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.

  1. Install NSX-T Data Center.
  2. Create an overlay transport zone.
  3. Create an overlay logical switch and connect the nodes to the switch.

    This is not mandatory for a bare metal container (BMC) setup.

  4. 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.
  5. Create IP blocks for the pod's network.
  6. Create IP pools for SNAT (source network address translation).
  7. Prepare the Ansible inventory hosts file.
  8. Install OpenShift and NCP.