Confirm that all Anthos on bare metal platform services are installed and running.

Scale down the physical Anthos on bare metal cluster from four worker nodes to three and then back to four.

Create and delete a custom namespace.

Create a deployment of the Nginx web server, scaling that deployment by increasing the number of replicas.

Create an ingress for the Nginx application and verify connectivity by curling the index.html.

Successfully clean up all test suite activities and return the cluster to a pretest state.

Create a deployment with a persistent volume claim.

Use NetApp Astra Trident to provision and attach the requested persistent volume from NetApp ONTAP.

Validate the detach-and-reattach capability of persistent volumes.

Validate multi-attach, read-only access of persistent volumes from other pods on the node.

Validate the offline volume resize operation.

Verify that the persistent volume survives a cluster-scaling operation.