CephCluster CRD
Rook allows creation and customization of storage clusters through the custom resource definitions (CRDs). There are primarily four different modes in which to create your cluster.
- Host Storage Cluster: Consume storage from host paths and raw devices
- PVC Storage Cluster: Dynamically provision storage underneath Rook by specifying the storage class Rook should use to consume storage (via PVCs)
- Stretched Storage Cluster: Distribute Ceph mons across three zones, while storage (OSDs) is only configured in two zones
- External Ceph Cluster: Connect your K8s applications to an external Ceph cluster
See the separate topics for a description and examples of each of these scenarios.
Settings¶
Settings can be specified at the global level to apply to the cluster as a whole, while other settings can be specified at more fine-grained levels. If any setting is unspecified, a suitable default will be used automatically.
Cluster metadata¶
name
: The name that will be used internally for the Ceph cluster. Most commonly the name is the same as the namespace since multiple clusters are not supported in the same namespace.namespace
: The Kubernetes namespace that will be created for the Rook cluster. The services, pods, and other resources created by the operator will be added to this namespace. The common scenario is to create a single Rook cluster. If multiple clusters are created, they must not have conflicting devices or host paths.
Cluster Settings¶
external
:enable
: iftrue
, the cluster will not be managed by Rook but via an external entity. This mode is intended to connect to an existing cluster. In this case, Rook will only consume the external cluster. However, Rook will be able to deploy various daemons in Kubernetes such as object gateways, mds and nfs if an image is provided and will refuse otherwise. If this setting is enabled all the other options will be ignored exceptcephVersion.image
anddataDirHostPath
. See external cluster configuration. IfcephVersion.image
is left blank, Rook will refuse the creation of extra CRs like object, file and nfs.
cephVersion
: The version information for launching the ceph daemons.image
: The image used for running the ceph daemons. For example,quay.io/ceph/ceph:v16.2.11
orv17.2.6
. For more details read the container images section. For the latest ceph images, see the Ceph DockerHub. To ensure a consistent version of the image is running across all nodes in the cluster, it is recommended to use a very specific image version. Tags also exist that would give the latest version, but they are only recommended for test environments. For example, the tagv17
will be updated each time a new Quincy build is released. Using thev17
tag is not recommended in production because it may lead to inconsistent versions of the image running across different nodes in the cluster.allowUnsupported
: Iftrue
, allow an unsupported major version of the Ceph release. Currentlypacific
andquincy
are supported. Future versions such asreef
(v18) would require this to be set totrue
. Should be set tofalse
in production.imagePullPolicy
: The image pull policy for the ceph daemon pods. Possible values areAlways
,IfNotPresent
, andNever
. The default isIfNotPresent
.
dataDirHostPath
: The path on the host (hostPath) where config and data should be stored for each of the services. If the directory does not exist, it will be created. Because this directory persists on the host, it will remain after pods are deleted. Following paths and any of their subpaths must not be used:/etc/ceph
,/rook
or/var/log/ceph
.- WARNING: For test scenarios, if you delete a cluster and start a new cluster on the same hosts, the path used by
dataDirHostPath
must be deleted. Otherwise, stale keys and other config will remain from the previous cluster and the new mons will fail to start. If this value is empty, each pod will get an ephemeral directory to store their config files that is tied to the lifetime of the pod running on that node. More details can be found in the Kubernetes empty dir docs.
- WARNING: For test scenarios, if you delete a cluster and start a new cluster on the same hosts, the path used by
skipUpgradeChecks
: if set to true Rook won't perform any upgrade checks on Ceph daemons during an upgrade. Use this at YOUR OWN RISK, only if you know what you're doing. To understand Rook's upgrade process of Ceph, read the upgrade doc.continueUpgradeAfterChecksEvenIfNotHealthy
: if set to true Rook will continue the OSD daemon upgrade process even if the PGs are not clean, or continue with the MDS upgrade even the file system is not healthy.dashboard
: Settings for the Ceph dashboard. To view the dashboard in your browser see the dashboard guide.enabled
: Whether to enable the dashboard to view cluster statusurlPrefix
: Allows to serve the dashboard under a subpath (useful when you are accessing the dashboard via a reverse proxy)port
: Allows to change the default port where the dashboard is servedssl
: Whether to serve the dashboard via SSL, ignored on Ceph versions older than13.2.2
monitoring
: Settings for monitoring Ceph using Prometheus. To enable monitoring on your cluster see the monitoring guide.enabled
: Whether to enable prometheus based monitoring for this clusterexternalMgrEndpoints
: external cluster manager endpointsexternalMgrPrometheusPort
: external prometheus manager module port. See external cluster configuration for more details.rulesNamespace
: Namespace to deploy prometheusRule. If empty, namespace of the cluster will be used. Recommended:- If you have a single Rook cluster, set the
rulesNamespace
to the same namespace as the cluster or keep it empty. - If you have multiple Rook clusters in the same Kubernetes cluster, choose the same namespace to set
rulesNamespace
for all the clusters (ideally, namespace with prometheus deployed). Otherwise, you will get duplicate alerts with duplicate alert definitions.
