The RBD CSI plugin is able to provision new RBD images and attach and mount those to workloads.
CSI plugin can be compiled in a form of a binary file or in a form of a
Docker image. When compiled as a binary file, the result is stored in
_output/
directory with the name cephcsi
. When compiled as an image, it's
stored in the local Docker image store with name cephcsi
.
Building binary:
make cephcsi
Building Docker image:
make image-cephcsi
Available command line arguments:
Option | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|
--endpoint |
unix:///tmp/csi.sock |
CSI endpoint, must be a UNIX socket |
--csi-addons-endpoint |
unix:///tmp/csi-addons.sock |
CSI-Addons endpoint, must be a UNIX socket |
--drivername |
rbd.csi.ceph.com |
Name of the driver (Kubernetes: provisioner field in StorageClass must correspond to this value) |
--nodeid |
empty | This node's ID |
--type |
empty | Driver type: [rbd/cephfs] . If the driver type is set to rbd it will act as a rbd plugin or if it's set to cephfs will act as a cephfs plugin |
--instanceid |
"default" | Unique ID distinguishing this instance of Ceph CSI among other instances, when sharing Ceph clusters across CSI instances for provisioning |
--pidlimit |
0 | Configure the PID limit in cgroups. The container runtime can restrict the number of processes/tasks which can cause problems while provisioning (or deleting) a large number of volumes. A value of -1 configures the limit to the maximum, 0 does not configure limits at all. |
--metricsport |
8080 |
TCP port for liveness metrics requests |
--metricspath |
"/metrics" |
Path of prometheus endpoint where metrics will be available |
--polltime |
"60s" |
Time interval in between each poll |
--timeout |
"3s" |
Probe timeout in seconds |
--clustername |
empty | Cluster name to set on RBD image |
--domainlabels |
empty | Kubernetes node labels to use as CSI domain labels for topology aware provisioning, should be a comma separated value (ex:= "failure-domain/region,failure-domain/zone") |
--rbdhardmaxclonedepth |
8 |
Hard limit for maximum number of nested volume clones that are taken before a flatten occurs |
--rbdsoftmaxclonedepth |
4 |
Soft limit for maximum number of nested volume clones that are taken before a flatten occurs |
--skipforceflatten |
false |
skip image flattening on kernel < 5.2 which support mapping of rbd images which has the deep-flatten feature |
--maxsnapshotsonimage |
450 |
Maximum number of snapshots allowed on rbd image without flattening |
--setmetadata |
false |
Set metadata on volume |
--enable-read-affinity |
false |
enable read affinity |
--crush-location-labels |
empty | Kubernetes node labels that determine the CRUSH location the node belongs to, separated by ','.Note: These labels will be replaced if crush location labels are defined in the ceph-csi-config ConfigMap for the specific cluster. |
--logslowopinterval |
30s |
Log slow operations at the specified rate. Operation is considered slow if it outlives its deadline. |
Available volume parameters:
Parameter | Required | Description |
---|---|---|
clusterID |
yes | String representing a Ceph cluster, must be unique across all Ceph clusters in use for provisioning, cannot be greater than 36 bytes in length, and should remain immutable for the lifetime of the Ceph cluster in use |
pool |
yes | Ceph pool into which the RBD image shall be created |
dataPool |
no | Ceph pool used for the data of the RBD images. |
volumeNamePrefix |
no | Prefix to use for naming RBD images (defaults to csi-vol- ). |
snapshotNamePrefix |
no | Prefix to use for naming RBD snapshot images (defaults to csi-snap- ). |
imageFeatures |
no | RBD image features. CSI RBD currently supports layering , journaling , exclusive-lock , object-map , fast-diff , deep-flatten features. deep-flatten is added for cloned images. Refer https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rbd/rbd-config-ref/#image-features for image feature dependencies. |
mkfsOptions |
no | Options to pass to the mkfs command while creating the filesystem on the RBD device. Check the man-page for the mkfs command for the filesystem for more details. When mkfsOptions is set here, the defaults will not be used, consider including them in this parameter. |
