Overview¶
HPE and Red Hat have a long standing partnership to deliver enterprise software on the Red Hat OpenShift platform. The HPE COSI Driver for Kubernetes is supported by HPE on Red Hat OpenShift.
OpenShift 4¶
The HPE COSI Driver is deployed using the Helm chart published on Artifact Hub, alongside the upstream SIG Storage Container Object Storage Interface (COSI) controller and CRDs.
Important
Container Object Storage Interface (COSI) is a Kubernetes SIG Storage project and the objectstorage.k8s.io API is at v1alpha1. The API is subject to change between releases. Evaluate accordingly before using in production.
Supported combinations¶
| Status | Red Hat OpenShift | Container Storage Providers |
|---|---|---|
| Supported | 4.21 | Alletra Storage MP X10000 |
| Supported | 4.20 | Alletra Storage MP X10000 |
| Supported | 4.19 | Alletra Storage MP X10000 |
OpenShift support statements for the HPE COSI Driver are published in the Compatibility and Support matrix. This page reflects that matrix.
Pointers
- Other combinations may work but will not be supported.
- HPE Alletra Storage MP Disconnected with X10000 is supported from HPE COSI Driver v2.0.0.
Installation and Using¶
- Deployment for the delivery vehicles and installation instructions.
- Add an HPE Storage Backend for the
Secretand its parameters. - Creating and Locating Resources for obtaining the S3 and HPE Data Services Cloud Console values.
- Using for
BucketClass,BucketClaim,BucketAccessClassandBucketAccessconfiguration. - Diagnostics for sanity checks, logging and troubleshooting.
Limitations¶
For generic known limitations applicable to all platforms, see Known Limitations.
The following limitations are specific to OpenShift:
- There is no OpenShift web console integration for COSI resources. All management is performed with
ocor the API. - The HPE COSI Driver is not published as an Operator bundle and therefore cannot be mirrored with
oc-mirror. Use the air-gapped procedure on the Deployment page instead.