Kubernetes: using OpenStack Cinder from one cloud provider while nodes on another

Question

Maybe my question does not make sense, but this is what I\'m trying to do:

• I have a running Kubernetes cluster running on CoreOS on bare metal.
• I am

Answer 1

There seem to be new ways to attach Cinder storage to bare metal, but it's apparently just PoC

http://blog.e0ne.info/post/Attach-Cinder-Volume-to-the-Ironic-Instance-without-Nova.aspx

Answer 2

Unfortunately, I don't think you can decouple the cloud provider for the node and that for the volume, at least not in the vanilla kubernetes.