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Locate the GitLab Volumes
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Before making storage changes
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Making storage changes
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Changes to an existing Volume
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Update the volume to bind to the claim
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Switching to a different Volume
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Make changes to the PersistentVolumeClaim
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Apply the changes to the GitLab chart
Some of the included services require persistent storage, configured through
Persistent Volumes that specify which disks your cluster has access to.
Documentation on the storage configuration necessary to install this chart can be found in our
Storage Guide.
Storage changes after installation need to be manually handled by your cluster
administrators. Automated management of these volumes after installation is not
handled by the GitLab chart.
Examples of changes not automatically managed after initial installation
include:
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Mounting different volumes to the Pods
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Changing the effective accessModes or Storage Class
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Expanding the storage size of your volume*
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In Kubernetes 1.11, expanding the storage size of your volume is supported
if you have
allowVolumeExpansion
configured to true in your Storage Class.
Automating theses changes is complicated due to:
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Kubernetes does not allow changes to most fields in an existing PersistentVolumeClaim
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Unless manually configured, the PVC is the only reference to dynamically provisioned PersistentVolumes
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Delete
is the default reclaimPolicy for dynamically provisioned PersistentVolumes
This means in order to make changes, we need to delete the PersistentVolumeClaim
and create a new one with our changes. But due to the default reclaimPolicy,
deleting the PersistentVolumeClaim may delete the PersistentVolumes
and underlying disk. And unless configured with appropriate volumeNames and/or
labelSelectors, the chart doesn’t know the volume to attach to.
We will continue to look into making this process easier, but for now a manual
process needs to be followed to make changes to your storage.
Locate the GitLab Volumes
Find the volumes/claims that are being used:
kubectl --namespace <namespace> get PersistentVolumeClaims -l release=<chart release name> -ojsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.spec.volumeName}{"\t"}{.metadata.labels.app}{"\n"}{end}'
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<namespace>
should be replaced with the namespace where you installed the GitLab chart.
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<chart release name>
should be replaced with the name you used to install the GitLab chart.
The command prints a list of the volume names, followed by the name of the
service they are for.
For example:
$ kubectl --namespace helm-charts-win get PersistentVolumeClaims -l release=review-update-app-h8qogp -ojsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.spec.volumeName}{"\t"}{.metadata.labels.app}{"\n"}{end}'
pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113 gitaly
pvc-61bbc05e-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113 minio
pvc-61bc6069-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113 postgresql
pvc-61bcd6d2-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113 prometheus
pvc-61bdf136-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113 redis
Before making storage changes
The person making the changes needs to have administrator access to the cluster, and appropriate access to the storage
solutions being used. Often the changes will first need to be applied in the storage solution, then the results need to
be updated in Kubernetes.
Before making changes, you should ensure your PersistentVolumes are using
the
Retain
reclaimPolicy so they don’t get removed while you are
making changes.
First, find the volumes/claims that are being used.
Next, edit each volume and change the value of
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy
under the
spec
field, to be
Retain
rather than
Delete
For example:
kubectl --namespace helm-charts-win edit PersistentVolume pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
Editing Output:
# Please edit the object below. Lines beginning with a '#' will be ignored,
# and an empty file will abort the edit. If an error occurs while saving this file will be
# reopened with the relevant failures.
#
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
annotations:
kubernetes.io/createdby: gce-pd-dynamic-provisioner
pv.kubernetes.io/bound-by-controller: "yes"
pv.kubernetes.io/provisioned-by: kubernetes.io/gce-pd
creationTimestamp: 2018-07-20T14:58:43Z
labels:
failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region: europe-west2
failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone: europe-west2-b
name: pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
resourceVersion: "48362431"
selfLink: /api/v1/persistentvolumes/pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
uid: 650bd649-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
capacity:
storage: 50Gi
claimRef:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
name: repo-data-review-update-app-h8qogp-gitaly-0
namespace: helm-charts-win
resourceVersion: "48362307"
uid: 6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
gcePersistentDisk:
fsType: ext4
pdName: gke-cloud-native-81a17-pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
# Changed the following line
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
storageClassName: standard
status:
phase: Bound
Making storage changes
First, make the desired changes to the disk outside of the cluster. (Resize the
disk in GKE, or create a new disk from a snapshot or clone, etc).
