Install with Helm

Using Helm

note

To install Longhorn using Helm, you first need to install Helm locally. If you're using a version prior to version 3.0, you need to install Tiller into your Kubernetes cluster with role-based access control (RBAC).

Once you have Helm installed, clone the Longhorn repository:

git clone https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn

Now use the following command(s) to install Longhorn in the longhorn-system namespace:

• Helm 2:

  helm install ./longhorn/chart --name longhorn --namespace longhorn-system

• Helm 3: When installing Longhorn with Helm 3, the namespace is created separately.

  helm install longhorn ./longhorn/chart/ --namespace longhorn-system --create-namespace

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This installs Longhorn in the longhorn-system namespace.

A successful CSI-based deployment looks like this:

# kubectl -n longhorn-system get pod
NAME                                        READY   STATUS              RESTARTS   AGE
compatible-csi-attacher-d9fb48bcf-2rzmb     1/1     Running             0          8m58s
csi-attacher-78bf9b9898-grn2c               1/1     Running             0          32s
csi-attacher-78bf9b9898-lfzvq               1/1     Running             0          8m59s
csi-attacher-78bf9b9898-r64sv               1/1     Running             0          33s
csi-provisioner-8599d5bf97-c8r79            1/1     Running             0          33s
csi-provisioner-8599d5bf97-fc5pz            1/1     Running             0          33s
csi-provisioner-8599d5bf97-p9psl            1/1     Running             0          8m59s
csi-resizer-586665f745-b7p6h                1/1     Running             0          8m59s
csi-resizer-586665f745-kgdxs                1/1     Running             0          33s
csi-resizer-586665f745-vsvvq                1/1     Running             0          33s
engine-image-ei-e10d6bf5-pv2s6              1/1     Running             0          9m30s
instance-manager-e-379373af                 1/1     Running             0          8m41s
instance-manager-r-101f13ba                 1/1     Running             0          8m40s
longhorn-csi-plugin-7v2dc                   4/4     Running             0          8m59s
longhorn-driver-deployer-775897bdf6-k4sfd   1/1     Running             0          10m
longhorn-manager-79xgj                      1/1     Running             0          9m50s
longhorn-ui-9fbb5445-httqf                  0/1     Running             0          33s

Accessing the UI

Once Longhorn has been installed in your Kubernetes cluster, you can access the UI dashboard by getting its external service IP and navigating to it in your browser:

kubectl -n longhorn-system get svc

The output should look something like this:

NAME                TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)        AGE
longhorn-backend    ClusterIP      10.20.248.250   <none>           9500/TCP       58m
longhorn-frontend   LoadBalancer   10.20.245.110   100.200.200.123  80:30697/TCP   58m

In the example above, the public IP is 100.200.200.123.

warning

If you installed Longhorn using the kubectl instructions above, the Longhorn UI does not require authentication.

The Longhorn UI looks like this: