CSI-compliant dynamic Volume provisioning for Kubernetes

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xen82
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CSI-compliant dynamic Volume provisioning for Kubernetes

Post by xen82 »

Hello,

It would be FANTASTIC if there was a Container Storage Interface compliant plugin which would allow dynamic iSCSI (or NFS, etc) provisioning of Kubernetes Physical Volumes using StorageClasses in QTS. This would allow Kubernetes clusters to dynamically request and/or mount storage space for a Pod/container on startup and really provide a lot of value to individuals using Kubernetes.

Is there an API that could be used to request new storage space/mount, delete storage space/mount, pull metadata on mountable spaces and potentially resize mounts? I noticed that there is a plugin for VMWare vStorage, however, I am not running VMWare on the infrastructure managing the storage.

Maybe this might be a good starting point: https://github.com/raffaelespazzoli/iscsi-controller

I am running QTS 4.4.1.1146 on a TS-873.

If anyone has any ideas or hacks, I would LOVE to hear them.

Kubernetes is a WONDERFUL way of running workloads, and I would love to see more support in QNAP for it. Starting with storage, up to maybe even running K8s control planes or worker nodes on QNAP HW....
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+1 for this request. I see someone has already coded something for Synology that does this.
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+1 from me! Would be great 👍
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+1 for me too.

Since Kubernetes is becoming de-facto standard for hosting container based workload, it would be a natual choise to use QNAP, as storage provider, for all those who have already invested in QNAP for their storage needs.

Looking forward to see it.

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+1 for me as well
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+1 here, please consider this.
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Yes please
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Yes please!
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Has anyone actually contact QNAP and made a feature request for this?

Typing "+1" and "yes please" is pointless, as QNAP does not look at this forum for feature requests.
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Re: CSI-compliant dynamic Volume provisioning for Kubernetes

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I'm using https://hub.kubeapps.com/charts/ckotzba ... rovisioner on Rancher RKE. You can configure tiering using different NFS export.
PV is mounted from subdir. Example...

server: 1.2.3.4
nfs export: /share/k8s01
deploy RKE monitoring -> automatic pv and pvc created using defined nfs-client-provisioner storage class -> pvc-71282002-b375-47a8-816e-fc5817d3cee4
path on server & share mount: /share/k8s01/cattle-prometheus-prometheus-cluster-monitoring-db-prometheus-cluster-monitoring-0-pvc-71282002-b375-47a8-816e-fc5817d3cee4
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