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Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for VMware Cloud Director
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Support / documentation for installation on clusters not managed via VCD-CSE #117

Open butler54 opened 1 year ago

butler54 commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently our VCD installations have a small number of Kubernetes clusters of different flavours (e.g. OpenShift; micro Kubernetes) which have been installed manually. As a admin of those clusters I'd like to be able to use the CSI driver as opposed to relying on hostpath or NFS based storage.

Describe the solution you'd like

Instructions on using the CSI driver outside of the CSE. Im assuming this may require some modifications to the driver as well (e.g. cluster ID is no longer usable).

Describe alternatives you've considered

Some of the clusters have been provisioned due to vendor software constraints. This makes moving to TKG harder (but not impossible). The preferred solution would be to manage workloads via TKG & CSE deployed clusters.

Additional context

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arunmk commented 1 year ago

@butler54 can you try with a cluster_id of the form NO_RDE_<uuid>

butler54 commented 1 year ago

Will do

mate201 commented 1 year ago

I'm one the same boat here. I tried the cluster_id="NO_RDE_<uuid>" setting, and everything seems to work from my short testing.

Vivida1 commented 1 year ago

Is it correct that you can randomly choose a uuid for the cluster_id="NO_RDE_<uuid>" setting?

arunmk commented 1 year ago

Is it correct that you can randomly choose a uuid for the cluster_id="NO_RDE_<uuid>" setting?

For the NO_RDE mode, since there is no central dedup, we just choose a random uuid.

des1redState commented 5 months ago

+1 - A couple of our self-managed Rancher clusters happen to be hosted on VCD, and we really need some basic documentation on installing/using this CSI. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, it just has to be adequate.

des1redState commented 5 months ago

@butler54 - if you happened to get this working, I'd really appreciate your guidance in the meantime.