- If you have a single Rook cluster, set the
network
: For the network settings for the cluster, refer to the network configuration settingsmon
: contains mon related options mon settings For more details on the mons and when to choose a number other than3
, see the mon health doc.mgr
: manager top level sectioncount
: set number of ceph managers between1
to2
. The default value is 2. If there are two managers, it is important for all mgr services point to the active mgr and not the passive mgr. Therefore, Rook will automatically update all services (in the cluster namespace) that have a labelapp=rook-ceph-mgr
with a selector pointing to the active mgr. This commonly applies to services for the dashboard or the prometheus metrics collector.modules
: is the list of Ceph manager modules to enable
crashCollector
: The settings for crash collector daemon(s).disable
: is set totrue
, the crash collector will not run on any node where a Ceph daemon runsdaysToRetain
: specifies the number of days to keep crash entries in the Ceph cluster. By default the entries are kept indefinitely.
logCollector
: The settings for log collector daemon.enabled
: if set totrue
, the log collector will run as a side-car next to each Ceph daemon. The Ceph configuration optionlog_to_file
will be turned on, meaning Ceph daemons will log on files in addition to still logging to container's stdout. These logs will be rotated. In case a daemon terminates with a segfault, the coredump files will be commonly be generated in/var/lib/systemd/coredump
directory on the host, depending on the underlying OS location. (default:true
)periodicity
: how often to rotate daemon's log. (default: 24h). Specified with a time suffix which may beh
for hours ord
for days. Rotating too often will slightly impact the daemon's performance since the signal briefly interrupts the program.
annotations
: annotations configuration settingslabels
: labels configuration settingsplacement
: placement configuration settingsresources
: resources configuration settingspriorityClassNames
: priority class names configuration settingsstorage
: Storage selection and configuration that will be used across the cluster. Note that these settings can be overridden for specific nodes.useAllNodes
:true
orfalse
, indicating if all nodes in the cluster should be used for storage according to the cluster level storage selection and configuration values. If individual nodes are specified under thenodes
field, thenuseAllNodes
must be set tofalse
.nodes
: Names of individual nodes in the cluster that should have their storage included in accordance with either the cluster level configuration specified above or any node specific overrides described in the next section below.useAllNodes
must be set tofalse
to use specific nodes and their config. See node settings below.config
: Config settings applied to all OSDs on the node unless overridden bydevices
. See the config settings below.- storage selection settings
- Storage Class Device Sets
onlyApplyOSDPlacement
: Whether the placement specific for OSDs is merged with theall
placement. Iffalse
, the OSD placement will be merged with theall
placement. If true, theOSD placement will be applied
and theall
placement will be ignored. The placement for OSDs is computed from several different places depending on the type of OSD:- For non-PVCs:
placement.all
andplacement.osd
- For PVCs:
placement.all
and inside the storageClassDeviceSets from theplacement
orpreparePlacement
- For non-PVCs:
disruptionManagement
: The section for configuring management of daemon disruptionsmanagePodBudgets
: iftrue
, the operator will create and manage PodDisruptionBudgets for OSD, Mon, RGW, and MDS daemons. OSD PDBs are managed dynamically via the strategy outlined in the design. The operator will block eviction of OSDs by default and unblock them safely when drains are detected.osdMaintenanceTimeout
: is a duration in minutes that determines how long an entire failureDomain likeregion/zone/host
will be held innoout
(in addition to the default DOWN/OUT interval) when it is draining. This is only relevant whenmanagePodBudgets
istrue
. The default value is30
minutes.manageMachineDisruptionBudgets
: iftrue
, the operator will create and manage MachineDisruptionBudgets to ensure OSDs are only fenced when the cluster is healthy. Only available on OpenShift.machineDisruptionBudgetNamespace
: the namespace in which to watch the MachineDisruptionBudgets.
removeOSDsIfOutAndSafeToRemove
: Iftrue
the operator will remove the OSDs that are down and whose data has been restored to other OSDs. In Ceph terms, the OSDs areout
andsafe-to-destroy
when they are removed.cleanupPolicy
: cleanup policy settingssecurity
: security page for key management configuration
Ceph container images¶
Official releases of Ceph Container images are available from Docker Hub.
These are general purpose Ceph container with all necessary daemons and dependencies installed.
TAG | MEANING |
---|---|
vRELNUM | Latest release in this series (e.g., v17 = Quincy) |
vRELNUM.Y | Latest stable release in this stable series (e.g., v17.2) |
vRELNUM.Y.Z | A specific release (e.g., v17.2.6) |
vRELNUM.Y.Z-YYYYMMDD | A specific build (e.g., v17.2.6-20230410) |
A specific will contain a specific release of Ceph as well as security fixes from the Operating System.
