ceph/cn
ceph/cn — 235★ on GitHub (Go). Ceph Nano - One step S3 in container with Ceph.
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cn (ceph-nano)

The project
cn is a little program written in Go that helps you interact with the S3 API by providing a REST S3 compatible gateway. The target audience is developers building their applications on Amazon S3. It is also an exciting tool to showcase Ceph Rados Gateway S3 compatibility.
This is brought to you by the power of Ceph and Containers. Under the hood, cn runs a Ceph container and exposes a Rados Gateway. For convenience, cn also comes with a set of commands to work with the S3 gateway. Before you ask "why not using s3cmd instead?", then you will be happy to read that internally cn uses s3cmd and act as a wrapper around the most commonly used commands.
Also, keep in mind that the CLI is just for convenience, and the primary use case is you developing your application directly on the S3 API.
Table of contents
- Build
- Installation
- Get started
- Selecting the cluster flavor
- Your first S3 bucket
- Multi-cluster support
- List Ceph container images available
- Using images aliases
- Enable mgr dashboard
Build
You can build cn by using make.
Be sure dep is installed:
$ go get github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep
Then, add ~/go/bin to your $PATH:
$ export PATH=$PATH:~/go/bin
Build cn:
$ make
rm -f cn cn &>/dev/null || true
dep ensure
GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -i -ldflags="-X main.version=cea247c-dirty -X main.tag=devel -X main.branch=guits-doc_build" -o cn-devel-cea247c-dirty-linux-amd64 main.go
ln -sf "cn-devel-cea247c-dirty-linux-amd64" cn
Once the build is done, you should have a symlink cn pointing to the binary that just got built:
$ ls -l
total 10692
-rw-rw-r--. 1 guits guits 15292 20 nov. 22:03 ceph-nano-logo-vertical.jpg
drwxrwxr-x. 2 guits guits 4096 20 nov. 22:03 cmd
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 guits guits 34 20 nov. 22:27 cn -> cn-devel-cea247c-dirty-linux-amd64
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 guits guits 10881196 20 nov. 22:27 cn-devel-cea247c-dirty-linux-amd64
Installation
cn relies on Docker so it must be installed on your machine. If you're not running a Linux workstation you can install Docker for Mac.
Once Docker is installed you're ready to start. Open your terminal and download the cn binary.
macOS:
curl -L https://github.com/ceph/cn/releases/download/v2.3.1/cn-v2.3.1-darwin-amd64 -o cn && chmod +x cn
Linux amd64:
curl -L https://github.com/ceph/cn/releases/download/v2.3.1/cn-v2.3.1-linux-amd64 -o cn && chmod +x cn
Linux arm64:
curl -L https://github.com/ceph/cn/releases/download/v2.3.1/cn-v2.3.1-linux-arm64 -o cn && chmod +x cn
Test it out
$ ./cn
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Usage:
cn [command]
Available Commands:
cluster Interact with a particular Ceph cluster
s3 Interact with a particular S3 object server
image Interact with cn's container image(s)
version Print the version of cn
kube Outputs cn kubernetes template (cn kube > kube-cn.yml)
update-check Print cn current and latest version number
flavors Interact with flavors
completion Generates bash completion scripts
Flags:
-h, --help help for cn
Use "cn [command] --help" for more information about a command.
Get started
Start the program with a working directory /tmp, the initial start might take a few minutes since we need to download the container image:
$ ./cn cluster start -d /tmp my-first-cluster
Running ceph-nano...
The container image is not present, pulling it.
This operation can take a few minutes......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Endpoint: http://10.36.116.164:8000
Dashboard: http://10.36.116.164:5001
Access key is: 9ZU1QBYX13KPLXXDDCY2
Secret key is: nthNG1xb7ta5IDKiJKM8626pQitqsalEo0ta7B9E
Working directory: /usr/share/ceph-nano
Selecting the cluster flavor
Is it possible to select the cluster flavor by using the -f option on the command line.
