Air Gap Installation

Requirements:

  • Deploy Longhorn Components images to your own registry.
  • Deploy Kubernetes CSI driver components images to your own registry.

Note:

  • CSI driver components images names and tags can be found here.
  • We recommend using a short registry URL due to a Kubernetes limitation on the length of pod metadata labels. For more information, refer to this section

Using manifest file.

  1. Get Longhorn Deployment manifest file

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/longhorn/longhorn/v0.8.1/deploy/longhorn.yaml

  2. Create Longhorn namespace

    kubectl create namespace longhorn-system

  3. If private registry require authentication, Create docker-registry secret in longhorn-system namespace:

    kubectl -n longhorn-system create secret docker-registry <SECRET_NAME> --docker-server=<REGISTRY_URL> --docker-username=<REGISTRY_USER> --docker-password=<REGISTRY_PASSWORD>

    • Add your secret name to longhorn-default-setting ConfigMap
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: ConfigMap
    metadata:
      name: longhorn-default-setting
      namespace: longhorn-system
    data:
      default-setting.yaml: |-
        backup-target:
        backup-target-credential-secret:
        create-default-disk-labeled-nodes:
        default-data-path:
        replica-soft-anti-affinity:
        storage-over-provisioning-percentage:
        storage-minimal-available-percentage:
        upgrade-checker:
        default-replica-count:
        guaranteed-engine-cpu:
        default-longhorn-static-storage-class:
        backupstore-poll-interval:
        taint-toleration:
        registry-secret:  <SECRET_NAME>
    
    • Add your secret name SECRET_NAME to imagePullSecrets.name in the following resources

      • longhorn-driver-deployer Deployment
      • longhorn-manager DaemonSet
      • longhorn-ui Deployment

      Example:

      apiVersion: apps/v1
      kind: Deployment
      metadata:
        labels:
          app: longhorn-ui
        name: longhorn-ui
        namespace: longhorn-system
      spec:
        replicas: 1
        selector:
          matchLabels:
            app: longhorn-ui
        template:
          metadata:
            labels:
              app: longhorn-ui
          spec:
            containers:
            - name: longhorn-ui
              image: longhornio/longhorn-ui:v0.8.0
              ports:
              - containerPort: 8000
              env:
                - name: LONGHORN_MANAGER_IP
                  value: "http://longhorn-backend:9500"
            imagePullSecrets:
            - name: <SECRET_NAME>                          ## Add SECRET_NAME here
            serviceAccountName: longhorn-service-account
      
  4. Apply the following modifications to the manifest file

    • Modify Kubernetes CSI driver components environment variables in longhorn-driver-deployer Deployment point to your private registry images

      • CSI_ATTACHER_IMAGE
      • CSI_PROVISIONER_IMAGE
      • CSI_NODE_DRIVER_REGISTRAR_IMAGE
      • CSI_RESIZER_IMAGE
      - name: CSI_ATTACHER_IMAGE
        value: <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-attacher:<CSI_ATTACHER_IMAGE_TAG>
      - name: CSI_PROVISIONER_IMAGE
        value: <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-provisioner:<CSI_PROVISIONER_IMAGE_TAG>
      - name: CSI_NODE_DRIVER_REGISTRAR_IMAGE
        value: <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-node-driver-registrar:<CSI_NODE_DRIVER_REGISTRAR_IMAGE_TAG>
      - name: CSI_RESIZER_IMAGE
        value: <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-resizer:<CSI_RESIZER_IMAGE_TAG>
      
    • Modify Longhorn images to point to your private registry images

      • longhornio/longhorn-manager

        image: <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-manager:<LONGHORN_MANAGER_IMAGE_TAG>

      • longhornio/longhorn-engine

        image: <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-engine:<LONGHORN_ENGINE_IMAGE_TAG>

      • longhornio/longhorn-instance-manager

        image: <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-instance-manager:<LONGHORN_INSTANCE_MANAGER_IMAGE_TAG>

