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Longhorn

Longhorn  is a lightweight, reliable, and powerful distributed block storage system for Kubernetes, implementing distributed block storage using containers and microservices.

The longhorn role performs various tasks related to Helm chart deployment, reset, and validation.

Tip

Role deployments are performed at global level, using the Provisioning playbook. Upgrades can be performed at role level — see the instructions detailed below.

Role Tasks

See the related role tasks listed below.

Facts

Ansible facts — see facts.yaml  for details.

Main

Main role related tasks — see main.yaml  for details.

Post-Install

Post-install related tasks — see postinstall.yaml  for details.

Reset

Reset related tasks — see reset.yaml  for details.

Tip

A reset is performed at global level only — review the Reset playbook instructions.

Upgrade

Upgrade related tasks — see upgrade.yaml  for details. Run the following command to perform a role upgrade:

ansible-playbook --ask-vault-pass --tags=longhorn upgrade.yaml

Validation

Validation related tasks — see validation.yaml  for details. Run the following command to perform all role related validation tasks:

ansible-playbook --ask-vault-pass --tags=longhorn validation.yaml

Role Templates

See the related role templates listed below.

Helm Chart

Helm chart values template — see values.j2  for details.

Credentials

Kubernetes Secret resource template containing the user credentials — see credentials.j2  for details.

Gateway

Kubernetes Gateway resource template — see gateway.j2  for details.

HTTP Route

Role Variables

Important

A role upgrade is required in order to apply any changes related to role variables.

See the related role variables, defined in the main.yaml  defaults file. Review the README.md  file for additional details.

Tip

Use Renovate to automate release pull requests and keep dependencies up-to-date.

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