Azure Kubernetes Storage

Internal

• Kubernetes Storage Concepts
• Azure Storage Concepts

kubernetes.io/azure-file Provisioner

Azure Files storage can be exposed to pods as Persistent Volume provisioned by the "kubernetes.io/azure-file" storage plug-in. An example of how to configure a Kubernetes (OpenShift) instance with the plug-in is available here:

Provision Azure Files ReadWriteMany Persistent Volumes on Azure OpenShift

CSI

CSI Organizatorium

The "disk.csi.azure.com" CSI plugin allows a Kubernetes instances deployed in Azure to use Azure disk volumes and mount them as block devices. Note that support for Azure disks shared between pods (ReadWriteMany access mode) is beta.

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/csi-storage-drivers
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/azure-files-csi
• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/azuredisk-csi-driver
• Create azure.config https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/azuredisk-csi-driver/blob/master/docs/read-from-secret.md
• Install CSI driver: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/azuredisk-csi-driver/blob/master/docs/install-csi-driver-v0.9.0.md

Operations

• Provision Azure Files ReadWriteMany Persistent Volumes on Azure OpenShift