Server Classes

Server classes are a way to group distinct server resources. The qualifiers and selector keys allow the administrator to specify criteria upon which to group these servers. If both of these keys are missing, the server class matches all servers that it is watching. If both of these keys define requirements, these requirements are combined (logical AND).

selector

selector groups server resources by their labels. The Kubernetes documentation has more information on how to use this field.

qualifiers

There are currently two keys: cpu, systemInformation. Each of these keys accepts a list of entries. The top level keys are a “logical AND”, while the lists under each key are a “logical OR”. Qualifiers that are not specified are not evaluated.

An example:

apiVersion: metal.sidero.dev/v1alpha1
kind: ServerClass
metadata:
  name: serverclass-sample
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      common-label: "true"
    matchExpressions:
      - key: zone
        operator: In
        values:
          - central
          - east
      - key: environment
        operator: NotIn
        values:
          - prod
  qualifiers:
    cpu:
      - manufacturer: "Intel(R) Corporation"
        version: "Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3558 @ 2.20GHz"
      - manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
        version: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor
    systemInformation:
      - manufacturer: Dell Inc.

Servers would only be added to the above class if they:

• had EITHER CPU info
• AND the label key/value in matchLabels
• AND match the matchExpressions

Additionally, Sidero automatically creates and maintains a server class called "any" that includes all (accepted) servers. Attempts to add qualifiers to it will be reverted.

configPatches

Server configs of servers matching a server class can be updated by using the configPatches section of the custom resource. See patching for more information on how this works.

An example of settings the default install disk for all servers matching a server class:

apiVersion: metal.sidero.dev/v1alpha1
kind: ServerClass
...
spec:
  configPatches:
    - op: replace
      path: /machine/install/disk
      value: /dev/sda

Other Settings

environmentRef

Servers from a ServerClass can be set to use the specific Environment by linking the Environment from the ServerClass:

apiVersion: metal.sidero.dev/v1alpha1
kind: ServerClass
...
spec:
  environmentRef:
    name: production-env

bootFromDiskMethod

The method to exit iPXE network boot to force boot from disk can be configured for all Server resources belonging to the ServerClass:

apiVersion: metal.sidero.dev/v1alpha1
kind: ServerClass
...
spec:
  bootFromDiskMethod: ipxe-sanboot

Valid values are:

• ipxe-exit
• http-404
• ipxe-sanboot

If not set, the default boot from disk method is used (SIDERO_CONTROLLER_MANAGER_BOOT_FROM_DISK_METHOD).