Important: Prior to selecting the Add a New Node menu option, you must install both the engineering SSH key and passphrase. Contact your Hitachi Vantara representative in order to obtain these credentials.
The following is a detailed description of the menu options available to you when selecting Add a New Node.
New Node type options
- Add New Control Plane Node: Adds a new control plane node to your system.
- Add New Worker Node: Adds a new worker node to your system.
Add New Control Plane Node Options
- Connect to cluster and copy: Connects to the the previously provided control plane node and copies all dependencies. This step only functions if you've provided a control plane node IP address when prompted after selecting the Add A New Node menu option.
- Install Private registries: Installs your private registries on all nodes.
- Install 3rd Party (RKE2) and Security Hardening on new node: Securely installs Kubernetes on your new node and finalizes the node setup, preparing it for use.
Add New Worker Node
- Connect to cluster and copy: Connects to the the previously provided worker node and copies all dependencies. This step only functions if you've provided a control plane node IP address when prompted after selecting the Add A New Node menu option.
- Install 3rd Party (RKE2) and Security Hardening on new node: Securely installs RKE2 on your new node and finalizes the node setup, preparing it for use.
Important: After adding a new node to your system, in order for the private registry to function correctly, the RKE2 Kubernetes services must be restarted on the control plane and worker nodes for the changes to take affect. To do this:
- SSH into each node sequentially.
- Run the following command: systemctl restart rke2-server rke2-agent
- Wait for the RKE2 services to fully restart before proceeding to the next node and repeating the command.