Merge pull request rook#13061 from parth-gr/external-pool-enable

external: automatically init the rbd pool

deploy/examples/create-external-cluster-resources.py

@@ -1299,6 +1299,14 @@ def validate_rbd_pool(self):
                 f"The provided pool, '{self._arg_parser.rbd_data_pool_name}', does not exist"
             )
 
+    def init_rbd_pool(self):
+        if isinstance(self.cluster, DummyRados):
+            return
+        rbd_pool_name = self._arg_parser.rbd_data_pool_name
+        ioctx = self.cluster.open_ioctx(rbd_pool_name)
+        rbd_inst = rbd.RBD()
+        rbd_inst.pool_init(ioctx, True)
+
     def validate_rados_namespace(self):
         rbd_pool_name = self._arg_parser.rbd_data_pool_name
         rados_namespace = self._arg_parser.rados_namespace
@@ -1467,6 +1475,7 @@ def _gen_output_map(self):
             self._arg_parser.k8s_cluster_name.lower()
         )  # always convert cluster name to lowercase characters
         self.validate_rbd_pool()
+        self.init_rbd_pool()
         self.validate_rados_namespace()
         self._excluded_keys.add("K8S_CLUSTER_NAME")
         self.get_cephfs_data_pool_details()