Document URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/4.7/html/installing/deploying-installer-provisioned-clusters-on-bare-metal#preparing-the-provisioner-node-for-openshift-install_ipi-install-installation-workflow Section Number and Name: 7.3.2. Preparing the provisioner node for OpenShift Container Platform installation 11. Configure networking. Describe the issue: During BM IPI installation of OCP, openshift-baremetal-installer expects to have connectivity with Ironic via provisioning network (172.22.0.2). If there is no route to this address installation will fail as installator can't define BM hosts in Ironic. We should either add this information to the doc, advising to setup "provisioning" bridge IP address on provisioning host or consider use of apiVIP (so baremetal network) to reach Ironic's API. Suggestions for improvement: add: nmcli connection modify provisioning ipv4.addresses 172.22.0.254/24 ipv4.method manual Additional information: Personally I think we should be reaching Ironic over baremetal network. ApiVIP should be configured at quite early stage of deployment so we could use it as it is easy to predict (in opposite to primary IP address of bootstrap VM which is assigned by 3rd party DHCP).