Switching an Integrated OpenShift Container Registry to GlusterFS - Persistent Storage Examples | Configuring Clusters

Overview
Prerequisites
Manually Provision the GlusterFS PersistentVolumeClaim
Attach the PersistentVolumeClaim to the Registry

Overview

This topic reviews how to attach a GlusterFS volume to an integrated OpenShift Container Registry. This can be done with any of converged mode, independent mode, or standalone Red Hat Gluster Storage. It is assumed that the registry has already been started and a volume has been created.

Prerequisites

An existing registry deployed without configuring storage.
An existing GlusterFS volume
glusterfs-fuse installed on all schedulable nodes.
A user with the cluster-admin role binding.
- For this guide, that user is admin.

All oc commands are executed on the master node as the admin user.

Manually Provision the GlusterFS PersistentVolumeClaim

To enable static provisioning, first create a GlusterFS volume. See the Red Hat Gluster Storage Administration Guide for information on how to do this using the gluster command-line interface or the heketi project site for information on how to do this using heketi-cli. For this example, the volume will be named myVol1.

Define the following Service and Endpoints in gluster-endpoints.yaml:

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: glusterfs-cluster (1)
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 1
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Endpoints
metadata:
  name: glusterfs-cluster (1)
subsets:
  - addresses:
      - ip: 192.168.122.221 (2)
    ports:
      - port: 1 (3)
  - addresses:
      - ip: 192.168.122.222 (2)
    ports:
      - port: 1 (3)
  - addresses:
      - ip: 192.168.122.223 (2)
    ports:
      - port: 1 (3)

1	These names must match.
2	The `ip` values must be the actual IP addresses of a Red Hat Gluster Storage server, not hostnames.
3	The port number is ignored.

From the OpenShift Container Platform master host, create the Service and Endpoints:

$ oc create -f gluster-endpoints.yaml
service "glusterfs-cluster" created
endpoints "glusterfs-cluster" created

Verify that the Service and Endpoints were created:

$ oc get services
NAME                       CLUSTER_IP       EXTERNAL_IP   PORT(S)    SELECTOR        AGE
glusterfs-cluster          172.30.205.34    <none>        1/TCP      <none>          44s

$ oc get endpoints
NAME                ENDPOINTS                                               AGE
docker-registry     10.1.0.3:5000                                           4h
glusterfs-cluster   192.168.122.221:1,192.168.122.222:1,192.168.122.223:1   11s
kubernetes          172.16.35.3:8443                                        4d

Endpoints are unique per project. Each project accessing the GlusterFS volume needs its own Endpoints.

In order to access the volume, the container must run with either a user ID (UID) or group ID (GID) that has access to the file system on the volume. This information can be discovered in the following manner:
```
$ mkdir -p /mnt/glusterfs/myVol1

$ mount -t glusterfs 192.168.122.221:/myVol1 /mnt/glusterfs/myVol1

$ ls -lnZ /mnt/glusterfs/
drwxrwx---. 592 590 system_u:object_r:fusefs_t:s0    myVol1  (1) (2)
```
1 The UID is 592.

2 The GID is 590.

Define the following PersistentVolume (PV) in gluster-pv.yaml:

apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
  name: gluster-default-volume (1)
  annotations:
    pv.beta.kubernetes.io/gid: "590" (2)
spec:
  capacity:
    storage: 2Gi (3)
  accessModes: (4)
    - ReadWriteMany
  glusterfs:
    endpoints: glusterfs-cluster (5)
    path: myVol1 (6)
    readOnly: false
  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain

1	The name of the volume.
2	The GID on the root of the GlusterFS volume.
3	The amount of storage allocated to this volume.
4	`accessModes` are used as labels to match a PV and a PVC. They currently do not define any form of access control.
5	The Endpoints resource previously created.
6	The GlusterFS volume that will be accessed.

From the OpenShift Container Platform master host, create the PV:
```
$ oc create -f gluster-pv.yaml
```

Verify that the PV was created:

$ oc get pv
NAME                     LABELS    CAPACITY     ACCESSMODES   STATUS      CLAIM     REASON    AGE
gluster-default-volume   <none>    2147483648   RWX           Available                       2s

Create a PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) that will bind to the new PV in gluster-claim.yaml:
```
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: gluster-claim  (1)
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadWriteMany      (2)
  resources:
     requests:
       storage: 1Gi    (3)
```
1 The claim name is referenced by the pod under its volumes section.

2 Must match the accessModes of the PV.

3 This claim will look for PVs offering 1Gi or greater capacity.
From the OpenShift Container Platform master host, create the PVC:
```
$ oc create -f gluster-claim.yaml
```

Verify that the PV and PVC are bound:

$ oc get pv
NAME         LABELS    CAPACITY   ACCESSMODES   STATUS      CLAIM          REASON    AGE
gluster-pv   <none>    1Gi        RWX           Available   gluster-claim            37s

$ oc get pvc
NAME            LABELS    STATUS    VOLUME       CAPACITY   ACCESSMODES   AGE
gluster-claim   <none>    Bound     gluster-pv   1Gi        RWX           24s

PVCs are unique per project. Each project accessing the GlusterFS volume needs its own PVC. PVs are not bound to a single project, so PVCs across multiple projects may refer to the same PV.

Attach the PersistentVolumeClaim to the Registry

Before moving forward, ensure that the docker-registry service is running.

$ oc get svc
NAME              CLUSTER_IP       EXTERNAL_IP   PORT(S)                 SELECTOR                  AGE
docker-registry   172.30.167.194   <none>        5000/TCP                docker-registry=default   18m

If either the docker-registry service or its associated pod is not running, refer back to the registry setup instructions for troubleshooting before continuing.

Then, attach the PVC:

$ oc volume deploymentconfigs/docker-registry --add --name=registry-storage -t pvc \
     --claim-name=gluster-claim --overwrite

Setting up the Registry provides more information on using an OpenShift Container Registry.

1	The claim name is referenced by the pod under its `volumes` section.
2	Must match the `accessModes` of the PV.
3	This claim will look for PVs offering 1Gi or greater capacity.

1	The UID is 592.
2	The GID is 590.