      • longhornio/longhorn-ui

        image: <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-ui:<LONGHORN_UI_IMAGE_TAG>

    Example:

    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: longhorn-ui
      name: longhorn-ui
      namespace: longhorn-system
    spec:
      replicas: 1
      selector:
        matchLabels:
          app: longhorn-ui
      template:
        metadata:
          labels:
            app: longhorn-ui
        spec:
          containers:
          - name: longhorn-ui
            image: <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-ui:<LONGHORN_UI_IMAGE_TAG>   ## Add image name and tag here
            ports:
            - containerPort: 8000
            env:
              - name: LONGHORN_MANAGER_IP
                value: "http://longhorn-backend:9500"
          imagePullSecrets:
          - name: <SECRET_NAME>
          serviceAccountName: longhorn-service-account
    
  5. Deploy Longhorn using modified manifest file kubectl apply -f longhorn.yaml

Using Helm Chart

  1. Clone longhorn repo

    git clone https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn.git

  2. In chart/values.yaml

  • Specify Longhorn images:

    image:
      longhorn:
        engine: <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-engine
        engineTag: <LONGHORN_ENGINE_IMAGE_TAG>
        manager: <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-manager
        managerTag: LONGHORN_MANAGER_IMAGE_TAG<>
        ui: <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-ui
        uiTag: <LONGHORN_UI_IMAGE_TAG>
        instanceManager: <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-instance-manager
        instanceManagerTag: <LONGHORN_INSTANCE_MANAGER_IMAGE_TAG>
    
  • Specify CSI Driver components images:

    csi:
      attacherImage: <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-attacher:<CSI_ATTACHER_IMAGE_TAG>
      provisionerImage: <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-provisioner:<CSI_PROVISIONER_IMAGE_TAG>
      driverRegistrarImage: <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-node-driver-registrar:<CSI_NODE_DRIVER_REGISTRAR_IMAGE_TAG>
      resizerImage: <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-resizer:<CSI_RESIZER_IMAGE_TAG>
    
  • Specify registry secret Name, URL, and Credentials:

    defaultSettings:
      registrySecret: <SECRET_NAME>
    
    privateRegistry:
        registryUrl: <REGISTRY_URL>
        registryUser: <REGISTRY_USER>
        registryPasswd: <REGISTRY_PASSWORD>
    
  1. Install Longhorn
    • Helm2

      helm install ./chart --name longhorn --namespace longhorn-system

    • Helm3

      helm install longhorn ./chart --namespace longhorn-system --create-namespace

Using Rancher App

  • In Longhorn Images Settings section specify

    • Longhorn Manager Image Name e.g. <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-manager
    • Longhorn Manager Image Tag
    • Longhorn Engine Image Name e.g. <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-engine
    • Longhorn Engine Image Tag
    • Longhorn UI Image Name e.g. <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-ui
    • Longhorn UI Image Tag
    • Longhorn Instance Manager Image Name e.g. <REGISTRY_URL>/longhorn-instance-manager
    • Longhorn Instance Manager Image Tag
  • In Longhorn CSI Driver Setting section specify

    • Longhorn CSI Attacher Image e.g. <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-attacher:<CSI_ATTACHER_IMAGE_TAG>
    • Longhorn CSI Provisioner Image e.g. <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-provisioner:<CSI_PROVISIONER_IMAGE_TAG>
    • Longhorn CSI Driver Registrar Image e.g. <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-node-driver-registrar:<CSI_NODE_DRIVER_REGISTRAR_IMAGE_TAG>
    • Longhorn CSI Driver Resizer Image e.g. <REGISTRY_URL>/csi-resizer:<CSI_RESIZER_IMAGE_TAG>
  • In Longhorn Default Settings section specify

    • Private registry secret
  • In Private Registry Settings section specify

    • Private registry URL
    • Private registry user
    • Private registry password

Troubleshooting

For Helm/Rancher installation, if user forgot to submit a secret to authenticate to private registry, longhorn-manager DaemonSet will fail to create.

