Installation using repctl

Install Replication Walkthrough

You can start using Container Storage Modules (CSM) for Replication with help from repctl using these simple steps:

1. Prepare admin Kubernetes clusters configs
2. Add admin configs as clusters to repctl

   ./repctl cluster add -f "/root/.kube/config-1","/root/.kube/config-2" -n "cluster-1","cluster-2"
   

3. Install replication controller and CRDs

   ./repctl create -f ../deploy/replicationcrds.all.yaml
   ./repctl create -f ../deploy/controller.yaml
   

   NOTE: The controller will report that configmap is invalid. This is expected behavior. The message should disappear once you inject the kubeconfigs (next step).

4. (Choose one)
   1. (More secure) Inject service accounts’ configs into clusters

      ./repctl cluster inject --use-sa
      

   2. (Less secure) Inject admin configs into clusters

      ./repctl cluster inject 
      

5. Modify examples/<storage>_example_values.yaml config with replication information

   NOTE: clusterID should match names you gave to clusters in step 2

6. Create replication storage classes using config

   ./repctl create sc --from-config ./examples/<storage>_example_values.yaml
   

7. Install CSI driver for your chosen storage in source cluster and provision replicated volumes
8. (optional) Create PVCs on target cluster from Replication Group

   ./repctl create pvc --rg <rg-name> -t <target-namespace> --dry-run=false
   

Note: all repctl output is saved alongside with repctl binary in the repctl.log file and can be attached to any installation troubleshooting requests