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Alfresco Content Services
Platform
Alfresco
Product
Alfresco Content Services
Release
23.4
License
  1. Create an Elastic File System in the VPC created by EKS ensuring a mount target is created in each subnet. Make a note of the File System ID (circled in the screenshot below):

    To create an Elastic File System, refer to the Creating EFS file system article on the AWS Documentation site: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/.

    A screenshot displaying the File System ID.
  2. Find the ID of the VPC created when your cluster was built (replace YOUR-CLUSTER-NAME with the name you gave your cluster): 
     aws eks describe-cluster --name YOUR-CLUSTER-NAME --query "cluster.resourcesVpcConfig.vpcId" --output text
  3. Find the CIDR range of the VPC (replace VPC-ID with the ID retrieved in the previous step): 
     aws ec2 describe-vpcs --vpc-ids VPC-ID --query "Vpcs[].CidrBlock" --output text
  4. Go to the Security Groups section of the VPC Console on the AWS Console site https://console.aws.amazon.com and search for the VPC using the ID retrieved in step 2, as shown in the screenshot below:
    A screenshot of the Security Groups section of the VPC Console.
  5. Click on the default security group for the VPC (highlighted in the screenshot above) and add an inbound rule for NFS traffic from the VPC CIDR range as shown in the screenshot below:
    A screenshot showing the Inbound rules.
  6. Deploy an NFS Client Provisioner with Helm using the following commands (replace EFS-DNS-NAME with the string FILE-SYSTEM-ID.efs.AWS-REGION.amazonaws.com where the FILE-SYSTEM-ID is the ID retrieved in step 1 and AWS-REGION is the region you’re using, e.g. fs-72f5e4f1.efs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com): 
     helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com
 helm install alfresco-nfs-provisioner stable/nfs-client-provisioner --set nfs.server="EFS-DNS-NAME" --set nfs.path="/" --set storageClass.name="nfs-client" --set storageClass.archiveOnDelete=false -n kube-system