Storage: GlusterFS
Install
Install on all nodes:
apt-get -y install glusterfs-server
sudo systemctl start glusterd
sudo systemctl enable glusterd
Prepare disks
We will be using Node1 to Node3 that are equipped with SATA SSD storage (through the use of microPCIe to SATA converters). However, you can also opt for using only Node3 that has built-in SATA connectors and a single disk, but it will be the sole point of failure in the system.
Bricks
Bricks in GlusterFS are basic building blocks that represent individual disk storage. A GlusterFS storage volume is created by grouping multiple bricks together. These bricks can be located on different servers and combined to create a large and scalable distributed file system. Bricks are used to store actual data and make up the physical storage of the GlusterFS volume.
On nodes with disks:
Find your disk/s
root@cube03:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/ram0: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
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Disk /dev/sda: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 870
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
So for us its /dev/sda.
# Format your disk (If you decided to use your internal storage, just ignore the mount and format steps)
mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda
# Create brick folder location
mkdir -p /data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick1
# Add line to /etc/fstab to auto mount this disk to /data on boot
echo "/dev/sda /data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick1 xfs defaults 0 0" | tee -a /etc/fstab
# Create brick folder
mkdir -p /data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick1/brick
# Mount
mount -a
# Check
df -h /data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick1
Cluster
On the designated master node, we can now inform GlusterFS of the presence of all nodes in the network.
root@cube01:~# gluster peer probe cube02
peer probe: success
root@cube01:~# gluster peer probe cube03
peer probe: success
root@cube01:~# gluster peer probe cube04
peer probe: success
# Check
root@cube01:~# gluster pool list
UUID Hostname State
a67aa75b-a359-4064-844e-e32ebedda4a0 cube02 Connected
475c599d-57dc-4c9d-a8d9-90da965cdddb cube03 Connected
df807f9a-1e56-4dd7-a8be-4dc98de57192 cube04 Connected
4cd1dc90-3f42-4bd7-9510-54ad9a3fcdb2 localhost Connected
Volume
In GlusterFS, a volume is a logical unit of storage created from one or more bricks (physical storage resources). The volume is the main entity through which data is stored, retrieved, and managed. It provides a single namespace for data and enables high availability, scalability, and data protection features. Simply put, a GlusterFS volume is a pool of storage space that can be accessed from multiple servers in a cluster.
Option 1:
Creating volume on single node with disk (node3)
root@cube01:~# gluster volume create dockervol1 cube03:/data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick1/brick
volume create: dockervol1: success: please start the volume to access data
Check
root@cube01:~# gluster volume info
Volume Name: dockervol1
Type: Distribute
Volume ID: a8b4fa7f-df8c-4788-be70-2acc0544afd6
Status: Created
Snapshot Count: 0
Number of Bricks: 1
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: cube03:/data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick1/brick
Options Reconfigured:
storage.fips-mode-rchecksum: on
transport.address-family: inet
nfs.disable: on
root@cube01:~# gluster volume start dockervol1
volume start: dockervol1: success
root@cube01:~# gluster volume info
Start the volume before we can mount it.
root@cube01:~# gluster volume start dockervol1
volume start: dockervol1: success
Option 2:
To create a GlusterFS volume using 3 nodes, make sure the disks have been mounted under "/data/glusterfs/myvol1" and that the folder "/data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick2" has been created on all 3 nodes. Note, if you are using the root file system, you will need to include the "force" option at the end of the command.
On master node:
gluster volume create dockervol2 disperse 3 redundancy 1 cube01:/data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick2 cube02:/data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick2 cube03:/data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick2
Interesting parts are:
root@cube01:~# gluster volume info dockervol2
Volume Name: dockervol2
Type: Disperse
Volume ID: 27c79497-848e-4fe4-80c5-18b7d5471001
Status: Started
Snapshot Count: 0
Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: cube01:/data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick2
Brick2: cube02:/data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick2
Brick3: cube03:/data/glusterfs/myvol1/brick2
Options Reconfigured:
storage.fips-mode-rchecksum: on
transport.address-family: inet
nfs.disable: on
Start the volume.
root@cube01:~# gluster volume start dockervol2
volume start: dockervol2: success
Mounting GlusterFS
We have our volumes, now we can mount one of them to nodes.
On all nodes:
mkdir /mnt/docker-storage
echo "localhost:/dockervol1 /mnt/docker-storage glusterfs defaults,_netdev 0 0" | tee -a /etc/fstab
mount -a
Our persistent shared storage will be "/mnt/docker-storage"
Check:
root@cube02:~# df -h /mnt/docker-storage
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
localhost:/dockervol1 466G 8.0G 458G 2% /mnt/docker-storage
Test:
# Create file on node4
touch /mnt/docker-storage/test_file
# Check on node1 in same location and the file should be there.
Now that the GlusterFS volume has been created and mounted to "/mnt/docker-storage", you can utilize this directory in your Docker deployments to ensure that any persistent files will be accessible regardless of which node in the swarm the container is running on.
Security
By default, GlusterFS server allows mounting volume to everybody, you can limit it to specific IPs. In our case, IPs of our nodes. On your master node (cube01):
gluster volume set dockervol1 auth.allow 127.0.0.1,10.0.0.60,10.0.0.61,10.0.0.62,10.0.0.63
gluster volume set dockervol2 auth.allow 127.0.0.1,10.0.0.60,10.0.0.61,10.0.0.62,10.0.0.63
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