[Openstack] Shared Storage with cinder ?

Heiko Krämer info at honeybutcher.de
Fri Jul 5 16:42:39 UTC 2013


Hey Clint,

yeah that's correct but you will have many old applications like 
Wordpress or Magento they can't use out of the box an object store. You 
have customers with applications they'll not customize the application 
only to host that stuff.

This feature will have Havanna release but it's more then 6 months if we 
can "use" this as stable.


Greetings
Heiko


Am 05.07.2013 18:31, schrieb Clint Byrum:
> Excerpts from Heiko Krämer's message of 2013-07-05 09:24:03 -0700:
>> Heyho guys,
>>
>> I'm searching for a solution to share storage over more then one instance.
>>
>> Normally you attach a block device with cinder directly via iscsi or
>> glusterfs or whatever to one instance and that's it. Multi attachments
>> are not present.
>>
>>
>> Use case:
>>
>> I've an application on 4 application instances and a database instance.
>> Now you have static file like images, movies, css ... but this files
>> should be available on each application instance.
> This use case is best served by object storage like swift and CEPH's radosgw.
>
>> Now you need to fire up an "storage" instance and attach a volume. After
>> that you can with nfs or what ever share your stuff to the application
>> instances but i think this is a very big ressource overhead for small
>> projects. You need a instance only to share your data on each project
>> and this n times :(
>>
> If you only have one small app with 5 instances, running your own
> OpenStack is quite overkill.  However, I suspect you have OpenStack so
> you can have many small apps with a few instances, and thus you'll find
> many of them can benefit from a good solid object store.
>
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