Lab‐1: Install Microshift

1. Access the RH134 Workstation.
   
   
   
2. Open firefox and download the file (microshiftrepo.tar) from the following link.
   
   
   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k3fODGbKbrzkgf_i7jQy8hkeEc6LJCol/view?usp=sharing
   
   
   
3. Copy the file to servera machine
   
   [student@workstation ~]$ scp /home/student/Downloads/microshiftrepo.tar student@servera:
   
   
4. From workstation, access servera as student user
   
   [student@workstation ~]$ ssh student@servera
5. From terminal of servera list the files
   
   [student@servera ~]$ ls
6. Extract the packages required for installation
   
   [student@servera ~]$ tar -xvf microshiftrepo.tar
7. Switch to package directory
   
   [student@servera ~]$ cd /home/student/root/microshiftrepo
8. Install the required packages.
   
   [student@servera microshiftrepo]$ sudo dnf install * -y
   
   [student@servera microshiftrepo]$ cd
   
   
9. Download pullsecret to workstation using RedHat account from the url below
   https://console.redhat.com/openshift/create/local
   
   
10. Copy the pullsecret
    
    [student@workstation ~]$ scp /home/student/Downloads/pull-secret root@servera:/etc/crio/openshift-pull-secret
    
    
11. Change the ownership and permission of pullsecret file
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo chown root:root /etc/crio/openshift-pull-secret
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo chmod 600 /etc/crio/openshift-pull-secret
    
    
12. Configure LVM
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo pvcreate /dev/vd{b,c,d}
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo vgcreate vmdisk /dev/vd{b,c,d}
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo vgs
    
    
13. Create a file for configuring lvm based permanent storage for microshift. Copy from
    
    
    https://github.com/anandpavithran/microshift/blob/main/lvmd.yaml
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo vi /etc/microshift/lvmd.yaml
    
    
14. Disable the firewalld as it is the lab environment.
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo systemctl disable firewalld – -now(two hyphens)
    
    
15. Start and enable microshift
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo systemctl enable microshift – -now(two hyphens)
    
    
16. Configure access to Microshift
    
    [student@servera ~]$ mkdir .kube
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo cp /var/lib/microshift/resources/kubeadmin/kubeconfig ~/.kube/config
    
    [student@servera ~]$ sudo chown student:student ~/.kube/config
    
    [student@servera ~]$ oc get pod -A