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Assisted Installer Customization

Manifests

These APIs allows for adding arbitrary manifests to the set generated by openshift-install create manifests. A typical use case would be to create a MachineConfig which would make some persistent customization to a group of nodes. These will only take effect after the machine config operator is up and running so if a change is needed before or during the installation process, another API will be required.

Create a cluster manifest

# base64 encoding of the example from https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.6/installing/install_config/installing-customizing.html 
content=YXBpVmVyc2lvbjogbWFjaGluZWNvbmZpZ3VyYXRpb24ub3BlbnNoaWZ0LmlvL3YxCmtpbmQ6IE1hY2hpbmVDb25maWcKbWV0YWRhdGE6CiAgbGFiZWxzOgogICAgbWFjaGluZWNvbmZpZ3VyYXRpb24ub3BlbnNoaWZ0LmlvL3JvbGU6IG1hc3RlcgogIG5hbWU6IDk5LW9wZW5zaGlmdC1tYWNoaW5lY29uZmlnLW1hc3Rlci1rYXJncwpzcGVjOgogIGtlcm5lbEFyZ3VtZW50czoKICAgIC0gJ2xvZ2xldmVsPTcnCg==
file=99-openshift-machineconfig-master-kargs.yaml
folder=openshift

curl \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
    --request POST \
    --data "{\"file_name\":\"$file\", \"folder\":\"$folder\", \"content\":\"$content\"}" \
"http://$ASSISTED_SERVICE_IP:$ASSISTED_SERVICE_PORT/api/assisted-install/v1/clusters/$CLUSTER_ID/manifests"

View a manifest’s contents

file=openshift/99-openshift-machineconfig-master-kargs.yaml

curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "http://$ASSISTED_SERVICE_IP:$ASSISTED_SERVICE_PORT/api/assisted-install/v1/clusters/$CLUSTER_ID/manifests/files?file_name=$file"

Discovery Ignition

The discovery ignition is used to make changes to the CoreOS live iso image which runs before we actually write anything to the target disk. An example use case would be configuring a separate container registry to pull the assisted-installer-agent image from.

The discovery ignition must use version 3.1.0 regardless of the version of the cluster that will eventually be created.

Patch the discovery ignition

# ignition patch file
{
  "config": "{\"ignition\": {\"version\": \"3.1.0\"}, \"storage\": {\"files\": [{\"path\": \"/etc/containers/registries.conf\", \"mode\": 420, \"overwrite\": true, \"user\": { \"name\": \"root\"},\"contents\": {\"source\": \"data:text/plain;base64,dW5xdWFsaWZpZWQtc2VhcmNoLXJlZ2lzdHJpZXMgPSBbInJlZ2lzdHJ5LmFjY2Vzcy5yZWRoYXQuY29tIiwgImRvY2tlci5pbyJdCltbcmVnaXN0cnldXQogICBwcmVmaXggPSAiIgogICBsb2NhdGlvbiA9ICJxdWF5LmlvL29jcG1ldGFsIgogICBtaXJyb3ItYnktZGlnZXN0LW9ubHkgPSBmYWxzZQogICBbW3JlZ2lzdHJ5Lm1pcnJvcl1dCiAgIGxvY2F0aW9uID0gImxvY2FsLnJlZ2lzdHJ5OjUwMDAvb2NwbWV0YWwiCg==\"}}]}}"
}

curl \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
    --request PATCH \
    --data @discovery-ign.json \
"http://$ASSISTED_SERVICE_IP:$ASSISTED_SERVICE_PORT/api/assisted-install/v1/clusters/$CLUSTER_ID/discovery-ignition"

View the discovery ignition

curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "http://$ASSISTED_SERVICE_IP:$ASSISTED_SERVICE_PORT/api/assisted-install/v1/clusters/$CLUSTER_ID/discovery-ignition"

Install Config

These endpoints alter the default install config yaml used when running openshift-install create commands. Install config customization reference is available here Some of this content will be pinned to particular values, but most can be edited. Note, some of this content will be pinned to particular values by the assisted-installer (can't be overwritten).

You can compose the install-config overrides by creating a json string with the options you wish to set. An example install config with disabled hyperthreading for the control plane:

apiVersion: v1
baseDomain: example.com
controlPlane:
  name: master
  hyperthreading: Disabled
compute:
- name: worker
  replicas: 5
metadata:
  name: test-cluster
platform: ...
pullSecret: '{"auths": ...}'
sshKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA...

should look like this: "{\"controlPlane\":{\"hyperthreading\":\"Disabled\"}}"

Patch the install config

curl \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
    --request PATCH \
    --data '"{\"controlPlane\":{\"hyperthreading\":\"Disabled\"}}"' \
"http://$ASSISTED_SERVICE_IP:$ASSISTED_SERVICE_PORT/api/assisted-install/v1/clusters/$CLUSTER_ID/install-config"

View the install config

curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "http://$ASSISTED_SERVICE_IP:$ASSISTED_SERVICE_PORT/api/assisted-install/v1/clusters/$CLUSTER_ID/install-config"

Pointer Ignition

The pointer ignition is used to customize the particular host when it reboots into the installed system. These changes will be made to the host, but will not be tracked as a machine config. Generally a machine config will be a better fit than editing the pointer ignition, but if some change is specific to an individual host it would be made here.

The pointer ignition override version must match the version of the ignition generated by openshift-installer. This means that the version required for the override will change depending on the cluster version being installed.

OCP Version(s) Ignition version
4.6 3.1.0
4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10 3.2.0

Patch the pointer ignition

curl \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
    --request PATCH \
    --data '{"config": "{\"ignition\": {\"version\": \"3.1.0\"}, \"storage\": {\"files\": [{\"path\": \"/etc/example\", \"contents\": {\"source\": \"data:text/plain;base64,SGVsbG8gZnJvbSBob3N0IDg0Njk2NzdiLThlZGEtNDQzOS1iNDQwLTc3ZGM5M2FkZmNlZgo=\"}}]}}"}' \
"http://$ASSISTED_SERVICE_IP:$ASSISTED_SERVICE_PORT/api/assisted-install/v1/clusters/$CLUSTER_ID/hosts/$HOST_ID/ignition"

View the pointer ignition

curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" "http://$ASSISTED_SERVICE_IP:$ASSISTED_SERVICE_PORT/api/assisted-install/v1/clusters/$CLUSTER_ID/hosts/$HOST_ID/ignition"

Installer Params

This endpoint sets parameters to be passed to the coreos-installer command line in addition to the ones we provide by default. The only parameters that can be set with this endpoint are: ["--append-karg", "--delete-karg", "-n", "--copy-network", "--network-dir", "--save-partlabel", "--save-partindex", "--image-url"]

Set the installer params

curl \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
    --request PATCH \
    --data '{"args": ["--append-karg", "nameserver=8.8.8.8", "-n"]}' \
"http://$ASSISTED_SERVICE_IP:$ASSISTED_SERVICE_PORT/api/assisted-install/v1/clusters/$CLUSTER_ID/hosts/$HOST_ID/installer-args"