cinder-csi.md

Cinder CSI Driver

Cinder CSI driver allows you to provision volumes over an OpenStack deployment. The Kubernetes historic in-tree cloud provider is deprecated and will be removed in future versions.

To enable Cinder CSI driver, uncomment the cinder_csi_enabled option in group_vars/all/openstack.yml and set it to true.

To set the number of replicas for the Cinder CSI controller, you can change cinder_csi_controller_replicas option in group_vars/all/openstack.yml.

You need to source the OpenStack credentials you use to deploy your machines that will host Kubernetes: source path/to/your/openstack-rc or . path/to/your/openstack-rc.

Make sure the hostnames in your inventory file are identical to your instance names in OpenStack. Otherwise cinder won't work as expected.

If you want to deploy the cinder provisioner used with Cinder CSI Driver, you should set persistent_volumes_enabled in group_vars/k8s-cluster/k8s-cluster.yml to true.

You can now run the kubespray playbook (cluster.yml) to deploy Kubernetes over OpenStack with Cinder CSI Driver enabled.

Usage example

To check if Cinder CSI Driver works properly, see first that the cinder-csi pods are running:

$ kubectl -n kube-system get pods | grep cinder
csi-cinder-controllerplugin-7f8bf99785-cpb5v   5/5     Running   0          100m
csi-cinder-nodeplugin-rm5x2                    2/2     Running   0          100m

Check the associated storage class (if you enabled persistent_volumes):

$ kubectl get storageclass
NAME         PROVISIONER                AGE
cinder-csi   cinder.csi.openstack.org   100m

You can run a PVC and an Nginx Pod using this file nginx.yaml:

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: csi-pvc-cinderplugin
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteOnce
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 1Gi
  storageClassName: cinder-csi

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx
spec:
  containers:
  - image: nginx
    imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
    name: nginx
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80
      protocol: TCP
    volumeMounts:
      - mountPath: /var/lib/www/html
        name: csi-data-cinderplugin
  volumes:
  - name: csi-data-cinderplugin
    persistentVolumeClaim:
      claimName: csi-pvc-cinderplugin
      readOnly: false

Apply this conf to your cluster: kubectl apply -f nginx.yml

You should see the PVC provisioned and bound:

$ kubectl get pvc
NAME                   STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
csi-pvc-cinderplugin   Bound    pvc-f21ad0a1-5b7b-405e-a462-48da5cb76beb   1Gi        RWO            cinder-csi     8s

And the volume mounted to the Nginx Pod (wait until the Pod is Running):

kubectl exec -it nginx -- df -h | grep /var/lib/www/html
/dev/vdb        976M  2.6M  958M   1% /var/lib/www/html

Compatibility with in-tree cloud provider

It is not necessary to enable OpenStack as a cloud provider for Cinder CSI Driver to work. Though, you can run both the in-tree openstack cloud provider and the Cinder CSI Driver at the same time. The storage class provisioners associated to each one of them are differently named.

Cinder v2 support

For the moment, only Cinder v3 is supported by the CSI Driver.

More info

For further information about the Cinder CSI Driver, you can refer to this page: Cloud Provider OpenStack.