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Expose Sidero Services

A guide for bootstrapping Sidero management plane

If you built your cluster as specified in the [Prerequisite: Kubernetes] section in this tutorial, your services are already exposed and you can skip this section.

There are two external Services which Sidero serves and which must be made reachable by the servers which it will be driving.

For most servers, TFTP (port 69/udp) will be needed. This is used for PXE booting, both BIOS and UEFI. Being a primitive UDP protocol, many load balancers do not support TFTP. Instead, solutions such as MetalLB may be used to expose TFTP over a known IP address. For servers which support UEFI HTTP Network Boot, TFTP need not be used.

The kernel, initrd, and all configuration assets are served from the HTTP service (port 8081/tcp). It is needed for all servers, but since it is HTTP-based, it can be easily proxied, load balanced, or run through an ingress controller.

The main thing to keep in mind is that the services MUST match the IP or hostname specified by the SIDERO_CONTROLLER_MANAGER_API_ENDPOINT environment variable (or configuration parameter) when you installed Sidero.

It is a good idea to verify that the services are exposed as you think they should be.

$ curl -I http://192.168.1.150:8081/tftp/ipxe.efi
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1020416
Content-Type: application/octet-stream