Background

When setting up my bare-metal Kubernetes cluster I initially used a NFS provisioner with a Windows NFS share for my PV, however Windows NFS shares often cause more issues than they solve. Given this I decided to use CIFS as a work around.

Setup

In order to use CIFS mounts on Kubernetes there are a few things you need to do on each node, including the master.

First install the required packages on each node

sudo apt install cifs-utils jq

On all nodes run the following command

VOLUME_PLUGIN_DIR="/usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec"
mkdir -p "$VOLUME_PLUGIN_DIR/fstab~cifs"
cd "$VOLUME_PLUGIN_DIR/fstab~cifs"
curl -L -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fstab/cifs/master/cifs
chmod 755 cifs

Check if the installation was successful with the following command on each node

VOLUME_PLUGIN_DIR="/usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec"
$VOLUME_PLUGIN_DIR/fstab~cifs/cifs init

Kubectl Commands

Create base64 encoded credentials for share

echo -n username | base64
echo -n password | base64

Create a secret.yml file and replace username and password with the aboved hashed output

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: cifs-secret
  namespace: default
type: fstab/cifs
data:
  username: 'ZXhhbXBsZQ=='
  password: 'bXktc2VjcmV0LXBhc3N3b3Jk'

Apply Kubernetes secret

kubectl apply -f secret.yml

Kubernetes Deployment

I have included a sample deployment of Organizr, more information about Organizr can be found here https://github.com/causefx/Organizr.