GlusterFS driver for Docker

[kshlm]

GlusterFS provides a distributed, scale out, network filesystem. GlusterFS can be used to provide volumes to containers, which will help in migrating containers between hosts. This can be implemented pretty easily using gfapi (Go-gfapi) and the GlusterFS fuse mounts. This would require a new interface to the '-v' option to support non-local filesystem. #7249 is attempting to do this.

GlusterFS could also be used provide a centralized store for docker images, which will also be helpful in migration of containers. GlusterFS provides file level and volume level snapshotting capabilities which can leveraged to provide the features required for a docker storage driver.

[cpuguy83]

Just as with the proposal for ceph storage, I don't neccessarily think it makes sense to use gluster for images/containers, however for volumes it makes total sense and I definitely want to do this.

[humblec]

Indeed it is nice to have GlusterFS support as mentioned above.

[resouer]

May I ask what's the status of this proposal? Especially glusterfs as volume, it is really needed.

[cybertk]

+1

[fbarbeira]

+1

[thaJeztah]

@kshlm There's now code in place for volume drivers, which you may be interested in; #13161. @calavera also created a very basic PoC for a Keywhiz driver here; https://github.com/calavera/docker-volume-keywhiz-fs

Volume drivers will be in the "experimental" docker builds first, and feedback on this feature can be provided here: #13420

[MHBauer]

Possibly solved by a plugin-api volume-plugin? Docs link to this.

[cpuguy83]

Yep, this should be done via plugin.

[atulyadavtech]

Hi ,

Trying to integrate glusterfs with docker.
Need your asstiance

go get github.com/calavera/docker-volume-glusterfs

github.com/calavera/docker-volume-glusterfs

/test/src/github.com/calavera/docker-volume-glusterfs/main.go:38: cannot use d (type glusterfsDriver) as type volume.Driver in argument to volume.NewHandler:
glusterfsDriver does not implement volume.Driver (missing Capabilities method)
[root@master1 ~]# docker -v
Docker version 1.7.1, build 786b29d

Thank You
Atul Yadav

[thaJeztah]

@atulyadavtech can you open an issue in the https://github.com/calavera/docker-volume-glusterfs/issues issue tracker?