-o mfspassword in the CSI

[saandre15]

mfsmount allows the user to specify the following option to mount to a MooseFS master server that requires password authentication to view a specific directory.

-o mfspassword=PASSWORD

This is useful in a production environment where certain directories on the Master server need to be restricted from the clients. I am just wondering whether such a feature exist on moosefs-csi?

[xandrus]

Hi,
at the moment such a feature is not available, but we will definitely add it.

Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

[xandrus]

Hi,

I would like to inform that I have added an additional argument to the driver, which helps to pass an additional mfsmount option to the driver.
So basically you can pass an extra option this way:
--mfs-mount-options mfsmd5pass=MD5
or with open text password:
--mfs-mount-options mfspassword=PASSWORD

Also I would like to add that I have build dev container image so image and arguments now should look like this:

          image: registry.moosefs.com/moosefs-csi-plugin:latest-dev
          args:
            - "--mode=controller"
            - "--csi-endpoint=$(CSI_ENDPOINT)"
            - "--master-host=$(MASTER_HOST)"
            - "--master-port=$(MASTER_PORT)"
            - "--root-dir=$(ROOT_DIR)"
            - "--plugin-data-dir=$(WORKING_DIR)"
            - "--mfs-logging=$(MFS_LOGGING)"
            - "--mfs-mount-options=$(MFS_MOUNT_OPTIONS)"

Configuration example is available here:
https://github.com/xandrus/moosefs-csi/tree/master/deploy/kubernetes/with-mfsmaster-password

If everything works without issues, I will create a pull request.
https://github.com/xandrus/moosefs-csi

[saandre15]

@xandrus,

Were you able to get the passwords -o mfspasswords to work with moosefs-csi?

Thanks

[xandrus]

@dretechtips

yes.

As I said in my previous response. I have added one extra argument to moosefs-csi to pass additional options during mfsmount process.

Please check this example:
https://github.com/xandrus/moosefs-csi/tree/master/deploy/kubernetes/with-mfsmaster-password

[saandre15]

@xandrus et. al,

I am getting the following error using the 0.9.6-dev moosefs-csi-plugin in Ubuntu Jammy container from my PVC mounted pods using k3s distribution of Kubernetes (v1.26+).

  Type     Reason              Age                From                     Message
  ----     ------              ----               ----                     -------
  Normal   Scheduled           14m                default-scheduler        Successfully assigned default/my-moosefs-pod to hybrid-001
  Warning  FailedMount         85s (x6 over 12m)  kubelet                  Unable to attach or mount volumes: unmounted volumes=[moosefs-volume], unattached volumes=[moosefs-volume], failed to process volumes=[]: timed out waiting for the condition
  Warning  FailedAttachVolume  15s (x7 over 12m)  attachdetach-controller  AttachVolume.Attach failed for volume "pvc-db01a8fb-e0e9-446a-9af9-ec1033381e4b" : timed out waiting for external-attacher of csi.moosefs.com CSI driver to attach volume pvc-db01a8fb-e0e9-446a-9af9-ec1033381e4b

when deploying the these test case yaml files.

---
kind: Pod
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: my-moosefs-pod
spec:
  containers:
    - name: my-frontend
      image: busybox
      volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: "/data"
          name: moosefs-volume
      command: [ "sleep", "1000000" ]
  volumes:
    - name: moosefs-volume
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: my-moosefs-pvc
---
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: my-moosefs-pvc
spec:
  storageClassName: moosefs-file-storage
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi
---

Kubernetes Node Setup: 5x Raspberry PI (arm64) & 1x Generic Server (amd64).

MooseFS Storage Setup: 5x Generic Servers (amd64)

MooseFS mfsexports.cfg Configuration

[OBFUSCATED]                 /[OBFUSCATED] rw,alldirs,mingoal=2,maproot=0:0,password=[OBFUSCATED],admin

An overall summary of the Kubernetes deployment is that I using the @Kunde21 csi resizer, attacher, etc. (not moosefs-csi-plugin) from the master branch https://github.com/Kunde21/moosefs-csi since the provided images in the config doesn't work on bare metal. And I am building and fetching moosefs-csi-plugin 0.9.6-dev from https://hub.docker.com/r/dfayl16/moosefs-csi-plugin, which uses Ubuntu Jammy as a base image instead of Debian (,since Debian version does not support ARM64). I can send the full deployment YAML files for Kubernetes for further debugging purposes.

