Open-Local

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Open-Local is a local disk management system composed of multiple components. With Open-Local, using local storage in Kubernetes will be as simple as centralized storage.

Features

• Local storage pool management
• Dynamic volume provisioning
• Extended scheduler
• Volume expansion
• Volume snapshot
• Volume metrics
• Raw block volume
• IO Throttling
• Ephemeral inline volume

Overall Architecture

Open-Localcontains three types of components:

• Scheduler extender: as an extended component of Kubernetes Scheduler, adding local storage scheduling algorithm
• CSI plugins: providing the ability to create/delete volume, expand volume and take snapshots of the volume
• Agent: running on each node in the K8s cluster, and report local storage device information for Scheduler extender

Who uses Open-Local

Open-Local has been widely used in production environments, and currently used products include:

• ACK Distro
• Alibaba Cloud ECP (Enterprise Container Platform)
• Alibaba Cloud ADP (Cloud-Native Application Delivery Platform)
• CNStack Products
• AntStack Plus Products

User guide

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Contact

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License

Apache 2.0 License