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Use vSphere Storage as Kubernetes persistent volumes

Author image Simon Guyennet on Cloud, Kubernetes, vSphere, VMware, Storage, Container

Hatchway is a VMware open source project. The goal of this project is to allow to use the vSphere storage technology with Docker containers and Kubernetes pods. Hatchway is composed of two projects: one is the plugin for Docker and the other one is vSphere Cloud Provider, which is the provider for Kubernetes. If you are using VMware vSAN, one of the main benefits of vSphere Cloud Provider is that you can leverage the vSAN storage policies. Prerequisites You must have a Kubernetes cluster running on VMware vSphere virtual machines and the VMware tools must be installed on each virtual...

Configure Cinder on OpenStack Pike standalone with Kolla

Author image Simon Guyennet on OpenStack, Kolla, Cloud, AIO, All In One, Standalone, Storage

Cinder is an OpenStack project which provides block storage to your cloud infrastructure. It allows you to configure and manage persistent storage for your virtual machine instances. Prerequisites If you haven't done so yet, you need to Install and configure OpenStack Pike with Kolla as a standalone. You also need to add a new 100 GB disk to the Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine built in the previous article. In this lab, the new 100 GB disk will be /dev/sdb. Prepare Ubuntu for Cinder LVM 1- Create a physical volume. $ sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb 2- Create a volume group....

Configure Swift on OpenStack Ocata standalone with Kolla

Author image Simon Guyennet on OpenStack, Kolla, Cloud, AIO, All In One, Standalone, Storage

Swift is an OpenStack project which provides object storage to your cloud infrastructure. It is a high available and distributed service, which allows you to store configuration files, images, ISO, etc. safely and also allows you to access them easily. Swift is to OpenStack what S3 is to AWS. Prerequisites If you haven't done so yet, you need to Install and configure OpenStack Ocata with Kolla as a standalone. You also need to add three new 50 GB disks to the Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine built in the previous article. In this lab, the new 50 GB disks will...

Configure Cinder on OpenStack Ocata standalone with Kolla

Author image Simon Guyennet on OpenStack, Kolla, Cloud, AIO, All In One, Standalone, Storage

Cinder is an OpenStack project which provides block storage to your cloud infrastructure. It allows you to configure and manage persistent storage for your virtual machine instances. Prerequisites If you haven't done so yet, you need to Install and configure OpenStack Ocata with Kolla as a standalone. You also need to add a new 100 GB disk to the Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine built in the previous article. In this lab, the new 100 GB disk will be /dev/sdb. Prepare Ubuntu for Cinder LVM 1- Create a physical volume. $ sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb 2- Create a volume group....