Mon Settings¶
count
: Set the number of mons to be started. The number must be between1
and9
. The recommended value is most commonly3
. For highest availability, an odd number of mons should be specified. For higher durability in case of mon loss, an even number can be specified although availability may be lower. To maintain quorum a majority of mons must be up. For example, if there are three mons, two must be up. If there are four mons, three must be up. If there are two mons, both must be up. If quorum is lost, see the disaster recovery guide to restore quorum from a single mon.allowMultiplePerNode
: Whether to allow the placement of multiple mons on a single node. Default isfalse
for production. Should only be set totrue
in test environments.volumeClaimTemplate
: APersistentVolumeSpec
used by Rook to create PVCs for monitor storage. This field is optional, and when not provided, HostPath volume mounts are used. The current set of fields from template that are used arestorageClassName
and thestorage
resource request and limit. The default storage size request for new PVCs is10Gi
. Ensure that associated storage class is configured to usevolumeBindingMode: WaitForFirstConsumer
. This setting only applies to new monitors that are created when the requested number of monitors increases, or when a monitor fails and is recreated. An example CRD configuration is provided below.stretchCluster
: The stretch cluster settings that define the zones (or other failure domain labels) across which to configure the cluster.failureDomainLabel
: The label that is expected on each node where the cluster is expected to be deployed. The labels must be found in the list of well-known topology labels.subFailureDomain
: With a zone, the data replicas must be spread across OSDs in the subFailureDomain. The default ishost
.zones
: The failure domain names where the Mons and OSDs are expected to be deployed. There must be three zones specified in the list. This element is always namedzone
even if a non-defaultfailureDomainLabel
is specified. The elements have two values:name
: The name of the zone, which is the value of the domain label.arbiter
: Whether the zone is expected to be the arbiter zone which only runs a single mon. Exactly one zone must be labeledtrue
. The two zones that are not the arbiter zone are expected to have OSDs deployed.
If these settings are changed in the CRD the operator will update the number of mons during a periodic check of the mon health, which by default is every 45 seconds.
To change the defaults that the operator uses to determine the mon health and whether to failover a mon, refer to the health settings. The intervals should be small enough that you have confidence the mons will maintain quorum, while also being long enough to ignore network blips where mons are failed over too often.
Mgr Settings¶
You can use the cluster CR to enable or disable any manager module. This can be configured like so:
Some modules will have special configuration to ensure the module is fully functional after being enabled. Specifically:
pg_autoscaler
: Rook will configure all new pools with PG autoscaling by setting:osd_pool_default_pg_autoscale_mode = on
Network Configuration Settings¶
If not specified, the default SDN will be used. Configure the network that will be enabled for the cluster and services.
provider
: Specifies the network provider that will be used to connect the network interface. You can choose betweenhost
, andmultus
.selectors
: List the network selector(s) that will be used associated by a key.ipFamily
: Specifies the network stack Ceph daemons should listen on.dualStack
: Specifies that Ceph daemon should listen on both IPv4 and IPv6 network stacks.connections
: Settings for network connections using Ceph's msgr2 protocolencryption
: Settings for encryption on the wire to Ceph daemonsenabled
: Whether to encrypt the data in transit across the wire to prevent eavesdropping the data on the network. The default is false. When encryption is enabled, all communication between clients and Ceph daemons, or between Ceph daemons will be encrypted. When encryption is not enabled, clients still establish a strong initial authentication and data integrity is still validated with a crc check. IMPORTANT: Encryption requires the 5.11 kernel for the latest nbd and cephfs drivers. Alternatively for testing only, set "mounter: rbd-nbd" in the rbd storage class, or "mounter: fuse" in the cephfs storage class. The nbd and fuse drivers are not recommended in production since restarting the csi driver pod will disconnect the volumes.
compression
:enabled
: Whether to compress the data in transit across the wire. The default is false. Requires Ceph Quincy (v17) or newer. Also see the kernel requirements above for encryption.
Caution
Changing networking configuration after a Ceph cluster has been deployed is NOT supported and will result in a non-functioning cluster.
Host Networking¶
To use host networking, set provider: host
.
If the host networking setting is changed in a cluster where mons are already running, the existing mons will remain running with the same network settings with which they were created. To complete the conversion to or from host networking after you update this setting, you will need to failover the mons in order to have mons on the desired network configuration.
