Installing the CoreProvider

This section describes how to install the CoreProvider, which is responsible for managing the Cluster API CRDs and the Cluster API controller.

Any existing namespace could be utilized for providers in the Kubernetes cluster. However, before creating a provider object, make sure the specified namespace has been created. In the example below, we use the capi-system namespace. To create this namespace through either the Command Line Interface (CLI) by running kubectl create namespace capi-system, or the declarative approach described in the official Kubernetes documentation could be used.

Example:

apiVersion: operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha2
kind: CoreProvider
metadata:
  name: cluster-api
  namespace: capi-system
spec:
  version: v1.4.6

note

Only one CoreProvider can be installed at the same time on a single cluster.