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Cinder subordinate charm cinder-nimblestorage
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Problem Description
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Cinder has a great number of drivers for different backends. Almost all
currently available commercial storage arrays and many other software only
solutions have a driver available, if not already in the upstream cinder
project, as an installable package that enables cinder with the extra driver.
Because of how many possibilities exist, a model was developed where a separate
subordinate charm will be deployed to take care of the specifics of the driver
and pass configuration to the main cinder charm over a relation so that cinder
can write to its own configuration file.
Proposed Change
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Instead of changing the cinder charm, this proposal aims to create a separate
subordinate charm specific for the nimblestorage driver. This cinder
installation would enable access to Nimblestorage devices. The following points
are of condiderable importance for the development of this subordinate charm:
* The new implementation should not conflict with current implementation. Both
should co-exist, even in the same deployment if possible.
* The new charm should implement all features currently existing in the cinder
charm, regarding the nimblestorage functionality.
Note that because the Nimblestorage driver is part of the cinder-common package, no
additional packages need to be installed for this charm to work.
This charm would be supported in the Ussuri release of Openstack and newer.
Alternatives
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At the time of this writing, there exist no alternatives.
Implementation
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Assignee(s)
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Primary assignee:
Gustavo Sanchez <gustavo.sanchez@canonical.com> - LP ID: gustavosr98
Secondary assignee:
Luciano Lo Giudice <luciano.logiudice@canonical.com> - LP ID: lmlogiudice
Gerrit Topic
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Use Gerrit topic "charm-cinder-nimblestorage" for all patches related to this spec.
.. code-block:: bash
git-review -t charm-cinder-nimblestorage
Work Items
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The charm, as listed above. Plus, both unit and functional tests will be
written.
Repositories
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Presently, the following repository hosts the charm code:
https://opendev.org/openstack/charm-cinder-nimblestorage
Documentation
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Once this charm is completed, charm-guide will be updated to reference it.
Security
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No security aspect is going to change in relation to the current solution.
Testing
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Code changes will be covered by both unit and functional tests.
Functional tests would require Nimblestorage hardware.
Dependencies
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No dependencies in addition to the ones that exist in the current solution.