Multus¶
Rook supports addition of public and cluster network for ceph using Multus
The selector keys are required to be public
and cluster
where each represent:
public
: client communications with the cluster (reads/writes)cluster
: internal Ceph replication network
If you want to learn more, please read:
Based on the configuration, the operator will do the following:
-
If only the
public
selector is specified, all communication will happen on that network -
If only the
cluster
selector is specified, the internal cluster traffic* will happen on that network. All other traffic to mons, OSDs, and other daemons will be on the default network. -
If both
public
andcluster
selectors are specified the first one will run all the communication network and the second the internal cluster network*
* Internal cluster traffic includes OSD heartbeats, data replication, and data recovery
Only OSD pods will have both Public and Cluster networks attached. The rest of the Ceph component pods and CSI pods will only have the Public network attached. Rook Ceph operator will not have any networks attached as it proxies the required commands via a sidecar container in the mgr pod.
In order to work, each selector value must match a NetworkAttachmentDefinition
object name in Multus.
For multus
network provider, an already working cluster with Multus networking is required. Network attachment definition that later will be attached to the cluster needs to be created before the Cluster CRD. The Network attachment definitions should be using whereabouts cni. If Rook cannot find the provided Network attachment definition it will fail running the Ceph OSD pods. You can add the Multus network attachment selection annotation selecting the created network attachment definition on selectors
.
A valid NetworkAttachmentDefinition will look like following:
- Ensure that
master
matches the network interface of the host that you want to use. - Ipam type
whereabouts
is required because it makes sure that all the pods get a unique IP address from the multus network. - The NetworkAttachmentDefinition should be referenced along with the namespace in which it is present like
public: <namespace>/<name of NAD>
. e.g., the network attachment definition are indefault
namespace:
1 2 |
|
Known limitations with Multus¶
Daemons leveraging Kubernetes service IPs (Monitors, Managers, Rados Gateways) are not listening on the NAD specified in the selectors
. Instead the daemon listens on the default network, however the NAD is attached to the container, allowing the daemon to communicate with the rest of the cluster. There is work in progress to fix this issue in the multus-service repository. At the time of writing it's unclear when this will be supported.
IPFamily¶
Provide single-stack IPv4 or IPv6 protocol to assign corresponding addresses to pods and services. This field is optional. Possible inputs are IPv6 and IPv4. Empty value will be treated as IPv4. Kubernetes version should be at least v1.13 to run IPv6. Dual-stack is supported as of ceph Pacific. To turn on dual stack see the network configuration section.
Node Settings¶
In addition to the cluster level settings specified above, each individual node can also specify configuration to override the cluster level settings and defaults. If a node does not specify any configuration then it will inherit the cluster level settings.
name
: The name of the node, which should match itskubernetes.io/hostname
label.config
: Config settings applied to all OSDs on the node unless overridden bydevices
. See the config settings below.- storage selection settings
When useAllNodes
is set to true
, Rook attempts to make Ceph cluster management as hands-off as possible while still maintaining reasonable data safety. If a usable node comes online, Rook will begin to use it automatically. To maintain a balance between hands-off usability and data safety, Nodes are removed from Ceph as OSD hosts only (1) if the node is deleted from Kubernetes itself or (2) if the node has its taints or affinities modified in such a way that the node is no longer usable by Rook. Any changes to taints or affinities, intentional or unintentional, may affect the data reliability of the Ceph cluster. In order to help protect against this somewhat, deletion of nodes by taint or affinity modifications must be "confirmed" by deleting the Rook Ceph operator pod and allowing the operator deployment to restart the pod.
For production clusters, we recommend that useAllNodes
is set to false
to prevent the Ceph cluster from suffering reduced data reliability unintentionally due to a user mistake. When useAllNodes
is set to false
, Rook relies on the user to be explicit about when nodes are added to or removed from the Ceph cluster. Nodes are only added to the Ceph cluster if the node is added to the Ceph cluster resource. Similarly, nodes are only removed if the node is removed from the Ceph cluster resource.
Node Updates¶
Nodes can be added and removed over time by updating the Cluster CRD, for example with kubectl -n rook-ceph edit cephcluster rook-ceph
. This will bring up your default text editor and allow you to add and remove storage nodes from the cluster. This feature is only available when useAllNodes
has been set to false
.
Storage Selection Settings¶
Below are the settings for host-based cluster. This type of cluster can specify devices for OSDs, both at the cluster and individual node level, for selecting which storage resources will be included in the cluster.
useAllDevices
:true
orfalse
, indicating whether all devices found on nodes in the cluster should be automatically consumed by OSDs. Not recommended unless you have a very controlled environment where you will not risk formatting of devices with existing data. Whentrue
, all devices and partitions will be used. Is overridden bydeviceFilter
if specified. LVM logical volumes are not picked byuseAllDevices
.deviceFilter
: A regular expression for short kernel names of devices (e.g.sda
) that allows selection of devices and partitions to be consumed by OSDs. LVM logical volumes are not picked bydeviceFilter
.If individual devices have been specified for a node then this filter will be ignored. This field uses golang regular expression syntax. For example:sdb
: Only selects thesdb
device if found^sd.
