Customizing Red Hat's Assisted-Installer deployments

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:58 Assisted-Installer: Overview 5:10 Demonstration: Overview 7:05 alcli: Demonstration Variables 8:42 aicli: Creating Assisted-Installer Clusters 10:17 aicli: Custom Networking 11:38 aicli: Update Cluster Parameters 13:32 aicli: Download Installation Media 13:53 govc: vCenter Virtual Machine Management 18:39 Assisted-Installer: Booting Virtual Media 20:05 Assisted-Installer: WebUI Verification 21:23 aicli: Upload Custom CNI Manifests (Calico) 23:18 aicli: Update Machine Network Parameter 24:00 aicli: Changing Node Hostnames 25:47 aicli: Begin OCP Installation 27:18 Post-Install: Verify OCP Installation 30:58 pfSense: BGP Setup for Calico Networking 33:19 aicli: Download OCP Credentials 34:12 Calico: Deploy calicoctl Utility 34:57 Calico: Setting Up calicoctl Alias 35:34 Calico: Setting Up BGP Configuration and BGP Peers 38:39 pfSense: Validate Calico BGP Configuration 40:08 Calico: Test BGP Connectivity This video will show users how to leverage Assisted-Installer deployments with custom networking such as static, bonded interfaces, along with 3rd party CNI integration (Calico). We'll demonstrate how you can configure a pfSense gateway for BGP peering so that pods can be reached without the need for an ingress. This deployment will showcase a Single Node OpenShift (SNO) deployment via a vCenter virtual machine which will be managed using govc commands. All links (including lab instructions) are provided in the following GitHub Gist link: My Blog (Cloud Cult DevOps): https://cloudcult.dev/ Demonstration Notes: https://gist.github.com/v1k0d3n/a1890eabbca8a4f0773ee088444fbabd OpenShift Assisted-Installer: https://console.redhat.com/openshift/assisted-installer/clusters aicli Utility (Karim Boumedhel): https://github.com/karmab/assisted-installer-cli Calico Documentation: https://docs.projectcalico.org/getting-started/openshift/installation pfSense: https://www.pfsense.org/download/ So what do you think of this demonstration? Have any comments or questions? Leave them in the comments below!