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 NFS driver configuration for FileNet in containers (OCP)

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Sergio Salinas posted Thu May 08, 2025 09:55 AM

Hello everyone...

I am working on a POC of Filenet v5.6.0 in containers with Openshift v4.16.39. For the document storage I am using an external NFS server, already configured and I am configuring it in my cluster using the kubernetes-incubator drivers.

I found publications in some forums (I don’t remember the source) where they indicated that for the 4.x versions of Openshift, kubernetes-incubator is not supported and that instead it is advisable to use the NFS CSI Driver. I have reviewed the documentation but I find no reference to this recommendation, so I wanted to ask you if someone has any experience that can share me about it.

Thanks in advance.

Regards.
Sergio Salinas

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RUTH Hildebrand-Lund posted Fri May 09, 2025 09:44 AM

Use NFS, but mount through storage vendor’s container storage interface (CSI).

The Container Storage Interface is what exposes the storage to OCP/K8s. So, when you ask for storage the CSI provisions the PV that the container uses.

Pod à PV/PVC à CSI à Storage

The “virtual” mapping to the file system are effectively mount points for the pod. We have seven for the CPE (although three are now unused).

The one named “cpe-filestore-pvc” targets usage with file-based content storage.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/filenet-p8-platform/5.5.12?topic=resource-creating-volumes-folders-deployment

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