Red Hat CodeReady Containers Collection

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

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

CodeReady Containers Remote Server Access
CodeReady Containers on local host

Role Variables

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

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

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

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

GPL-3.0

Author Information

Tosin Akinosho - tosin2013
Chad Ferman - chadmf

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