OpenShift Network Playground (onp)

The OpenShift Network Playground is both web-based and cli-based interface built for advanced OpenShift users that makes it easy to quickly build and test different OpenShift network scenarios.

Architecture

Features

• Zero-touch installation (ZTI).
• Cockpit cluster deployment.
• Easy NIC addition to the cluster nodes.
• Web-based file manager, VM management and container management.
• RHCOS console login for unreachable nodes.
• Quick Operator installation and sample manifests for test.
• Network tools.
• Single-stack IPv6 cluster.
• Easy RHCOS/FCOS VM provisioning.
• Kind cluster.
• Golang network tools.

Prerequisites

OpenShift cluster manager API token

Copy it from here.

Machine

INFO: Enable nested virtualization if the host is a VM. In Red Hat Virtualization, enable the Pass-Through Host CPU CPU option in the Virtual Machine settings (Under the Host section). In VMware ESXi, enable Hardware virtualization (Expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS). This can be checked using the virt-host-validate command from the VM itself. The output of the command should provide QEMU: Checking for hardware virtualization : PASS.

Installation

• Download the ISO.

  curl -LO $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kevydotvinu/openshift-network-playground/releases/latest | grep "browser_download_url.*\.iso" | cut -d : -f 2,3 | tr -d \")

• Boot it and wait for the installation to complete (Monitor the progress in the machine console).

  WARNING: The ISO boot will erase ALL the data on the /dev/sda disk and install OpenShift Network Playground automatically.

OpenShift cluster deployment

Web-based

• Access Cockpit console (https://<IP>:9090/).
• Authenticate using the credentials (username: onp, password: Onp@123).
• Go to OpenShift tab.
• Enter the release (stable-4.12, 4.12.2, etc) and OCM API token.
• Press the Deploy button.

INFO: To monitor the deployment progress, go to Services tab and search for deploy-cluster.service.

CLI-based

onp help
onp deploy RELEASE=<release> OCM_TOKEN=<token>

Single-stack IPv6 cluster architecture

Sponsor

Many thanks to JetBrains for Open Source development license(s).