Manually assigning hosts to worker pools

From the Satellite console, click Locations.

Select the location where you attached the host machines that you want to assign to your Satellite resource.

In the Hosts tab, from the actions menu of each host machine that you want to add to your resource, click Assign host.

Select the cluster that you created, and choose one of the available zones. When you assign the hosts to a cluster, IBM bootstraps your machine. This process might take a few minutes to complete. During the bootstrapping process, the Health of your machine changes from Ready to Provisioning.

Verify that your hosts are successfully assigned to the cluster. The assignment is successful when an IP address is added to your host and the Health status changes to Normal.

Repeat these steps to ensure that hosts are assigned as worker nodes in each zone of the default worker pool in your cluster.

After your hosts are successfully assigned to the control plane, it takes another 20-30 minutes until IBM monitoring is properly set up for your location. In addition, a DNS record is created for your location and the IP addresses of your hosts are automatically registered and added to your DNS record to allow load balancing and health checking for your location. This process can take up to 30 minutes to complete. During this process, your location status continues to show an action required state, and you might see intermittent errors, such as Satellite is attempting to recover or Verify that the Satellite location has a DNS record for load balancing requests to the location control plane.

List the hosts in your location and find the ones that are in an unassigned status.

ibmcloud sat host ls --location <location_name_or_ID>

Assign at least 3 compute hosts from your location as worker nodes to your Satellite control plane or an existing Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud cluster. When you assign the host, IBM bootstraps your machine. This process might take a few minutes to complete. You can choose to assign a host by using the host ID, or you can also define the label that the host must have to be assigned to the location.

• The following example assigns a host by using the host ID.

  ibmcloud sat host assign --location <location_name_or_ID>  --cluster <cluster_name_or_ID> --host <host_ID> --worker-pool default --zone <zone>
  

• The following example assigns a host by using the use:satcluster label.

  ibmcloud sat host assign --location <location_name_or_ID> --cluster <location_ID> --host-label "use:satcluster" --worker-pool default --zone us-east-1
  

  Table 1. Understanding this command's components

  Component	Description
  --location <location_name_or_ID>	Enter the name or ID of the location where you created the cluster. To retrieve the location name or ID, run ibmcloud sat location ls.
  --cluster <cluster_name_or_ID>	Enter the name or ID of the Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud cluster that you created earlier. To retrieve the cluster name or ID, run ibmcloud ks cluster ls. If you want to assign hosts to the Satellite control plane, you must enter the location ID as your cluster ID. To retrieve the location ID, run ibmcloud sat location ls.
  --host <host_name_or_ID>	Enter the host ID to assign as worker nodes to the Satellite resource. To view the host ID, run ibmcloud sat host ls --location <location_name>. You can also use the --host-label option to identify the host that you want to assign to your cluster.
  --host-label <label>	Enter the label that you want to use to identify the host that you want to assign. The label must be a key-value pair, and must exist on the host machine. When you run this command with the label option, the first host that is in an unassigned state and matches the label is assigned to your Satellite resource.
  --worker-pool <worker-pool>	Enter the name of the worker pool where you want to attach your compute hosts. To find available worker pools in your cluster, run ibmcloud oc worker-pool ls --cluster <cluster_name_or_ID>. If you do not specify this option, your compute host is automatically added to the default worker pool.
  --zone <zone>	The name of the zone where you want to assign the compute host. To see the zone names for your location, run ibmcloud sat location get --location and look for the Host Zones field.

• The following example assigns a host by using the os=RHCOS host label.

  ibmcloud sat host assign --location <location_name_or_ID>  --cluster <cluster_name_or_ID> --host-label os=RHCOS --zone <zone>
  

Repeat the previous step for all compute hosts that you want to assign as worker nodes to your Satellite resource.

Wait a few minutes until the bootstrapping process for all computes hosts is complete and your hosts are successfully assigned to your Satellite resource. All hosts are assigned a cluster, a worker node ID, and an IP address.

You can monitor the bootstrapping process of your compute hosts by running ibmcloud ks worker get --cluster <cluster_name_or_ID> --worker <worker_ID>.

ibmcloud sat host ls --location <location_name_or_ID>

Example output

Retrieving hosts...
OK
Name              ID                     State      Status   Cluster             Worker ID                                                 Worker IP   
satcluster        brkijjq20r3nd89b1sog   assigned   Ready    satcluster          sat-satc-dd629ca11947c4aaec1a0208e0a37ca790475ee0   169.62.196.24   
satcluster2       brkiku2202thnmhb1sp0   assigned   Ready    satcluster          sat-satc-69f2410d3ecfea9127aeec07f01475f241728a16   169.62.196.22   
satcluster3       brkiltb20m0oqr29mo2g   assigned   Ready    satcluster          sat-satc-9985014f499827ddde3ce3e5bedad26af5a73263   169.62.196.29   
controlplane01    brjrgp920bg4u254brr0   assigned   Ready    infrastructure      sat-virtualser-4d7fa07cd3446b1f9d8131420f7011e60d372ca2   169.62.196.30   
controlplane02    brjrdmd20dfjgaai4vc0   assigned   Ready    infrastructure      sat-virtualser-9826f0927254b12b4018a95327bd0b45d0513f59   169.62.196.23   
controlplane03    brjs18u20ohqh54svnog   assigned   Ready    infrastructure      sat-virtualser-948b454ea091bd9aeb8f0542c2e8c19b82c5bf7a   169.62.196.20