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Red Hat openShift Container storage Features
Integrated. Containerized. Versatile.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage (RHOCS), built on Red Hat Gluster Storage, is integrated with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to deploy applications and storage in either converged mode (storage is served from containers deployed on top of an OpenShift Cluster) or independent mode (a stand-alone Red Hat Gluster Storage cluster provides persistent storage to containers).
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For a basic x86_64 installation, you'll need:
Instructions
Obtain the software
Download the Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 and OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 and software.
Update the Ansible inventory file
Add the appropriate options and values to the file. The inventory file is provided in the OCP download.
Run the Ansible inventory file
Running this file begins deployment.
Deploy logging, metrics, and registry
Configure Red Hat Gluster Storage as the backend storage for logging and metrics on block storage.
Validate your deployment
Run OCP commands to make sure your deployment is setup correctly.
Obtain the software
Download the Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 and OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 and software.
Install the required Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 packages
The glusterfs and glusterblock packages must be installed.
Set up the servers that will provide storage
You must complete various setup actions for the servers that will provide storage, such as validating RHEL, enabling channels, installing glusterfs and glusterblock, create firewall rules, and make sure the gluster services are running.
Update the Ansible inventory file
Add the appropriate options and values to the file. The inventory file is provided in the OCP download.
Run the Ansible inventory file
Running this file begins deployment.
Deploy logging and metrics
Configure Red Hat Gluster Storage as the backend storage for logging and metrics on block storage.
Validate your deployment
Run OCP commands to make sure your deployment is setup correctly.
Deployment Resources
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Topics
Architecture
Architecture overview
In this video, Clayton Coleman, Architect, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, talks about how applications deployed in containers need persistent storage and that Red Hat Gluster Storage offers storage for and in containers. RHOCS is fully integrated with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Additional Resources
Integration
Overview of OCS and OCP integration
Sayan Saha, Sr. Manager, Project Management Red Hat and Michael Adam, Manager, Software Engineering, share in this breakout session at Red Hat Summit 2017. Learn how running a storage platform in kubernetes pods is a game changer not just for storage administrators but for application developers as well.
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Persistent storage
How OCS solves the persistent storage challenge with RHGS
This presentation introduces the problems with persistent storage for containers, describes Kubernetes storage mechanisms, and explains how Red Hat has solved the persistent storage challenge by bringing Gluster into the container cluster.
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Demo
See how OCS 3.6 deploys with OCP 3.6
Daniel Messer of the Storage Architecture Team provides a brief demo that explains how, starting with the 3.6 release of OpenShift Container Platform, OCS became even easier.