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The CSAH nodes manage the operation and installation of the container ecosystem cluster. Installation of the cluster begins with the creation on the primary CSAH node of a bootstrap virtual machine (VM) to be used to install control-plane components on the nodes. The initial minimum cluster can consist of three nodes running both the control plane and applications, or three control-plane nodes and at least two compute nodes. In both scenarios, OpenShift Container Platform requires three control-plane nodes.