Installing and configuring NCP involves the following steps. To perform the steps successfully, you must be familiar with NSX-T Data Center and OpenShift installation and administration.
- Install NSX-T Data Center.
- Create an overlay transport zone.
- Create an overlay logical switch and connect the nodes to the switch.
This is not mandatory for a bare metal container (BMC) setup.
- Create a top router.
- For a 2-tier topology, create a tier-0 logical router or a tier-0 gateway.
- For a 1-tier topology, create a tier-1 logical router or a tier-1 gateway.
- Create IP blocks for the pod's network.
- Create IP pools for SNAT (source network address translation).
- Prepare the Ansible inventory hosts file.
- Install OpenShift and NCP.