Bare Metal Notes

This guide will describe how to prepare on-prem or colocation clusters where you manage the operating systems directly (kernel modules, Lustre packages, kubelet paths, etc.). While the detailed walkthrough is in progress, you can already follow the general Introduction page and keep the following considerations in mind:

• Ensure every node that should host Lustre-backed pods has the Lustre client packages installed via your distribution’s package manager (for example, lustre-client RPM/DEB).
• Label those nodes with lustre.csi.klustrefs.io/lustre-client=true.
• Grant the klustre-system namespace Pod Security admission exemptions (e.g., pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce=privileged) because the daemonset requires hostPID, hostNetwork, and SYS_ADMIN.

If you are interested in helping us document more advanced configurations (multiple interfaces, bonded networks, RDMA, etc.), please open an issue or discussion in the GitHub repository.