Creating Rook Storage Pools

Rook allows creation and customization of storage pools through the custom resource definitions (CRDs). The following settings are available for pools.

Sample

apiVersion: rook.io/v1alpha1
kind: Pool
metadata:
  name: ecpool
  namespace: rook
spec:
  replication:
  #  size: 3
  erasureCode:
    codingChunks: 2
    dataChunks: 2

Pool Settings

Metadata

• name: The name of the pool to create.
• namespace: The namespace of the Rook cluster where the pool is created.

Spec

• replication: Settings for a replicated pool. If specified, erasureCode settings must not be specified.
  • size: The number of copies of the data in the pool.
• erasureCode: Settings for an erasure-coded pool. If specified, replication settings must not be specified.
  • codingChunks: Number of coding chunks per object in an erasure coded storage pool
  • dataChunks: Number of data chunks per object in an erasure coded storage pool