Ceph CSI Drivers

There are three CSI drivers integrated with Rook that will enable different scenarios:

• RBD: This block storage driver is optimized for RWO pod access where only one pod may access the storage. More information.
• CephFS: This file storage driver allows for RWX with one or more pods accessing the same storage. More information.
• NFS (experimental): This file storage driver allows creating NFS exports that can be mounted to pods, or the exports can be mounted directly via an NFS client from inside or outside the Kubernetes cluster. More information.

The Ceph Filesystem (CephFS) and RADOS Block Device (RBD) drivers are enabled automatically with the Rook operator. The NFS driver is disabled by default. All drivers will be started in the same namespace as the operator when the first CephCluster CR is created.

Supported Versions¶

The supported Ceph CSI version is 3.3.0 or greater with Rook. Refer to ceph csi releases for more information.

Static Provisioning¶

Both drivers also support the creation of static PV and static PVC from existing RBD image/CephFS volume. Refer to static PVC for more information.

Configure CSI Drivers in non-default namespace¶

If you've deployed the Rook operator in a namespace other than "rook-ceph", change the prefix in the provisioner to match the namespace you used. For example, if the Rook operator is running in the namespace "my-namespace" the provisioner value should be "my-namespace.rbd.csi.ceph.com". The same provisioner name needs to be set in both the storageclass and snapshotclass.

Liveness Sidecar¶

All CSI pods are deployed with a sidecar container that provides a prometheus metric for tracking if the CSI plugin is alive and running. These metrics are meant to be collected by prometheus but can be accesses through a GET request to a specific node ip. for example curl -X get http://[pod ip]:[liveness-port][liveness-path] 2>/dev/null | grep csi the expected output should be

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$ curl -X GET http://10.109.65.142:9080/metrics 2>/dev/null | grep csi
# HELP csi_liveness Liveness Probe
# TYPE csi_liveness gauge
csi_liveness 1

Check the monitoring doc to see how to integrate CSI liveness and grpc metrics into ceph monitoring.

Dynamically Expand Volume¶

Prerequisite¶

• For filesystem resize to be supported for your Kubernetes cluster, the kubernetes version running in your cluster should be >= v1.15 and for block volume resize support the Kubernetes version should be >= v1.16. Also, ExpandCSIVolumes feature gate has to be enabled for the volume resize functionality to work.

To expand the PVC the controlling StorageClass must have allowVolumeExpansion set to true. csi.storage.k8s.io/controller-expand-secret-name and csi.storage.k8s.io/controller-expand-secret-namespace values set in storageclass. Now expand the PVC by editing the PVC pvc.spec.resource.requests.storage to a higher values than the current size. Once PVC is expanded on backend and same is reflected size is reflected on application mountpoint, the status capacity pvc.status.capacity.storage of PVC will be updated to new size.

RBD Mirroring¶

To support RBD Mirroring, the Volume Replication Operator will be started in the RBD provisioner pod. The Volume Replication Operator is a kubernetes operator that provides common and reusable APIs for storage disaster recovery. It is based on csi-addons/spec specification and can be used by any storage provider. It follows the controller pattern and provides extended APIs for storage disaster recovery. The extended APIs are provided via Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).

Prerequisites¶

Kubernetes version 1.21 or greater is required.

Enable volume replication¶

1. Install the volume replication CRDs:

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   kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csi-addons/volume-replication-operator/v0.3.0/config/crd/bases/replication.storage.openshift.io_volumereplications.yaml kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csi-addons/volume-replication-operator/v0.3.0/config/crd/bases/replication.storage.openshift.io_volumereplicationclasses.yaml

2. Enable the volume replication controller:

   • For Helm deployments see the csi.volumeReplication.enabled setting.
   • For non-Helm deployments set CSI_ENABLE_VOLUME_REPLICATION: "true" in operator.yaml

Ephemeral volume support¶

The generic ephemeral volume feature adds support for specifying PVCs in the volumes field to indicate a user would like to create a Volume as part of the pod spec. This feature requires the GenericEphemeralVolume feature gate to be enabled.

