Create Storage Class with Cinder Backend

Select your cluster

Select Storage Classes from Storage dropdown menu

Click on Import YAML

Paste the code and click import

apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1kind: StorageClassmetadata:  name: cinderprovisioner: kubernetes.io/cinderreclaimPolicy: Deleteparameters:  availability: nova

Now we able to use Cinder Volume as storage class

Create a PVC

Navigate to your cluster default project

Switch to Volumes tab and click Add Volume

Select cinder from Storage Class and Create

Check point

• a volume has been created under Project > Volumes > Volumes

Create a sample workload with pv/pvc

apiVersion: v1kind: Podmetadata:  name: my-cinder-pv-pod-1spec:  volumes:    - name: my-cinder-pv-storage-1      persistentVolumeClaim:        claimName: pv  containers:    - name: task-pv-container-1      image: nginx      ports:        - containerPort: 80          name: "http-server"      volumeMounts:        - mountPath: "/usr/share/nginx/html"          name: my-cinder-pv-storage-1

Enter your workload shell and check up

Shell: task-pv-container-1

root@my-cinder-pv-pod-1:/# lsblkNAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTsda       8:0    0   40G  0 disk |-sda1    8:1    0 39.9G  0 part /etc/hosts|-sda14   8:14   0    4M  0 part `-sda15   8:15   0  106M  0 part sdb       8:16   0   10G  0 disk /usr/share/nginx/htmlroot@my-cinder-pv-pod-1:/# cd /usr/share/nginx/html/root@my-cinder-pv-pod-1:/usr/share/nginx/html# lslost+foundroot@my-cinder-pv-pod-1:/usr/share/nginx/html# echo "bigstack.co" >> index.htmlroot@my-cinder-pv-pod-1:/usr/share/nginx/html# cat index.html bigstack.coroot@my-cinder-pv-pod-1:/usr/share/nginx/html# 

Check point

• The cinder volume has been attached to your cluster