Create Additional Worker Nodes

The steps in this section cover how to extend the pool of worker nodes.

  1. Access cmsh and enter the device sub-menu.

    1cmsh
2device

  2. Clone the single worker node.

    Maintaining the naming convention will automate the IP address increment.

    1clone us-west-2-gpu-node001 us-west-2-gpu-node002
2commit

  3. Power the additional worker node on and wait until it enters the [ UP ] state.

    power on us-west-2-gpu-node002

  4. Verify that the worker nodes are ready by using kubectl.

    The worker node should automatically be available as part of the public cloud Kubernetes worker pool because the entire category is marked as worker nodes. The resources should be ready to use immediately.

    1kubectl get nodes
2NAME                    STATUS   ROLES                  AGE   VERSION
3us-west-2-gpu-node001   Ready    worker                 25h   v1.21.4
4us-west-2-gpu-node002   Ready    worker                 10m   v1.21.4
5us-west-2-knode001      Ready    control-plane,master   25h   v1.21.4
6us-west-2-knode002      Ready    control-plane,master   25h   v1.21.4
7us-west-2-knode003      Ready    control-plane,master   25h   v1.21.4