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OpenEBS can directly be installed using the Director UI.
The overall installation process is divided into two types:
- Basic: Basic Installation is recommended in scenarios where OpenEBS needs to be deployed using the default values.
- Advanced: Advanced Installation is recommended in cases where OpenEBS needs to be installed with customized values.
Steps for installation:
STEP 1:
Connect your cluster to Director. To know the detailed steps click here.
STEP 2:
Once the cluster is connected, to install OpenEBS click on OpenEBS on the left side-bar.
STEP 3:
Next, You can choose installation type as Basic or Advanced based on your requirement.
If you want to setup OpenEBS with default settings, select Basic Installation else to customize resource limits, node selection and Node Disk manger before installation, select Advanced Installation.
Basic installation provides you with an uneditable YAML. All the values have been set to default and OpenEBS gets deployed in the openebs namespace.
To deploy, click on Deploy OpenEBS.
The installation might take a few minutes. Once the installation is complete you'll have the following screen displaying all the Installed OpenEBS components.
Click on continue, this redirects you to the page displaying the status of Control Plane Components.
OpenEBS is now successfully installed on your cluster.
NOTE:
Scheduling Control Nodes and Data Nodes are the compulsary fields, these need to be selected otherwise the pods end up in pending state as they do not get a node to be scheduled on. All other fields can be customized as per your requirement. In case no values are specified OpenEBS get installed with default values.
- Under Start Installation specify the Namespace, Default Directory and Docker registry for OpenEBS Installation.
Note:
- While specifying the namespace, ensure that it must contain a min of 6 characters without spaces or symbols.
- While specifying the namespace, you can specify any namespace. In case the specified namespace does not exis, it gets created automatically.
- Next, Specify your resource limit. You can choose ones of these options available based on the size of the application or you can provide some custom values.
- Next, Select the nodes where Control Plane components will get scheduled.
- Similarly, select the nodes where the Data Plane components have to be scheduled.
- Next, segregate the Disk Filters under Include or Exclude.
- OpenEBS now supports MayaStor. To include MayaStor installation, select the slider button as shown in the image.
To know more about MayaStor click here. - Once everything is done, the customized YAML gets displayed. Click on Deploy OpenEBS to install OpenEBS.
In case OpenEBS installation fails, you can choose to abort installation process. Aborting stops installation and removes all the components that may have been installed.
After aborting you may retry installation or in case of any further queries feel free to contact our support.
