- If you are managing EBS volumes using static provisioning, get yourself familiar with EBS volume.
- Get yourself familiar with how to setup Kubernetes on AWS and have a working Kubernetes cluster:
- Enable flag
--allow-privileged=true
forkubelet
andkube-apiserver
- Enable
kube-apiserver
feature gates--feature-gates=CSINodeInfo=true,CSIDriverRegistry=true,CSIBlockVolume=true,VolumeSnapshotDataSource=true
- Enable
kubelet
feature gates--feature-gates=CSINodeInfo=true,CSIDriverRegistry=true,CSIBlockVolume=true
- Enable flag
- If you intend to use the csi-snapshotter functionality you will need to first install the CSI Snapshotter.
The driver requires IAM permission to talk to Amazon EBS to manage the volume on user's behalf. The example policy here defines these permissions. There are several methods to grant the driver IAM permission:
- Using IAM instance profile - attach the policy to the instance profile IAM role and turn on access to instance metadata for the instance(s) on which the driver Deployment will run
- EKS only: Using IAM roles for ServiceAccounts - create an IAM role, attach the policy to it, then follow the IRSA documentation to associate the IAM role with the driver Deployment service account, which if you are installing via Helm is determined by value
controller.serviceAccount.name
,ebs-csi-controller-sa
by default - Using secret object - create an IAM user, attach the policy to it, then create a generic secret called
aws-secret
in thekube-system
namespace with the user's credentials
kubectl create secret generic aws-secret \
--namespace kube-system \
--from-literal "key_id=${AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}" \
--from-literal "access_key=${AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}"
By default, driver tolerates taint CriticalAddonsOnly
and has tolerationSeconds
configured as 300
, to deploy the driver on all nodes, please set Helm Value.node.tolerateAllTaints
to true before deployment
Please see the compatibility matrix before you deploy the driver
To deploy the CSI driver:
kubectl apply -k "github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-ebs-csi-driver/deploy/kubernetes/overlays/stable/?ref=release-1.9"
Verify driver is running:
kubectl get pods -n kube-system
Alternatively, you could also install the driver using Helm:
Add the aws-ebs-csi-driver Helm repository:
helm repo add aws-ebs-csi-driver https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/aws-ebs-csi-driver
helm repo update
Then install a release of the driver using the chart
helm upgrade --install aws-ebs-csi-driver \
--namespace kube-system \
aws-ebs-csi-driver/aws-ebs-csi-driver
Version 2.0.0 removed support for Helm v2 and now requires Helm v3 or above.
The CSI Snapshotter controller and CRDs will no longer be installed as part of this chart and moving forward will be a prerequisite of using the snap shotting functionality.
The following deprecated values have been removed and users upgrading from version 1.x must now use their counterparts under the controller
and node
maps.
- affinity
- extraCreateMetadata
- extraVolumeTags
- k8sTagClusterId
- nodeSelector
- podAnnotations
- priorityClassName
- region
- replicaCount
- resources
- tolerations
- topologySpreadConstraints
- volumeAttachLimit
The values under serviceAccount.controller
have been relocated to controller.serviceAccount
The values under serviceAccount.node
have been relocated to node.serviceAccount
The following sidecars
values have been reorganized from
sidecars:
provisionerImage:
attacherImage:
snapshotterImage:
livenessProbeImage:
resizerImage:
nodeDriverRegistrarImage:
to
sidecars:
provisioner:
image:
attacher:
image:
snapshotter:
image:
livenessProbe:
image:
resizer:
image:
nodeDriverRegistrar:
image:
With the above reorganization controller.containerResources
, controller.env
, node.containerResources
, and node.env
were also moved into the sidecars structure as follows
sidecars:
provisioner:
env: []
resources: {}
attacher:
env: []
resources: {}
snapshotter:
env: []
resources: {}
livenessProbe:
resources: {}
resizer:
env: []
resources: {}
nodeDriverRegistrar:
env: []
resources: {}
Starting from Kubernetes 1.17, CSI migration is supported as beta feature (alpha since 1.14). If you have persistent volumes that are created with in-tree kubernetes.io/aws-ebs
plugin, you can migrate to use EBS CSI driver. To turn on the migration, set CSIMigration
and CSIMigrationAWS
feature gates to true
for kube-controller-manager
. Then drain Nodes and set the same feature gates to true
for kubelet
.
To make sure dynamically provisioned EBS volumes have all tags that the in-tree volume plugin used:
- Run the external-provisioner sidecar with
--extra-create-metadata=true
cmdline option. The Helm chart sets this option true by default. - Run the CSI driver with
--k8s-tag-cluster-id=<ID of the Kubernetes cluster>
command line option.
To make sure that the CSI driver has permission to Attach, Detach, and Delete volumes that were dynamically provisioned and tagged by the in-tree plugin prior to migration being turned on, the IAM policy has to grant permission to operate on volumes with tag kubernetes.io/cluster/<ID of the Kubernetes cluster>": "owned"
like in the example policy.
Warning:
- kubelet must be drained of all pods with mounted EBS volumes before changing its CSI migration feature flags. Failure to do this will cause deleted pods to get stuck in
Terminating
, requiring a forced delete which can cause filesystem corruption. See #679 for more details.