OpenEBS: Create persistent storage in your Charmed Kubernetes cluster

I previously wrote a blog about using StorageOS as persistent storage solution for Kubernetes here. StorageOS is dependent on etcd. I was having difficulties getting etcd up again after a reboot. Since I wanted to get a storage solution working quickly and not focus too much on external dependencies so I decided to give OpenEBS a try. In this blog I'll describe a developer installation on Charmed Kubernetes (the environment described here). I used openebs-jiva-default as storage class. This is unsuitable for production scenario's. OpenEBS also provides cStor. Most of the development effort goes there. cStor however requires a mounted block device. I have not tried this yet in my environment.

StorageOS: Create persistent storage in your Charmed Kubernetes cluster

If you want to experiment with a multi node Kubernetes cluster locally as a developer, you need a distributed persistent storage solution to approximate real production scenario's. StorageOS is one of those solutions. In this blog I describe a developer installation StorageOS. For production scenario's check out the best practices mentioned on the StorageOS site.