Deploy development RP

Why to use it?

This is the preferred and fast way to have your own local development RP setup, while also having a functional cluster. It uses hacks scripts around a lot of the setup to make things easier to bootstrap and be more sensible for running off of your local laptop.

Check the specific use-case examples where deploying full RP service can be a better match.

Prerequisites

Your development environment is prepared according to the steps outlined in Prepare Your Dev Environment

Installing the extension

Check the env.example file and copy it by creating your own:
```
cp env.example env
```
Build the development az aro extension:
```
. ./env
make az
```
Verify the ARO extension is registered:
```
az -v
...
Extensions:
aro                                0.4.0 (dev) /path/to/rp/python/az/aro
...
Development extension sources:
    /path/to/rp/python
...
```
Note: you will be able to update your development az aro extension in the future by simply running git pull. If you need to use the "prod" extension, what is bundled in az natively rather than your ./python, you can unset AZURE_EXTENSION_DEV_SOURCES (found in your ./env file).

Prepare your environment

If you don't have access to a shared development environment and secrets, follow prepare a shared RP development environment.
If you have multiple subscriptions in your account, verify that "ARO SRE Team - InProgress (EA Subscription 2)" is your active subscription:
```
az account set --subscription "ARO SRE Team - InProgress (EA Subscription 2)"
```
Set SECRET_SA_ACCOUNT_NAME to the name of the storage account containing your shared development environment secrets and save them in secrets:
```
SECRET_SA_ACCOUNT_NAME=rharosecretsdev make secrets
```
Run msi.sh to create a service principal and self-signed certificate to mock a cluster MSI. This script will also create the platform identities, platform identity role assignments, and role assignment on mock cluster MSI to federate the platform identities. Platform identities will be created in resource group RESOURCEGROUP and subscription SUBSCRIPTION. Save the output values for cluster MSI Client ID, Base64 Encoded Certificate, and Tenant. Additionally, save the value for Platform workload identity role sets.
Copy, edit (if necessary) and source your environment file. The required environment variable configuration is documented immediately below:
```
cp env.example env
vi env
. ./env
```
- LOCATION: Location of the shared RP development environment (default: eastus).
- RP_MODE: Set to development to use a development RP running at https://localhost:8443/.
- MOCK_MSI_CLIENT_ID: Client ID for service principal that mocks cluster MSI (see previous step).
- MOCK_MSI_CERT: Base64 encoded certificate for service principal that mocks cluster MSI (see previous step).
- MOCK_MSI_TENANT_ID: Tenant ID for service principal that mocks cluster MSI (see previous step).
- PLATFORM_WORKLOAD_IDENTITY_ROLE_SETS: The platform workload identity role sets (see previous step or value in local_dev_env.sh).

Create your own RP database:

az deployment group create \
  -g "$RESOURCEGROUP" \
  -n "databases-development-${AZURE_PREFIX:-$USER}" \
  --template-file pkg/deploy/assets/databases-development.json \
  --parameters \
    "databaseAccountName=$DATABASE_ACCOUNT_NAME" \
    "databaseName=$DATABASE_NAME" \
  1>/dev/null

Run the RP and create a cluster

Source your environment file.
```
. ./env
```
Run the RP
```
make runlocal-rp
```
To create a cluster, use one of the following methods:
1. Manually create the cluster using the public documentation.
  
