Using Tilt for Cluster API Provider Hivelocity

We use Tilt to start a development cluster.

Setting Tilt up

You need to create a .envrc file and specify the values you need. In the git repo is already a file. You can adapt it to your needs.

Machines with the corresponding caphvlabel:deviceType= tag will get conditionless provisioned. Be sure that you don’t provision machines which run valuable workload!

We recommend to use custom device tags for testing.

More about this topic: Provisioning Machines

Starting Tilt

make tilt-up

This will:

• install Tilt into hack/tools/bin.
• create a local container registry with ctlptl.
• create a management-cluster in Kind
• start Tilt

You need to press “SPACE” to open a web browser with the URL: http://localhost:10350

Be sure that all Resources are ok (5/5 in above screenshot).

At the top right side you see an up-arrow icon. You see “Create Hivelocity Cluster” if you hover the button. You can use it to create a new workload cluster.

Open a terminal and execute make watch

The output of make watch updates itself. You can monitor the progress of the CAPHV controller.

Working with baremetal servers takes time. It takes roughly 20 minutes until the ssh port of the first control plane is reachable.