vsphere-csi-driver VS okd

As we covered in our "What's new in Kubernetes 1.19" article, the CSI driver for vSphere has been stable for some time. Now, all plugin operations for vspherevolume are now redirected to the out-of-tree 'csi.vsphere.vmware.com' driver.

Take a look at https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver as well as the stuff the other person mentioned.

Regarding your question about persistent storage: as I'm running in an on-prem environment I'm using VMware vSphere CSI to integrate our common storage infrastructure but I've to admin that I wasn't aware of OpenEBS even though I don't think that this is something I would need right now.

For your issues with the CSI on OK, please log and issue here, the engineering team do check this github repo https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/vsphere-csi-driver

> I've never had to do that.

Using OKD (OpenShift Kubernetes Distribution) because I just dealt with this morning:

https://github.com/okd-project/okd/releases - download the MacOS installer and unzip it.

Then try to run it from the command line. Be told that it "cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified". This is NOT the "is an app downloaded from the Internet, do you wish to run it?" dialog.

Go to Finder, and double click it. Get the same message.

You have to go to Finder, then right click the app, specifically hit Open (which will open a terminal that will immediately exit), and only now can you run this app in your original terminal.

Found this https://github.com/okd-project/okd/discussions/1626

mkdir ~/openshift cd ~/openshift export OKD_VERSION=4.11.0-0.okd-2022-11-05-030711 wget "https://github.com/okd-project/okd/releases/download/${OKD_VERSION}/openshift-client-linux-${OKD_VERSION}.tar.gz" wget "https://github.com/okd-project/okd/releases/download/${OKD_VERSION}/openshift-install-linux-${OKD_VERSION}.tar.gz" tar xvf "openshift-client-linux-${OKD_VERSION}.tar.gz" tar xvf "openshift-install-linux-${OKD_VERSION}.tar.gz" chmod +x oc chmod +x kubectl chmod +x openshift-installer export PATH=$PATH:~/openshift

OpenShift is just downstream OKD, right? Can’t you just run that locally? Red Hat’s doc should be easy to get access to as well, via their developer accounts. I think.

wget https://github.com/openshift/okd/releases/download/4.5.0-0.okd-2020-07-14-153706-ga/openshift-client-linux-4.5.0-0.okd-2020-07-14-153706-ga.tar.gz

The OKD Project just released the new stable release 4.10! Join the discussion at https://github.com/openshift/okd/discussions/1133 !

See https://amd64.origin.releases.ci.openshift.org/releasestream/4-stable/release/4.9.0-0.okd-2021-12-12-025847 for changelog. `oc` and `openshift-install` binaries were uploaded to github - https://github.com/openshift/okd/releases/tag/4.9.0-0.okd-2021-12-12-025847.

OKD is community supported and totally free to use and modify version of Kubernetes (somewhat similar to Fedora compared to RHEL in terms of being upstream of the commercial product). OpenShift OCP is a subscription-based hybrid cloud enterprise Kubernetes platform that is supported by Red Hat staff and engineers.

Thanks for that - I did see I could enable the red hat sources, but my understanding was using a pull secret from either the OpenShift trial or dev accounts restricted you to non-commercial use on your cluster - it's covered briefly in this discussion: https://github.com/openshift/okd/issues/295