  Before following the instructions in Create, access, and manage an Azure Red Hat OpenShift 4 Cluster, you will need to manually register your subscription to your local RP:
```
curl -k -X PUT   -H 'Content-Type: application/json'   -d '{
"state": "Registered",
"properties": {
   "tenantId": "'"$AZURE_TENANT_ID"'",
   "registeredFeatures": [
       {
           "name": "Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/RedHatEngineering",
           "state": "Registered"
       }
   ]
}
}' "https://localhost:8443/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID?api-version=2.0"
```
  Note that as long as the RP_MODE environment variable is set to development, the az aro client will connect to your local RP.
2. Use the create utility:
```
# Create the cluster
CLUSTER=<cluster-name> go run ./hack/cluster create
```
  Later the cluster can be deleted as follows:
```
CLUSTER=<cluster-name> go run ./hack/cluster delete
```
  By default, a public cluster will be created. In order to create a private cluster, set the PRIVATE_CLUSTER environment variable to true prior to creation. Internet access from the cluster can also be restricted by setting the NO_INTERNET environment variable to true.
NOTE: If the cluster creation fails with unable to connect to Podman socket...dial unix ///run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock: connect: no such file or directory, then you will need enable podman user socket by executing : systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket, and re-run the installation.
Using oc:
1. Get the KUBECONFIG:
```
az aro get-admin-kubeconfig \
  --name <cluster-name> \
  --resource-group <resource_group_name> \
  --file dev.admin.kubeconfig;
export KUBECONFIG=dev.admin.kubeconfig
```
  The cluster and resource group names can be found by running az aro list -o table
2. Setup insecure-tls oc:
  
  To interact with the cluster using using oc you will need to add the --insecure-skip-tls-verify flag to all commands or use this handy alias:
```
  alias oc-dev='oc --insecure-skip-tls-verify'
```
  Note: This is because the cluster is using self-signed certificates.

The following additional RP endpoints are available but not exposed via az aro:

Delete a subscription, cascading deletion to all its clusters:

curl -k -X PUT \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"state": "Deleted", "properties": {"tenantId": "'"$AZURE_TENANT_ID"'"}}' \
  "https://localhost:8443/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID?api-version=2.0"

List operations:

curl -k \
  "https://localhost:8443/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/operations?api-version=2020-04-30"

View RP logs in a friendly format:

journalctl _COMM=aro -o json --since "15 min ago" -f | jq -r 'select (.COMPONENT != null and (.COMPONENT | contains("access"))|not) | .MESSAGE'

Optionally, create these aliases for viewing logs

cat >>~/.bashrc <<'EOF'
alias rp-logs='journalctl _COMM=aro -o json --since "15 min ago" -f | jq -r '\''select (.COMPONENT != null and (.COMPONENT | contains("access"))|not) | .MESSAGE'\'''
alias rp-logs-all='journalctl _COMM=aro -o json -e | jq -r '\''select (.COMPONENT != null and (.COMPONENT | contains("access"))|not) | .MESSAGE'\'''
EOF

Use a custom installer

Sometimes you want to use a custom installer, for example, when you want to test a new OCP version's installer. You can create a cluster with the new installer following these steps:

Push the installer image to somewhere accessible from Hive AKS.

quay.io would be one of the options. You need pull-secret to use the repositories other than arointsvc.azurecr.io. It must be configured in the secrets. If you are using the hack script, you don't have to care about it because the script uses USER_PULL_SECRET automatically.
Run the RP
Update the OpenShift installer version
Create a cluster with the version you updated.

If you are using the hack script, you can specify the version with OS_CLUSTER_VERSION env var.

Automatically run local RP

If you are already familiar with running the ARO RP locally, you can speed up the process executing the local_dev_env.sh script.

Connect ARO-RP with a Hive development cluster

The env variables names defined in pkg/util/liveconfig/manager.go control the communication of the ARO-RP with Hive.

If you want to use ARO-RP + Hive, set HIVE_KUBE_CONFIG_PATH to the path of the kubeconfig of the AKS Dev cluster. Info about creating that kubeconfig (Step Access the cluster via API).
If you want to create clusters using the local ARO-RP + Hive instead of doing the standard cluster creation process (which doesn't use Hive), set ARO_INSTALL_VIA_HIVE to true.
If you want to enable the Hive adoption feature (which is performed during adminUpdate()), set ARO_ADOPT_BY_HIVE to true.

After setting the above environment variables (using export directly in the terminal or including them in the env file), connect to the VPN (Connect to the VPN section).

Then proceed to run the ARO-RP as usual.

After that, when you create a cluster, you will be using Hive behind the scenes. You can check the created Hive objects following Debugging OpenShift Cluster and using the oc command.

