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I missed this whole thread due to my mail filtering.  Sorry about that.

Anyway, Ivan and I have an open Blueprint here:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/use-cinder-without-nova

That starts the discussion of adding the end to end ability of attaching 
a Cinder
volume to a host using the cinderclient in combination with os-brick.

The idea being, that cinderclient would coordinate the calling of 
existing Cinder's APIs,
to do the attach/detach, along with os-brick, to collect the initiator 
information needed,
as well as the volume discovery after the volume has been exported.

So, for example a user would simply use a new cinderclient shell command 
to initiate
the attachment for an existing cinder volume.
cinder attach <volume uuid>

The client would then collect the initiator information, using os-brick, 
and then make the correct Cinder API
calls to ensure the volume is exported.   Then, use os-brick again to 
discover the volume showing up
on the host.

This is basically the same process that Nova does today, but uses 
libvirt volume drivers to discover the volume
after being exported instead of os-brick.

We just haven't had time to write up the cinder-spec and start the work 
on it.
Walt

On 07/07/2015 06:25 AM, Jan Safranek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to (mis-)use Cinder outside of OpenStack, i.e. without Nova.
>
> I can easily create/manage volumes themselves, Cinder API is pretty
> friendly here. Now, how can I attach a volume somewhere? Something like
> 'nova volume-attach <server> <volume>', but without Nova and with <host>
> (=anything) instead of <server> (=virtual machine inside OpenStack).
>
> I guess I am not the first one to ask for such feature, has anyone tried it?
>
> Would it be possible to separate a new library from Nova, which would
> just attach the volume to the host where it is runnig and mark the
> volume as 'in-use'? How hard would it be?
>
> Jan
>
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