[lxc-users] Kubernetes Storage Provisioning using LXD

Serge E. Hallyn serge at hallyn.com
Thu Feb 16 20:34:48 UTC 2017


Quoting Eric (naisanza at gmail.com):
> That's is what I've also been trying to do
> 
> Kubernetes has a list of supported persistent volume types, of which the
> only one's that aren't cloud-based that I've tried are NFS, CephFS,
> Glusterfs, and HostPath
> 
> https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/persistent-volumes/#types-of-persistent-volumes
> 
> With LXC + ZFS you can't:
> 
> - provide a raw block device (/dev/sad) to heketi, or a loopback device
> (/dev/loop0). so glusterfs is out of the picture (
> https://github.com/heketi/heketi/issues/665)
> - cephfs is like glusterfs, so cephfs is out
> - NFS requires kernel modules, so nfs is out
> - HostPath doesn't work over multiple nodes

Fwiw, while lxc currently does not support ceph or glusterfs, patches to add
such support would be welcome.

-serge


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