Make Admin-Action API call(s) to a running local-rp

export CLUSTER=<cluster-name>
export AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID=<subscription-id>
export RESOURCEGROUP=<resource-group-name>
  [OR]
. ./env

Perform AdminUpdate on a dev cluster

curl -X PATCH -k "https://localhost:8443/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER?api-version=admin" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{}"

Get Cluster details of a dev cluster

curl -X GET -k "https://localhost:8443/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER?api-version=admin" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{}"

Get SerialConsole logs of a VM of dev cluster

VMNAME="aro-cluster-qplnw-master-0"
curl -X GET -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/serialconsole?vmName=$VMNAME" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{}"

Redeploy a VM in a dev cluster

VMNAME="aro-cluster-qplnw-master-0"
curl -X POST -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/redeployvm?vmName=$VMNAME" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{}"

Stop a VM in a dev cluster

VMNAME="aro-cluster-qplnw-master-0"
curl -X POST -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/stopvm?vmName=$VMNAME" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{}"

Stop and deallocate a VM in a dev cluster

VMNAME="aro-cluster-qplnw-master-0"
curl -X POST -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/stopvm?vmName=$VMNAME&deallocateVM=True" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{}"

Start a VM in a dev cluster

VMNAME="aro-cluster-qplnw-master-0"
curl -X POST -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/startvm?vmName=$VMNAME" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{}"

List VM Resize Options for a master node of dev cluster

curl -X GET -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/skus" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{}"

Resize master node of a dev cluster

VMNAME="aro-cluster-qplnw-master-0"
VMSIZE="Standard_D16s_v3"
curl -X POST -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/resize?vmName=$VMNAME&vmSize=$VMSIZE" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{}"

List Clusters of a local-rp

curl -X GET -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/providers/microsoft.redhatopenshift/openshiftclusters"

List cluster Azure Resources of a dev cluster

curl -X GET -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/resources"

Perform Cluster Upgrade on a dev cluster

curl -X POST -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/upgrade"

Get container logs from an OpenShift pod in a cluster

NAMESPACE=<namespace-name>
POD=<pod-name>
CONTAINER=<container-name>
curl -X GET -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/kubernetespodlogs?podname=$POD&namespace=$NAMESPACE&container=$CONTAINER"

List Supported VM Sizes

VMROLE=<master or worker>
curl -X GET -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/supportedvmsizes?vmRole=$VMROLE"

Perform Etcd Recovery Operation on a cluster

curl -X PATCH -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/etcdrecovery"

Delete a managed resource

MANAGED_RESOURCEID=<id of managed resource to delete>
curl -X POST -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/deletemanagedresource?managedResourceID=$MANAGED_RESOURCEID"

OpenShift Version

We have a cosmos container which contains supported installable OCP versions, more information on the definition in pkg/api/openshiftversion.go.

Admin - List OpenShift installation versions

curl -X GET -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/versions"

Admin - Put a new OpenShift installation version

This command adds the image to your cosmosDB. openShiftPullspec comes from quay.io/repository/openshift-release-dev ; and installerPullspec modifies as per example below, replace X.Y accordingly.

curl -X PUT -k "https://localhost:8443/admin/versions" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "properties": { "version": "4.14.16", "enabled": true, "openShiftPullspec": "quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release@sha256:XXXX", "installerPullspec": "arosvc.azurecr.io/aro-installer:release-X.Y"'

List the enabled OpenShift installation versions within a region

curl -X GET -k "https://localhost:8443/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/locations/$LOCATION/openshiftversions?api-version=2022-09-04"

OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM) Configuration API Actions

Create a new OCM configuration

You can find example payloads in the projects ./hack/ocm folder.

curl -X PUT -k "https://localhost:8443/subscriptions/$AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID/resourceGroups/$RESOURCEGROUP/providers/Microsoft.RedHatOpenShift/openShiftClusters/$CLUSTER/syncsets/mySyncSet?api-version=2022-09-04" --header "Content-Type: application/json" -d @./hack/ocm/syncset.b64

Debugging OpenShift Cluster

SSH to the bootstrap node:

NOTE: If you have a password-based sudo command, you must first authenticate before running sudo in the background
```
sudo openvpn secrets/vpn-$LOCATION.ovpn &
CLUSTER=cluster hack/ssh-agent.sh bootstrap
```

Get an admin kubeconfig:

CLUSTER=cluster make admin.kubeconfig
export KUBECONFIG=admin.kubeconfig

"SSH" to a cluster node:

Get the admin kubeconfig and export KUBECONFIG as detailed above.
Run the ssh-agent.sh script. This takes the argument is the name of the NIC attached to the VM you are trying to ssh to.
Given the following nodes these commands would be used to connect to the respective node

$ oc get nodes
NAME                                     STATUS     ROLES    AGE   VERSION
aro-dev-abc123-master-0               Ready      master   47h   v1.19.0+2f3101c
aro-dev-abc123-master-1               Ready      master   47h   v1.19.0+2f3101c
aro-dev-abc123-master-2               Ready      master   47h   v1.19.0+2f3101c
aro-dev-abc123-worker-eastus1-2s5rb   Ready      worker   47h   v1.19.0+2f3101c
aro-dev-abc123-worker-eastus2-php82   Ready      worker   47h   v1.19.0+2f3101c
aro-dev-abc123-worker-eastus3-cbqs2   Ready      worker   47h   v1.19.0+2f3101c


CLUSTER=cluster hack/ssh-agent.sh master0 # master node aro-dev-abc123-master-0
CLUSTER=cluster hack/ssh-agent.sh aro-dev-abc123-worker-eastus1-2s5rb # worker aro-dev-abc123-worker-eastus1-2s5rb
CLUSTER=cluster hack/ssh-agent.sh eastus1 # worker aro-dev-abc123-worker-eastus1-2s5rb
CLUSTER=cluster hack/ssh-agent.sh 2s5rb  # worker aro-dev-abc123-worker-eastus1-2s5rb
CLUSTER=cluster hack/ssh-agent.sh bootstrap # the bootstrap node used to provision cluster

Debugging AKS Cluster

Connect to the VPN:

To access the cluster for oc / kubectl or SSH'ing into the cluster you need to connect to the VPN first.

NOTE: If you have a password-based sudo command, you must first authenticate before running sudo in the background

sudo openvpn secrets/vpn-aks-$LOCATION.ovpn &

Access the cluster via API (oc / kubectl):

make aks.kubeconfig
export KUBECONFIG=aks.kubeconfig

$ oc get nodes
NAME                                 STATUS   ROLES   AGE   VERSION
aks-systempool-99744725-vmss000000   Ready    agent   9h    v1.23.5
aks-systempool-99744725-vmss000001   Ready    agent   9h    v1.23.5
aks-systempool-99744725-vmss000002   Ready    agent   9h    v1.23.5

"SSH" into a cluster node:

Run the ssh-aks.sh script, specifying the cluster name and the node number of the VM you are trying to ssh to.

hack/ssh-aks.sh aro-aks-cluster 0 # The first VM node in 'aro-aks-cluster'
hack/ssh-aks.sh aro-aks-cluster 1 # The second VM node in 'aro-aks-cluster'
hack/ssh-aks.sh aro-aks-cluster 2 # The third VM node in 'aro-aks-cluster'

Access via Azure Portal

Due to the fact that the AKS cluster is private, you need to be connected to the VPN in order to view certain AKS cluster properties, because the UI interrogates k8s via the VPN.

Metrics

To run fake metrics socket:

go run ./hack/monitor

Run the RP and create a Hive cluster

Steps to perform on Mac

Mount your local MacOS filesystem into the podman machine:

podman machine init --now --cpus=4 --memory=4096 -v $HOME:$HOME

Use the openvpn config file (which is now mounted inside the podman machine) to start the VPN connection:

podman machine ssh
sudo rpm-ostree install openvpn
sudo systemctl reboot
podman machine ssh
sudo openvpn --config /Users/<user_name>/go/src/github.com/Azure/ARO-RP/secrets/vpn-aks-westeurope.ovpn --daemon --writepid vpnpid
ps aux | grep openvpn