tryOtherMounters |
no | Specifies whether to try other mounters in case if the current mounter fails to mount the rbd image for any reason |
mapOptions |
no | Map options to use when mapping rbd image. See krbd and nbd options. |
unmapOptions |
no | Unmap options to use when unmapping rbd image. See krbd and nbd options. |
csi.storage.k8s.io/provisioner-secret-name , csi.storage.k8s.io/node-stage-secret-name |
yes (for Kubernetes) | name of the Kubernetes Secret object containing Ceph client credentials. Both parameters should have the same value |
csi.storage.k8s.io/provisioner-secret-namespace , csi.storage.k8s.io/node-stage-secret-namespace |
yes (for Kubernetes) | namespaces of the above Secret objects |
mounter |
no | if set to rbd-nbd , use rbd-nbd on nodes that have rbd-nbd and nbd kernel modules to map rbd images |
encrypted |
no | disabled by default, use "true" to enable either LUKS or fscrypt encryption on PVC and "false" to disable it. Do not change for existing storageclasses |
encryptionKMSID |
no | required if encryption is enabled and a kms is used to store passphrases |
encryptionType |
no | Either block or file . If unset or block use LUKS block device encryption. If file use ext4 fscrypt to encrypt on the file system level (requires kernel support). |
stripeUnit |
no | stripe unit in bytes |
stripeCount |
no | objects to stripe over before looping |
objectSize |
no | object size in bytes |
extraDeploy |
no | array of extra objects to deploy with the release |
NOTE: An accompanying CSI configuration file, needs to be provided to the running pods. Refer to Creating CSI configuration for more information.
NOTE: A suggested way to populate and retain uniqueness of the clusterID is
to use the output of ceph fsid
of the Ceph cluster to be used for
provisioning.
Required secrets:
User credentials, with required access to the pool being used in the storage class, is required for provisioning new RBD images.
Requires Kubernetes 1.14+
Use the rbd templates
Your Kubernetes cluster must allow privileged pods (i.e. --allow-privileged
flag must be set to true for both the API server and the kubelet). Moreover, as
stated in the mount propagation
docs,
the Docker daemon of the cluster nodes must allow shared mounts.
YAML manifests are located in deploy/rbd/kubernetes
.
Create CSIDriver object:
kubectl create -f csidriver.yaml
Deploy RBACs for sidecar containers and node plugins:
kubectl create -f csi-provisioner-rbac.yaml
kubectl create -f csi-nodeplugin-rbac.yaml
Those manifests deploy service accounts, cluster roles and cluster role bindings. These are shared for both RBD and CephFS CSI plugins, as they require the same permissions.
Deploy ConfigMap for CSI plugins:
kubectl create -f csi-config-map.yaml
The configmap deploys an empty CSI configuration that is mounted as a volume within the Ceph CSI plugin pods. To add a specific Ceph clusters configuration details, refer to Creating CSI configuration for RBD based provisioning for more information.
Deploy Ceph configuration ConfigMap for CSI pods:
kubectl create -f ../../ceph-conf.yaml
Deploy prerequisites for CSI Snapshot:
If you intend to use the snapshot functionality in Kubernetes cluster, please refer to snap-clone.md
Deploy CSI sidecar containers:
kubectl create -f csi-rbdplugin-provisioner.yaml
Deploys deployment of provision which includes external-provisioner ,external-attacher,csi-snapshotter sidecar containers and CSI RBD plugin.
Deploy RBD CSI driver:
kubectl create -f csi-rbdplugin.yaml
Deploys a daemon set with two containers: CSI node-driver-registrar and the CSI RBD driver.
NOTE: In case you want to use a different release version, replace canary with the release version in the provisioner and nodeplugin YAMLs.
# for stable functionality replace canary with latest release version
image: quay.io/cephcsi/cephcsi:canary
Check the release version here.
After successfully completing the steps above, you should see output similar to this:
$ kubectl get all
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/csi-rbdplugin-fptqr 3/3 Running 0 21s
pod/csi-rbdplugin-provisioner-0 5/5 Running 0 22s
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/csi-rbdplugin-provisioner ClusterIP 10.104.2.130 <none> 8080/TCP 23s
...
