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+# Multinode Test Environment 
+
+## Set up hosts
+1. Create four baremetal instances with a centos 8 stream LVM image, and a 
+Centos 8 stream vm
+2. SSH into each baremetal and run `sudo chown -R centos:.` in the home directory,
+   then add the lines 
+   >`10.0.0.34 pelican pelican.service.compute.sms-lab.cloud`  
+   >`10.205.3.187 pulp-server pulp-server.internal.sms-cloud`  
+
+   to /etc/hosts (if you're waiting on them starting up, you can progress until 
+   `kayobe overcloud host configure` without this step)
+
+## Basic Kayobe Setup
+1. SSH into the VM
+1. `sudo dnf install -y python3-virtualenv`
+1. `mkdir src` and `cd src`
+1. Clone https://github.com/stackhpc/stackhpc-kayobe-config.git, then checkout
+   commit f31df6256f1b1fea99c84547d44f06c4cb74b161 
+1. `cd ..` and `mkdir venvs`
+1. `virtualenv venvs/kayobe` and source `venvs/kayobe/bin/activate`
+1. `pip install -U pip`
+1. `pip install ./src/kayobe`
+1. Acquire the Ansible Vault password for this repository, and store a copy at
+``~/vault-pw``
+1. `export KAYOBE_VAULT_PASSWORD=$(cat ~/vault-pw)`
+
+## Config changes
+1. In etc/kayobe/ansible/requirements.yml remove version from vxlan
+4. In etc/kayobe/ansible/configure-vxlan.yml, change the group of
+vxlan_interfaces so that the last octet is different e.g. 224.0.0.15
+5. Also under vxlan_interfaces, add vni:x where x is between 500 and 1000
+5. Also under vxlan_interfaces, check vxlan_dstport is not 4789 (this causes
+conflicts, change to 4790)
+6. In /etc/kayobe/environments/ci-multinode/tf-networks.yml, 
+   edit admin_ips so that the compute and controller IPs line up with the 
+   instances that were created earlier, remove the other IPs for seed and 
+   cephOSD
+7. In /etc/kayobe/environments/ci-multinode/network-allocation.yml, remove all
+the entries and just assign `aio_ips:` an empty set `[]`
+8. In etc/kayobe/environments/ci-multinode/inventory/hosts, remove the seed
+9. run stackhpc-kayobe-config/etc/kayobe/ansible/growroot.yml (if this fails,
+manually increase the partition size on each host)
+
+## Final steps
+1. `source kayobe-env --environment ci-aio`
+10. Run `kayobe overcloud host configure`
+11. Run `kayobe overcloud service deploy`