$ ./cn cluster start mycluster -f huge
The full documentation of flavors can be found here
Your first S3 bucket
Create a bucket with cn:
$ ./cn s3 mb my-first-cluster my-buc
Bucket 's3://my-buc/' created
$ ./cn s3 put my-first-cluster /etc/passwd my-buc
upload: '/tmp/passwd' -> 's3://my-buc/passwd' [1 of 1]
5925 of 5925 100% in 1s 4.57 kB/s done
Multi-cluster support
cn can manage any number of clusters on your local machine:
$ ./cn cluster ls
+------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+---------+
| NAME | STATUS | IMAGE | IMAGE RELEASE | IMAGE CREATION TIME | FLAVOR |
+------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+---------+
| d | running | ceph/daemon:latest | master-77e3d8d | 2018-04-05T15:01:40.323603472Z | default |
| b | running | ceph/daemon@sha256:369867e450ccdea9bcea7f54e97ed8b2cb1a0437fbef658d2d01fce2b8a2c648 | master-5f44af9 | 2018-03-30T21:08:31.117367166Z | medium |
+------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+---------+
List Ceph container images available
cn can list the available Ceph container images, the default output shows the 100 first images:
$ ./cn image ls
ceph/daemon:latest-mimic
ceph/daemon:latest-luminous
ceph/daemon:latest-master
ceph/daemon:master-0b3eb04-mimic-centos-7
ceph/daemon:master-0b3eb04-luminous-centos-7
ceph/daemon:master-0b3eb04-luminous-opensuse-42.3-x86_64
ceph/daemon:master-0b3eb04-master-centos-7-x86_64
ceph/daemon:master-0b3eb04-luminous-centos-7-x86_64
ceph/daemon:master-0b3eb04-mimic-centos-7-x86_64
[...]
Using images aliases
The image option (-i) support aliases to simply the command line.
It is possible to list the aliases by running the image show-aliases command as per below :
$ ./cn image show-aliases
+----------+--------------------------------------------------+
| ALIAS | IMAGE_NAME |
+----------+--------------------------------------------------+
| mimic | ceph/daemon:latest-mimic |
| luminous | ceph/daemon:latest-luminous |
| redhat | registry.access.redhat.com/rhceph/rhceph-3-rhel7 |
+----------+--------------------------------------------------+
Aliases can be use in place of the traditional image name as per the following example:
$ ./cn cluster start mycluster -i mimic
It is also possible to create new aliases as detailed here
Enable mgr dashboard
TODO: This is a temporary hack to enable the manager dashboard
Currently cn does not expose a port for the mgr dashboard.
It only exposes port 8000 for S3 API, and port 5000 for Sree - S3 web client.
To expose also the mgr dashboard port we currently have to do some hacks.
This section will guide you how to manually commit a new image and then run a new container with the desired expose ports.
Commit a copy of the docker image:
./cn cluster start temp -d /tmp
docker commit ceph-nano-temp ceph-nano
./cn cluster purge temp --yes-i-am-sure
Run the container:
docker run -dt --name cn -p 8080:8080 -p 5000:5000 -p 8000:8000 ceph-nano
Enable dashboard:
(Note: 'enable dashboard' command will cause the container to exit, so need to start it after)
docker exec cn ceph config set mgr mgr/dashboard/ssl false
docker exec cn ceph config set mgr mgr/dashboard/server_addr 0.0.0.0
docker exec cn ceph config set mgr mgr/dashboard/server_port 8080
docker exec cn ceph mgr module enable dashboard
until docker exec cn ceph; do docker start cn; sleep 1; done # wait for the services to start
docker exec cn ceph dashboard set-login-credentials nano nano
Note that the Object Gateway tab in the dashboard is not enabled yet, so run the following to enable RGW dashboard:
RGW_USER=$(docker exec cn radosgw-admin user create --uid=rgw --display-name=rgw --system)
RGW_ACCESS=$(echo $RGW_USER | awk '{ for (i=1;i<=NF;++i) if ($i ~ /access_key/) { split($(i+1),a,"\""); print a[2] } }')
RGW_SECRET=$(echo $RGW_USER | awk '{ for (i=1;i<=NF;++i) if ($i ~ /secret_key/) { split($(i+1),a,"\""); print a[2] } }')
docker exec cn ceph dashboard set-rgw-api-access-key "$RGW_ACCESS"
docker exec cn ceph dashboard set-rgw-api-secret-key "$RGW_SECRET"
docker exec cn ceph dashboard set-rgw-api-host 127.0.0.1
docker exec cn ceph dashboard set-rgw-api-port 8000
docker exec cn ceph dashboard set-rgw-api-scheme http
docker exec cn ceph dashboard set-rgw-api-user-id rgw
The dashboard should now be accessible:
- Open http://127.0.0.1:8080
- Login with user
nanoand passwordnano
Troubleshooting - verify that your config dump should look like this:
$ docker exec cn ceph config dump
WHO MASK LEVEL OPTION VALUE RO
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/RGW_API_ACCESS_KEY ******************** *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/RGW_API_HOST 127.0.0.1 *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/RGW_API_PORT 8000 *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/RGW_API_SCHEME http *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/RGW_API_SECRET_KEY **************************************** *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/RGW_API_USER_ID rgw *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/password ************************************************************ *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/server_addr 0.0.0.0 *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/server_port 8080 *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/ssl false *
mgr unknown mgr/dashboard/username nano *
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