  1. Create the Kubernetes secret

    kubectl -n longhorn-system create secret docker-registry <SECRET_NAME> --docker-server=<REGISTRY_URL> --docker-username=<REGISTRY_USER> --docker-password=<REGISTRY_PASSWORD>

  2. Create registry-secret setting object manually.

    apiVersion: longhorn.io/v1beta1
    kind: Setting
    metadata:
      name: registry-secret
      namespace: longhorn-system
    value: <SECRET_NAME>
    

    kubectl apply -f registry-secret.yml

  3. Delete Longhorn and re-install it again.

    • Helm2

      helm uninstall ./chart --name longhorn --namespace longhorn-system

      helm install ./chart --name longhorn --namespace longhorn-system

    • Helm3

      helm uninstall longhorn ./chart --namespace longhorn-system

      helm install longhorn ./chart --namespace longhorn-system

longhorn-driver-deployer error: Node is not support mount propagation

If longhorn-instance-manager image name is more than 63 characters long, it will fail to deploy, and longhorn-driver-deployer pod will be in CrashLoopBackOff.

Checking Longhorn driver deployer logs will report the following:

time="2020-03-13T22:49:22Z" level=warning msg="Got an error when checking MountPropagation with node status, Node XXX is not support mount propagation"
time="2020-03-13T22:49:22Z" level=fatal msg="Error deploying driver: CSI cannot be deployed because MountPropagation is not set: Node <NODE_NAME> is not support mount propagation"

Issue can be conformed by checking Longhorn manager log, you should be able to see the following logs:

“Dropping Longhorn node longhorn-system/NODE_NAME out of the queue: fail to sync node for longhorn-system/NODE_NAME: InstanceManager.longhorn.io "instance-manager-e-605e9473" is invalid: metadata.labels: Invalid value: "PRIVATE_REGISTRY_URL-PREFIX-longhorn-instance-manager-v1_20200301": must be no more than 63 characters

Longhorn instance manager: metadata.labels must be no more than 63 characters

Using a long registry URL may cause Longhorn installation error

Longhorn manager would report errors in the log when this happened:

"instance-manager-e-xxxxxxxx" is invalid: metadata.labels: Invalid value: "<PRIVATE_REGISTRY_URL>-longhornio-longhorn-instance-manager-v1_20200301": must be no more than 63 characters

Longhorn instance manager pods have labels with key longhorn.io/instance-manager-image and value REGISTRY_URL-USER-IMAGE_NAME-TAG

e.g

metadata:
  labels:
    longhorn.io/component: instance-manager
    longhorn.io/instance-manager-image: <PRIVATE_REGISTRY_URL>-longhornio-longhorn-instance-manager-v1_20200301
    longhorn.io/instance-manager-type: engine
    longhorn.io/node: <NODE_NAME>
  name: instance-manager-e-XXXXXXXX

it’s known Kubernetes limitation that label value should be no more than 63 characters here

Recommendation:

It’s highly recommended not to manipulate image tags, especially instance manager image tags such as v1_20200301, because we intentionally use the date to avoid associating it with a Longhorn version.

e.g

  • Longhorn components images

    • longhorn-instance-manager: hub.example.com/lh/ins-mgr:v1_20200301
    • longhorn-manager: hub.example.com/lh/mgr:v0.8.1
    • longhorn-engine: hub.example.com/lh/eng:v0.8.1
    • longhorn-ui: hub.examples.com/lh/ui:v0.8.1
  • Kubernetes CSI images

    • CSI Attacher: hub.example.com/csi/attacher:v2.0.0
    • CSI Provisioner: hub.example.com/csi/provisioner:v1.4.0
    • CSI Node Driver Registrar: hub.example.com/csi/node-driver-reg:v1.2.0
    • CSI Resizer: hub.example.com/csi/resizer:v0.3.0

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