Managing Cisco Container Platform Infrastructure Configuration

This chapter contains the following topics:

Managing Provider Profile

Cisco Container Platform enables you to define the provider profile on which clusters can be created.

You can configure multiple provider profiles in an instance of Cisco Container Platform and use the same provider profile for multiple clusters.

Adding Provider Profile

Before you begin

Cisco Container Platform interacts with vSphere through the user that you configure when you add a provider profile. Hence, you need to ensure that this user has the necessary privileges.

For more information on the vSphere user privileges, see User Privileges on vSphere.

Procedure

Step 1

From the left pane, click Infrastructure Providers.

Step 2

Click NEW PROVIDER and specify information such as name and description of provider, IP address, port, username and password of the provider profile.

Step 3

Click SUBMIT.

Modifying Provider Profile

Procedure

Step 1

From the left pane, click Infrastructure Providers.

Step 2

From the drop-down list displayed under the ACTIONS column, choose Edit corresponding to the provider profile that you want to modify.

Step 3

Change the provider details as necessary and click SUBMIT.

Deleting Provider Profile

Procedure

Step 1

From the left pane, click Infrastructure Providers.

Step 2

From the drop-down list displayed under the ACTIONS column, choose Delete corresponding to the provider profile that you want to delete.

Step 3

Click DELETE in the confirmation dialog box.

Managing ACI-CNI Profile

Cisco Container Platform enables you to define ACI-CNI profiles using which tenant clusters can be created.

You can define multiple ACI-CNI profiles and use the same profile for multiple clusters.

Adding ACI-CNI Profile

Procedure

Step 1

From the left pane, click ACI-CNI Profiles.

Step 2

Click NEW ACI-CNI PROFILE and perform these steps:

  1. Specify information such as name, ACI host, username and password of the ACI instance.

    Note 
    If there is more than one host, use a comma-separated host list.

  2. In the ACI VMM DOMAINNAME field, enter the Virtual Machine Manager Domain (VMMD) that you want to use.

  3. In the ACI INFRA VLAN ID field, enter the VLAN number for layer 2 networking.

  4. In the VRF NAME field, enter the Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) IP address.

  5. In the L3 OUTSIDE POLICY NAME field, enter the ACI object for allowing external internet connectivity.

  6. In the AAEP NAME field, enter an Attachable Access Entity Profile (AAEP) name to associate the VMM domain to an AAEP.

  7. In the NAMESERVERS field, enter the IP address of all the DNS servers that the ACI fabric can access.

  8. In the NODE VLAN START ID field, enter the starting IP address for the IP pool that is used to allocate IP addresses to the node VLAN.

  9. In the NODE VLAN END ID field, enter the ending IP address for the IP pool that is used to allocate IP addresses to the node VLAN.

  10. In the STARTING SUBNET FOR PODS field, enter the starting IP address for the IP pool that is used to allocate IP addresses to the pods.

  11. In the STARTING SUBNET FOR SERVICE field, enter the starting IP address for the IP pool that is used to allocate IP addresses to the service VLAN.

  12. In the OPFLEX MULTICAST RANGE field, enter a range for the Opflex multicast.

  13. In the CONTROL PLANE CONTRACT NAME field, enter the name of the contract that allows traffic from the Control Plane cluster to the tenant cluster.

Step 3

Click SUBMIT.

Modifying ACI-CNI Profile

Procedure

Step 1

From the left pane, click ACI-CNI Configuration.

Step 2

From the drop-down list displayed under the ACTIONS column, choose Edit for the ACI-CNI profile that you want to modify.

Step 3

Change the ACI-CNI profile details as necessary and click SUBMIT.

Deleting ACI-CNI Profile

Procedure

Step 1

From the left pane, click ACI-CNI Configuration.

Step 2

From the drop-down list displayed under the ACTIONS column, choose Delete for the ACI-CNI profile that you want to delete.

Step 3

Click DELETE in the confirmation dialog box.

Managing VIP Pool

Cisco Container Platform Virtual IP Address (VIP) pools are reserved ranges of IP addresses that are assigned as virtual IP addresses within the Cisco Container Platform clusters. For example, the master VIPs of tenant clusters or the external IP addresses of Ingress controllers are assigned from the VIP pool. The range of IP addresses in the VIP pools must be outside of the IP addresses that are assigned by DHCP.

Adding VIP Pool

Procedure

Step 1

From the left pane, click VIP Pools.

Step 2

Click NEW VIP POOL and perform these steps:

  1. In the POOL NAME field, enter a name for the VIP pool.

  2. In the SUBNET VRID RANGES field, enter a range of virtual router IDs, a list of comma-separated ranges, or a number. Virtual router IDs can be a value in the range 1 to 254.

    For example: 1-10, 16-100, 15

  3. In the SUBNET CIDR field, specify a subnet from which virtual IP addresses can be allocated.

    For example: 10.0.0.0/24

  4. In the IP ADDRESS RANGE field, enter the start and end IP address for the range of addresses from which virtual IP addresses can be allocated. The IP address range must be within the subnet CIDR specified in Step (c).

    For example: Start: 10.0.0.50, End: 10.0.0.100
Step 3

Click SUBMIT.

Modifying VIP Pool

Procedure

Step 1

From the left pane, click VIP Pools.

Step 2

From the drop-down list displayed under the ACTIONS column, choose Edit for the VIP pool that you want to modify.

Step 3

Change the subnet CIDR and the IP address as necessary and click SUBMIT.

Deleting VIP Pool

Procedure

Step 1

From the left pane, click VIP Pools.

Step 2

From the drop-down list displayed under the ACTIONS column, choose Delete for the VIP pool that you want to delete.

Step 3

Click DELETE in the confirmation dialog box.