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Install Apstra on Red Hat Openshift

These instructions are for installing Apstra software on Red Hat Openshift virtual machine. For information about using Red Hat Openshift in general, refer to Juniper RedHat OpenShift Integration Guide.

  1. Confirm that you're running one of the Supported Hypervisors and Versions.
  2. Make sure that you allocate enough resources for your network. For example, if you're using more than 25 offbox agents, you'll need to add another VM. See Required Server Resources for more details.
    CAUTION:

    If you allocate insufficient CPU and RAM allocations for your network you'll probably experience issues such as slow response times, system errors and a critical "segmentation fault" (core dump). If this happens, you'll need to delete the VM and redeploy it with additional resources.
  3. Apstra software is delivered pre-installed on a single VM. The same Apstra VM image is used for installing both the Apstra controller and Apstra workers. As a registered support user, download the Apstra VM Image for Linux KVM (QCOW2) from Juniper Support Downloads.
  4. Start Red Hat OpenShift and select Administrator from the top-left drop-down menu.
  5. Navigate to Virtualization>Bootable volumes, click Add volume, and select With form.
  6. For the Source type field, select Upload new Volume and specify your previously downloaded image.
  7. In the Destination details>Storage Class field, select from the drop-down menu and confirm that the Apply optimized StorageProfile settings box is checked.
  8. Increase the Disk size to 200 GiB and enter a Volume name.
  9. Under the Volume metadata section, select VMCP ubuntu in the Preference field.
  10. In the Default Instance Type field, select Red Hat provided>U series>medium: 1 CPUs, 4 GiB Memory and click Save.
    Note: After clicking Save, it can take a few moments for the information to upload. Refresh the Red Hat OpenShift screen to view the newly added bootable volume.
  11. Navigate to the VirutalMachines tab, click on Create VirtualMachine, and select From Instance Type.
  12. Click on the volume you just created. You can adjust the instance type, name, disk size, and other parameters. Once, ready, select the Start this Virtual Machine after creation check box and click Create VirtualMachine.
    Click on the Status link to view the progress Provisiong bar.

You're ready to configure the Apstra server.