Initializing the First Controller

First start the controller:

ziti controller run </path/to/controller-config.yml>

Since this controller has not yet been initialized, it does not have an administrator identity that can be used to manage the network. The controller will pause startup and wait for initialization. While waiting it will periodically emit a message:

Output

[   3.323] WARNING ziti/controller/server.(*Controller).checkEdgeInitialized: the 
controller has not been initialized, no default admin exists.  Add this node to a 
cluster using 'ziti agent cluster add tls:ctrl1.ziti.example.com:1280' against an existing 
cluster member, or if this is the bootstrap node, run 'ziti agent controller init' 
to configure the default admin and bootstrap the cluster

As this is the first node in the cluster, there's no existing cluster to add it to.

To add the default administrator, run:

ziti agent cluster init <admin username> <admin password> <admin identity name>

This initializes an admin user that can be used to manage the network.

Once the admin user is created, the controller should be up and running. This is now a functional HA cluster, albeit with a cluster size of one.