: Selects all devices starting withsd
^sd[a-d]
: Selects devices starting withsda
,sdb
,sdc
, andsdd
if found^s
: Selects all devices that start withs
^[^r]
: Selects all devices that do not start withr
devicePathFilter
: A regular expression for device paths (e.g./dev/disk/by-path/pci-0:1:2:3-scsi-1
) that allows selection of devices and partitions to be consumed by OSDs. LVM logical volumes are not picked bydevicePathFilter
.If individual devices ordeviceFilter
have been specified for a node then this filter will be ignored. This field uses golang regular expression syntax. For example:^/dev/sd.
: Selects all devices starting withsd
^/dev/disk/by-path/pci-.*
: Selects all devices which are connected to PCI bus
devices
: A list of individual device names belonging to this node to include in the storage cluster.name
: The name of the devices and partitions (e.g.,sda
). The full udev path can also be specified for devices, partitions, and logical volumes (e.g./dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST4000DM004-XXXX
- this will not change after reboots).config
: Device-specific config settings. See the config settings below
Host-based cluster supports raw device, partition, and logical volume. Be sure to see the quickstart doc prerequisites for additional considerations.
Below are the settings for a PVC-based cluster.
storageClassDeviceSets
: Explained in Storage Class Device Sets
Storage Class Device Sets¶
The following are the settings for Storage Class Device Sets which can be configured to create OSDs that are backed by block mode PVs.
name
: A name for the set.count
: The number of devices in the set.resources
: The CPU and RAM requests/limits for the devices. (Optional)placement
: The placement criteria for the devices. (Optional) Default is no placement criteria.
The syntax is the same as for other placement configuration. It supports nodeAffinity
, podAffinity
, podAntiAffinity
and tolerations
keys.
It is recommended to configure the placement such that the OSDs will be as evenly spread across nodes as possible. At a minimum, anti-affinity should be added so at least one OSD will be placed on each available nodes.
However, if there are more OSDs than nodes, this anti-affinity will not be effective. Another placement scheme to consider is to add labels to the nodes in such a way that the OSDs can be grouped on those nodes, create multiple storageClassDeviceSets, and add node affinity to each of the device sets that will place the OSDs in those sets of nodes.
Rook will automatically add required nodeAffinity to the OSD daemons to match the topology labels that are found on the nodes where the OSD prepare jobs ran. To ensure data durability, the OSDs are required to run in the same topology that the Ceph CRUSH map expects. For example, if the nodes are labeled with rack topology labels, the OSDs will be constrained to a certain rack. Without the topology labels, Rook will not constrain the OSDs beyond what is required by the PVs, for example to run in the zone where provisioned. See the OSD Topology section for the related labels.
preparePlacement
: The placement criteria for the preparation of the OSD devices. Creating OSDs is a two-step process and the prepare job may require different placement than the OSD daemons. If thepreparePlacement
is not specified, theplacement
will instead be applied for consistent placement for the OSD prepare jobs and OSD deployments. ThepreparePlacement
is only useful forportable
OSDs in the device sets. OSDs that are not portable will be tied to the host where the OSD prepare job initially runs.- For example, provisioning may require topology spread constraints across zones, but the OSD daemons may require constraints across hosts within the zones.
portable
: Iftrue
, the OSDs will be allowed to move between nodes during failover. This requires a storage class that supports portability (e.g.aws-ebs
, but not the local storage provisioner). Iffalse
, the OSDs will be assigned to a node permanently. Rook will configure Ceph's CRUSH map to support the portability.tuneDeviceClass
: For example, Ceph cannot detect AWS volumes as HDDs from the storage class "gp2", so you can improve Ceph performance by setting this to true.tuneFastDeviceClass
: For example, Ceph cannot detect Azure disks as SSDs from the storage class "managed-premium", so you can improve Ceph performance by setting this to true..volumeClaimTemplates
: A list of PVC templates to use for provisioning the underlying storage devices.resources.requests.storage
: The desired capacity for the underlying storage devices.storageClassName
: The StorageClass to provision PVCs from. Default would be to use the cluster-default StorageClass. This StorageClass should provide a raw block device, multipath device, or logical volume. Other types are not supported. If you want to use logical volume, please see known issue of OSD on LV-backed PVCvolumeMode
: The volume mode to be set for the PVC. Which should be BlockaccessModes
: The access mode for the PVC to be bound by OSD.
schedulerName
: Scheduler name for OSD pod placement. (Optional)encrypted
: whether to encrypt all the OSDs in a given storageClassDeviceSet
OSD Configuration Settings¶
The following storage selection settings are specific to Ceph and do not apply to other backends. All variables are key-value pairs represented as strings.
