The CSI Volume Cloning feature adds support for specifying existing PVCs in the dataSource field to indicate a user would like to clone a Volume.

A Clone is defined as a duplicate of an existing Kubernetes Volume that can be consumed as any standard Volume would be. The only difference is that upon provisioning, rather than creating a “new” empty Volume, the back end device creates an exact duplicate of the specified Volume.

Refer to clone-doc for more info.

RBD Volume Cloning

Volume Clone Prerequisites

  1. Requires Kubernetes v1.16+ which supports volume clone.
  2. Ceph-csi diver v3.0.0+ which supports volume clone.

Volume Cloning

In pvc-clone, dataSource should be the name of the PVC which is already created by RBD CSI driver. The dataSource kind should be the PersistentVolumeClaim and also storageclass should be same as the source PVC.

Create a new PVC Clone from the PVC

  1. kubectl create -f cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/csi/rbd/pvc-clone.yaml

Verify RBD volume Clone PVC Creation

  1. kubectl get pvc
  2. NAME              STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS          AGE
  3. rbd-pvc           Bound    pvc-74734901-577a-11e9-b34f-525400581048   1Gi        RWO            rook-ceph-block       34m
  4. rbd-pvc-clone     Bound    pvc-70473135-577f-11e9-b34f-525400581048   1Gi        RWO            rook-ceph-block       8s

RBD clone resource Cleanup

To clean your cluster of the resources created by this example, run the following:

  1. kubectl delete -f cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/csi/rbd/pvc-clone.yaml

CephFS Volume Cloning

Volume Clone Prerequisites

  1. Requires Kubernetes v1.16+ which supports volume clone.
  2. Ceph-csi diver v3.1.0+ which supports volume clone.

Volume Cloning

In pvc-clone, dataSource should be the name of the PVC which is already created by CephFS CSI driver. The dataSource kind should be the PersistentVolumeClaim and also storageclass should be same as the source PVC.

Create a new PVC Clone from the PVC

  1. kubectl create -f cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/csi/cephfs/pvc-clone.yaml

Verify CephFS volume Clone PVC Creation

  1. kubectl get pvc
  2. NAME              STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
  3. cephfs-pvc        Bound    pvc-1ea51547-a88b-4ab0-8b4a-812caeaf025d   1Gi        RWX            rook-cephfs    39m
  4. cephfs-pvc-clone  Bound    pvc-b575bc35-d521-4c41-b4f9-1d733cd28fdf   1Gi        RWX            rook-cephfs    8s

CephFS clone resource Cleanup

To clean your cluster of the resources created by this example, run the following:

  1. kubectl delete -f cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/csi/cephfs/pvc-clone.yaml