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Portworx

Portworx is a software defined persistent storage solution designed and purpose built for applications deployed as containers, via container orchestrators such as Kubernetes.

Prerequisites

For deploying Portworx storage on vsphere environments, make sure to configure the following properties in the pack

  • vsphereConfig
  • storageType
  • k8sVersion

Contents

The default installation of Portworx will deploy the following components in the Kubernetes cluster

  • Portworx
  • CSI Provisioner
  • Lighthouse
  • Stork
  • Storage class making use of portworx-volume provisioner

Integrating to an external etcd

By default, Portworx is set to use internal KVDB. You can integrate Portworx to an external etcd server by following the steps below.

  1. Enable useExternalKvdb flag by setting it to true
  2. Configure the external etcd endpoints in externalKvdb.endpoints

If the external etcd server is configured to authenticate via certificates, additionally you may want to setup the following

  • Enable externalKvdb.useCertsForSSL flag by setting it to true
  • Setup certificate related configuration in externalKvdb.cacert, externalKvdb.cert & externalKvdb.key
Make sure to follow the correct indentation style, otherwise certs will not be imported correctly and will result in Portworx deployment failure

References

https://docs.portworx.com/portworx-install-with-kubernetes/ https://docs.portworx.com/reference/lighthouse/

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