Object Storage Quotas

Pre-requisites
- Verify cluster auth status
- Verify odf storage installed
Create a sample tenant
Create a custom bucket class

So you've got OpenShift Data Foundations installed in your OpenShift cluster and now you've got tenants of your clusters clamouring to consume object storage.

This short write-up will explain how to give each tenant a safe quota of storage they can consume.

Pre-requisites

Before we begin, let's ensure we are logged into our cluster in the terminal and the cluster meets our version requirements.

Verify cluster auth status

oc version && oc whoami

Client Version: 4.19.7
Kustomize Version: v5.5.0
Server Version: 4.19.9
Kubernetes Version: v1.32.7
admin

Verify odf storage installed

oc get crd | grep noobaa

backingstores.noobaa.io                                           2025-08-20T22:36:51Z
bucketclasses.noobaa.io                                           2025-08-20T22:36:50Z
namespacestores.noobaa.io                                         2025-08-20T22:36:51Z
noobaaaccounts.noobaa.io                                          2025-08-20T22:36:51Z
noobaas.noobaa.io                                                 2025-08-20T22:36:51Z

Create a sample tenant

Let's create an example tenant project called storage-tenant that a separate user on our cluster called user1 will own.

cat << EOF | oc apply --user admin --filename -
apiVersion: project.openshift.io/v1
kind: Project
metadata:
  annotations:
    openshift.io/requester: user1
  name: storage-tenant

EOF

project.project.openshift.io/storage-tenant created

Once the project is created we'll run a quick oc adm command to ensure user1 has full privileges within the project.

oc --user admin adm policy add-role-to-user admin user1 --namespace storage-tenant

clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/admin added: "user1"

Create a custom bucket class

cat << EOF | oc --user admin apply --filename -
apiVersion: noobaa.io/v1alpha1
kind: BucketClass
metadata:
  finalizers:
  - noobaa.io/finalizer
  labels:
    app: noobaa
  name: custom-tenant-bucket-class
  namespace: openshift-storage
spec:
  placementPolicy:
    tiers:
    - backingStores:
      - noobaa-default-backing-store
  quota:
    maxSize: 1Gi
EOF

bucketclass.noobaa.io/custom-tenant-bucket-class created