IBM Storage Scale container native
IBM Storage Scale container native allows the deployment of the cluster file system in a Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster. Using a remote mount attached file system, the container native deployment provides a persistent data store to be accessed by the applications through the IBM Storage Scale CSI driver by using Persistent Volumes (PVs). For more information, see IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver.
Documentation for v5.2.1 points to the v5.2.1.x branch in this repository. This means all instructions in our doc remain unchanged and following the doc will always pull the latest released fix pack of the product.
Supported container platforms
Red Hat OpenShift v4.14, v4.15, v4.16
Supported operating systems
Red Hat CoreOS
Supported architectures
x86_64, ppc64le, s390x
Contents
- IBM Storage Scale Operator v5.2.1.1.3
- Image pull secret
ibm-storage-scale-registrykey
has been deprecated on the service accounts to avoid excessive warning messages starting with kubernetes 1.28 (RedHat OpenShift 4.15). - For official documentation, see IBM Storage Scale Container Native 5.2.1
- Image pull secret
- IBM Storage Scale v5.2.1.1.efix8
- Support for IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface (CSI) v2.12.1 For more information, see IBM Storage Scale Container Storage Interface Driver
What's New
The following enhancements are made in this release:
- Container Storage Interface (CSI) 2.12 For more information, see Summary of changes in IBM Storage Scale CSI Documentation
- Parallel upgrade of core pods to speed up the upgrade process
- Avoidance of node reboots, when possible, during upgrade
- Automatic password rotation for the REST-API users defined upon the storage cluster.
- Must-gather tool uses more space-efficient data collection by default. New ability to specify custom options.
- IBM Storage Scale container native operator is automatically scheduled on non-master nodes if scheduling upon master nodes fails
- IBM Storage Scale container native operator restarts automatically when new install.yaml is applied to prevent against user forgetting to stop the operator.
- Technology Preview of local disk attachment utilizing a direct disk attachment configuration, replacing prior technology preview of a shared nothing disk configuration