metadataDevice
: Name of a device or lvm to use for the metadata of OSDs on each node. Performance can be improved by using a low latency device (such as SSD or NVMe) as the metadata device, while other spinning platter (HDD) devices on a node are used to store data. Provisioning will fail if the user specifies ametadataDevice
but that device is not used as a metadata device by Ceph. Notably,ceph-volume
will not use a device of the same device class (HDD, SSD, NVMe) as OSD devices for metadata, resulting in this failure.databaseSizeMB
: The size in MB of a bluestore database. Include quotes around the size.walSizeMB
: The size in MB of a bluestore write ahead log (WAL). Include quotes around the size.deviceClass
: The CRUSH device class to use for this selection of storage devices. (By default, if a device's class has not already been set, OSDs will automatically set a device's class to eitherhdd
,ssd
, ornvme
based on the hardware properties exposed by the Linux kernel.) These storage classes can then be used to select the devices backing a storage pool by specifying them as the value of the pool spec'sdeviceClass
field.initialWeight
: The initial OSD weight in TiB units. By default, this value is derived from OSD's capacity.primaryAffinity
: The primary-affinity value of an OSD, within range[0, 1]
(default:1
).osdsPerDevice
**: The number of OSDs to create on each device. High performance devices such as NVMe can handle running multiple OSDs. If desired, this can be overridden for each node and each device.encryptedDevice
**: Encrypt OSD volumes using dmcrypt ("true" or "false"). By default this option is disabled. See encryption for more information on encryption in Ceph.crushRoot
: The value of theroot
CRUSH map label. The default isdefault
. Generally, you should not need to change this. However, if any of your topology labels may have the valuedefault
, you need to changecrushRoot
to avoid conflicts, since CRUSH map values need to be unique.
Annotations and Labels¶
Annotations and Labels can be specified so that the Rook components will have those annotations / labels added to them.
You can set annotations / labels for Rook components for the list of key value pairs:
all
: Set annotations / labels for all components exceptclusterMetadata
.mgr
: Set annotations / labels for MGRsmon
: Set annotations / labels for monsosd
: Set annotations / labels for OSDsprepareosd
: Set annotations / labels for OSD Prepare Jobsmonitoring
: Set annotations / labels for service monitorcrashcollector
: Set annotations / labels for crash collectorsclusterMetadata
: Set annotations only torook-ceph-mon-endpoints
configmap and therook-ceph-mon
androok-ceph-admin-keyring
secrets. These annotations will not be merged with theall
annotations. The common usage is for backing up these critical resources withkubed
. Note the clusterMetadata annotation will not be merged with theall
annotation. When other keys are set,all
will be merged together with the specific component.
Placement Configuration Settings¶
Placement configuration for the cluster services. It includes the following keys: mgr
, mon
, arbiter
, osd
, prepareosd
, cleanup
, and all
. Each service will have its placement configuration generated by merging the generic configuration under all
with the most specific one (which will override any attributes).
In stretch clusters, if the arbiter
placement is specified, that placement will only be applied to the arbiter. Neither will the arbiter
placement be merged with the all
placement to allow the arbiter to be fully independent of other daemon placement. The remaining mons will still use the mon
and/or all
sections.
Note
Placement of OSD pods is controlled using the Storage Class Device Set, not the general placement
configuration.
A Placement configuration is specified (according to the kubernetes PodSpec) as:
nodeAffinity
: kubernetes NodeAffinitypodAffinity
: kubernetes PodAffinitypodAntiAffinity
: kubernetes PodAntiAffinitytolerations
: list of kubernetes TolerationtopologySpreadConstraints
: kubernetes TopologySpreadConstraints
If you use labelSelector
for osd
pods, you must write two rules both for rook-ceph-osd
and rook-ceph-osd-prepare
like the example configuration. It comes from the design that there are these two pods for an OSD. For more detail, see the osd design doc and the related issue.
The Rook Ceph operator creates a Job called rook-ceph-detect-version
to detect the full Ceph version used by the given cephVersion.image
. The placement from the mon
section is used for the Job except for the PodAntiAffinity
field.
Placement Example¶
To control where various services will be scheduled by kubernetes, use the placement configuration sections below. The example under 'all' would have all services scheduled on kubernetes nodes labeled with 'role=storage-node. Specific node affinity and tolerations that only apply to the
mondaemons in this example require the label
role=storage-mon-node` and also tolerate the control plane taint.
Cluster-wide Resources Configuration Settings¶
Resources should be specified so that the Rook components are handled after Kubernetes Pod Quality of Service classes. This allows to keep Rook components running when for example a node runs out of memory and the Rook components are not killed depending on their Quality of Service class.
