IBM Cloud storage common library

This library is for volume and snapshot management (create, delete, modify etc). As of now this only have block snapshot and volume creation functionalities but going forward it will have more functionalities.

Purpose

By using this library user can enable multiple volume providers by adding/modifying configuration.

How to use

To use this library user need to check what all capabilities are supported in this library by checking ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/lib/provider/*_manager.go files and concreate implementation for each provider which can be seen under ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/volume-providers directory.

Steps to use

Following steps has to followed by user to use this library

Step 1

Update the glide.yaml to get the source code of this library, also only export the following packages to their application

"github.com/IBM/ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/config"
"github.com/IBM/ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/lib/provider"
"github.com/IBM/ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/provider/local"
provider_util "github.com/IBM/ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/provider/utils"

User can see the reference from ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/samples.

Step 2

How to provide configuration

Option 1:

User need to modify ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/etc/libconfig.toml for enabling supported providers and provide IAaS a/c details to connect to the IAaS provider. As of now this librray has only Softlayer implementation so user just need to provide value of softlayer_block_enabled, softlayer_block_provider_name, softlayer_username , softlayer_api_key , softlayer_datacenter to enable Softlayer block although other provider can also be enabled by updating configuration file

Option 2:

User can also create a secret from ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/etc/libconfig.toml file and mount the secret into the pod which uses this library and mount point

$kubectl create secret generic volume-lib-secret --from-file=./libconfig.toml

and use as follows in the deployment file

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
...
...
spec:
...
...
      containers:
			....
			....
          - name: SECRET_CONFIG_PATH
            value: /etc/volume_secret_path
        volumeMounts:
          - name: volume-lib-secret
            mountPath: /etc/volume_secret_path
      volumes:
      - name: volume-lib-secret
        secret:
          secretName: volume-lib-secret

IAM secrets:

If you want to use your IAM credentials, please make sure the following properties are set in configuration file ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/etc/libconfig.toml. Replace value for iam_api_key and keep blank for softlayer_username and softlayer_api_key

[bluemix]
iam_url = "https://iam.bluemix.net"
iam_client_id = "bx"
iam_client_secret = "bx"
iam_api_key = "testIAM_KEY" # replace with IAM key and keep blank for APIkey auth
refresh_token = ""

[softlayer]
softlayer_block_enabled = true
softlayer_block_provider_name = "SOFTLAYER-BLOCK"
softlayer_file_enabled = false
softlayer_file_provider_name = "SOFTLAYER-FILE"
softlayer_username = ""# keep blank for IAM auth
softlayer_api_key = "" # keep blank for IAM auth
softlayer_endpoint_url = "https://api.softlayer.com/rest/v3"
softlayer_iam_endpoint_url = "https://api.softlayer.com/mobile/v3"
softlayer_datacenter = "dal12"
softlayer_api_timeout = "20s"

Step 3

From the implementation file which uses this library, user need to initialize the providers and open the sessions to backend IAaS provider and to do that user just need to call the following method from there

github.com/IBM/ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/provider/utils utility packages, reference code can be found ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/main.go

providerRegistry, err := provider_util.InitProviders(conf, logger)

and

sess, _, err := provider_util.OpenProviderSession(conf, providerRegistry, conf.Softlayer.SoftlayerBlockProviderName, logger)

OpenProviderSession call will be required for all enabled provider. Once session is ready the user can call any method/interface which are part of ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/lib/provider/*_manager.go. Sample code can be found ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib/main.go

How to build the sample code

To build the sample code, just need to follow the following commands

Step 1

Set the GOPATH as per your system and directory lets say /home/user/test and create a sub directory under this by using the following command

$mkdir -p src/github.com/IBM

Change the directory to src/github.com/IBM and check out the code

git clone https://github.com/IBM/ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib.git

Step 3

Change the directory $cd ibmcloud-storage-volume-lib and run the following command to build the sample code

$make deps
$make build

It will create libSample executable which you can run by using ./libSample and you will see some options to validate lib functionalities.