# Prerequisites

1. Install `kubectl` (see [here](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/#install-kubectl-binary-with-curl-on-linux)). Because `kustomize` was included into `kubectl` and it's used by `cluster-api-provider-ibmcloud` in generating yaml files, so version `1.14.0+` of `kubectl` is required, see [integrate kustomize into kubectl](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/633) for more info.
2. You can use either VM, container or existing Kubernetes cluster act as the bootstrap cluster.
   - If you want to use container, install [kind](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind#installation-and-usage). This is preferred.
   - If you want to use VM, install [minikube](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/), version 0.30.0 or greater.
   - If you want to use existing Kubernetes cluster, prepare your kubeconfig.
3. Install a [driver](https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/) **if you are using minikube**. For Linux, we recommend kvm2. For MacOS, we recommend VirtualBox.
4. An appropriately configured [Go development environment](https://golang.org/doc/install)
5. Install `clusterctl` tool (see [here](https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/user/quick-start.html#install-clusterctl))
6. Install `pvsadm` tool (see [here](https://github.com/ppc64le-cloud/pvsadm#installation))
7. Install `capibmadm` tool (see [here](../capibmadm/index.md#install-capibmadm))

## **PowerVS Prerequisites**

###	Create an IBM Cloud account.

If you don’t already have one, you need a paid IBM Cloud account to create your Power Systems Virtual Server instance.
To create an account, go to: [cloud.ibm.com](https://cloud.ibm.com).

###	Create an IBM Cloud account API key

Please refer to the following [documentation](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-userapikey) to create an API key.


### Create Power Systems Virtual Server Service Instance

After you have an active IBM Cloud account, you can create a Power Systems Virtual Server service. To do so, perform the following steps:

> **Note:** If you are deploying a [PowerVS cluster with infrastructure creation](./creating-a-cluster.md#deploy-a-powervs-cluster-with-infrastructure-creation), you can diretly proceed to the step 2 of cluster creation [here](./creating-a-cluster.md#provision-workload-cluster-in-ibm-cloud-powervs) as creating network resources and importing boot images is not required.

## Create Network

A public network is required for your kubernetes cluster. Perform the following steps to create a public network for the Power Systems Virtual Server service instance created in the previous step.

1. Create Public Network

    ```console
    ~ export IBMCLOUD_API_KEY=<API_KEY>
    ~ capibmadm powervs network create --name capi-test --service-instance-id 3229a94c-af54-4212-bf60-6202b6fd0a07 --zone osa21
    ```

    Output:
    ```console
    Creating PowerVS network service-instance-id="3229a94c-af54-4212-bf60-6202b6fd0a07" zone="osa21"
    Successfully created a network networkID="3ee5a1ca-19b4-48c7-a89d-44babdd18703"
    ```

## Import the machine boot image: 

```shell
$ export IBMCLOUD_API_KEY=<API_KEY>
$ capibmadm powervs image import --service-instance-id <SERVICE_INSTANCE_ID>  --zone <ZONE> --bucket-region <BUCKET_REGION> --object <OBJECT>  --name <POWERVS_IMAGE_NAME> --bucket <BUCKETNAME> --public-bucket
```

e.g:
```shell
$ capibmadm powervs image import --service-instance-id 3229a94c-af54-4212-bf60-6202b6fd0a07  --zone osa21 --bucket-region jp-tok --object RHEL9.0-image.ova.gz  --name powervs_image --bucket  ocp-development-public-bucket --public-bucket
```

For more information about the images can be found at [machine-images](../../machine-images/powervs.md) section