Creating a Windows machine set on Google Cloud

You can use a MachineSet custom resource (CR) to add a Windows compute node to your Google Cloud cluster, where you can run Windows container workloads.

For example, you might create infrastructure Windows machine sets and related machines so that you can move supporting Windows workloads to the new Windows machines. For more information about machine sets, see "Overview of machine management".

Prerequisites

You installed the Windows Machine Config Operator (WMCO) using Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM).
You are using a supported Windows Server as the operating system image.

Sample YAML for a Windows MachineSet object on Google Cloud

You can add Windows nodes to a Google Cloud cluster by defining a Windows MachineSet object that the Windows Machine Config Operator (WMCO) can react upon.

The following example is a YAML file for creating a MachineSet object for Google Cloud.

apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1
kind: MachineSet
metadata:
  labels:
    machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id>
  name: <infrastructure_id>-windows-worker-<zone_suffix>
  namespace: openshift-machine-api
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id>
      machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-windows-worker-<zone_suffix>
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id>
        machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: worker
        machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: worker
        machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-windows-worker-<zone_suffix>
        machine.openshift.io/os-id: Windows
    spec:
      metadata:
        labels:
          node-role.kubernetes.io/worker: ""
      providerSpec:
        value:
          apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1
          canIPForward: false
          credentialsSecret:
            name: gcp-cloud-credentials
          deletionProtection: false
          disks:
          - autoDelete: true
            boot: true
            image: <windows_server_image>
            sizeGb: 128
            type: pd-ssd
          kind: GCPMachineProviderSpec
          machineType: n1-standard-4
          networkInterfaces:
          - network: <infrastructure_id>-network
            subnetwork: <infrastructure_id>-worker-subnet
          projectID: <project_id>
          region: <region>
          serviceAccounts:
          - email: <infrastructure_id>-w@<project_id>.iam.gserviceaccount.com
            scopes:
            - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
          tags:
          - <infrastructure_id>-worker
          userDataSecret:
            name: windows-user-data
          zone: <zone>

where:

metadata.labels

For the machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster label, replace <infrastructure_id> with the infrastructure ID that is based on the cluster ID that you set when you provisioned the cluster. You can obtain the infrastructure ID by running the following command:

$ oc get -o jsonpath='{.status.infrastructureName}{"\n"}' infrastructure cluster

metadata.name

Replace the infrastructure ID, worker label, and zone suffix, such as a.

spec.selector.matchLabels

Replace the parameters for the following labels:

machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster. Replace the infrastructure ID.
machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset. Replace the infrastructure ID, worker label, and zone suffix.

spec.template.metadata.labels

Replace the parameters for the following labels:

machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster. Replace the infrastructure ID.
machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset. Replace the infrastructure ID, worker label, and zone suffix.
machine.openshift.io/os-id: Windows. When set to Windows, configures the compute machine set as a Windows machine.

spec.template.spec.metadata.labels

When set to node-role.kubernetes.io/worker, configures the node as a compute machine.

spec.template.spec.providerSpec

Specify the following parameters:

value.disks.image. Specifies the full path to an image of a supported version of Windows Server.
value.networkInterfaces.network. Replace the infrastructure ID.
value.networkInterfaces.subnetwork. Replace the infrastructure ID.
value.projectID. Specifies the Google Cloud project that this cluster was created in.
value.region. Specifies the Google Cloud region, such as us-central1.
value.userDataSecret.name. Specifies the name of the secret in the user data YAML file that is in the openshift-machine-api namespace. Use the value that installation program populates in the default compute machine set.
value.zone. Specifies the zone within the chosen region, such as us-central1-a.

Create a compute machine set

To dynamically manage machine compute resources, you can create your own compute machine sets in addition to the compute machine sets created by the installation program. Use the OpenShift Container Platform CLI to automate node provisioning.

Prerequisites

Deploy an OpenShift Container Platform cluster.
Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).
Log in to oc as a user with cluster-admin permission.

Procedure

Create a new YAML file that contains the compute machine set custom resource (CR) sample and is named <file_name>.yaml. Ensure that you set the <clusterID> and <role> parameter values.

Optional: If you are not sure which value to set for a specific field, you can check an existing compute machine set from your cluster.

To list the compute machine sets in your cluster, run the following command:

$ oc get machinesets -n openshift-machine-api

The following is example output:

NAME                                DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AVAILABLE   AGE
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1a   1         1         1       1           55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1b   1         1         1       1           55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1c   1         1         1       1           55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1d   0         0                             55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1e   0         0                             55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1f   0         0                             55m

To view values of a specific compute machine set custom resource (CR), run the following command:

$ oc get machineset <machineset_name> \
  -n openshift-machine-api -o yaml

The following is example output:

apiVersion: machine.openshift.io/v1beta1
kind: MachineSet
metadata:
  labels:
    machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id>
  name: <infrastructure_id>-<role>
  namespace: openshift-machine-api
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id>
      machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-<role>
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: <infrastructure_id>
        machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-role: <role>
        machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machine-type: <role>
        machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-machineset: <infrastructure_id>-<role>
    spec:
      providerSpec:
        ...

where:

metadata.labels.machine.openshift.io/cluster-api-cluster: Specifies the cluster infrastructure ID.
metadata.labels.name: Specifies a default node label.

note

For clusters that have user-provisioned infrastructure, a compute machine set can only create worker and infra type machines.

spec.template.metadata.spec.providerSpec: Specifies the values of the compute machine set CR. The values are platform-specific. For more information about <providerSpec> parameters in the CR, see the sample compute machine set CR configuration for your provider.

Create a MachineSet CR by running the following command:
```
$ oc create -f <file_name>.yaml
```

Verification

View the list of compute machine sets by running the following command:

$ oc get machineset -n openshift-machine-api

The following is example output:

NAME                                DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AVAILABLE   AGE
agl030519-vplxk-infra-us-east-1a    1         1         1       1           11m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1a   1         1         1       1           55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1b   1         1         1       1           55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1c   1         1         1       1           55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1d   0         0                             55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1e   0         0                             55m
agl030519-vplxk-worker-us-east-1f   0         0                             55m

When the new compute machine set is available, the DESIRED and CURRENT values match. If the compute machine set is not available, wait a few minutes and run the command again.

Additional resources

Overview of machine management

Prerequisites​

Sample YAML for a Windows MachineSet object on Google Cloud​

Create a compute machine set​

Prerequisites

Sample YAML for a Windows MachineSet object on Google Cloud

Create a compute machine set