topolvm/topolvm

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1170 stars · 191 forks observed · 2026-09-03

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

TopoLVM is a capacity-aware CSI (Container Storage Interface) plugin for Kubernetes that provisions persistent volumes using LVM2 on Linux nodes. It implements local persistent volumes with dynamic provisioning, topology-aware scheduling, raw block volumes, volume expansion, and Prometheus metrics.

Use cases

• provision local persistent volumes on kubernetes nodes with lvm
• dynamically create pvcs backed by lvm logical volumes
• schedule pods to nodes with the most free storage capacity
• expose raw block devices to containers in kubernetes
• expand persistent volumes without downtime
• export volume usage metrics to prometheus
• run stateful workloads with local storage on bare metal kubernetes

When to choose

• you run kubernetes on bare metal or VMs with LVM2-managed local disks
• you need dynamic provisioning of local persistent volumes with topology awareness
• you want capacity-aware pod scheduling based on remaining storage
• you need raw block volumes or volume expansion on local storage

When to avoid

• you need shared or replicated storage across nodes rather than node-local volumes
• your cluster runs on non-Linux nodes or hosts without LVM2
• you want cloud-managed storage like EBS or Persistent Disk instead of local disks

Facets

service · maturity active

deployment monitoring scheduling cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code go csi lvm kubernetes-storage persistent-volumes dynamic-provisioning topology-aware block-storage prometheus-metrics storage containers devops linux kubernetes docker

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="topolvm/topolvm")