Part VII Fully automated directed network provisioning #

This chapter describes how to provision downstream clusters using Directed Network Provisioning, the supported provisioning method for SUSE Telco Cloud. Unlike Image-based Provisioning, this workflow keeps the OS image generic and drives all cluster-specific configuration from the management cluster…

Edge Image Builder (Chapter 12, Edge Image Builder) is used to prepare a modified SLEMicro base image which is provisioned on downstream cluster hosts.

Edge Image Builder (Chapter 12, Edge Image Builder) is used to prepare a modified SLEMicro base image which is provisioned on downstream cluster hosts.

This section describes the workflow used to automate the provisioning of a single-node downstream cluster using directed network provisioning. This is the simplest way to automate the provisioning of a downstream cluster.

This section describes the workflow used to automate the provisioning of a multi-node downstream cluster using directed network provisioning and MetalLB as a load-balancer strategy. This is the simplest way to automate the provisioning of a downstream cluster. The following diagram shows the workflo…

The directed network provisioning workflow allows for specific network configurations in downstream clusters, such as static IPs, bonding, VLANs, IPv6, etc.

The directed network provisioning workflow allows to automate the Telco features to be used in the downstream clusters to run Telco workloads on top of those servers.

It is possible to configure a private registry as a mirror for images used by workloads.

The directed network provisioning workflow allows to automate the provisioning of downstream clusters in air-gapped scenarios.