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Guys,

Thank you for your thoughts. I appreciate it. Looks like we all agree about
removal of old style provisioners. I'll prepare a PS for this.

Also thanks  for the good idea to switch to the upstream charts for CSI
Ceph provisioners  [1]. Let's do this as a separate PS.

[1] https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/tree/devel/charts

On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 6:40 PM Steve Taylor <steveftaylor at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree as well. I have been working to update the Ceph client images to
> Quincy and Focal to match the Ceph daemons that have already been updated,
> and the CephFS provisioner is proving difficult. It is outdated and
> incompatible with Python 3, but newer librados packages are only built for
> Python 3.
>
> If we want to keep the old provisioners around, the path that makes the
> most sense is to update them to be compatible with more modern frameworks
> and libraries, but personally, I don't see a need. I think pretty much
> everyone has moved to CSI, and anyone that hasn't probably should. I am in
> favor of removing the outdated provisioners.
>
> Steve
>
> On 3/2/2023 3:22:20 PM, Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com> wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> I agree.  I also think we should stop maintaining the CSI provisioner
> chart and simply deploy the one provided by the Ceph CSI team
>
> Less code we maintain, the better.
>
> Thanks
> Mohammed
>
> On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 10:13 PM Vladimir Kozhukalov <kozhukalov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I would like to suggest getting rid of cephfs and rbd provisioners. They
>> have been retired and have not been maintained for about 2.5 years now [1].
>> I believe the CSI approach is what all users rely on nowadays and we can
>> safely remove them.
>>
>> The trigger for this suggestion is that we are currently experiencing
>> issues while trying to switch cephfs provisioner to Ubuntu Focal and fixing
>> this is just wasting time. [2] Stephen spent some time debugging the issues
>> and can give more details if needed.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/kubernetes-retired/external-storage/tree/master/ceph
>> [2] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/openstack-helm-infra/+/872976
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Kozhukalov Vladimir
>>
>
>
> --
> Mohammed Naser
> VEXXHOST, Inc.
>
>

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Best regards,
Kozhukalov Vladimir
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