Heketi
Heketi provides a RESTful management interface which can be used to manage the life cycle of GlusterFS volumes. With Heketi, cloud services like OpenStack Manila, Kubernetes, and OpenShift can dynamically provision GlusterFS volumes with any of the supported durability types. Heketi will automatically determine the location for bricks across the cluster, making sure to place bricks and its replicas across different failure domains. Heketi also supports any number of GlusterFS clusters, allowing cloud services to provide network file storage without being limited to a single GlusterFS cluster.
Important Notice
Due to resource limits on the current project maintainers and general lack of
contributions we are considering placing Heketi into a near-maintenance mode.
While we plan to continue to fix issues, communicate with users, review PRs, and
possibly even make small Quality-of-Life enhancements it is unlikely that any
major new development will occur. The truth is, this is largely already the
state of the project and this is our way of letting a wider audience know.
If you are a Heketi user who likes it and plans to continue using it please
consider contributing to the project. Unless the activity level in Heketi
increases it is likely we will need to put the project in full maintenance mode
where only major bug fixes will be considered.
Workflow
When a request is received to create a volume, Heketi will first allocate the appropriate storage in a cluster, making sure to place brick replicas across failure domains. It will then format, then mount the storage to create bricks for the volume requested. Once all bricks have been automatically created, Heketi will finally satisfy the request by creating, then starting the newly created GlusterFS volume.
Downloads
Heketi source code can be obtained via the
project's releases page
or by cloning this repository.
Documentation
Heketi's official documentation is located in the
docs/ directory
within the repo.
Demo
Please visit Vagrant-Heketi to try out the demo.
Community
- Mailing list: Join our mailing list
- IRC: #heketi on Freenode
Talks
- DevNation 2016
- Devconf.cz 2016:
