By Banji Inoue (@binoue)
We are happy to announce that TopoLVM 0.4.0 is released. TopoLVM is a storage plugin for Kubernetes using LVM. It features dynamic provisioning and capacity-aware scheduling among others.
Here is news about the recent TopoLVM developments.
Community updates
Satoru Takeuchi and Kazuhito Matsuda from TopoLVM maintainers are giving a talk titled "Capacity-aware Dynamic Volume Provisioning For LVM Local Storage" in KubeCon EU 2020 Amsterdam*1. Come and see them!
We are gradually opening TopoLVM development for the vast open source community. So far, a Slack workspace is opened for everyone who wants to use or develop TopoLVM.
Further actions will be discussed in topolvm#88.
What’s new in TopoLVM 0.3 and 0.4
In these releases, two important features have been added to TopoLVM:
Let's look into the details of these changes.
Ephemeral inline volumes
Ephemeral inline volume feature is to define volumes inlined in a Pod spec. The lifetime of such volumes will be the same as the inlined Pod. This is available for Kubernetes 1.16 and later versions as a beta feature.
This work was contributed by @matthias50.
For details, read the user manual.
Volume expansion
TopoLVM volumes can be expanded online or offline now.
To resize a volume, simply update the PVC to request the new volume size.
Other improvements
Fixing the TopoLVM webhook behavior reported by @pohly.
Support for Kubernetes 1.16 while dropping that for Kubernetes 1.13.
What will come next?
Check the milestones for upcoming features.
Special thanks
Kudos to @matthias50, @pohly, and @ridv.
We welcome contributions from anyone. If you are interested in using or developing TopoLVM, feel free to join the TopoLVM slack and ask whatever you like.
*1:This event has been postponed until July or August 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak
