Enable RBD ReadWriteOnly Additional Storage Classes¶
Additional storage classes can be added to the default RBD provisioner service.
About this task
Some reasons for adding an additional storage class include:
- managing Ceph resources for particular namespaces in a separate Ceph pool; simply for Ceph partitioning reasons 
- using an alternate Ceph Storage Tier, for example. with faster drives 
A modification to the configuration (Helm overrides) of the RBD provisioner service is required to enable an additional storage class
The following example that illustrates adding a second storage class to be utilized by a specific namespace.
Note
Due to limitations with templating and merging of overrides, the entire storage class must be redefined in the override when updating specific values.
Procedure
- List installed Helm chart overrides for the platform-integ-apps. - ~(keystone_admin)]$ system helm-override-list platform-integ-apps +--------------------+----------------------+ | chart name | overrides namespaces | +--------------------+----------------------+ | ceph-pools-audit | ['kube-system'] | | cephfs-provisioner | ['kube-system'] | | rbd-provisioner | ['kube-system'] | +--------------------+----------------------+ 
- Review existing overrides for the rbd-provisioner chart. You will refer to this information in the following step. - ~(keystone_admin)$ system helm-override-show platform-integ-apps rbd-provisioner kube-system 
- Create an overrides yaml file defining the new namespaces. - In this example we will create the file - /home/sysadmin/update-storageclass.yamlwith the following content:- ~(keystone_admin)]$ cat <<EOF > ~/update-storageclass.yaml classes: - additionalNamespaces: [default, kube-public, new-app, new-app2, new-app3] chunk_size: 64 crush_rule_name: storage_tier_ruleset name: general pool_name: kube-rbd replication: 1 userId: ceph-pool-kube-rbd userSecretName: ceph-pool-kube-rbd - additionalNamespaces: [ new-sc-app ] chunk_size: 64 crush_rule_name: storage_tier_ruleset name: special-storage-class pool_name: new-sc-app-pool replication: 1 userId: ceph-pool-new-sc-app userSecretName: ceph-pool-new-sc-app EOF 
- Apply the overrides file to the chart. - ~(keystone_admin)]$ system helm-override-update --values /home/sysadmin/update-storageclass.yaml platform-integ-apps rbd-provisioner kube-system +----------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +----------------+-----------------------------------------+ | name | rbd-provisioner | | namespace | kube-system | | user_overrides | classes: | | | - additionalNamespaces: | | | - default | | | - kube-public | | | - new-app | | | - new-app2 | | | - new-app3 | | | chunk_size: 64 | | | crush_rule_name: storage_tier_ruleset | | | name: general | | | pool_name: kube-rbd | | | replication: 1 | | | userId: ceph-pool-kube-rbd | | | userSecretName: ceph-pool-kube-rbd | | | - additionalNamespaces: | | | - new-sc-app | | | chunk_size: 64 | | | crush_rule_name: storage_tier_ruleset | | | name: special-storage-class | | | pool_name: new-sc-app-pool | | | replication: 1 | | | userId: ceph-pool-new-sc-app | | | userSecretName: ceph-pool-new-sc-app | +----------------+-----------------------------------------+ 
- Confirm that the new overrides have been applied to the chart. - The following output has been edited for brevity. - ~(keystone_admin)]$ system helm-override-show platform-integ-apps rbd-provisioner kube-system +--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ | attributes | enabled: true | | | | | combined_overrides | ... | | | | | name | | | namespace | | | system_overrides | ... | | | | | user_overrides | classes: | | | - additionalNamespaces: | | | - default | | | - kube-public | | | - new-app | | | - new-app2 | | | - new-app3 | | | chunk_size: 64 | | | crush_rule_name: storage_tier_ruleset | | | name: general | | | pool_name: kube-rbd | | | replication: 1 | | | userId: ceph-pool-kube-rbd | | | userSecretName: ceph-pool-kube-rbd | | | - additionalNamespaces: | | | - new-sc-app | | | chunk_size: 64 | | | crush_rule_name: storage_tier_ruleset | | | name: special-storage-class | | | pool_name: new-sc-app-pool | | | replication: 1 | | | userId: ceph-pool-new-sc-app | | | userSecretName: ceph-pool-new-sc-app | +--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+ 
- Apply the overrides. - Run the application-apply command. - ~(keystone_admin)]$ system application-apply platform-integ-apps +---------------+--------------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +---------------+--------------------------------------+ | active | True | | app_version | 1.0-62 | | created_at | 2022-12-14T04:14:08.878186+00:00 | | manifest_file | fluxcd-manifests | | manifest_name | platform-integ-apps-fluxcd-manifests | | name | platform-integ-apps | | progress | None | | status | applying | | updated_at | 2022-12-14T04:45:09.204231+00:00 | +---------------+--------------------------------------+ 
- Monitor progress using the application-list command. - ~(keystone_admin)]$ system application-list +--------------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------+------------------+----------+-----------+ | application | version | manifest name | manifest file | status | progress | +--------------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------+------------------+----------+-----------+ | platform-integ-apps | 1.0-62 | platform-integ-apps-fluxcd-manifests | fluxcd-manifests | applied | completed | +--------------------------+---------+-------------------------------------------+------------------+----------+-----------+ 
 - You can now create and mount persistent volumes from the new RBD provisioner’s special storage class from within the new-sc-app application-specific namespace. 
