kubernetes/examples/persistent-volume-provisioning

Persistent Volume Provisioning

This example shows how to use dynamic persistent volume provisioning.

Prerequisites

This example assumes that you have an understanding of Kubernetes administration and can modify the scripts that launch kube-controller-manager.

Admin Configuration

The admin must define StorageClass objects that describe named "classes" of storage offered in a cluster. Different classes might map to arbitrary levels or policies determined by the admin. When configuring a StorageClass object for persistent volume provisioning, the admin will need to describe the type of provisioner to use and the parameters that will be used by the provisioner when it provisions a PersistentVolume belonging to the class.

The name of a StorageClass object is significant, and is how users can request a particular class, by specifying the name in their PersistentVolumeClaim. The provisioner field must be specified as it determines what volume plugin is used for provisioning PVs. 2 cloud providers will be provided in the beta version of this feature: EBS and GCE. The parameters field contains the parameters that describe volumes belonging to the storage class. Different parameters may be accepted depending on the provisioner. For example, the value io1, for the parameter type, and the parameter iopsPerGB are specific to EBS . When a parameter is omitted, some default is used.

AWS

kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: slow
provisioner: kubernetes.io/aws-ebs
parameters:
  type: io1
  zone: us-east-1d
  iopsPerGB: "10"

• type: io1, gp2, sc1, st1. See AWS docs for details. Default: gp2.
• zone: AWS zone. If not specified, a random zone from those where Kubernetes cluster has a node is chosen.
• iopsPerGB: only for io1 volumes. I/O operations per second per GiB. AWS volume plugin multiplies this with size of requested volume to compute IOPS of the volume and caps it at 20 000 IOPS (maximum supported by AWS, see AWS docs).
• encrypted: denotes whether the EBS volume should be encrypted or not. Valid values are true or false.
• kmsKeyId: optional. The full Amazon Resource Name of the key to use when encrypting the volume. If none is supplied but encrypted is true, a key is generated by AWS. See AWS docs for valid ARN value.

GCE

kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: slow
provisioner: kubernetes.io/gce-pd
parameters:
  type: pd-standard
  zone: us-central1-a

• type: pd-standard or pd-ssd. Default: pd-ssd
• zone: GCE zone. If not specified, a random zone in the same region as controller-manager will be chosen.

vSphere

kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: slow
provisioner: kubernetes.io/vsphere-volume
parameters:
  diskformat: eagerzeroedthick

• diskformat: thin, zeroedthick and eagerzeroedthick. See vSphere docs for details. Default: "thin".

GLUSTERFS

apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: StorageClass
metadata:
  name: slow
provisioner: kubernetes.io/glusterfs
parameters:
  resturl: "http://127.0.0.1:8081"
  clusterid: "630372ccdc720a92c681fb928f27b53f"
  restuser: "admin"
  secretNamespace: "default"
  secretName: "heketi-secret"
  gidMin: "40000"
  gidMax: "50000"
  volumetype: "replicate:3"

• resturl : Gluster REST service/Heketi service url which provision gluster volumes on demand. The general format should be IPaddress:Port and this is a mandatory parameter for GlusterFS dynamic provisioner. If Heketi service is exposed as a routable service in openshift/kubernetes setup, this can have a format similar to http://heketi-storage-project.cloudapps.mystorage.com where the fqdn is a resolvable heketi service url.
• restauthenabled : Gluster REST service authentication boolean that enables authentication to the REST server. If this value is 'true', restuser and restuserkey or secretNamespace + secretName have to be filled. This option is deprecated, authentication is enabled when any of restuser, restuserkey, secretName or secretNamespace is specified.
• restuser : Gluster REST service/Heketi user who has access to create volumes in the Gluster Trusted Pool.
• restuserkey : Gluster REST service/Heketi user's password which will be used for authentication to the REST server. This parameter is deprecated in favor of secretNamespace + secretName.
• secretNamespace + secretName : Identification of Secret instance that containes user password to use when talking to Gluster REST service. These parameters are optional, empty password will be used when both secretNamespace and secretName are omitted. The provided secret must have type "kubernetes.io/glusterfs". When both restuserkey and secretNamespace + secretName is specified, the secret will be used.
• clusterid: 630372ccdc720a92c681fb928f27b53f is the ID of the cluster which will be used by Heketi when provisioning the volume. It can also be a list of clusterids, for ex: "8452344e2becec931ece4e33c4674e4e,42982310de6c63381718ccfa6d8cf397". This is an optional parameter.

Example of a secret can be found in glusterfs-provisioning-secret.yaml.

• gidMin + gidMax : The minimum and maximum value of GID range for the storage class. A unique value (GID) in this range ( gidMin-gidMax ) will be used for dynamically provisioned volumes. These are optional values. If not specified, the volume will be provisioned with a value between 2000-2147483647 which are defaults for gidMin and gidMax respectively.

