I decided to go with Rook <http://rook.io/> as provider of persistent
volumes on DigitalOcean, it works well so far! It's alpha level software at
this stage however, so I'm keeping that in mind.

Best,
Arve

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:53 AM Arve Knudsen <arve.knud...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for clarifying, Michelle!
>
> Best,
> Arve
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:59 AM 'Michelle Au' via Kubernetes user
> discussion and Q&A <kubernetes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh sorry, I thought you meant that there was already a volume plugin that
>> existed and only dynamic provisioning was not supported.  But it looks like
>> the plugin doesn't even exist at all.
>>
>> There have been attempts to write a volume plugin, but none have gotten
>> merged.  This is the most recent I could find.
>> https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36894
>>
>> So in order to get it to work, you would have to implement the volume
>> plugin first.  There's a few methods you can try, all of which are not
>> great...
>> 1) Using the workaround mentioned in the PR
>> 2) Implement a flex volume plugin, which is still evolving and may change
>> in future releases
>> 3) Implement an in-tree plugin
>> 4) Wrap the digital ocean volumes in one of the supported K8s volumes,
>> like nfs
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knud...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Michelle, how would you exactly write PersistentVolume definitions to
>>> access each DigitalOcean volume (assume there are 2)? When studying the
>>> documentation
>>> <https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/#static>
>>> right now, I'm just not sure quite how it's to be done. I'm probably
>>> missing something.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Arve
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 7:52 PM 'Michelle Au' via Kubernetes user
>>> discussion and Q&A <kubernetes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Arve,
>>>>
>>>> I am not familiar with Rook so I cannot compare.  Maybe someone else
>>>> who has used it can chime in.
>>>>
>>>> -Michelle
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knud...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Michelle! Will look into this. Can you tell me how this
>>>>> compares to using Rook <https://rook.io/> for the same purpose?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Arve
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 7:29 PM 'Michelle Au' via Kubernetes user
>>>>> discussion and Q&A <kubernetes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Until dynamic provisioning for DigitalOcean is supported, then you
>>>>>> can statically create DigitalOcean PVs and give them a storageclass name.
>>>>>> Then in your Statefulset PVC template, just specify the same storageclass
>>>>>> name.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can also look into writing an external provisioner (
>>>>>> https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-storage)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Arve Knudsen <arve.knud...@gmail.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm looking to deploy a RethinkDB cluster as a StatefulSet on
>>>>>>> DigitalOcean. I'm using Ross Kukulinski's example
>>>>>>> <https://github.com/rosskukulinski/kubernetes-rethinkdb-cluster/tree/master/statefulset>
>>>>>>> as a starting point, but this is written for AWS. My understanding, from
>>>>>>> discussing on the CoreOS-dev mailing list, is that support is as of yet
>>>>>>> lacking in Kubernetes for dynamically provisioning volumes on 
>>>>>>> DigitalOcean
>>>>>>> in response to PersistentVolumeClaims. How should I implement 
>>>>>>> StatefulSets
>>>>>>> with persistent storage on DigitalOcean with the current version of
>>>>>>> Kubernetes? Might the best way forward, in order to deploy on 
>>>>>>> DigitalOcean,
>>>>>>> be to simply write a DO cloud provider backend?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>> Arve
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