Physical Cluster Deployment

Controller commands

Ensure that helm, cilium-cli, avahi and, yq is installed:

sudo pacman -Sy helm cilium-cli avahi yq

Ensure that your computer can configure IPV4LL routes or install avahi-autoipd and then configure it to the target interface connected to the switch.

Ensure that jmespath is installed:

pip install jmespath

TARGET_DEV="end0"
rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts # to avoid failed host verification issues, if multiple tries are made
sudo ip a add 10.10.0.199/24 dev $TARGET_DEV || sudo ip r add 10.10.0.0/24 dev $TARGET_DEV src 10.10.0.199

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Kubernetes access

You can run this command (inside the cluster network):

export NODE_IP="10.10.0.4"; mkdir -p "$HOME/.kube" && ssh "ni@$NODE_IP" -i .ssh/new_key "sudo cat /etc/rancher/rke2/rke2.yaml" | yq ".clusters[0].cluster.server=\"https://$NODE_IP:6443/\"" > ~/.kube/config; unset NODE_IP