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@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
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Best regards,
Kozhukalov Vladimir


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VEXXHOST, Inc.