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Following steps occurs once the "make install" command is given.

1. All the software required to run the bootstrap cluster is being downloaded and installed
2. Kubernetes cluster to maintain the Bootstrap cluster and all the servers in the edge location is installed
3. Metal3 specific network configuration such as local DHCP server networking for each edge location, Ironic networking for both provisioning network and IPMI LAN network are identified and created
4. Metal3 is launched with IPMI configuration as configured in "user_config.sh" and provision the Baremetal servers using IPMI LAN network. For more information refer the Debugging Failure section
5. Metal3 launch verification run without a timeout of 60 mins, by checking the status of all the servers being provisioned or not,
   1. All servers are provisioned parallelly. For example, if your deployment is having 10 servers in the edge location. All the 10 servers are provisioned at the same time
   2. Metal3 launch verification take care of checking all the servers are provisioned, the network interfaces are up and provisioned with a provider network gateway and DNS server
   3. Metal3 launch verification checks the status of all servers given in user_config.sh to make sure all the servers are provisioned. For example, if 8 servers are provisioned and 2 servers are not provisioned, Launch verification make sure all servers are provisioned before launch Kubernetes clusters on those servers
6. BPA Baremetal components are invoked with the mac address of the servers provisioned by metal3, BPA Baremetal components decide the cluster size and also the number of clusters required in the edge location
7. BPA Baremetal runs the containerized KUD as a job for each cluster. KUD install the kubernetes cluster on the slice of servers and install ONAP4k8s and all other default plugins such as Multus, OVN, OVN4NFV, NFD, Virtlet, SRIOV, QAT
8.   BPA rest agent installed in the bootstrap cluster or jump server, and this install rest-api, rook/ceph, Mimio as the cloud storage. This provides a way for user to upload their own software, container images or os image to jump server

Virtual Deployment Guide

Standard Deployment Overview

Image Added

Virtual deployment is used for the dev env using metal3 virtual deployment to create VM with PXE boot. VM Ansible scripts the node inventory file in the /opt/ironic. No setting is required from the user to deploy the virtual deployment. Virtual deployment is used for dev works.

Verifying the Setup - VMs

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ICN blueprint checks all the setup in both baremetal and VM deployment. Verify script will check the metal3 provision the OS in each baremetal nodes by checking with a timeout period of 60 sec and interval of 30. BPA operator verifies will check, whether the KUD is installation is complete by doing plain curl command to the Kubernetes cluster installed in baremetal and VM setup.

Baremetal Verifier: Run the "make bm_verifer", it will verify the bare-metal deployment

VM Verifier: Run the "make vm_verifier", it will verify the Virtual deployment

Developer Guide and Troubleshooting

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