How you do this, and whether or not it can be done live, without downtime, is
dependent on the storage solutions you are using, and can’t be covered by this
document.
Next, evaluate whether you need these changes to be reflected in the Kubernetes
objects. For example: with expanding the disk storage size, the storage size
settings in the PersistentVolumeClaim will only be used when a new volume
resource is requested. So you would only need to increase the values in the
PersistentVolumeClaim if you intend to scale up more disks (for use in
additional Gitaly pods).
If you do need to have the changes reflected in Kubernetes, be sure that you’ve
updated your reclaim policy on the volumes as described in the Before making storage changes
section.
The paths we have documented for storage changes are:
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Changes to an existing Volume
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Switching to a different Volume
Changes to an existing Volume
First locate the volume name you are changing.
Use
kubectl edit
to make the desired configuration changes to the volume. (These changes
should only be updates to reflect the real state of the attached disk)
For example:
kubectl --namespace helm-charts-win edit PersistentVolume pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
Editing Output:
# Please edit the object below. Lines beginning with a '#' will be ignored,
# and an empty file will abort the edit. If an error occurs while saving this file will be
# reopened with the relevant failures.
#
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
annotations:
kubernetes.io/createdby: gce-pd-dynamic-provisioner
pv.kubernetes.io/bound-by-controller: "yes"
pv.kubernetes.io/provisioned-by: kubernetes.io/gce-pd
creationTimestamp: 2018-07-20T14:58:43Z
labels:
failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region: europe-west2
failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone: europe-west2-b
name: pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
resourceVersion: "48362431"
selfLink: /api/v1/persistentvolumes/pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
uid: 650bd649-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
capacity:
# Updated the storage size
storage: 100Gi
claimRef:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
name: repo-data-review-update-app-h8qogp-gitaly-0
namespace: helm-charts-win
resourceVersion: "48362307"
uid: 6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
gcePersistentDisk:
fsType: ext4
pdName: gke-cloud-native-81a17-pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
storageClassName: standard
status:
phase: Bound
Now that the changes have been reflected in the volume, we need to update
the claim.
Follow the instructions in the Make changes to the PersistentVolumeClaim section.
Update the volume to bind to the claim
In a separate terminal, start watching to see when the claim has its status change to bound,
and then move onto the next step to make the volume available for use in the new claim.
kubectl --namespace <namespace> get --watch PersistentVolumeClaim <claim name>
Edit the volume to make it available to the new claim. Remove the
.spec.claimRef
section.
kubectl --namespace <namespace> edit PersistentVolume <volume name>
Editing Output:
# Please edit the object below. Lines beginning with a '#' will be ignored,
# and an empty file will abort the edit. If an error occurs while saving this file will be
# reopened with the relevant failures.
#
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
annotations:
kubernetes.io/createdby: gce-pd-dynamic-provisioner
pv.kubernetes.io/bound-by-controller: "yes"
pv.kubernetes.io/provisioned-by: kubernetes.io/gce-pd
creationTimestamp: 2018-07-20T14:58:43Z
labels:
failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region: europe-west2
failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone: europe-west2-b
name: pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
resourceVersion: "48362431"
selfLink: /api/v1/persistentvolumes/pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
uid: 650bd649-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
capacity:
storage: 100Gi
gcePersistentDisk:
fsType: ext4
pdName: gke-cloud-native-81a17-pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
storageClassName: standard
status:
phase: Released
Shortly after making the change to the Volume, the terminal watching the claim status should show
Bound
.
Finally, apply the changes to the GitLab chart
Switching to a different Volume
If you want to switch to using a new volume, using a disk that has a copy of the
appropriate data from the old volume, then first you need to create the new
Persistent Volume in Kubernetes.
In order to create a Persistent Volume for your disk, you will need to
locate the driver specific documentation
for your storage type.
There are a couple of things to keep in mind when following the driver documentation:
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You need to use the driver to create a Persistent Volume, not a Pod object with a volume as shown in a lot of the documentation.
