Kubernetes

Installing simplyblock into and using it with Kubernetes requires two or more components to be installed. The number of components depends on your deployment strategy and requirements.

For Kubernetes-related installations, simplyblock provides three deployment models: hyper-converged (also known as co-located), disaggregated, and a hybrid model which combines the best of the former two.

Prerequisites

Before starting with the installation of simplyblock, make yourself familiar with the requirements and prerequisites of simplyblock. You can find all necessary information under the Prerequisites section specific to Kubernetes deployments.

Installation

After making sure that all requirements are fulfilled, you can start with the installation. Follow the necessary section depending on your chosen deployment model:

• Hyper-Converged Setup
• Disaggregated Setup
• Hybrid Setup

In either case, you start with installing the control plane, before going over to the actual storage cluster and the Kubernetes CSI driver.

As a last step, you may want to install caching nodes on your Kubernetes workers to improve access latency. See the installation steps in the Install Caching Nodes section.