Persistent Storage and Fast Remote Builds

We’ve launched volumes! And a wicked faster remote builder! You might know about these things already if you check in on our forum occasionally, but if you don’t know … now you know.

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Are you using the new nomad csi plugin to attach the volumes on a task or simply host volumes?

We’re using something kind of like host volumes. We wrote a Nomad device plugin to manage LVM devices. It was much simpler than CSI (and we don’t get any value out of pluggable storage, so simple is good).

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Must be fun working there. The opportunity to write all types of integration software.

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Why LVM devices over having a dedicated storage cluster? Sounds risky to me.

LVM is local (thus low latency), and much simpler than a storage cluster on a network. LVM has it’s quirks though! @kurt has LVM turned out to be a good choice after a couple of years of experience with it?