Once the CSI plugin configuration is updated with details from a Ceph cluster of choice, you can try deploying a demo pod from examples/rbd using the instructions provided to test the deployment further.
The same requirements from the Kubernetes section apply here, i.e. Kubernetes version, privileged flag and shared mounts.
The Helm chart is located in charts/ceph-csi-rbd
.
Deploy Helm Chart:
See the Helm chart readme for installation instructions.
Ceph CSI supports mapping RBD volumes with krbd options
"read_from_replica=localize,crush_location=type1:value1|type2:value2"
to
allow serving reads from the most local OSD (according to OSD locations as
defined in the CRUSH map).
Refer krbd-options
for more details.
This can be enabled by adding labels to Kubernetes nodes like
"topology.io/region=east"
and "topology.io/zone=east-zone1"
and
passing command line arguments "--enable-read-affinity=true"
and
"--crush-location-labels=topology.io/zone,topology.io/region"
to Ceph CSI
RBD daemonset pod "csi-rbdplugin" container, resulting in Ceph CSI adding
"--options read_from_replica=localize,crush_location=zone:east-zone1|region:east"
krbd options during rbd map operation.
If enabled, this option will be added to all RBD volumes mapped by Ceph CSI.
Well known labels can be found
here.
Read affinity can be configured for individual clusters within the
ceph-csi-config
ConfigMap. This allows configuring the crush location labels
for each ceph cluster separately. The crush location labels specified in the
ConfigMap will supersede those provided via command line argument
--crush-location-labels
.
Note: Label values will have all its dots
"."
normalized with dashes"-"
in order for it to work with ceph CRUSH map.
Enabling encryption on volumes created without encryption is not supported
Enabling encryption for storage class that has PVs created without encryption is not supported
Volumes provisioned with Ceph RBD do not have encryption by default. It is possible to encrypt them with ceph-csi by using LUKS encryption.
Create volume:
- create volume request received
- volume requested to be created in Ceph
- new passphrase is generated and stored in selected KMS if KMS is in use
- encrypted state "encryptionPrepared" is saved in image-meta in Ceph
Attach volume:
- attach volume request received
- volume is attached to provisioner container
- on first time attachment
(no file system on the attached device, checked with blkid)
- passphrase is retrieved from selected KMS if KMS is in use
- device is encrypted with LUKS using a passphrase from K8s Secret or KMS
- image-meta updated to "encrypted" in Ceph
- passphrase is retrieved from selected KMS if KMS is in use
- device is open and device path is changed to use a mapper device
- mapper device is used instead of original one with usual workflow
Detach volume:
- mapper device closed and device path changed to original volume path
- volume is detached as usual
- passphrase removed from KMS if needed (with failures ignored)
To encrypt rbd volumes with LUKS you need to set encryption passphrase in
secrets under encryptionPassphrase
key and switch encrypted
option in
StorageClass to "true"
. This is not supported for storage classes that already
have PVs provisioned. The node-stage-secret-name
and the provisioner-secret-name
should carry this key and value for encryption to work.
To use different passphrase you need to have different storage classes and point
to a different K8s secrets csi.storage.k8s.io/node-stage-secret-name
and csi.storage.k8s.io/provisioner-secret-name
which carry new passphrase value
for encryptionPassphrase
key in these secrets.
CephCSI can generate unique passphrase (DEK Data-Encryption-Key) for each volume
to be used to encrypt/decrypt data. The passphrase (DEK) is encrypted by
encryptionPassphrase
(KEK Key-Encryption-Key) and stored in the image metadata
of the volume.
To encrypt rbd volumes with metadata
encryption, users need to set
encrypted: "true"
and encryptionKMSID
to a unique identifier in storageclass.
This unique identifier should be similar to the
examples.