For example:

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kind: Pod
apiVersion: v1
...
  volumes:
    - name: mypvc
      ephemeral:
        volumeClaimTemplate:
          spec:
            accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
            storageClassName: "rook-ceph-block"
            resources:
              requests:
                storage: 1Gi

A volume claim template is defined inside the pod spec which refers to a volume provisioned and used by the pod with its lifecycle. The volumes are provisioned when pod get spawned and destroyed at time of pod delete.

Refer to ephemeral-doc for more info. Also, See the example manifests for an RBD ephemeral volume and a CephFS ephemeral volume.

CSI-Addons Controller¶

The CSI-Addons Controller handles the requests from users to initiate an operation. Users create a CR that the controller inspects, and forwards a request to one or more CSI-Addons side-cars for execution.

Deploying the controller¶

Users can deploy the controller by running the following commands:

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kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csi-addons/kubernetes-csi-addons/v0.4.0/deploy/controller/crds.yaml
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csi-addons/kubernetes-csi-addons/v0.4.0/deploy/controller/rbac.yaml
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csi-addons/kubernetes-csi-addons/v0.4.0/deploy/controller/setup-controller.yaml

This creates the required crds and configure permissions.

Enable the CSI-Addons Sidecar¶

To use the features provided by the CSI-Addons, the csi-addons containers need to be deployed in the RBD provisioner and nodeplugin pods, which are not enabled by default.

Execute the following command in the cluster to enable the CSI-Addons sidecar:

• Update the rook-ceph-operator-config configmap and patch the following configurations

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kubectl patch cm rook-ceph-operator-config -nrook-ceph -p $'data:\n "CSI_ENABLE_CSIADDONS": "true"'

• After enabling CSI_ENABLE_CSIADDONS in the configmap, a new sidecar container with name csi-addons should now start automatically in the RBD CSI provisioner and nodeplugin pods.

CSI-ADDONS Operation¶

CSI-Addons supports the following operations:

• Reclaim Space
• Creating a ReclaimSpaceJob
• Creating a ReclaimSpaceCronJob
• Annotating PersistentVolumeClaims
• Network Fencing
• Creating a NetworkFence

Enable RBD Encryption Support¶

Ceph-CSI supports encrypting individual RBD PersistentVolumeClaim with LUKS encryption. More details can be found here with full list of supported encryption configurations. A sample configmap can be found here.

Using both RBD PVC encryption and OSD encryption together will lead to double encryption and may reduce read/write performance.

Unlike OSD encryption, existing ceph clusters can also enable Ceph-CSI RBD PVC encryption support and multiple kinds of encryption KMS can be used on the same ceph cluster using different storageclasses.

Following steps demonstrate how to enable support for encryption:

• Create the rook-ceph-csi-kms-config configmap with required encryption configuration in the same namespace where the Rook operator is deployed. An example is shown below:

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apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  name: rook-ceph-csi-kms-config
  namespace: rook-ceph
data:
  config.json: |-
    {
      "user-secret-metadata": {
        "encryptionKMSType": "metadata",
        "secretName": "storage-encryption-secret"
      }
    }

• Update the rook-ceph-operator-config configmap and patch the following configurations

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kubectl patch cm rook-ceph-operator-config -nrook-ceph -p $'data:\n "CSI_ENABLE_ENCRYPTION": "true"'

• Create necessary resources (secrets, configmaps etc) as required by the encryption type. In this case, create storage-encryption-secret secret in the namespace of pvc as shown:

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apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: storage-encryption-secret
  namespace: rook-ceph
stringData:
  encryptionPassphrase: test-encryption

• Create a new storageclass with additional parameters encrypted: "true" and encryptionKMSID: "<key used in configmap>". An example is show below:

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apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
kind: StorageClass
metadata:
  name: rook-ceph-block-encrypted
parameters:
  # additional parameters required for encryption
  encrypted: "true"
  encryptionKMSID: "user-secret-metadata"
# ...

• PVCs created using the new storageclass will be encrypted.