With HPE Ezmeral Container Platform IT admins can easily provision, de-provision and
prioritize workloads in containerized clusters on a shared pool of hardware
resources to meet the dynamic and ever-changing needs of their users.
As an Admin begin by logging in to the HPE Ezmeral Container Platform.
Navigate to the cluster management screen
and select ‘Create Kubernetes Cluster’.
Enter a name for the new Kubernetes cluster.
The 'Description' field is an optional field that
can help the team identify the Cluster.
In the 'Masters' row of the 'Hosts' table, select up to 7 host in the available column.
Hosts can be VMs or bare-metal servers.
These hosts can added or updated on the 'Hosts' page.
Repeat for the 'Worker Hosts.
You may add as many Worker hosts as needed to this cluster.
The second part of the process is Cluster Configuration.
Using the Kubernetes Version pull-down menu to select the version of
Kubernetes to install on the new cluster.
Once the Kubernetes version is selected, the Pod Network Range field
and Service Network Range fields are filled and configured automatically.
You need only update these parameters
if they conflict with other ranges that are already in use.
On the authentication step we have 3 options:
We can click 'next' to use the platform-wide authentication settings.
We can click' Copy from Platform Authentication' which copies the platform-level
LDAP/AD authentication to this Kubernetes cluster and then allows for future editing.
Or lastly, we can manually enter the authentication settings below.
By inputting AD/LDAP configuration we are integrating the Data Fabric with the
external users and groups, roles and role bindings.
Check the 'HPE Nimble Storage' checkbox to install Nimble CSI storage drivers.
When you are satisfied with your changes, click 'Next'.
Review the summary of resources to be assigned to this cluster
and click 'Submit' when finished creating the new Kubernetes cluster.
HPE Ezmeral Container Platform significantly reduces the effort required for the
Kubernetes cluster Admins to create and manage container clusters
for a wide variety of use cases.
