Attention: CSI Windows Beta is only available in the driver version v1.1.0+ Attention: CSI Windows Alpha is only available in the driver version v1.0.0-v1.0.*
CSI proxy can be installed as binary or run as a Windows service on each Windows node. Please see details on CSI Proxy installation and usage page.
If you are using kube-up to start a GCE Kubernetes cluster, starting Kubernetes 1.19, CSI Proxy Alpha binary is automatically installed during node start up. In Kubernetes 1.20, CSI Proxy Beta.2 v0.2.2 is installed and running as a windows service to improve its stablibity.
For GKE cluster, starting from 1.18, CSI Proxy Beta will be installed automatically. GCE PD driver will be also automatically deployed as daemonSet on GKE. Please follow instruction here to create a GKE Windows cluster.
- [One-time per project] Create GCP service account for the CSI driver and set required roles
$ PROJECT=your-project-here # GCP project
$ GCE_PD_SA_NAME=my-gce-pd-csi-sa # Name of the service account to create
$ GCE_PD_SA_DIR=/my/safe/credentials/directory # Directory to save the service account key
$ ./deploy/setup-project.sh
- Deploy driver to Kubernetes Cluster
$ GCE_PD_SA_DIR=/my/safe/credentials/directory # Directory to get the service account key
$ GCE_PD_DRIVER_VERSION=alpha # Currently alpha deploy Driver version with Windows Alpha support. Will add beta supporot to beta GCE_PD_DRIVER_VERSION deployment script.
$ ./deploy/kubernetes/deploy-driver.sh
- Create a pod on Windows node
See instructions