openshift / openshift/installer
Bug: IBM Cloud Virtual Servers default to not use IMDS and there is no configuration variable in OCP Installer
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Description
Version
All
Platform:
ibmcloud
Install types impacted:
- ☑️ IPI (automated install with
openshift-install) - ☑️ UPI (semi-manual installation on customised infrastructure)
What happened?
Missing option to enable IMDS for IBM Cloud Virtual Servers. All control and worker nodes will have IMDS disabled.
What you expected to happen?
Configurable variable to enable IMDS for IBM Cloud Virtual Servers, in parallel to the IMDS config var for AWS EC2
References
https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-imd-get-metadata&interface=api
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by comparing the existing AWS EC2 IMDS configuration referenced in the issue with IBM Cloud Virtual Server provisioning. Trace how installer configuration reaches control and worker nodes for both IPI and UPI, and consider the work complete when IBM Cloud installations can configure IMDS to be enabled.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cloud, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100