eks-local-disk-provisioner

The eks-local-disk-provisioner covers operations steps needed for sig-storage-local-static-provisioner to function properly.

Introduction

The eks-local-disk-provisioner is designed to be deployed in a Kubernetes cluster on a worker nodes with NVMe Instance Storage.

The eks-local-disk-provisioner has following workflow:

• detects Amazon EC2 NVMe Instance Storage devices
• creates a directory for provisioner discovering if it doesn't already exist (defaults to /mnt/disks)
• prepares and sets up local volumes in discovery directory; this step has two options:
  • mount whole disk into discovery directory (default behavior)
  • create disk partitions and mount each partition into discovery directory

Prerequisites

• Kubernetes 1.15
• Helm 3.0

Installing

Recommended way of installing is with Helm chart.

If Helm is not an option, Kubernetes manifests examples are provided in the examples directory.