Run CRC with openshift on remote server

Download form https://crc.dev/crc/

wget https://developers.redhat.com/content-gateway/rest/mirror/pub/openshift-v4/clients/crc/latest/crc-linux-amd64.tar.xz

Start CRC

crc setup
crs start -m 32768 -c 8 # for example a 32GiB with 8 cpus

Install haproxy sudo dnf -y install haproxy policycoreutils-python-utils jq
Stop firewalld (or add rules to allow 80, 443, 6443)

sudo systemctl stop firewalld
sudo systemctl disable firewalld

Set selinux for permissive sudo setenforce 0
Set haproxy config where 10.9.113.12 is your external server IP and 192.168.130.11 is IP of CRC virtual machine. To discover CRC IP: crc ip To discover IP of your host: hostname --ip-address

cat <EOF>> /tmp/haproxy.cfg
global
        debug

defaults
        log global
        mode    http
        timeout connect 5000
        timeout client 5000
        timeout server 5000

frontend apps
    bind 10.9.113.12:80
    option tcplog
    mode tcp
    default_backend apps

backend apps
    mode tcp
    balance roundrobin
    option ssl-hello-chk
    server webserver1 192.168.130.11:80 check

frontend apps-https
    bind 10.9.113.12:443
    option tcplog
    mode tcp
    default_backend apps-https

backend apps-https
    mode tcp
    balance roundrobin
    option ssl-hello-chk
    server webserver1 192.168.130.11:443 check

frontend api
    bind 10.9.113.12:6443
    option tcplog
    mode tcp
    default_backend api

backend api
    mode tcp
    balance roundrobin
    option ssl-hello-chk
    server webserver1 192.168.130.11:6443 check
EOF
sudo cp /tmp/haproxy.cfg /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
sudo systemctl start haproxy

Add to your /etc/hosts:

# CRC openshift
10.9.113.12 api.crc.testing api-int.crc.testing apps-crc.testing canary-openshift-ingress-canary.apps-crc.testing console-openshift-console.apps-crc.testing default-route-openshift-image-registry.apps-crc.testing downloads-openshift-console.apps-crc.testing oauth-openshift.apps-crc.testing

Where 10.9.113.12 is your external host IP.

Download oc client from https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/latest/ and authenticate: Discover your credentials by crc console --credentials

oc login -u kubeadmin -p <kubeadmin password>  https://api.crc.testing:6443

or as a regular user:

oc login -u developer -p developer https://api.crc.testing:6443

Open page in your browser: https://console-openshift-console.apps-crc.testing

sshnaidm/start_openshift.md