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[Feature Request] Share a PV across namespaces #647

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panpan0000 opened this issue Apr 12, 2024 · 4 comments
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[Feature Request] Share a PV across namespaces #647

panpan0000 opened this issue Apr 12, 2024 · 4 comments
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@panpan0000
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panpan0000 commented Apr 12, 2024

Is your feature request related to a problem?/Why is this needed

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Denote below scenario:

two AI teams belong to two different namespaces.

Team 1 want to share some data(on NFS) to Team2: Team 1 has trained a model and wants to share it with Team 2, or Team 1 has prepared a training dataset to further train Team 2.

Team 1 initially creates a PV associated with NFS 10.20.20.1:/nfs/team-1.
Subsequently, Team 1 also has a corresponding PVC in namespace NS1, associated with the above PV.

Now, we want Team 2 to use the data in 10.20.20.1:/nfs/team-1.

But without directly mounting this location(maybe security concern) and without creating a PV (assuming Team 2 does not have permission to create cluster-level resources), the best way for Team 2 may want to create a new PVC in NS2 and bind it to the above PV--- Oops --- Kubernetes prevents this behavior because one PV can only be mounted by one PVC, regardless of whether it is RWX/RWO.

Currently, the only option left is for Team 2 to beg the administrator people to create a duplicate PV for them.

However, as PV is a cluster-level resource,
in the NFS scenario, it may be desired to be shared by PVCs from different namespaces.

Is there a flag field in the StorageClass, that can relax the restriction of "one PV can only be mounted by one PVC" in such NFS scenarios?

Thank you very much

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@panpan0000 I think you only need to ask admin to create a storage class with server: 10.20.20.1:/nfs/team-1 parameter, and then the two teams could create two PVCs referencing to that storage class, k8s would create separate PVs automatically bound to those two PVCs, does it work?

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although it works in theory, but actually, there will be flood of StorageClass which are hard to be managed..
and each time , team 1 want to share/public something , it will be quite troublesome for admin to handle StorageClass one by one....

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panpan0000 commented Apr 17, 2024

a reference below, to help us to understand the situation better ( as well, below states an implementation by Alluxio/Fluid)
https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/fluid-sharing-dataset-across-kubernetes-namespaces_599739

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then you could use a root directory in storage class, e.g. server: 10.20.20.1:/nfs/ instead of server: 10.20.20.1:/nfs/team-1

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