---
title: Kubernetes Ceph RBD volume with CSI driver
url: https://devopstales.github.io/kubernetes/k8s-ceph-storage-with-csi-driver/
date: 2019-10-08
keywords: rook, ceph, kubernetes, deployment
---


In this post I will show you how can you use CEPH RBD with CSI driver for persistent storage on Kubernetes.

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The Container Storage Interface (CSI) is a standard for exposing arbitrary block and file storage storage systems to Kubernetes. Using CSI third-party storage providers can write and deploy plugins exposing storage systems in Kubernetes. Before we begin lets ensure that we have the following requirements:

* Kubernetes cluster v1.14+
* allow-privileged flag enabled for both kubelet and API server
* Running Ceph cluster

```
git clone https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi.git
cd ceph-csi/deploy/rbd/kubernetes/v1.14+/

kubectl create -f csi-nodeplugin-rbac.yaml
kubectl create -f csi-provisioner-rbac.yaml
```

```bash
ceph config generate-minimal-conf

# minimal ceph.conf for 54530b3e-9823-4c84-9c39-a65470e961e8
[global]
	fsid = 54530b3e-9823-4c84-9c39-a65470e961e8
	mon_host = [v2:1192.168.1.31:3300/0,v1:192.168.1.31:6789/0] [v2:192.168.1.32:3300/0,v1:192.168.1.32:6789/0] [v2:192.168.1.33:3300/0,v1:192.168.1.33:6789/0]
```

```
nano csi-config-map.yaml
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
data:
  config.json: |-
    [
      {
        "clusterID": "54530b3e-9823-4c84-9c39-a65470e961e8",
        "monitors": [
          "192.168.1.31:6789",
          "192.168.1.32:6789",
          "192.168.1.33:6789"
        ]
      }
    ]
metadata:
  name: ceph-csi-config


kubectl create -fcsi-config-map.yaml
```

```
kubectl create -f csi-rbdplugin-provisioner.yaml
kubectl create -f csi-rbdplugin.yaml
```

```
ceph auth get-key client.admin|base64
QVFDTDliVmNEb21I32SHoPxXNGhmRkczTFNtcXM0ZW5VaXlTZEE977==

nano csi-rbd-secret.yaml
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: csi-rbd-secret
  namespace: default
data:
  userID: admin
  userKey: QVFDTDliVmNEb21I32SHoPxXNGhmRkczTFNtcXM0ZW5VaXlTZEE977==

nano rbd-csi-sc.yaml
---
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
kind: StorageClass
metadata:
   name: csi-rbd
provisioner: rbd.csi.ceph.com
parameters:
   monitors: 192.168.1.31:6790,192.168.1.32:6790,192.168.1.33:6790
   clusterID: k8s-ceph
   pool: rbd
   imageFeatures: layering
   csi.storage.k8s.io/provisioner-secret-name: csi-rbd-secret
   csi.storage.k8s.io/provisioner-secret-namespace: default
   csi.storage.k8s.io/node-publish-secret-name: csi-rbd-secret
   csi.storage.k8s.io/node-publish-secret-namespace: default
   adminid: admin
   csi.storage.k8s.io/fstype: ext4
reclaimPolicy: Delete
mountOptions:
   - discard

kubectl create -f csi-rbd-secret.yaml
kubectl create -f rbd-csi-sc.yaml

kubectl get storageclass
NAME      PROVISIONER        AGE
csi-rbd   rbd.csi.ceph.com   15s
```

```
nano raw-block-pvc.yaml
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: raw-block-pvc
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteMany
  volumeMode: Block
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 1Gi
  storageClassName: csi-rbd

kubectl create -f raw-block-pvc.yaml

kubectl get pvc
NAME            STATUS    VOLUME                                  
raw-block-pvc   Bound     pvc-fd66b4d6-757d-22e9-8f9e-4f86e2356a59
```