How-to Set up a Context Worker Node Set

The purpose of this article is to describe how to set up a Context Worker Node set.

Creating a Cluster of Worker Nodes

Building a set of context worker nodes can be easily achieved using the universal-application-context-worker-cluster pipeline.

In the user interface, you can initiate the process by creating a cluster, providing it a name, and then selecting the universal-application-context-worker-cluster pipeline.

Upon selection, a series of fields will appear for you to complete:

• resource/broker: This requires a virtual machine broker or pool-broker for machine creation.
• docker-context/tags: These are the tags that the context worker set should monitor.

The default configuration of this cluster pipeline will build CentOS-8 bare metal servers with Podman and the Docker contexts installed.

If cloud resources are utilized, the OS required by the broker will be chosen, and Podman or Docker will be installed with Docker context.

The end result is a set of machines running a standalone docker-context plugin in a provisioned OS (or cloud instance). These machines will monitor the docker-context/tag parameter to check if it matches the docker-context/tags on itself for creating contexts.

Creating a Cluster of Context Workers

Creating a set of context workers is straightforward. Simply create a cluster using the context-broker with a specific docker-context/tag. This tag should reference one of the docker-context/tags created on the cluster of worker nodes.