Specify placement of Ceph cluster daemons

If you need to configure the placement of Rook daemons on nodes, you can add extra values in the Cluster providerSpec section of the ceph-controller Helm release.

The procedures in this section describe how to specify the placement of rook-ceph-operator, rook-discover, and csi-rbdplugin.

To specify rook-ceph-operator placement:

  1. On a management cluster, edit the desired Cluster resource:

    kubectl -n <managedClusterProjectName> edit cluster
    

    Substitute <managedClusterProjectName> with the corresponding value.

  2. Add the following parameters to the ceph-controller Helm release values:

    spec:
      providerSpec:
        value:
          helmReleases:
          - name: ceph-controller
            values:
              rookOperatorPlacement:
                affinity: <rookOperatorAffinity>
                nodeSelector: <rookOperatorNodeSelector>
                tolerations: <rookOperatorTolerations>
    
    • <rookOperatorAffinity> is a key-value mapping that contains a valid Kubernetes affinity specification

    • <rookOperatorNodeSelector> is a key-value mapping that contains a valid Kubernetes nodeSelector specification

    • <rookOperatorTolerations> is a list that contains valid Kubernetes toleration items

  3. Wait for some time and verify on a managed cluster that the changes have applied:

    kubectl -n rook-ceph get deploy rook-ceph-operator -o yaml
    

To specify rook-discover and csi-rbdplugin placement:

  1. On a management cluster, edit the desired Cluster resource:

    kubectl -n <managedClusterProjectName> edit cluster
    

    Substitute <managedClusterProjectName> with the corresponding value.

  2. Add the following parameters to the ceph-controller Helm release values:

    spec:
      providerSpec:
        value:
          helmReleases:
          - name: ceph-controller
            values:
              rookExtraConfig:
                extraDaemonsetLabels: <labelSelector>
    

    Substitute <labelSelector> with a valid Kubernetes label selector expression to place the rook-discover and csi-rbdplugin DaemonSet pods.

  3. Wait for some time and verify on a managed cluster that the changes have applied:

    kubectl -n rook-ceph get ds rook-discover -o yaml
    kubectl -n rook-ceph get ds csi-rbdplugin -o yaml