp4_release }}/"
ocp4_client	OCP cli filename	"openshift-client-linux-{{ ocp4_version }}.tar.gz"
remove_oc_tool	remove oc cli	false
delete_crc_deployment	delete CodeReady Containers deployment	false
forward_server	Server to manage external requests	1.1.1.1

Dependencies

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Home drive should have 50 Gig or better

On RHEL 8.x

• Register system
• Follow system requirements from the code ready containers documentation

On Fedora

• Follow system requirements from the code ready containers documentation
• enable and start sshd

Download pull-secret

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Download pull-secret to your Downloads folder here. Ansible will look for it in ~/Downloads/pull-secret or change the pull secret variable "{{ pull_secret_path }}"

Deployment Flags

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You can use any of these flags individually to run just that part of the playbook.

• download_crc
• extract_crc
• configure_oc_cli
• setup_crc
• start_crc_deployment
• configure_ha_proxy

Start a full deployment for localhost

ansible-playbook localhost.yml --tags download_crc,extract_crc,configure_oc_cli,setup_crc,start_crc_deployment

Get crc url and login info

ansible-playbook localhost.yml --tags get_codeready_info

Delete deployment

ansible-playbook localhost.yml --extra-vars "delete_crc_deployment=true" 

License

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GPL-3.0

Author Information

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• Tosin Akinosho - tosin2013
• Chad Ferman - chadmf