Instructions for Modifying Environment File

Update the env File

Open the env file.
Update env file instructions: set OPENSHIFT_VERSION, update INSTALLER_PULLSPEC and OCP_PULLSPEC, mention quay.io for SHA256 hash.
Update INSTALLER_PULLSPEC with the appropriate name and tag, typically matching the OpenShift version, e.g., release-4.13.(for more detail see the env.example)

Source the environment file before creating the cluster using the setup_resources.sh script(Added the updated env in the PR)

cd /hack
./setup_resources.sh

Once the cluster create verify connectivity with the ARO cluster:

Download the admin kubeconfig file

az aro get-admin-kubeconfig --name <cluster_name> --resource-group v4-westeurope --file ~/.kube/aro-admin-kubeconfig

Set the KUBECONFIG environment variable

export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/aro-admin-kubeconfig

Verify connectivity with the ARO cluster

kubectl get nodes

kubectl get nodes
NAME                                                  STATUS   ROLES                  AGE   VERSION
shpaitha-aro-cluster-4sp5c-master-0                   Ready    control-plane,master   39m   v1.25.11+1485cc9
shpaitha-aro-cluster-4sp5c-master-1                   Ready    control-plane,master   39m   v1.25.11+1485cc9
shpaitha-aro-cluster-4sp5c-master-2                   Ready    control-plane,master   39m   v1.25.11+1485cc9
shpaitha-aro-cluster-4sp5c-worker-westeurope1-j9c76   Ready    worker                 29m   v1.25.11+1485cc9
shpaitha-aro-cluster-4sp5c-worker-westeurope2-j9zrs   Ready    worker                 27m   v1.25.11+1485cc9
shpaitha-aro-cluster-4sp5c-worker-westeurope3-56tk7   Ready    worker                 28m   v1.25.11+1485cc9

Troubleshooting

Trying to use az aro CLI in Production, fails with:

(NoRegisteredProviderFound) No registered resource provider found for location '$LOCATION' and API version '2024-08-12-preview'

Check if~/.azure/config there is a block extensions.dev_sources. If yes, comment it.
Check if env var AZURE_EXTENSION_DEV_SOURCES is set. If yes, unset it.
Installation fails with authorization errors:

Message="authorization.RoleAssignmentsClient#Create: Failure responding to request: StatusCode=403 -- Original Error: autorest/azure: Service returned an error. Status=403 Code=\"AuthorizationFailed\" Message=\"The client '$SP_ID' with object id '$SP_ID' does not have authorization to perform action 'Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/write' over scope '/subscriptions/$SRE_SUBSCRIPTION/resourceGroups/$myresourcegroup/providers/Microsoft.Authorization/roleAssignments/b5a083aa-f555-466e-a268-4352b3b8394d' or the scope is invalid. If access was recently granted, please refresh your credentials.\"" Target="encountered error"
exit status 1

To resolve, check if it has the User Access Administrator role assigned.

az role assignment list --assignee $SP_ID --output json --query '[].{principalId:principalId, roleDefinitionName:roleDefinitionName, scope:scope}'

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deploy-development-rp.md

Deploy development RP

Why to use it?

Prerequisites

Installing the extension

Prepare your environment

Run the RP and create a cluster

Use a custom installer

Automatically run local RP

Connect ARO-RP with a Hive development cluster

Make Admin-Action API call(s) to a running local-rp

OpenShift Version

OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM) Configuration API Actions

Debugging OpenShift Cluster

Debugging AKS Cluster

Metrics

Run the RP and create a Hive cluster

Instructions for Modifying Environment File

Troubleshooting

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Deploy development RP

Why to use it?

Prerequisites

Installing the extension

Prepare your environment

Run the RP and create a cluster

Use a custom installer

Automatically run local RP

Connect ARO-RP with a Hive development cluster

Make Admin-Action API call(s) to a running local-rp

OpenShift Version

OpenShift Cluster Manager (OCM) Configuration API Actions

Debugging OpenShift Cluster

Debugging AKS Cluster

Metrics

Run the RP and create a Hive cluster

Instructions for Modifying Environment File

Troubleshooting