Requirements

Ansible Control Node

MiCADO is deployed by Ansible Playbooks - typically remotely via SSH. You will need a local device or other remote instance that has SSH access to the new virtual machine for the MiCADO control plane. The requirements for this Ansible control node are:

• SSH access to MiCADO control plane
  • Network access to port 22
  • Private SSH key
• Python 3.8 or higher
  • pip is required for standard installation
• Ansible 2.11 or higher

Tip

A correct version of Ansible is provided by the micado-client CLI recommended for installation, so installing it separately is usually not required.

MiCADO Control Plane

The MiCADO control plane is a K3s server that runs a number of additional microservices providing additional functionality. See the minimum requirements below:

• x86_64
• Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04
• 2 vCPU
• 4 GB RAM
• 15GB Disk
• TCP Port 22 for installation via SSH
• TCP Port 443 for access to the WebUI
• TCP Ports 6443, 10250 for cluster operation
• UDP Port 58120 for pod-to-pod communication
• Python 3.5 or higher

You must configure SSH key-based authentication for this VM.

MiCADO Cloud Workers

MiCADO supports provisoning workers on the following clouds. For best performance, keep the control plane and workers in the same cloud, region and availability zone.

Supported Clouds

• Amazon EC2
• OpenStack Nova
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud
• CloudSigma
• CloudBroker

Worker requirements will vary based on your specific application requirements, but the minimum requirements are below:

• x86_64
• Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04
• 1 vCPU
• 1 GB RAM
• 5 GB Disk
• UDP Port 58120

MiCADO Edge Workers

Requirements at the edge are minimal, and are mostly dictated by KubeEdge.

• x86_64 or arm64/aarch64
• Most Linux distributions (tested on Ubuntu & Raspbian)
• TCP Port 22 (SSH) for initial edge setup