Adding an external NIC to a Triton compute node

I found it a little bit non-obvious how to use NAPI to add an external NIC to a compute node so it can reach the external network rather than just the internal admin one.

We need to first tag the underlying physical NIC on the compute node with the externalNIC tag. We need to look up the MAC of the physical NIC:

computenode# # dladm show-phys -m ixgbe0
LINK         SLOT     ADDRESS            INUSE CLIENT
ixgbe0       primary  e4:11:5b:97:83:49  yes  ixgbe0

then tell NAPI (from the headnode) that this NIC is going to provide the external tag:

sdc-napi /nics/e4:11:5b:97:83:49 -X PUT -d '{ "nic_tags_provided" : "external" }'

We now need to actually add the external VNIC in NAPI:

cn=*your compute node UUID from `sdc-server list`*
ip=*IP address to use on external network*
vlan_id=*vlan id if any*

owner=$(sdc-useradm get admin | json uuid)

sdc-napi /nics -X POST -d @- <<EOF
{
 "owner_uuid": "$owner",
 "belongs_to_type": "server",
 "belongs_to_uuid": "$cn",
 "cn_uuid": "$cn",
 "ip": "$ip",
 "vlan_id": "$vlan_id",
 "nic_tag": "external"
}
EOF

After a while, we should find that the DHCPD server has updated the networking config file for the CN:

# cat /zones/$(vmadm list -Ho uuid alias=dhcpd0)/root/tftpboot/bootfs/e4115b978348/networking.json
...
  "nictags": [
    {
      "mtu": 1500,
      "name": "external",
      "uuid": "86b73953-488a-4041-bd7a-83aa51c4ca22"
...
  "vnics": [
...
      "belongs_to_type": "server",
      "nic_tag": "external",
...

And on rebooting the CN, we can find our interface up, and reachable externally:

# ipadm show-addr external0/_a
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
external0/_a      static   ok           192.168.0.44/24