csi-driver-lvm

CSI DRIVER LVM utilizes local storage of Kubernetes nodes to provide persistent storage for pods.

It automatically creates hostPath based persistent volumes on the nodes.

Underneath it creates a LVM logical volume on the local disks. A comma-separated list of grok pattern, which disks to use must be specified.

This CSI driver is derived from csi-driver-host-path and csi-lvm

Currently it can create, delete, mount, unmount and resize block and filesystem volumes via lvm

For the special case of block volumes, the filesystem-expansion has to be performed by the app using the block device

Installation

Helm charts for installation are located in a separate repository called helm-charts. If you would like to contribute to the helm chart, please raise an issue or pull request there.

You have to set the devicePattern for your hardware to specify which disks should be used to create the volume group.

helm install --repo https://helm.metal-stack.io mytest helm/csi-driver-lvm --set lvm.devicePattern='/dev/nvme[0-9]n[0-9]'

Now you can use one of following storageClasses:

csi-driver-lvm-linear
csi-driver-lvm-mirror
csi-driver-lvm-striped

To get the previous old and now deprecated csi-lvm-sc-linear, ... storageclasses, set helm-chart value compat03x=true.

Migration

If you want to migrate your existing PVC to / from csi-driver-lvm, you can use korb.

Todo

implement CreateSnapshot(), ListSnapshots(), DeleteSnapshot()

Test

kubectl apply -f examples/csi-pvc-raw.yaml
kubectl apply -f examples/csi-pod-raw.yaml


kubectl apply -f examples/csi-pvc.yaml
kubectl apply -f examples/csi-app.yaml

kubectl delete -f examples/csi-pod-raw.yaml
kubectl delete -f examples/csi-pvc-raw.yaml

kubectl delete -f  examples/csi-app.yaml
kubectl delete -f examples/csi-pvc.yaml

In order to run the integration tests locally, you need to create to loop devices on your host machine. Make sure the loop device mount paths are not used on your system (default path is /dev/loop10{0,1}).

You can create these loop devices like this:

for i in 100 101; do fallocate -l 1G loop${i}.img ; sudo losetup /dev/loop${i} loop${i}.img; done
sudo losetup -a
# use this for recreation or cleanup
# for i in 100 101; do sudo losetup -d /dev/loop${i}; rm -f loop${i}.img; done

You can then run the tests against a kind cluster, running:

make test

To recreate or cleanup the kind cluster:

make test-cleanup