You can set resource requests/limits for Rook components through the Resource Requirements/Limits structure in the following keys:
mon
: Set resource requests/limits for monsosd
: Set resource requests/limits for OSDs. This key applies for all OSDs regardless of their device classes. In case of need to apply resource requests/limits for OSDs with particular device class use specific osd keys below. If the memory resource is declared Rook will automatically set the OSD configurationosd_memory_target
to the same value. This aims to ensure that the actual OSD memory consumption is consistent with the OSD pods' resource declaration.osd-<deviceClass>
: Set resource requests/limits for OSDs on a specific device class. Rook will automatically detecthdd
,ssd
, ornvme
device classes. Custom device classes can also be set.mgr
: Set resource requests/limits for MGRsmgr-sidecar
: Set resource requests/limits for the MGR sidecar, which is only created whenmgr.count: 2
. The sidecar requires very few resources since it only executes every 15 seconds to query Ceph for the active mgr and update the mgr services if the active mgr changed.prepareosd
: Set resource requests/limits for OSD prepare jobcrashcollector
: Set resource requests/limits for crash. This pod runs wherever there is a Ceph pod running. It scrapes for Ceph daemon core dumps and sends them to the Ceph manager crash module so that core dumps are centralized and can be easily listed/accessed. You can read more about the Ceph Crash module.logcollector
: Set resource requests/limits for the log collector. When enabled, this container runs as side-car to each Ceph daemons.cleanup
: Set resource requests/limits for cleanup job, responsible for wiping cluster's data after uninstall
In order to provide the best possible experience running Ceph in containers, Rook internally recommends minimum memory limits if resource limits are passed. If a user configures a limit or request value that is too low, Rook will still run the pod(s) and print a warning to the operator log.
mon
: 1024MBmgr
: 512MBosd
: 2048MBcrashcollector
: 60MBmgr-sidecar
: 100MB limit, 40MB requestsprepareosd
: no limits (see the note)
Note
We recommend not setting memory limits on the OSD prepare job to prevent OSD provisioning failure due to memory constraints. The OSD prepare job bursts memory usage during the OSD provisioning depending on the size of the device, typically 1-2Gi for large disks. The OSD prepare job only bursts a single time per OSD. All future runs of the OSD prepare job will detect the OSD is already provisioned and skip the provisioning.
Hint
The resources for MDS daemons are not configured in the Cluster. Refer to the Ceph Filesystem CRD instead.
Resource Requirements/Limits¶
For more information on resource requests/limits see the official Kubernetes documentation: Kubernetes - Managing Compute Resources for Containers
requests
: Requests for cpu or memory.cpu
: Request for CPU (example: one CPU core1
, 50% of one CPU core500m
).memory
: Limit for Memory (example: one gigabyte of memory1Gi
, half a gigabyte of memory512Mi
).
limits
: Limits for cpu or memory.cpu
: Limit for CPU (example: one CPU core1
, 50% of one CPU core500m
).memory
: Limit for Memory (example: one gigabyte of memory1Gi
, half a gigabyte of memory512Mi
).
Warning
Before setting resource requests/limits, please take a look at the Ceph documentation for recommendations for each component: Ceph - Hardware Recommendations.
Node Specific Resources for OSDs¶
This example shows that you can override these requests/limits for OSDs per node when using useAllNodes: false
in the node
item in the nodes
list.
Priority Class Names¶
Priority class names can be specified so that the Rook components will have those priority class names added to them.
You can set priority class names for Rook components for the list of key value pairs:
all
: Set priority class names for MGRs, Mons, OSDs, and crashcollectors.mgr
: Set priority class names for MGRs. Examples default to system-cluster-critical.mon
: Set priority class names for Mons. Examples default to system-node-critical.osd
: Set priority class names for OSDs. Examples default to system-node-critical.crashcollector
: Set priority class names for crashcollectors.
The specific component keys will act as overrides to all
.
Health settings¶
The Rook Ceph operator will monitor the state of the CephCluster on various components by default. The following CRD settings are available:
healthCheck
: main ceph cluster health monitoring section
Currently three health checks are implemented:
mon
: health check on the ceph monitors, basically check whether monitors are members of the quorum. If after a certain timeout a given monitor has not joined the quorum back it will be failed over and replace by a new monitor.osd
: health check on the ceph osdsstatus
: ceph health status check, periodically check the Ceph health state and reflects it in the CephCluster CR status field.
The liveness probe and startup probe of each daemon can also be controlled via livenessProbe
and startupProbe
respectively. The settings are valid for mon
, mgr
and osd
. Here is a complete example for both daemonHealth
, livenessProbe
, and startupProbe
:
The probe's timing values and thresholds (but not the probe itself) can also be overridden. For more info, refer to the Kubernetes documentation.
For example, you could change the mgr
probe by applying:
Changing the liveness probe is an advanced operation and should rarely be necessary. If you want to change these settings then modify the desired settings.
Status¶
The operator is regularly configuring and checking the health of the cluster. The results of the configuration and health checks can be seen in the status
section of the CephCluster CR.
Ceph Status¶
Ceph is constantly monitoring the health of the data plane and reporting back if there are any warnings or errors. If everything is healthy from Ceph's perspective, you will see HEALTH_OK
.