None of my pods are crashing.

Node pod logs

...
time="2023-07-24T21:59:46Z" level=info msg="MountMfs - Successfully mounted [OBFUSCATED] to /mnt/hybrid-001"
time="2023-07-24T21:59:46Z" level=info msg="Setting up Mfs Logging. Mfs path: /DevOps/containers/cluster/active/prod.[REGION].[NETWORK_NAME]/pv_data/logs"
time="2023-07-24T21:59:46Z" level=info msg="Mfs Logging set up!"
time="2023-07-24T21:59:46Z" level=info msg="StartService - endpoint unix:///csi/csi.sock"
time="2023-07-24T21:59:46Z" level=info msg=CreategRPCServer
time="2023-07-24T21:59:46Z" level=info msg="CreateListener - endpoint unix:///csi/csi.sock"
time="2023-07-24T21:59:46Z" level=info msg="CreateListener - Removing socket /csi/csi.sock"
time="2023-07-24T21:59:46Z" level=info msg="StartService - Registering node service"
time="2023-07-24T21:59:46Z" level=info msg="StartService - Starting to serve!"
time="2023-07-24T21:59:49Z" level=info msg=GetPluginInfo
time="2023-07-24T21:59:51Z" level=info msg=NodeGetInfo

However, I find it odd that the Controller Node keeps alternating between Published and Unpublished Volume state.

...
time="2023-07-25T07:48:13Z" level=info msg="ControllerPublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-db01a8fb-e0e9-446a-9af9-ec1033381e4b NodeId: hybrid-001 VolumeContext: map[storage.kubernetes.io/csiProvisionerIdentity:1690235988382-8081-csi.moosefs.com]"
time="2023-07-25T07:48:41Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-6ce96836-39a1-4908-b050-bafb50fe4545, NodeId: compute-004"
time="2023-07-25T07:48:41Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-6ce96836-39a1-4908-b050-bafb50fe4545, NodeId: hybrid-001"
time="2023-07-25T07:49:50Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-06162ab9-49d5-4f45-b53e-a8bd063ad0d4, NodeId: hybrid-001"
time="2023-07-25T07:49:50Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-6ce96836-39a1-4908-b050-bafb50fe4545, NodeId: hybrid-001"
time="2023-07-25T07:49:50Z" level=info msg="ControllerPublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-db01a8fb-e0e9-446a-9af9-ec1033381e4b NodeId: hybrid-001 VolumeContext: map[storage.kubernetes.io/csiProvisionerIdentity:1690235988382-8081-csi.moosefs.com]"
time="2023-07-25T07:49:50Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-3bd2b6a3-78d7-4fda-aca4-200442675670, NodeId: compute-001"
time="2023-07-25T07:49:50Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-6ce96836-39a1-4908-b050-bafb50fe4545, NodeId: compute-004"
time="2023-07-25T07:50:05Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-06162ab9-49d5-4f45-b53e-a8bd063ad0d4, NodeId: hybrid-001"
time="2023-07-25T07:51:39Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-3bd2b6a3-78d7-4fda-aca4-200442675670, NodeId: compute-001"
time="2023-07-25T07:53:13Z" level=info msg="ControllerPublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-db01a8fb-e0e9-446a-9af9-ec1033381e4b NodeId: hybrid-001 VolumeContext: map[storage.kubernetes.io/csiProvisionerIdentity:1690235988382-8081-csi.moosefs.com]"
time="2023-07-25T07:53:41Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-6ce96836-39a1-4908-b050-bafb50fe4545, NodeId: hybrid-001"
time="2023-07-25T07:53:41Z" level=info msg="ControllerUnpublishVolume - VolumeId: pvc-6ce96836-39a1-4908-b050-bafb50fe4545, NodeId: compute-004"

There is a lack of information over the internet over the latest development builds of moosefs-csi-plugin for debugging. Try running a bare metal instance of moosefs-csi-plugin w/ multi-architecture (arm64/amd64). And tell me if you guys were able to successfully get PVC mounting to work using k3s or any other Kubernetes forks.

Thanks,

EDIT: It was an issue w/ my RBAC configuration & symlinks.