Quick Start

Use any of the following methods to bootstrap your Open Cluster Management environment.

Before installation, prepare a multicluster environment with at least two clusters. One used as hub cluster and another as managed cluster.

Set the following environment variables that will be used throughout to simplify the instructions:

export HUB_CLUSTER_NAME=<your hub cluster name>             # export HUB_CLUSTER_NAME=hub
export MANAGED_CLUSTER_NAME=<your managed cluster name>     # export MANAGED_CLUSTER_NAME=cluster1
export CTX_HUB_CLUSTER=<your hub cluster context>           # export CTX_HUB_CLUSTER=kind-hub
export CTX_MANAGED_CLUSTER=<your managed cluster context>   # export CTX_MANAGED_CLUSTER=kind-cluster1

Then create these two clusters using kind. Run the following commands:

kind create cluster --name ${HUB_CLUSTER_NAME}
kind create cluster --name ${MANAGED_CLUSTER_NAME}

Bootstrap via Clusteradm CLI tool

Install Clusteradm CLI tool

Download and extract the clusteradm binary. For more details see the clusteradm GitHub page.

Deploy a cluster manager on your hub cluster

Bootstrap the Open Cluster Management control plane:
```
clusteradm init --context ${CTX_HUB_CLUSTER}
```
Then you will get a result with a generated join command:
```
...
clusteradm join --hub-token <token_data> --hub-apiserver https://126.0.0.1:39242 --cluster-name <managed_cluster_name>
```
Copy the generated command and replace the <managed_cluster_name> to your managed cluster name. E.g. cluster1.

Deploy a klusterlet agent on your managed cluster

Run the previously copied join command by appending the context of your managed cluster to join the hub cluster:

clusteradm join --context ${CTX_MANAGED_CLUSTER} --hub-token <token_data> --hub-apiserver https://126.0.0.1:39242 --cluster-name ${MANAGED_CLUSTER_NAME}

Accept join request and verify

Wait for the CSR is created on your hub cluster:

kubectl get csr -w --context ${CTX_HUB_CLUSTER} | grep ${MANAGED_CLUSTER_NAME}

Then you will get a result resembling the following after the CSR is created:

cluster1-tqcjj   33s   kubernetes.io/kube-apiserver-client   system:serviceaccount:open-cluster-management:cluster-bootstrap   Pending

Accept request:

clusteradm accept --clusters ${MANAGED_CLUSTER_NAME} --context ${CTX_HUB_CLUSTER}

Verify managedcluster has been created successfully:

kubectl get managedcluster --context ${CTX_HUB_CLUSTER}

Then you will get a result resembling the following:

NAME       HUB ACCEPTED   MANAGED CLUSTER URLS      JOINED   AVAILABLE   AGE
cluster1   true           https://127.0.0.1:41478   True     True        5m23s

Bootstrap via Operatorhub.io

Install and create a Cluster manager on your hub cluster.

Install and create a Klusterlet agent on your managed cluster.

More details

For more details, see Core components.