ceph-csi/docs/deploy-rbd.md

CSI RBD Plugin

The RBD CSI plugin is able to provision new RBD images and attach and mount those to workloads.

Building

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

Configuration

Available command line arguments:

Option	Default value	Description
--endpoint	unix://tmp/csi.sock	CSI 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
--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
--enablegrpcmetrics	false	[Deprecated] Enable grpc metrics collection and start prometheus server
--polltime	"60s"	Time interval in between each poll
--timeout	"3s"	Probe timeout in seconds
--histogramoption	0.5,2,6	[Deprecated] Histogram option for grpc metrics, should be comma separated value (ex:= "0.5,2,6" where start=0.5 factor=2, count=6)
--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

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 only layering feature. See man pages
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 LUKS 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

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.

Deployment with Kubernetes

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.

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 PodSecurityPolicy resources for sidecar containers and node plugins:

NOTE: These manifests are required only if PodSecurityPolicy admission controller is active on your cluster.

kubectl create -f csi-provisioner-psp.yaml
kubectl create -f csi-nodeplugin-psp.yaml

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 CSI sidecar containers:

kubectl create -f csi-rbdplugin-provisioner.yaml

Deploys stateful set 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.

Verifying the deployment in Kubernetes

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.

Deployment with Helm

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.

Encryption for RBD volumes

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.

To enable encryption set encrypted option in storage class to "true" and set encryption passphrase in kubernetes secrets under encryptionPassphrase key.

To use different passphrase you need to have different storage classes and point to a different K8s secrets (different csi.storage.k8s.io/node-stage-secret-name and csi.storage.k8s.io/node-stage-secret-namespace).

Life-cycle for encrypted volumes

Create volume:

• create volume request received
• volume requested to be created in Ceph
• encrypted state "requiresEncryption" 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)
  • new passphrase is generated and stored in selected KMS if KMS is in use
  • device is encrypted with LUKS using a passphrase from K8s secrets
  • 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)

Encryption configuration

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.

Encryption KMS 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.

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. Configuration must include encryptionKMSType: "vault". 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.

Configuring HashiCorp Vault

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

Encryption prerequisites

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.