Metal as a Service

Installing Tinkerbell using docker-compose. (VIDEO COMING SOON!!!)

Lets get Tinkerbell installed... we will want to start with a 22.04 Ubuntu server... and lets install the pre-reqs. This will pull down the sandbox repository on GitHub to your local machine and I will show you how to deploy Tinkerbell on Docker. I have also installed on Vagrant and can show that process if anyone would like.

Prerequisites

• Docker.io

• Docker-Compose

• Git

sudo apt install docker.io

sudo apt install docker-compose

sudo apt install git

Installation

Lets just work out of our home directory for our user. When we clone the repo we will get a 'sandbox' folder created from where we run it.

git clone https://github.com/tinkerbell/sandbox.git

cd sandbox/deploy/stack/compose/

The most important values you provide at first installation is your HOST_IP, the CLIENT_IP and CLIENT_MAC address for targeting. You can use export commands (and don't forget to source) or you can edit the .env file within the compose directory.

vi .env

and add these values below. You will want to target your environment's IP's and MAC address.

TINKERBELL_CLIENT_IP=192.168.86.26

TINKERBELL_CLIENT_MAC=b8:ca:3a:bb:ea:04

TINKERBELL_HOST_IP=192.168.86.33

Now we are ready to run docker-compose to bring up the sandbox environment.

sudo docker-compose up -d

After pulling images and bringing up the environment (pulling images will take a few moments, and fetching and converting Ubuntu will take a while), you can check the containers with docker ps.

sudo docker ps

Hard to get a shot of the docker output, here is a screenshot