Amazon EBS CSI driver

Amazon EBS CSI driver (Sep 2019, as addon in Mar 2022) is not installed by default. To install it: aws-ebs-csi-driver Installation

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/ebs-csi.html
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ebs-csi-driver-is-now-generally-available-in-amazon-eks-add-ons/
• https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-ebs-csi-driver

• ebs-csi-controller
• ebs-csi-node
• Terraform irsa-ebs-csi module

Notes:

• You can run the Amazon EBS CSI controller on Fargate, but you can't mount volumes to Fargate pods

Terraform

resource "aws_eks_addon" "ebs-csi" {
 cluster_name             = module.eks.cluster_name
 addon_name               = "aws-ebs-csi-driver"
 addon_version            = "v1.20.0-eksbuild.1"
 service_account_role_arn = module.irsa-ebs-csi.iam_role_arn
 tags = {
   "eks_addon" = "ebs-csi"
   "terraform" = "true"
 }
}

Activities

• Configure privileges for EBS CSI using ebs csi irsa role module
• aws-ebs-csi-driver Installation
• Managing the Amazon EBS CSI driver as an Amazon EKS add-on
  • Creating the Amazon EBS CSI driver IAM role for service accounts

News

• Mar 2022 Amazon EKS add-ons https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/amazon-ebs-csi-driver-is-now-generally-available-in-amazon-eks-add-ons/

Related

• aws-ebs-csi-driver
• kubectl describe storageclass

waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner
ProvisioningFailed
Failed to provision volume with StorageClass

• Terraform EKS module: cluster_addons
• Terraform EKS submodule: aws-ebs-csi-driver
• Terraform EKS resource: aws_eks_addon
• CSIDriver Kubernetes API object
• aws_eks_addon.ebs-csi

See also

• ebs-csi: aws-ebs-csi-driver: Installation, ProvisioningFailed, sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity
• Amazon EBS CSI driver: aws-ebs-csi-driver, ebs_csi_irsa_role, ebs-csi-controller, ebs-csi-node
• EKS storage, Amazon EBS CSI driver, Amazon EFS CSI driver, kubectl describe storageclass
• AWS EKS Addons: best practices, vpc-cni, kube-proxy, coredns, aws-ebs-csi-driver, aws-efs-csi-driver, aws-guardduty-agent, amazon-cloudwatch-observability, aws eks describe-addon-versions, aws eks create-addon, aws eks list-addons
• CSI, Amazon EBS CSI driver, Kubernetes Filestore CSI driver, GKE CSI Driver pd.csi.storage.gke.io, CSI Migration, aws-efs-csi-driver, aws-ebs-csi-driver, gcp_filestore_csi_driver_config, GcePersistentDiskCsiDriver, kind: CSINode, csi-hostpath-driver, Kubernetes snapshots

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/eks-add-ons-ebs-csi-driver-available/