equinix-metal-aka-packet

Equinix Metal (formerly known as Packet)

This small setup can be used to provision Flatcar nodes on Equinix Metal.

Edit the Container Linux Config cl/machine-mynode.yaml.tmpl file if you like, then create the following terraform.tfvars with a machine mynode, corresponding to the Container Linux Config file name. If you add more machines, create new files for them under cl/.

cluster_name = "mycluster"
machines     = ["mynode"]
plan         = "t1.small.x86"
facilities   = ["sjc1"]
project_id   = "1...-2...-3...-4...-5..."
ssh_keys     = ["ssh-rsa AA... me@mail.net"]

Now run Terraform (version 13) as follows:

export METAL_AUTH_TOKEN=...
terraform init
terraform apply

Log in via ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null core@IPADDRESS.

When you make a change to cl/machine-mynode.yaml.tmpl and run terraform apply again, the instance will be replaced. Consider to use create_before_destroy in your final setup.

It is recommended to register your SSH key in the Equinix Metal Project to use the out-of-band console. Since Flatcar will fetch this key, too, you can remove it from the YAML config.