• volumetype : The volume type and it's parameters can be configured with this optional value. If the volume type is not mentioned, it's up to the provisioner to decide the volume type. For example: 'Replica volume': volumetype: replicate:3 where '3' is replica count. 'Disperse/EC volume': volumetype: disperse:4:2 where '4' is data and '2' is the redundancy count. 'Distribute volume': volumetype: none

For available volume types and it's administration options refer: (Administration Guide)

Reference : (How to configure Heketi)

When the persistent volumes are dynamically provisioned, the Gluster plugin automatically create an endpoint and a headless service in the name gluster-dynamic-<claimname>. This dynamic endpoint and service will be deleted automatically when the persistent volume claim is deleted.

OpenStack Cinder

kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: gold
provisioner: kubernetes.io/cinder
parameters:
  type: fast
  availability: nova

• type: VolumeType created in Cinder. Default is empty.
• availability: Availability Zone. Default is empty.

Ceph RBD

  apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
  kind: StorageClass
  metadata:
    name: fast
  provisioner: kubernetes.io/rbd
  parameters:
    monitors: 10.16.153.105:6789
    adminId: kube
    adminSecretName: ceph-secret
    adminSecretNamespace: kube-system
    pool: kube
    userId: kube
    userSecretName: ceph-secret-user

• monitors: Ceph monitors, comma delimited. It is required.
• adminId: Ceph client ID that is capable of creating images in the pool. Default is "admin".
• adminSecret: Secret Name for adminId. It is required. The provided secret must have type "kubernetes.io/rbd".
• adminSecretNamespace: The namespace for adminSecret. Default is "default".
• pool: Ceph RBD pool. Default is "rbd".
• userId: Ceph client ID that is used to map the RBD image. Default is the same as adminId.
• userSecretName: The name of Ceph Secret for userId to map RBD image. It must exist in the same namespace as PVCs. It is required.

Quobyte

apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: StorageClass
metadata:
   name: slow
provisioner: kubernetes.io/quobyte
parameters:
    quobyteAPIServer: "http://138.68.74.142:7860"
    registry: "138.68.74.142:7861"
    adminSecretName: "quobyte-admin-secret"
    adminSecretNamespace: "kube-system"
    user: "root"
    group: "root"
    quobyteConfig: "BASE"
    quobyteTenant: "DEFAULT"

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• quobyteAPIServer API Server of Quobyte in the format http(s)://api-server:7860
• registry Quobyte registry to use to mount the volume. You can specifiy the registry as : pair or if you want to specify multiple registries you just have to put a comma between them e.q. :,:,:. The host can be an IP address or if you have a working DNS you can also provide the DNS names.
• adminSecretName secret that holds information about the Quobyte user and the password to authenticate agains the API server. The provided secret must have type "kubernetes.io/quobyte".
• adminSecretNamespace The namespace for adminSecretName. Default is default.
• user maps all access to this user. Default is root.
• group maps all access to this group. Default is nfsnobody.
• quobyteConfig use the specified configuration to create the volume. You can create a new configuration or modify an existing one with the Web console or the quobyte CLI. Default is BASE
• quobyteTenant use the specified tenant ID to create/delete the volume. This Quobyte tenant has to be already present in Quobyte. Default is DEFAULT

First create Quobyte admin's Secret in the system namespace. Here the Secret is created in kube-system:

$ kubectl create -f examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-admin-secret.yaml --namespace=kube-system

Then create the Quobyte storage class:

$ kubectl create -f examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/quobyte-storage-class.yaml

Now create a PVC

$ kubectl create -f examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/claim1.json

Check the created PVC:

$ kubectl describe pvc
Name:       claim1
Namespace:      default
Status:     Bound
Volume:     pvc-bdb82652-694a-11e6-b811-080027242396
Labels:     <none>
Capacity:       3Gi
Access Modes:   RWO
No events.

$ kubectl describe pv
Name:  		pvc-bdb82652-694a-11e6-b811-080027242396
Labels:		<none>
Status:		Bound
Claim: 		default/claim1
Reclaim Policy:	Delete
Access Modes:  	RWO
Capacity:      	3Gi
Message:
Source:
    Type:      	Quobyte (a Quobyte mount on the host that shares a pod's lifetime)
    Registry:  	138.68.79.14:7861
    Volume:    	kubernetes-dynamic-pvc-bdb97c58-694a-11e6-91b6-080027242396
    ReadOnly:  	false
No events.

Create a Pod to use the PVC:

$ kubectl create -f examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/quobyte/example-pod.yaml

Azure Disk

kind: StorageClass
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: slow
provisioner: kubernetes.io/azure-disk
parameters:
  skuName: Standard_LRS
  location: eastus
  storageAccount: azure_storage_account_name

• skuName: Azure storage account Sku tier. Default is empty.
• location: Azure storage account location. Default is empty.
• storageAccount: Azure storage account name. If storage account is not provided, all storage accounts associated with the resource group are searched to find one that matches skuName and location. If storage account is provided, skuName and location are ignored.

User provisioning requests

Users request dynamically provisioned storage by including a storage class in their PersistentVolumeClaim. The annotation volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class is used to access this feature. It is required that this value matches the name of a StorageClass configured by the administrator. In the future, the storage class may remain in an annotation or become a field on the claim itself.

{
  "kind": "PersistentVolumeClaim",
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "metadata": {
    "name": "claim1",
    "annotations": {
        "volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class": "slow"
    }
  },
  "spec": {
    "accessModes": [
      "ReadWriteOnce"
    ],
    "resources": {
      "requests": {
        "storage": "3Gi"
      }
    }
  }
}

Sample output

GCE

This example uses GCE but any provisioner would follow the same flow.

First we note there are no Persistent Volumes in the cluster. After creating a storage class and a claim including that storage class, we see a new PV is created and automatically bound to the claim requesting storage.

$ kubectl get pv

$ kubectl create -f examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/gce-pd.yaml
storageclass "slow" created

$ kubectl create -f examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/claim1.json
persistentvolumeclaim "claim1" created

$ kubectl get pv
NAME                                       CAPACITY   ACCESSMODES   STATUS    CLAIM                        REASON    AGE
pvc-bb6d2f0c-534c-11e6-9348-42010af00002   3Gi        RWO           Bound     default/claim1                         4s

$ kubectl get pvc
NAME      LABELS    STATUS    VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESSMODES   AGE
claim1    <none>    Bound     pvc-bb6d2f0c-534c-11e6-9348-42010af00002   3Gi        RWO           7s

# delete the claim to release the volume
$ kubectl delete pvc claim1
persistentvolumeclaim "claim1" deleted

# the volume is deleted in response to being release of its claim
$ kubectl get pv

Ceph RBD

This section will guide you on how to configure and use the Ceph RBD provisioner.

Pre-requisites

For this to work you must have a functional Ceph cluster, and the rbd command line utility must be installed on any host/container that kube-controller-manager or kubelet is running on.

Configuration

First we must identify the Ceph client admin key. This is usually found in /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring on your Ceph cluster nodes. The file will look something like this:

[client.admin]
  key = AQBfxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx==
  auid = 0
  caps mds = "allow"
  caps mon = "allow *"
  caps osd = "allow *"

From the key value, we will create a secret. We must create the Ceph admin Secret in the namespace defined in our StorageClass. In this example we've set the namespace to kube-system.

$ kubectl create secret generic ceph-secret-admin --from-literal=key='AQBfxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx==' --namespace=kube-system --type=kubernetes.io/rbd

Now modify examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/rbd/rbd-storage-class.yaml to reflect your environment, particularly the monitors field. We are now ready to create our RBD Storage Class:

$ kubectl create -f examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/rbd/rbd-storage-class.yaml

The kube-controller-manager is now able to provision storage, however we still need to be able to map the RBD volume to a node. Mapping should be done with a non-privileged key, if you have existing users you can get all keys by running ceph auth list on your Ceph cluster with the admin key. For this example we will create a new user and pool.

$ ceph osd pool create kube 512
$ ceph auth get-or-create client.kube mon 'allow r' osd 'allow rwx pool=kube'
[client.kube]
	key = AQBQyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy==

This key will be made into a secret, just like the admin secret. However this user secret will need to be created in every namespace where you intend to consume RBD volumes provisioned in our example storage class. Let's create a namespace called myns, and create the user secret in that namespace.

kubectl create namespace myns
kubectl create secret generic ceph-secret-user --from-literal=key='AQBQyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy==' --namespace=myns --type=kubernetes.io/rbd

You are now ready to provision and use RBD storage.

Usage

With the storageclass configured, let's create a PVC in our example namespace, myns:

$ kubectl create -f examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/claim1.json --namespace=myns

Eventually the PVC creation will result in a PV and RBD volume to match:

$ kubectl describe pvc --namespace=myns
Name:		claim1
Namespace:	myns
Status:		Bound
Volume:		pvc-1cfa23b3-664b-11e6-9eb9-90b11c09520d
Labels:		<none>
Capacity:	3Gi
Access Modes:	RWO
No events.

$ kubectl describe pv
Name:		pvc-1cfa23b3-664b-11e6-9eb9-90b11c09520d
Labels:		<none>
Status:		Bound
Claim:		myns/claim1
Reclaim Policy:	Delete
Access Modes:	RWO
Capacity:	3Gi
Message:
Source:
    Type:		RBD (a Rados Block Device mount on the host that shares a pod's lifetime)
    CephMonitors:	[127.0.0.1:6789]
    RBDImage:		kubernetes-dynamic-pvc-1cfb1862-664b-11e6-9a5d-90b11c09520d
    FSType:		
    RBDPool:		kube
    RadosUser:		kube
    Keyring:		/etc/ceph/keyring
    SecretRef:		&{ceph-secret-user}
    ReadOnly:		false
No events.

With our storage provisioned, we can now create a Pod to use the PVC:

$ kubectl create -f examples/persistent-volume-provisioning/rbd/pod.yaml --namespace=myns

Now our pod has an RBD mount!

$ export PODNAME=`kubectl get pod --selector='role=server' --namespace=myns --output=template --template="{{with index .items 0}}{{.metadata.name}}{{end}}"`
$ kubectl exec -it $PODNAME --namespace=myns -- df -h | grep rbd
/dev/rbd1       2.9G  4.5M  2.8G   1% /var/lib/www/html