--- title: "Create Kubernetes provider configuration" url: "https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/yugabyte-platform/configure-yugabyte-platform/openshift/" --- # Create Kubernetes provider configuration Configure the OpenShift provider configuration For deploying universes on Kubernetes - [Kubernetes](/stable/yugabyte-platform/configure-yugabyte-platform/kubernetes/) - [VMware Tanzu](/stable/yugabyte-platform/configure-yugabyte-platform/vmware-tanzu/) - [OpenShift](/stable/yugabyte-platform/configure-yugabyte-platform/openshift/) Before you can deploy universes to OpenShift using YugabyteDB Anywhere, you must create a provider configuration. ## Prerequisites Before creating an OpenShift provider, create a service account with the required roles, and a kubeconfig file. ### Create RBAC Set the `YBA_NAMESPACE` environment variable to the project where YugabyteDB Anywhere is installed, as follows: ```sh export YBA_NAMESPACE="yb-platform" ``` Note that the `YBA_NAMESPACE` variable is used in the commands throughout this document. To create a service account in the yb-platform project, execute the following command: ```shell export YBA_NAMESPACE="yb-platform" oc apply \ -n ${YBA_NAMESPACE} \ -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yugabyte/charts/master/rbac/yugabyte-platform-universe-management-sa.yaml ``` Expect the following output: ```output serviceaccount/yugabyte-platform-universe-management created ``` Next, grant access to this service account using Roles and RoleBindings, so that it can manage universe resources for you. If you are creating clusters across multiple namespaces, you need to create Roles and RoleBindings in each namespace where you intend to create and deploy the universe. Alternatively, you can create ClusterRoles and ClusterRoleBindings, which will allow you to create universes in all the namespaces. For more information, see [Platform Global](https://github.com/yugabyte/charts/tree/master/rbac#a-platform-globalyaml "Platform Global") and [Platform Namespaced](https://github.com/yugabyte/charts/tree/master/rbac#c-platform-namespacedyaml "Platform Namespaced") sections from the RBAC resources documentation. To create the required RBAC objects, execute the following command: ```shell export YBA_NAMESPACE="yb-platform" curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yugabyte/charts/master/rbac/platform-namespaced.yaml \ | sed "s/namespace: /namespace: ${YBA_NAMESPACE}/g" \ | oc apply -n ${YBA_NAMESPACE} -f - ``` Expect the following output: ```output role.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/yugabyte-helm-operations created role.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/yugabyte-management created rolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/yugabyte-helm-operations created rolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/yugabyte-management created ``` ### Create kubeconfig file Create a kubeconfig file for this service account. The kubeconfig file is used by YugabyteDB Anywhere to create universes in the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) cluster. The kubeconfig file needs to be generated for each OpenShift cluster if you are doing a multi-cluster setup. 1. Download a helper script for generating a kubeconfig file by executing the following command: ```shell wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/YugaByte/charts/master/stable/yugabyte/generate_kubeconfig.py ``` 2. Generate the `kubeconfig` file by executing the following command: ```shell export YBA_NAMESPACE="yb-platform" python generate_kubeconfig.py \ --service_account yugabyte-platform-universe-management \ --namespace ${YBA_NAMESPACE} ``` Expect the following output: ```output Generated the kubeconfig file: /tmp/yugabyte-platform-universe-management.conf ``` ## Create OpenShift provider Navigate to **Integrations > Infrastructure > Red Hat OpenShift** to see a list of all currently configured OpenShift providers. To create an OpenShift provider, click **Create Red Hat OpenShift Config**. The steps are the same as those for a regular Kubernetes provider. For more information, refer to [Create a provider](/stable/yugabyte-platform/configure-yugabyte-platform/kubernetes/#create-a-provider "Create a provider"). When creating the provider, set the **Kubernetes Provider Type** to Red Hat OpenShift. For information on the Kubernetes provider settings, refer to [Provider settings](/stable/yugabyte-platform/configure-yugabyte-platform/kubernetes/#provider-settings "Provider settings"). ## Troubleshoot OpenShift universes After creating the provider, you can deploy universes. Refer to [Create universes](/stable/yugabyte-platform/create-deployments/create-universes-wizard/ "Create universes"). If the universe creation remains in Pending state for more than 2-3 minutes, open the OCP web console, navigate to **Workloads > Pods** and check if any of the pods are in pending state, as shown in the following illustration: ![Pods](/images/ee/openshift-pods.png "Pods") Alternatively, you can execute the following command to check status of the pods: ```shell export YBA_NAMESPACE="yb-platform" oc get pods -n ${YBA_NAMESPACE} -l chart=yugabyte ``` Expect an output similar to the following: ```output # output NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE yb-master-0 2/2 Running 0 5m58s yb-master-1 2/2 Running 0 5m58s yb-master-2 0/2 Pending 0 5m58s yb-tserver-0 2/2 Running 0 5m58s yb-tserver-1 2/2 Running 0 5m58s yb-tserver-2 2/2 Running 0 5m58s ``` If any of the pods are in pending state, do the following: 1. Log in with an admin account and navigate to **Compute > Machine Sets**. 2. Open the Machine Set corresponding to your zone label (us-east4-a). 3. Click **Desired Count** and increase the count by 1 or 2, as shown in the following illustration. ![Edit Machine Count](/images/ee/openshift-open-macine.png "Edit Machine Count") 4. Click **Save**. Alternatively, you can scale the Machine Sets by executing the following command as admin user: ```shell oc scale machineset ocp-dev4-l5ffp-worker-a --replicas=2 -n openshift-machine-api ``` Expect the following output: ```output # output machineset.machine.openshift.io/ocp-dev4-l5ffp-worker-a scaled ``` As soon as the new machine is added, the pending pods become ready.