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:

On the management cluster, edit the Cluster resource of the target managed cluster:
```
kubectl -n <managedClusterProjectName> edit cluster
```

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

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 simultaneously:

On the management cluster, edit the desired Cluster resource:
```
kubectl -n <managedClusterProjectName> edit cluster
```

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.

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

To specify rook-discover and csi-rbdplugin placement separately:

On the management cluster, edit the desired Cluster resource:
```
kubectl -n <managedClusterProjectName> edit cluster
```

If required, add the following parameters to the ceph-controller Helm release values:

spec:
  providerSpec:
    value:
      helmReleases:
      - name: ceph-controller
        values:
          hyperconverge:
            nodeAffinity:
              csiplugin: <labelSelector1>
              rookDiscover: <labelSelector2>

Substitute <labelSelectorX> with a valid Kubernetes label selector expression to place the rook-discover and csi-rbdplugin DaemonSet pods. For example, "role=storage-node; discover=true".

Wait for some time and verify on the 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