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i guess you could.. but it would need a bit of manual work: https://github.com/harvester/cloud-provider-harvester

Thank you for pointing me in a direction. I’m struggling on how to do this without using Rancher. I’m relying on using Terraform to spin up and configure new clusters on Harvester. Reading how to deploy the CSI Driver, it says the Harvester Cloud Provider is optional if you’re just interested in the CSI Driver, but which method should I be pursuing? Deploying to RKE1, RKE2, or K3s? I know this is likely outside of the recommended use case for Harvester, but I feel like Harvester has the potential to be a great Standalone platform for hosting any k8s flavor on VMs without needing Rancher, especially if there was an easy way to give those guest clusters access to the underlying Longhorn storage with the CSI Driver. Am I crazy? 😄

i am not sure what is involved in k0s but you would need to spin up the cluster with correct cloud-provider=external flags

Thank you. I think maybe I’m getting somewhere. I started down the Cloud Provider road, but it was feeling wrong since I’m only interested in the CSI Driver. Your advice seems to be taking me in the right direction for that as well though. I cloned the

harvester-csi-driver

git repository and ran the

generate_addon_csi.sh

. According to the instructions I’m supposed to copy/paste the

cloud-init user data

into the User Data field through Rancher, but since I’m not using Rancher, I’m having to improvise. I copied the

Secret

manifest from the generated file and applied it to my k0s cluster, after running the

deployment.yaml

file the

harvester-csi-plugin

was created and was in

ContainerCreating

, then I saw it was looking for a

/var/lib/kubelet/plugins_registry

folder on the host, so I created that folder. Now the pods are in CrashLoopBackOff status. The logs say

level=fatal msg="Error running CSI driver: flag provided but not defined: -drivername"

. What’s supposed to be in the

plugins_registry

folder that I had to create?