Installing Red Hat(Code Ready Containers) on Ubuntu 20.04

While I have often found tutorials online on installing Minishift and Minikube locally on my laptop. That is to say other local kubernetes type installation. Sourcing a tutorial or walkthrough that covers an alternative OS types can be difficult.

So I decided to create quick blog post on installing Code Ready Containers (CRC) on the Ubuntu OS. For the purpose of this blog post I will use CRC for short.

So, lets get going with code Ready container installed on Ubuntu 20.04

Pre-requisits:

Install libvirt and NetworkManager packages for ubuntu

This can be achieved by running the following command:

sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon libvirt-daemon-system network-manager)=

Install Docker.io for ubuntu This can be achieved by running the following commands:

sudo apt install docker.io
sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io

sudo apt install docker.io

sudo systemctl start docker

sudo systemctl enable docker

Step 1. Login to cloud.redhat.com at the time of writing this article its on

Choice create cluster — Openshift Container Platform 4- Run on local laptop option.

Download the CRC for Linux in this case because we are on Ubuntu.

Download the CDK from cloud.redhat.com at the time of writing this article its on `OpenShift 4.3.10`

Step 2. https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/crc/installer-provisioned

Once you have the crc downloaded extract the files and place your binary shells path

e.g ‘/usr/bin/’.

Step 3. Once install run the following

crc start
WARN A new version (1.16.0) has been published on https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/crc/installer-provisioned
INFO Checking if oc binary is cached
INFO Checking if podman remote binary is cached
INFO Checking if running as non-root
INFO Checking if Virtualization is enabled
INFO Checking if KVM is enabled
INFO Checking if libvirt is installed
INFO Checking if user is part of libvirt group
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Checking if libvirt is enabled
INFO Checking if libvirt daemon is running
INFO Checking if a supported libvirt version is installed
INFO Checking if crc-driver-libvirt is installed
INFO Checking if libvirt ‘crc’ network is available
INFO Checking if libvirt ‘crc’ network is active
INFO Checking if NetworkManager is installed
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Checking if NetworkManager service is running
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Checking if /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/crc-nm-dnsmasq.conf exists
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Checking if /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/crc.conf exists
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Starting CodeReady Containers VM for OpenShift 4.3.10…
INFO Verifying validity of the cluster certificates …
INFO Check internal and public DNS query …
INFO Check DNS query from host …
INFO Cluster TLS certificates have expired, renewing them… [will take up to 5 minutes]
INFO Starting OpenShift cluster … [waiting 3m]
INFO
INFO To access the cluster, first set up your environment by following ‘crc oc-env’ instructions
INFO Then you can access it by running ‘oc login -u developer -p developer https://api.crc.testing:6443’
INFO To login as an admin, run ‘oc login -u kubeadmin -p KubeadminPassword https://api.crc.testing:6443’

INFO You can now run ‘crc console’ and use these credentials to access the OpenShift web console
Started the OpenShift cluster
WARN The cluster might report a degraded or error state. This is expected since several operators have been disabled to lower the resource usage. For more information, please consult the documentation

Step 4. Type crc start and login with your Red Hat developer account.

crc start
WARN A new version (1.16.0) has been published on https://cloud.redhat.com/openshift/install/crc/installer-provisioned
INFO Checking if oc binary is cached
INFO Checking if podman remote binary is cached
INFO Checking if running as non-root
INFO Checking if Virtualization is enabled
INFO Checking if KVM is enabled
INFO Checking if libvirt is installed
INFO Checking if user is part of libvirt group
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Checking if libvirt is enabled
INFO Checking if libvirt daemon is running
INFO Checking if a supported libvirt version is installed
INFO Checking if crc-driver-libvirt is installed
INFO Checking if libvirt ‘crc’ network is available
INFO Checking if libvirt ‘crc’ network is active
INFO Checking if NetworkManager is installed
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Checking if NetworkManager service is running
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Checking if /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/crc-nm-dnsmasq.conf exists
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Checking if /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/crc.conf exists
WARN Skipping above check …
INFO Starting CodeReady Containers VM for OpenShift 4.3.10…
INFO Verifying validity of the cluster certificates …
INFO Check internal and public DNS query …
INFO Check DNS query from host …
INFO Cluster TLS certificates have expired, renewing them… [will take up to 5 minutes]

• Step 5. Finally run the command crc console to launch the Openshift console, your credentials to login will by printed out from the following command line output above. Hey Vola! your can now login to your code-ready container Openshift cluster.

It work’s as a great development environment and also if you are interested in writing kubernetes based operators. It’s works as a great cluster to test out using our Operator-SDK locally https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.1/applications/operator_sdk/osdk-getting-started.html