Creating a Kubernetes cluster on Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager using the olvm provider requires that you first set up the localhost to create an ephemeral cluster using the libvirt provider, or have a cluster available to use as the management cluster. For information on the management cluster, see Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Provider.

Create the cluster. Use the ocne cluster start command to create a cluster. The syntax is:

ocne cluster start 
[{-u|--auto-start-ui} {true|false}]
[{-o|--boot-volume-container-image} URI]
[{-C|--cluster-name} name]
[{-c|--config} path] 
[{-n|--control-plane-nodes} integer] 
[{-i|--key} path]
[--load-balancer address]
[{-P|--provider} provider]
[{-s|--session} URI]
[{-v|--version} version]
[--virtual-ip IP]
[{-w|--worker-nodes} integer]

For more information on the syntax options, see Oracle Cloud Native Environment: CLI.

For example:

To use a cluster configuration file:

ocne cluster start --config myconfig.yaml

To use the settings in the default configuration file:

ocne cluster start --provider olvm