.. Copyright 2015 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. GlusterFS Native driver ======================= GlusterFS Native driver uses GlusterFS, an open source distributed file system, as the storage backend for serving file shares to manila clients. A manila share is a GlusterFS volume. This driver uses flat-network (share-server-less) model. Instances directly talk with the GlusterFS backend storage pool. The instances use 'glusterfs' protocol to mount the GlusterFS shares. Access to each share is allowed via TLS Certificates. Only the instance which has the TLS trust established with the GlusterFS backend can mount and hence use the share. Currently only 'rw' access is supported. Network Approach ---------------- L3 connectivity between the storage backend and the host running the manila share service should exist. Supported shared filesystems ---------------------------- - GlusterFS (share protocol: ``glusterfs``, access by TLS certificates (``cert`` access type)) Multi-tenancy model ------------------- The driver does not support network segmented multi-tenancy model. Instead multi-tenancy is supported using tenant specific TLS certificates. Supported Operations -------------------- - Create share - Delete share - Allow share access (rw) - Deny share access - Create snapshot - Delete snapshot - Create share from snapshot Requirements ------------ - Install glusterfs-server package, version >= 3.6.x, on the storage backend. - Install glusterfs and glusterfs-fuse package, version >=3.6.x, on the manila host. - Establish network connection between the manila host and the storage backend. .. _gluster_native_manila_conf: Manila driver configuration setting ----------------------------------- The following parameters in manila's configuration file need to be set: - `share_driver` = manila.share.drivers.glusterfs.glusterfs_native.GlusterfsNativeShareDriver - `glusterfs_servers` = List of GlusterFS servers which provide volumes that can be used to create shares. The servers are expected to be of distinct Gluster clusters (ie. should not be gluster peers). Each server should be of the form ``[@]``. The optional ``@`` part of the server URI indicates SSH access for cluster management (see related optional parameters below). If it is not given, direct command line management is performed (ie. manila host is assumed to be part of the GlusterFS cluster the server belongs to). - `glusterfs_volume_pattern` = Regular expression template used to filter GlusterFS volumes for share creation. The regex template can contain the #{size} parameter which matches a number (sequence of digits) and the value shall be interpreted as size of the volume in GB. Examples: ``manila-share-volume-\d+$``, ``manila-share-volume-#{size}G-\d+$``; with matching volume names, respectively: *manila-share-volume-12*, *manila-share-volume-3G-13*". In latter example, the number that matches ``#{size}``, that is, 3, is an indication that the size of volume is 3G. The following configuration parameters are optional: - `glusterfs_mount_point_base` = - `glusterfs_path_to_private_key` = - `glusterfs_server_password` = Host and backend configuration ------------------------------ - SSL/TLS should be enabled on the I/O path for GlusterFS servers and volumes involved (ie. ones specified in ``glusterfs_servers``), as described in http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/SSL. (Enabling SSL/TLS for the management path is also possible but not recommended currently.) - The manila host should be also configured for GlusterFS SSL/TLS (ie. `/etc/ssl/glusterfs.{pem,key,ca}` files has to be deployed as the above document specifies). - There is a further requirement for the CA-s used: the set of CA-s involved should be consensual, ie. `/etc/ssl/glusterfs.ca` should be identical across all the servers and the manila host. - There is a further requirement for the common names (CN-s) of the certificates used: the certificates of the servers should have a common name starting with `glusterfs-server`, and the certificate of the host should have common name starting with `manila-host`. - To support snapshots, bricks that consist the GlusterFS volumes used by manila should be thinly provisioned LVM ones (cf. https://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Managing%20Snapshots/). Known Restrictions ------------------ - GlusterFS volumes are not created on demand. A pre-existing set of GlusterFS volumes should be supplied by the GlusterFS cluster(s), conforming to the naming convention encoded by ``glusterfs_volume_pattern``. However, the GlusterFS endpoint is allowed to extend this set any time (so manila and GlusterFS endpoints are expected to communicate volume supply/demand out-of-band). ``glusterfs_volume_pattern`` can include a size hint (with ``#{size}`` syntax), which, if present, requires the GlusterFS end to indicate the size of the shares in GB in the name. (On share creation, manila picks volumes *at least* as big as the requested one.) - Certificate setup (aka trust setup) between instance and storage backend is out of band of manila. - For manila to use GlusterFS volumes, the name of the trashcan directory in GlusterFS volumes must not be changed from the default. The :mod:`manila.share.drivers.glusterfs.glusterfs_native.GlusterfsNativeShareDriver` Module ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. automodule:: manila.share.drivers.glusterfs.glusterfs_native :noindex: :members: :undoc-members: :show-inheritance: