brooklyn-blockstore

This provides an abstract for cloud blockstores (i.e. volumes), providing a common API for EC2, OpenStack, etc.

It provides operations for creating, attaching, mounting, unmounting, detaching and deleting volumes. It also includes the required filesystem operations for this.

To build the project, run:

mvn clean install

Checkout Brooklyn

This project builds on the open-source project Apache Brooklyn (see http://brooklyn.apache.org and https://github.com/apache/brooklyn).

Example

First add the required jars to your Apache Brooklyn release (see "Future Work" for discussion of OSGi):

BROOKLYN_HOME=~/repos/apache/brooklyn/brooklyn-dist/dist/target/brooklyn-dist/brooklyn/
BROOKLYN_BLOCKSTORE_REPO=~/repos/cloudsoft/brooklyn-blockstore
BROOKLYN_BLOCKSTORE_VERSION=0.6.0-SNAPSHOT

cp ${BROOKLYN_BLOCKSTORE_REPO}/blockstore/target/brooklyn-blockstore-${BROOKLYN_BLOCKSTORE_VERSION}.jar ${BROOKLYN_HOME}/lib/dropins/

And launch Brooklyn:

${BROOKLYN_HOME}/bin/brooklyn launch

Then deploy an app. The example below creates a VM with a new volume:

location: aws-ec2:us-east-1
services:
- type: org.apache.brooklyn.entity.software.base.VanillaSoftwareProcess
  brooklyn.config:
    launch.command: |
      sudo chown -R myname /mount/brooklyn/h/
      echo abc > /mount/brooklyn/h/myfile.txt
    checkRunning.command: echo checked
    provisioning.properties:
      user: myname
      customizers:
      - $brooklyn:object:
          type: brooklyn.location.blockstore.ec2.Ec2NewVolumeCustomizer
          object.fields:
            volumes:
            - blockDevice:
                sizeInGb: 1
                deviceSuffix: 'h'
                deleteOnTermination: false
                tags:
                  brooklyn: br-example-aled-1
              filesystem:
                mountPoint: /mount/brooklyn/h
                filesystemType: ext3

This second example creates a VM that binds to an existing volume:

location:
  aws-ec2:us-east-1e
services:
- type: org.apache.brooklyn.entity.software.base.VanillaSoftwareProcess
  brooklyn.config:
    launch.command: cat /mount/brooklyn/h/myfile.txt
    checkRunning.command: echo checked
    provisioning.properties:
      customizers:
      - $brooklyn:object:
          type: brooklyn.location.blockstore.ec2.Ec2ExistingVolumeCustomizer
          object.fields:
            volumeId: vol-87450758
            blockOptions:
              deviceSuffix: 'h'
              deleteOnTermination: false
            filesystemOptions:
              mountPoint: /mount/brooklyn/h
              filesystemType: ext3

Future Work

This module should be built as an OSGi bundle, so that it can more easily be added to Brooklyn.

The API is under review, particularly to make it easier to use with YAML blueprints. All feedback is extremely welcome!

The abstraction provides a common Java interface, and a cloud-agnostic way of instantiating an appropriate customizer: see VolumeCustomizers. However, the subtle differences between clouds (e.g. the appropriate deviceSuffix, etc) makes it hard to write truly cloud-agnostic code. This is a topic of continuing investigation and work.

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http://www.cloudsoftcorp.com/cloudsoft-developer-license

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ygy/brooklyn-blockstore

brooklyn-blockstore

Checkout Brooklyn

Example

Future Work