Add initial metal3 quickstart #99
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| The basic steps to install and use Metal<sup>3</sup> are: | ||
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| - Install an RKE2 management cluster | ||
| - Install Rancher |
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Rancher isn't strictly a dependency atm, but if in future we want to enable rancher integration e.g via the turtles UI this will be needed, shall I remove this for now or leave it?
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Would you mind if we went ahead and merged while in this state so we can review and edit in smaller chunks? I just did the same with my quickstarts for EIB and Elemental. |
| - Must support deployment via virtualmedia (PXE is not currently supported) | ||
| - Must have network connectivity to the Management cluster for access to the Metal<sup>3</sup> provisioning APIs | ||
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| TODO we need a more detailed support matrix of vendors and BMC firmware versions. |
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Is this something that we inherit directly from upstream?
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Yes and no - we inherit the specific Ironic drivers that are enabled in our configuration, but that's not the same as having a validated support matrix from a product perspective.
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Once we switch to asciidoc, this should be a admonition/callout block
| In this mode the endpoint for the management cluster APIs is the IP of the management cluster, thus is should be either reserved when using DHCP | ||
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| TODO example of how to do this with NodePort, if we want to include it in the docs? |
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I think NodePort makes sense for single nodes and reduces the complexity for dev/test usage.
Yes that's fine with me, I'm happy to contribute further content as follow-ups but it will definitely be easier if we do it as a series of smaller changes. |
@agracey this is still WIP but wanted to push it up for initial review so we can collaborate