IBM Power VS External Cloud Provider

⚠️ WARNING: This feature is currently in experimental stage

Steps

To deploy a Power VS workload cluster with IBM Power VS external cloud provider, create a cluster configuration with the external cloud provider template
The external cloud provider template will use clusterresourceset and will create the necessary config map, secret and roles to run the cloud controller manager
As a prerequisite set the powervs-provider-id-fmt flag with value v2

Deploy Power VS cluster with IBM Power VS cloud provider

IBMPOWERVS_SSHKEY_NAME="my-pub-key" \
IBMPOWERVS_VIP="192.168.151.22" \
IBMPOWERVS_VIP_EXTERNAL="158.175.162.22" \
IBMPOWERVS_VIP_CIDR="29" \
IBMPOWERVS_IMAGE_NAME="capibm-powervs-centos-8-1-22-4" \
IBMPOWERVS_SERVICE_INSTANCE_ID="7845d372-d4e1-46b8-91fc-41051c984601" \
IBMPOWERVS_NETWORK_NAME="capi-test-3" \
IBMACCOUNT_ID="ibm-accountid" \
IBMPOWERVS_REGION="powervs-region" \
IBMPOWERVS_ZONE="powervs-zone" \
BASE64_API_KEY=$(echo -n $IBMCLOUD_API_KEY | base64) \
clusterctl generate cluster ibm-powervs-1 --kubernetes-version v1.22.4 \
--target-namespace default \
--control-plane-machine-count=3 \
--worker-machine-count=1 \
--flavor=powervs-cloud-provider | kubectl apply -f -

When the cluster is created with above parameters, The IBM Power VS cloud provider will

Initialize the node by fetching appropriate VM information such as IP, zone, region from Power Cloud.