The configuration must include "encryptionKMSType": "metadata"
. The
encryptionPassphrase
is fetched based on the following conditions:
- if
"secretName"
key is specified,encryptionPassphrase
is fetched from this secret and"secretNamespace"
value is used for namespace if specified else Tenant/Kubernetes namespace (i.e., namespace where the PVC was created) is used. - if
"secretName"
key is not specified,encryptionPassphrase
is fetched from storageclass secretscsi.storage.k8s.io/provisioner-secret-namespace
/csi.storage.k8s.io/provisioner-secret-name
andcsi.storage.k8s.io/node-stage-secret-namespace
/csi.storage.k8s.io/node-stage-secret-name
similar to the previous Encryption Configuration.
To further improve security robustness it is possible to use unique passphrases generated for each volume and stored in a Key Management System (KMS). Currently HashiCorp Vault is the only KMS supported.
There are two options to use Hashicorp Vault as a KMS:
- with Kubernetes ServiceAccount
- with a Vault Token per Tenant (a Kubernetes Namespace)
To use Vault as KMS set encryptionKMSID
to a unique identifier for Vault
configuration. You will also need to create vault configuration similar to the
example and use same
encryptionKMSID
.
To use the Kubernetes ServiceAccount to access Vault, the configuration must
include encryptionKMSType: "vault"
. If Tenants are expected to place their
Vault Token in a Kubernetes Secret in their Namespace, set encryptionKMSType: "vaulttokens"
.
In order for ceph-csi to be able to access the configuration you will need to
have it mounted to csi-rbdplugin containers in both daemonset (so kms client
can be instantiated to encrypt/decrypt volumes) and deployment pods (so kms
client can be instantiated to delete passphrase on volume delete)
ceph-csi-encryption-kms-config
configmap.
Note: kms configuration must be a map of string values only (
map[string]string
) so for numerical and boolean values make sure to put quotes around.
When the Tenants need to provide their own Vault Token, they will need to place
it in a Kubernetes Secret (by default) called ceph-csi-kms-token
, where the
Vault Token is stored in the token
key as shown in the
example.
Using Vault as KMS you need to configure Kubernetes authentication method as described in official documentation.
If token reviewer is used, you will need to configure service account for that also like in example to be able to review jwt tokens.
Configure a role(s) for service accounts used for ceph-csi:
- provisioner service account (
rbd-csi-provisioner
) requires only delete permissions to delete passphrases on PVC delete - nodeplugin service account (
rbd-csi-nodeplugin
) requires create and read permissions to save new keys and retrieve existing
For deployments where a single ServiceAccount for accessing Hashicorp Vault is
not suitable, it is possible to configure a ServiceAccount per Tenant to access
the KMS. In order to configure this, each Tenant will need to have its own
ServiceAccount in the Kubernetes Namespace where the volumes are created. The
ServiceAccount is expected to be called ceph-csi-vault-sa
by default. This
can be changed by setting the tenantSAName
option to a different value. An
example of the global configuration that can be done in the Kubernetes
Namespace where Ceph-CSI is deployed can be found in
kms-config.yaml
where the
encryptionKMSType
is set to vaulttenantsa
.
Most notably, the Vault Tokens KMS configuration can be used, without the Token
configuration, but with added tenantSAName
and vaultRole
options.
Tenants do have the ability to reconfigure parts of the connection details to
the Vault service. It will often be required to set the backend path to a
location where the Tenant can manage the secrets. These changes can be done by
placing a ConfigMap called ceph-csi-kms-config
in the Tenants Namespace, an
example is available.
As each ServiceAccount needs to be added to the Vault configuration, the
administrator of the service will need to apply the permissions by creating a
Vault Policy that allows a ServiceAccount to access a key-value store in the
KMS. In the Ceph-CSI automated testing, there is a Kubernetes Job that sets
this up for a single Tenant that uses
the Kubernetes Namespace tenant
.
Amazon KMS can be used to encrypt and decrypt the passphrases that are used for
encrypted RBD images. When a volume is created, a passphrase will be generated,
which will be encrypted by the KMS and stored in the volumes metadata. Upon
attaching the volume to a Pod, the worker node requests the KMS to decrypt the
passphrase, after which it can be used to open the device with cryptsetup
and
provide access to it for the Pod.
There are a few settings that need to be included in the KMS configuration file:
KMS_PROVIDER
: should be set toaws-metadata
.KMS_SECRET_NAME
: name of the Kubernetes Secret (in the Namespace where Ceph-CSI is deployed) which contains the credentials for communicating with AWS. This defaults toceph-csi-aws-credentials
.AWS_REGION
: the region where the AWS KMS service is available.
The Secret with credentials for the AWS KMS is expected to contain:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
: ID of the key to use for encrypting/decryptingAWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
: secret for the key to useAWS_SESSION_TOKEN
: (optional) session token, usually emptyAWS_CMK_ARN
: Custom Master Key, ARN for the key used to encrypt the passphrase
This Secret is expected to be created by the administrator who deployed Ceph-CSI.
Ceph-CSI can be configured to use Amazon STS, when kubernetes cluster is configured with OIDC identity provider to fetch credentials to access Amazon KMS. Other functionalities is the same as Amazon KMS encryption.
There are a few settings that need to be included in the KMS configuration file:
encryptionKMSType
: should be set toaws-sts-metadata
.secretName
: name of the Kubernetes Secret (in the Namespace where PVC is created) which contains the credentials for communicating with AWS. This defaults toceph-csi-aws-credentials
.
The Secret with credentials for the AWS KMS is expected to contain:
awsRoleARN
: Role which will be used access credentials from AWS STS and access AWS KMS for encryption.awsCMKARN
: Custom Master Key, ARN for the key used to encrypt the passphraseawsRegion
: the region where the AWS STS and KMS service is available.
This Secret is expected to be created by the tenant/user in each namespace where Ceph-CSI is used to create encrypted rbd volumes.
Ceph-CSI can be configured to use Azure key vault, for encrypting RBD volumes.
There are a few settings that need to be included in the KMS configuration file:
KMS_PROVIDER
: should be set toazure-kv
.AZURE_CERT_SECRET_NAME
: name of the Kubernetes Secret (in the Namespace where Ceph-CSI is deployed) which contains the credentials for communicating with Azure. This defaults toceph-csi-azure-credentials
.AZURE_VAULT_URL
: URL to access the Azure Key Vault service.AZURE_CLIENT_ID
: Client ID of the Azure application object (service principal) created in Azure Active Directory that serves as the username.AZURE_TENANT_ID
: Tenant ID of the service principal.
The Secret with credentials for the Azure KMS is expected to contain:
CLIENT_CERT
: The client certificate used for authentication with Azure Key Vault.
This Secret is expected to be created by the user in the namespace where Ceph-CSI is deployed.
The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) is an extensible communication protocol that defines message formats for the manipulation of cryptographic keys on a key management server. Ceph-CSI can be configured to connect to various KMS servers using KMIP for encrypting RBD volumes.
There are a few settings that need to be included in the KMS configuration file:
KMS_PROVIDER
: should be set tokmip
.KMIP_ENDPOINT
KMIP endpoint address.KMIP_SECRET_NAME
(optional): name of the Kubernetes Secret which contains the credentials for communicating with KMIP server, defaults toceph-csi-kmip-credentials
.TLS_SERVER_NAME
(optional): The endpoint server name. Useful when the KMIP endpoint does not have a DNS entry.READ_TIMEOUT
(optional): Network read timeout, in seconds. The default value is 10.WRITE_TIMEOUT
(optional): Network write timeout, in seconds. The default value is 10.
The Secret with credentials for the KMIP KMS is expected to contain:
CA_CERT
: CA certificate that will be used to connect to KMIP server.CLIENT_CERT
: Client certificate that will be used to connect to KMIP server.CLIENT_KEY
: Client key that will be used to connect to KMIP server.UNIQUE_IDENTIFIER
: Unique ID of the key to use for encrypting/decrypting.
In order for encryption to work you need to make sure that dm-crypt
kernel
module is enabled on the nodes running ceph-csi attachers.
If custom image is built for the rbd-plugin instance, make sure that it contains
cryptsetup
tool installed to be able to use encryption.