Fault-Tolerant AI Pipelines with Rook-Ceph Object Storage on Kubernetes
PythonBuilding fault-tolerant AI pipelines with Rook-Ceph Object Storage on Kubernetes involves setting up a resilient storage system that can handle the demands of AI workload and data management. To achieve this, we will use Rook to orchestrate the deployment of Ceph, a distributed object, block, and file storage platform on a Kubernetes cluster.
Rook is an open-source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for a diverse set of storage solutions to natively integrate with cloud-native environments.
Ceph is a highly scalable and resilient storage solution that will provide the underlying storage required by AI pipelines. It offers three types of storage: object, block, and file, which can be consumed by applications like databases, AI models, backup systems, and more.
For the sake of this guide, the assumption is that you have a Kubernetes cluster already up and running. The program does not cover the Kubernetes cluster setup itself but focuses on setting up Rook-Ceph Object Storage within a Kubernetes cluster.
Here's a basic Pulumi program written in Python that demonstrates how to deploy Rook-Ceph Object Storage on a Kubernetes cluster:
import pulumi import pulumi_kubernetes as k8s # Assuming a Kubernetes cluster is already set up and the `kubeconfig` is configured. # We will start by deploying the Rook operator, which will manage the lifecycle of Ceph within our cluster. rook_operator = k8s.yaml.ConfigFile("rookOperator", file="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rook/rook/master/cluster/examples/kubernetes/ceph/operator.yaml" ) # Next, we need to create a Rook Ceph cluster. # This resource definition should be in a file named 'cluster.yaml' located in your working directory. ceph_cluster = k8s.yaml.ConfigFile("cephCluster", file="cluster.yaml", opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(depends_on=[rook_operator]) ) # Once the Rook-Ceph cluster is set up, we can define a CephBlockPool. # Below is an example definition for a `CephBlockPool`. You could define the spec # based on your specific requirements for replication and failure domains. ceph_block_pool = k8s.apiextensions.CustomResource("cephBlockPool", api_version="ceph.rook.io/v1", kind="CephBlockPool", metadata={ "name": "replicapool", "namespace": "rook-ceph" # Assuming rook-ceph is the namespace used for the cluster }, spec={ "replicated": { "size": 3 # Set the replication size to 3 for fault-tolerance } }, opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(depends_on=[ceph_cluster]) ) # To allow access to the Ceph storage, we need to create a storage class # that refers to the CephBlockPool we just created. ceph_storage_class = k8s.storage.v1.StorageClass("cephStorageClass", metadata={ "name": "rook-ceph-block" }, provisioner="rook-ceph.rbd.csi.ceph.com", parameters={ "pool": "replicapool", "clusterID": "rook-ceph", # Ensure this matches the namespace of Rook "csi.storage.k8s.io/provisioner-secret-name": "rook-csi-rbd-provisioner", "csi.storage.k8s.io/provisioner-secret-namespace": "rook-ceph", "csi.storage.k8s.io/controller-expand-secret-name": "rook-csi-rbd-provisioner", "csi.storage.k8s.io/controller-expand-secret-namespace": "rook-ceph", "csi.storage.k8s.io/fstype": "ext4" }, reclaim_policy="Retain", allow_volume_expansion=True, opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(depends_on=[ceph_block_pool]) ) # Exporting the storage class name for easier access when creating persistent volume claims pulumi.export("storageClassName", ceph_storage_class.metadata["name"])
Before deploying, save your resource definitions for the Rook-Ceph Cluster (usually named
cluster.yaml
) with specifications tailored to your needs according to Rook-Ceph's documentation.Pulumi will automate the deployment process as defined by the configurations you've laid out. When you run this Pulumi program with
pulumi up
, it will apply the configurations on your Kubernetes cluster, creating the Ceph storage environment.The
StorageClass
serves as an abstraction layer over the underlying storage, translating the requests for persistent volumes into actual storage provisioned by Ceph. By settingreclaimPolicy
toRetain
, we ensure that data persists even after aPersistentVolumeClaim
is deleted. This is an essential feature for fault-tolerant systems where data durability is crucial.To consume the storage, applications within your Kubernetes cluster can now simply define
PersistentVolumeClaims
that refer to therook-ceph-block
storage class.This setup will give you a fault-tolerant storage solution that can be used not only by AI pipelines but by other workloads as well that require resilient storage.