[Gluster-devel] Introducing Heketi: Storage Management Framework with Plugins for GlusterFS volumes

[Deepak Shetty]

Awesome, this seems to the filling a nice gap, a feature for which was
opened long back (Sept. 2014) [1]
Will checkout the demo soon.

thanx,
deepak
[1]:
http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/glusterd-intelligent-volume-creation

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Luis Pabon <lpabon at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>   As we continue forward with OpenStack Manila and Kubernetes integration
> with GlusterFS, we require a simpler method of managing volumes and
> bricks.  We introduce Heketi ( https://github.com/heketi ), a RESTful
> storage management framework which enables certain storage systems to be
> easily managed. Heketi poses itself not an abstraction layer, but instead
> as a framework for developers to enhance their existing storage system
> management through a plugin interface. Heketi also provides a RESTful
> interface which enables callers to easily manage the storage system.  For
> GlusterFS, currently we only plan on managing the creation and deletion of
> volumes in GlusterFS through a simple RESTful interface.  Heketi will also
> manage the brick location and life cycle.
>
> Heketi allows users to create volumes with a simple command and not worry
> about which bricks to use.  A simple command to create a 1 TB volume would
> look like this:
>
> POST on http://<server>/volumes, with JSON { "size" : 1000000000 }
>
> To delete the volume:
>
> DELETE on http://<server>/volumes/<id of volume>
>
>
> * A demo is available https://github.com/heketi/vagrant-heketi , so
> please try it out and let us know what you think.
>
>
> ** Heketi is still quite young, but the plan is to finish by early
> September.
>
> Please let us know what you think.
>
> - Luis
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