Summary: Storage

OpenShift Data Foundation - Noobaa Bucket Data Retention (Lifecycle)

February 12, 2024 -

Data retention or lifecycle configuration for S3 buckets is done by the S3 provider directly. The provider keeps track and files are automatically rotated after the requested time.

This article is a simple step-by-step guide to configure such lifecycle for OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), where buckets are provided by Noobaa. Knowledge about ODF is assumed, however similar steps can be reproduced for any S3-compliant storage operator.

Overview of Red Hat's Multi Cloud Gateway (Noobaa)

April 22, 2022 -

Toni Schmidbauer - 7 min read

This is my personal summary of experimenting with Red Hat's Multi Cloud Gateway (MCG) based on the upstream Noobaa project. MCG is part of Red Hat's OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF). ODF bundles the upstream projects Ceph and Noobaa.

Overview

Noobaa, or the Multicloud Gateway (MCG), is a S3 based data federation tool. It allows you to use S3 backends from various sources and

sync
replicate
or simply use existing

S3 buckets. Currently the following sources, or backing stores are supported:

Understanding RWO block device handling in OpenShift

February 27, 2021 -

Toni Schmidbauer - 5 min read

In this blog post we would like to explore OpenShift / Kubernetes block device handling. We try to answer the following questions:

What happens if multiple pods try to access the same block device?
What happens if we scale a deployment using block devices to more than one replica?