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Appendix A. Manual Deployment

The following section covers the steps required to manually deploy Container-Native Storage.

A.1. Installing the Templates
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Execute the following steps to register the Red Hat Gluster Storage and Heketi templates with OpenShift:
  1. Use the newly created containerized Red Hat Gluster Storage project: 
    # oc project project_name
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    For example, 
    # oc project storage-project
Using project "storage-project" on server "https://master.example.com:8443".
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  2. Execute the following commands to install the templates: 
    # oc create -f /usr/share/heketi/templates/deploy-heketi-template.yaml
template "deploy-heketi" created
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    # oc create -f /usr/share/heketi/templates/glusterfs-template.yaml
template "glusterfs" created
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    # oc create -f /usr/share/heketi/templates/heketi-service-account.yaml
serviceaccount  "heketi-service-account" created
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    # oc create -f /usr/share/heketi/templates/heketi-template.yaml
template "heketi" created
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  3. Execute the following command to verify that the templates are installed: 
    # oc get templates
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    For example: 
    # oc get templates
        
NAME            DESCRIPTION                          PARAMETERS    OBJECTS
deploy-heketi   Bootstrap Heketi installation        2 (2 blank)   3
glusterfs       GlusterFS DaemonSet template         0 (all set)   1
heketi          Heketi service deployment template   2 (2 blank)   3
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  4. Execute the following command to verify that the serviceaccount is created: 
    # oc get serviceaccount heketi-service-account
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    For example: 
    # oc get serviceaccount heketi-service-account
NAME                     SECRETS   AGE
heketi-service-account   2         7d
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