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You do
not
want to create a PersistentVolumeClaim for the volume, we will be editing the existing claim instead.
The driver documentation often includes examples for using the driver in a Pod, for example:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: test-pd
spec:
containers:
- image: k8s.gcr.io/test-webserver
name: test-container
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /test-pd
name: test-volume
volumes:
- name: test-volume
# This GCE PD must already exist.
gcePersistentDisk:
pdName: my-data-disk
fsType: ext4
What you actually want, is to create a Persistent Volume, like so:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: test-volume
spec:
capacity:
storage: 400Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
gcePersistentDisk:
pdName: my-data-disk
fsType: ext4
You normally create a local
yaml
file with the PersistentVolume information,
then issue a create command to Kubernetes to create the object using the file.
kubectl --namespace <your namespace> create -f <local-pv-file>.yaml
Once your volume is created, you can move on to Making changes to the PersistentVolumeClaim
Make changes to the PersistentVolumeClaim
Find the PersistentVolumeClaim you want to change.
kubectl --namespace <namespace> get PersistentVolumeClaims -l release=<chart release name> -ojsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.name}{"\t"}{.metadata.labels.app}{"\n"}{end}'
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<namespace>
should be replaced with the namespace where you installed the GitLab chart.
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<chart release name>
should be replaced with the name you used to install the GitLab chart.
The command will print a list of the PersistentVolumeClaim names, followed by the name of the
service they are for.
Then save a copy of the claim to your local filesystem:
kubectl --namespace <namespace> get PersistentVolumeClaim <claim name> -o yaml > <claim name>.bak.yaml
Example Output:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
annotations:
pv.kubernetes.io/bind-completed: "yes"
pv.kubernetes.io/bound-by-controller: "yes"
volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-provisioner: kubernetes.io/gce-pd
creationTimestamp: 2018-07-20T14:58:38Z
labels:
app: gitaly
release: review-update-app-h8qogp
name: repo-data-review-update-app-h8qogp-gitaly-0
namespace: helm-charts-win
resourceVersion: "48362433"
selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/helm-charts-win/persistentvolumeclaims/repo-data-review-update-app-h8qogp-gitaly-0
uid: 6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 50Gi
storageClassName: standard
volumeName: pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
status:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
capacity:
storage: 50Gi
phase: Bound
Create a new YAML file for a new PVC object. Have it use the same
metadata.name
,
metadata.labels
,
metadata,namespace
, and
spec
fields. (With your updates applied). And drop the other settings:
Example:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
labels:
app: gitaly
release: review-update-app-h8qogp
name: repo-data-review-update-app-h8qogp-gitaly-0
namespace: helm-charts-win
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
# This is our updated field
storage: 100Gi
storageClassName: standard
volumeName: pvc-6247502b-8c2d-11e8-8267-42010a9a0113
Now delete the old claim:
kubectl --namespace <namespace> delete PersistentVolumeClaim <claim name>
Create the new claim:
kubectl --namespace <namespace> create PersistentVolumeClaim -f <new claim yaml file>
If you are binding to the same PersistentVolume that was previous bound to
the claim, then proceed to update the volume to bind to the claim
Otherwise, if you have bound the claim to a new volume, move onto apply the changes to the GitLab chart
Apply the changes to the GitLab chart
After making changes to the PersistentVolumes and PersistentVolumeClaims,
you will also want to issue a Helm update with the changes applied to the chart
settings as well.
See the installation storage guide
for the options.
Note
: If you made changes to the Gitaly volume claim, you will need to delete the
Gitaly StatefulSet before you will be able to issue a Helm update. This is
because the StatefulSet’s Volume Template is immutable, and cannot be changed.
You can delete the StatefulSet without deleting the Gitaly Pods:
kubectl --namespace <namespace> delete --cascade=false StatefulSet <release-name>-gitaly
The Helm update command will recreate the StatefulSet, which will adopt and
update the Gitaly pods.
Update the chart, and include the updated configuration:
Example:
helm upgrade --install review-update-app-h8qogp gitlab/gitlab \
--set gitlab.gitaly.persistence.size=100Gi \
<your other config settings>
