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1. Overview
2. Custom Facts
3. Classes
4. Resources
5. Examples
6. Contributing
7. Copyright

This module installs and configures servers to participate in a Gluster Trusted Storage Pool, create or modify one or more Gluster volumes, and mount Gluster volumes.

Also provided with this module are a number of custom Gluster-related facts.

• gluster_binary: the full pathname of the Gluster CLI command
• gluster_peer_count: the number of peers to which this server is connected in the pool.
• gluster_peer_list: a comma-separated list of peer hostnames
• gluster_volume_list: a comma-separated list of volumes being served by this server
• gluster_volume_#{vol}_bricks: a comma-separated list of bricks in each volume being served by this server
• gluster_volume_#{vol}_options: a comma-separared list of options enabled on each volume
• gluster_volume_#{vol}_ports: a comma-separated list of ports used by the bricks in the specified volume.

The gluster_binary fact will look for an external fact named gluster_custom_binary. If this fact is defined, gluster_binary will use that value. Otherwise the path will be searched until the gluster command is found.

This class establishes a number of default values used by the other classes.

You should not need to include or reference this class directly.

This class enables the GlusterFS repository. Either Gluster.org for APT or CentOS managed YUM for EL.

Fedora users can get GlusterFS packages directly from Fedora's repository. Red Hat users with a Gluster Storage subscription should set the appropriate subscription/repo for their OS. Therefore for both Fedora and Red Hat Gluster Storage users, the default upstream community repo should be off:

gluster::repo => false

For Debian, the latest packages of the latest release will be installed by default. Otherwise, specify a version:

class { gluster::repo:
  version => '3.5.2',
}

For Ubuntu, the Gluster PPA repositories only contain the latest version of each release. Therefore specify the release to install:

class { gluster::repo:
  release => '10',
}

For systems using YUM, the latest package from the 3.8 release branch will be installed. You can specify a specific version and release:

class { gluster::repo:
  release => '3.7',
}
class { gluster:
  version => '3.7.12',
}

Package priorities are supported, but not activated by default.

Yum: If a priority parameter is passed to this class, the yum-plugin-priorities package will be installed, and a priority will be set on the Gluster repository.

Apt: If a priority parameter is passed to this class, it will be passed as is to the Apt::Source resource. See Puppetlabs apt module for details.

This is useful in the event that you want to install a version from the upstream repos that is older than that provided by your distribution's repositories.

This class handles the installation of the Gluster packages (both server and client).

If the upstream Gluster repo is enabled (default), this class will install packages from there. Otherwise it will attempt to use native OS packages.

Currently, RHEL 6, RHEL 7, Debian 8, Raspbian and Ubuntu provide native Gluster packages (at least client).

class { gluster::install:
  server  => true,
  client  => true,
  repo    => true,
  version => 3.5.1-1.el6,
}

Note that on Red Hat (and derivative) systems, the version parameter should match the version number used by yum for the RPM package. Beware that Red Hat provides its own build of the GlusterFS FUSE client on RHEL but its minor version doesn't match the upstream. Therefore if you run a community GlusterFS server, you should try to match the version on your RHEL clients by running the community FUSE client. On Debian-based systems, only the first two version places are significant ("x.y"). The latest minor version from that release will be installed unless the "priority" parameter is used.

This class installs only the Gluster client package(s). If you need to install both the server and client, please use the install.pp (or init.pp) classes.

class { gluster::client:
  repo    => true,
  version => '3.5.2',
}

Use of gluster::client is not supported with either gluster::install or gluster::init.

This class manages the glusterd service.

class { gluster::service:
  ensure => running,
}

This class implements a basic Gluster server.

In the default configuration, this class exports a gluster::peer defined type for itself, and then collects any other exported gluster::peer resources for the same pool for instantiation.

This default configuration makes it easy to implement a Gluster storage pool by simply assigning the gluster class to your Gluster servers: they'll each export their gluster::peer resources, and then instantiate the other servers' gluster::peer resources.

The use of exported resources assume you're using PuppetDB, or some other backing mechanism to support exported resources.

If a volumes parameter is passed, the defined Gluster volume(s) can be created at the same time as the storage pool. See the volume defined type below for more details.

class { gluster:
  repo    => true,
  client  => false,
  pool    => 'production',
  version => '3.5',
  volumes => {
    'data1' => {
      replica => 2,
      bricks  => [ 'srv1.local:/export/brick1/brick',
                   'srv2.local:/export/brick1/brick',
                   'srv1.local:/export/brick2/brick',
                   'srv2.local:/export/brick2/brick', ],
      options => [ 'server.allow-insecure: on',
                   'nfs.disable: true', ],
               }
             }
}

This defined type creates a Gluster peering relationship. The name of the resource should be the fully-qualified domain name of a peer to which to connect. An optional pool parameter permits you to configure different storage pools built from different hosts.

With the exported resource implementation in init.pp, the first server to be defined in the pool will find no peers, and therefore not do anything. The second server to execute this module will collect the first server's exported resource and initiate the gluster peer probe, thus creating the storage pool.

Note that the server being probed does not perform any DNS resolution on the server doing the probing. This means that the probed server will report only the IP address of the probing server. The next time the probed client runs this module, it will execute a gluster peer probe against the originally-probing server, thereby updating its list of peers to use the FQDN of the other server.

See this mailing list post for more information.

gluster::peer { 'srv1.domain:
  pool => 'production',
}

This defined type creates a Gluster volume. You can specify a stripe count, a replica count, the transport type, a list of bricks to use, and an optional set of volume options to enforce.

Note that creating brick filesystems is up to you. May I recommend the Puppet Labs LVM module ?

If using arbiter volumes, you must conform to the replica count that will work with them, at the time of writing this, Gluster 3.12 only supports a configuration of replica => 3, arbiter => 1.

When creating a new volume, this defined type will ensure that all of the servers hosting bricks in the volume are members of the storage pool. In this way, you can define the volume at the time you create servers, and once the last peer joins the pool the volume will be created.

Any volume options defined will be applied after the volume is created but before the volume is started.

In the event that the list of volume options active on a volume does not match the list of options passed to this defined type, no options will be removed by default. You must set the $remove_options parameter to true in order for this defined type to remove options.

Note that adding or removing options does not (currently) restart the volume.

gluster::volume { 'data1':
  replica => 2,
  bricks  => [
               'srv1.local:/export/brick1/brick',
               'srv2.local:/export/brick1/brick',
               'srv1.local:/export/brick2/brick',
               'srv2.local:/export/brick2/brick',
             ],
  options => [
               'server.allow-insecure: on',
               'nfs.ports-insecure: on',
             ],
}

This defined type applies Gluster options to a volume.

In order to ensure uniqueness across multiple volumes, the title of each gluster::volume::option must include the name of the volume to which it applies. The format for these titles is volume:option_name:

gluster::volume::option{ 'g0:nfs.disable':
  value => 'on',
}

To remove an option, set the ensure parameter to absent:

gluster::volume::option{ 'g0:server.allow-insecure':
  ensure => absent,
}

This defined type mounts a Gluster volume. Most of the parameters to this defined type match either the gluster FUSE options or the Puppet mount options.

gluster::mount { '/gluster/data1':
  ensure    => present,
  volume    => 'srv1.local:/data1',
  transport => 'tcp',
  atboot    => true,
  dump      => 0,
  pass      => 0,
}

Please see the examples directory.

Pull requests are warmly welcomed!

Copyright 2014 CoverMyMeds and released under the terms of the MIT License.