Azure Remote-backed Storage configuration fails in bootstrap: repository type [azure] does not exist

[paulmossman]

Hi. I'm trying to configure Azure Remote-backed Storage via the operator, which is installed via Helm Chart.

I configured it, but upon deploy the bootstrap Pod fails with:

[ERROR][o.o.b.OpenSearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [cluster-bootstrap-0] uncaught exception in thread [main]
org.opensearch.bootstrap.StartupException: RepositoryException[[remote-backed-storage] repository type [azure] does not exist]

So I configured spec.bootstrap.pluginsList to ["repository-azure"] as per User Guide - Adding plugins, but the same error happens.

I see that the pluginsList and keystore fields were added to BootstrapConfig on Sept 19th under commit fb3812d, and this isn't available in 2.6.1. (k explain OpenSearchCluster.spec.bootstrap.pluginsList results in error: field "pluginsList" does not exist.)

Is it possible to configure Azure Remote-backed Storage via the released version of the operator? If not, then when is the next release planned for?

[swoehrl-mw]

Hi @paulmossman.
There is a workaround described in #430 (comment).

I believe @prudhvigodithi is planning a release soon, so hopefully this feature will be released within the next few weeks.

[paulmossman]

Thank you @swoehrl-mw! The workaround does allow the bootstrap node to complete. But then the first cluster node fails with a remote store node ... is trying to join a non remote store cluster.

But I see that @prudhvigodithi released v2.7.0, and using that I'm able to set up Remote-backed Storage. (Note that bootstrap: needs pluginsList: ["repository-azure"] and keystore: ..., but not additionalConfig.)

[swoehrl-mw]

Thanks for the feedback @paulmossman. Interesting error. But since it works with the newly released version now I'll not look into that further.

[paulmossman]

Understood @swoehrl-mw, thank you.