Cluster Profile Variables

When you deploy the cluster from Local UI, the Profile Config step opens a PaletteAI Inference Launchpad custom wizard that collects the settings the platform packs need in order to install correctly on your hardware and network. This page documents every variable the wizard collects, in six sections, in the order the wizard presents them.

For the step-by-step procedure, refer to Install the Appliance.

Network

Variable	Type	Required	Default	Description
Pod Network Range	IPv4 CIDR	Yes	100.64.0.0/18	Kubernetes pod network CIDR. Read-only after day 1. Pick a range that will not collide with your existing network.
Service Network Range	IPv4 CIDR	Yes	100.64.64.0/18	Kubernetes ClusterIP service CIDR. Read-only after day 1. Must not overlap the Pod Network Range or your existing network.
Platform IP Address	IPv4	Yes	—	Single IPv4 address (not a range or CIDR) that MetalLB assigns to Traefik; the console and API are reached at it. Must be in the same subnet as the Cilium and MetalLB interface and must not overlap the node's management IP or any other address in use.
Cilium and MetalLB interface	string	Yes	—	Host NIC that Cilium and MetalLB use to advertise the Platform IP Address on the local network. Select the bond that carries the node's management IP.

OS and metrics

Variable	Type	Required	Default	Description
System Reserved CPU Cores	string	Yes	0-1	Range of CPU cores Kubelet reserves for the operating system (--reserved-cpus). Validated against the regex \d-\d, so only single-digit endpoints are accepted.
Maximum Pods per Node	number	Yes	110	Kubelet --max-pods setting.
Metrics Retention Period	string	Optional	30d	How long Victoria Metrics keeps time-series data.
Metrics Storage Size	string	Optional	20Gi	Size of the persistent volume Victoria Metrics uses for retained metrics. Increase in step with the retention period.

Container registry (Zot)

Variable	Type	Required	Default	Description
Registry Username	string	Yes	admin	Username for the on-cluster Zot registry that hosts platform and application images.
Registry Password	string (sensitive)	Yes	—	Password for the Zot registry account. Must satisfy the password complexity requirements.

Local admin

Variable	Type	Required	Default	Description
Local Admin Username	string	Yes	admin	Administrator username shared by the appliance console and the Grafana dashboard.
Local Admin Password	string (sensitive)	Yes	—	Administrator password shared by the appliance console and Grafana. Must satisfy the password complexity requirements.

Storage (Piraeus)

Variable	Type	Required	Default	Description
Storage Replica Count	string	Optional	1	Number of Piraeus replicas kept for each stored volume. Allowed values are 1, 2, or 3. Values above 1 require a matching number of nodes in the cluster, so a single-node install must use 1.

Certificates

The appliance needs a certificate authority (CA) for its OIDC endpoint. Each certificate field offers two options:

• Generate. Select Generate and the wizard creates a self-signed certificate and fills in the field for you. Use this for internal or lab deployments, where a browser trust warning is acceptable.
• Provide. Paste your own base64-encoded CA certificate and its private key. Use this in production, where you want the appliance certificates signed by your organization's CA so clients trust them without an exception.

Variable	Type	Required	Default	Description
OIDC CA cert	base64	Yes	—	Base64-encoded CA certificate. Provide your own, or select Generate for a self-signed one.
OIDC CA key	base64	Yes	—	Base64-encoded private key that pairs with the OIDC CA cert. The wizard fills this in when you select Generate.

Password complexity requirements

The Registry Password and Local Admin Password must both satisfy all of the following (rules inherited from PVM-723):

• Between 15 and 64 characters long.
• At least 1 uppercase letter.
• At least 1 lowercase letter.
• At least 1 digit.
• At least 1 special character.
• Must not contain a double quote ("), single quote ('), backslash (\), or any whitespace.