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Run Preflight and Postflight Checks

SUMMARY Learn about Contrail preflight and postflight checks.

Preflight checks allow you to verify that your cluster nodes can support Contrail. The checks test for resource capacity, kernel compability, network reachability, and other infrastructure requirements. You run preflight checks prior to installing Contrail.

Postflight checks allow you to verify that your Contrail installation is working properly. The checks test for status, pod-to-pod communication, API server reachability, and other basic functions. You run postflight checks after installing Contrail. Contrail supports postflight checks starting in release 22.2.

Run Preflight and Postflight Checks in Release 22.2

In release 22.2, we provide a custom controller that performs preflight and postflight checks on all cluster nodes. The controller runs the checks defined in custom resources that we provide. You create and run the controller in the same way you run other Kubernetes applications. You no longer need to log in to each cluster node to run the checks.

  1. Locate the contrail-tools/contrail-readiness directory from the downloaded Contrail Manifests and Tools package.
  2. If you haven't already done so, ensure you've populated the manifests with your repository login credentials. See Configure Repository Credentials for one way to do this.
  3. Apply the ContrailReadiness custom resource definitions.
  4. Create the ConfigMap from the deployer manifest that you want to apply to this cluster. Name the ConfigMap deployer-yaml.
    where <path_to_deployer_manifest> is the full path to the deployer manifest that you want to apply.
  5. Create the ContrailReadiness controller.

    Wait for the controller to come up.

  6. Run the checks.
    • To run the preflight checks:You run preflight checks after you create the cluster but before you install Contrail.
    • To run the postflight checks:You run postflight checks after you install Contrail.
      Note:

      In a multi-cluster deployment, run postflight checks from the central cluster only.

  7. Read the preflight and postflight check results as applicable.

    Address any errors before proceeding.

    Note:

    The preflight and postflight checks do not automatically rerun after you've fixed any errors. The output will continue to show errors even after you've fixed them.