From d3019fb14a1a8988051be3edcc0e8e13ee49b4dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cheng Xing Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:53:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Moving Flexvolume to separate out-of-tree section --- docs/concepts/storage/volumes.md | 21 +++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/concepts/storage/volumes.md b/docs/concepts/storage/volumes.md index d79e967928..0cc2543afa 100644 --- a/docs/concepts/storage/volumes.md +++ b/docs/concepts/storage/volumes.md @@ -549,14 +549,6 @@ with ConfigMap naming. volume source. However, as illustrated above, you can explicitly set the `mode` for each individual projection. -### FlexVolume - -A `FlexVolume` enables users to mount vendor volumes into a pod. It expects vendor -drivers are installed in the volume plugin path on each kubelet node. This is -an alpha feature and may change in future. - -More details are in [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/examples/tree/{{page.githubbranch}}/staging/volumes/flexvolume/README.md). - ### AzureFileVolume A `AzureFileVolume` is used to mount a Microsoft Azure File Volume (SMB 2.1 and 3.0) @@ -849,6 +841,19 @@ request a certain amount of space using a [resource](/docs/user-guide/compute-re specification, and to select the type of media to use, for clusters that have several media types. +## Out-of-Tree Volume Plugins +In addition to the previously listed volume types, storage vendors may create +custom plugins without adding it to the Kubernetes repository. This can be +achieved by using the `FlexVolume` plugin. + +`FlexVolume` enables users to mount vendor volumes into a pod. The vendor plugin +is implemented using a driver, an executable supporting a list of volume commands +defined by the `FlexVolume` API. Drivers must be installed in a pre-defined +volume plugin path on each node. This is an alpha feature and may change in future. + +More details can be found [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/flexvolume.md). + + {% endcapture %} {% capture whatsnext %}