If Ceph reports any warnings or errors, the details will be printed to the status. If further troubleshooting is needed to resolve these issues, the toolbox will likely be needed where you can run ceph
commands to find more details.
The capacity
of the cluster is reported, including bytes available, total, and used. The available space will be less that you may expect due to overhead in the OSDs.
Conditions¶
The conditions
represent the status of the Rook operator.
- If the cluster is fully configured and the operator is stable, the
Ready
condition is raised withClusterCreated
reason and no other conditions. The cluster will remain in theReady
condition after the first successful configuration since it is expected the storage is consumable from this point on. If there are issues preventing the storage layer from working, they are expected to show as Ceph health errors. - If the cluster is externally connected successfully, the
Ready
condition will have the reasonClusterConnected
. - If the operator is currently being configured or the operator is checking for update, there will be a
Progressing
condition. - If there was a failure, the condition(s) status will be
false
and themessage
will give a summary of the error. See the operator log for more details.
Other Status¶
There are several other properties for the overall status including:
message
,phase
, andstate
: A summary of the overall current state of the cluster, which is somewhat duplicated from the conditions for backward compatibility.storage.deviceClasses
: The names of the types of storage devices that Ceph discovered in the cluster. These types will bessd
orhdd
unless they have been overridden with thecrushDeviceClass
in thestorageClassDeviceSets
.version
: The version of the Ceph image currently deployed.
OSD Topology¶
The topology of the cluster is important in production environments where you want your data spread across failure domains. The topology can be controlled by adding labels to the nodes. When the labels are found on a node at first OSD deployment, Rook will add them to the desired level in the CRUSH map.
The complete list of labels in hierarchy order from highest to lowest is:
For example, if the following labels were added to a node:
These labels would result in the following hierarchy for OSDs on that node (this command can be run in the Rook toolbox):
Ceph requires unique names at every level in the hierarchy (CRUSH map). For example, you cannot have two racks with the same name that are in different zones. Racks in different zones must be named uniquely.
Note that the host
is added automatically to the hierarchy by Rook. The host cannot be specified with a topology label. All topology labels are optional.
Hint
When setting the node labels prior to CephCluster
creation, these settings take immediate effect. However, applying this to an already deployed CephCluster
requires removing each node from the cluster first and then re-adding it with new configuration to take effect. Do this node by node to keep your data safe! Check the result with ceph osd tree
from the Rook Toolbox. The OSD tree should display the hierarchy for the nodes that already have been re-added.
To utilize the failureDomain
based on the node labels, specify the corresponding option in the CephBlockPool
This configuration will split the replication of volumes across unique racks in the data center setup.
Deleting a CephCluster¶
During deletion of a CephCluster resource, Rook protects against accidental or premature destruction of user data by blocking deletion if there are any other Rook Ceph Custom Resources that reference the CephCluster being deleted. Rook will warn about which other resources are blocking deletion in three ways until all blocking resources are deleted:
- An event will be registered on the CephCluster resource
- A status condition will be added to the CephCluster resource
- An error will be added to the Rook Ceph operator log
Cleanup policy¶
Rook has the ability to cleanup resources and data that were deployed when a CephCluster is removed. The policy settings indicate which data should be forcibly deleted and in what way the data should be wiped. The cleanupPolicy
has several fields:
confirmation
: Only an empty string andyes-really-destroy-data
are valid values for this field. If this setting is empty, thecleanupPolicy
settings will be ignored and Rook will not cleanup any resources during cluster removal. To reinstall the cluster, the admin would then be required to follow the cleanup guide to delete the data on hosts. If this setting isyes-really-destroy-data
, the operator will automatically delete the data on hosts. Because this cleanup policy is destructive, after the confirmation is set toyes-really-destroy-data
Rook will stop configuring the cluster as if the cluster is about to be destroyed.sanitizeDisks
: sanitizeDisks represents advanced settings that can be used to delete data on drives.method
: indicates if the entire disk should be sanitized or simply ceph's metadata. Possible choices arequick
(default) orcomplete
dataSource
: indicate where to get random bytes from to write on the disk. Possible choices arezero
(default) orrandom
. Using random sources will consume entropy from the system and will take much more time then the zero sourceiteration
: overwrite N times instead of the default (1). Takes an integer value
allowUninstallWithVolumes
: If set to true, then the cephCluster deletion doesn't wait for the PVCs to be deleted. Default isfalse
.
To automate activation of the cleanup, you can use the following command. WARNING: DATA WILL BE PERMANENTLY DELETED:
Nothing will happen until the deletion of the CR is requested, so this can still be reverted. However, all new configuration by the operator will be blocked with this cleanup policy enabled.
Rook waits for the deletion of PVs provisioned using the cephCluster before proceeding to delete the cephCluster. To force deletion of the cephCluster without waiting for the PVs to be deleted, you can set the allowUninstallWithVolumes
to true under spec.CleanupPolicy
.