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SAIO - Swift All In One

Instructions for setting up a development VM

This section documents setting up a virtual machine for doing Swift development. The virtual machine will emulate running a four node Swift cluster. To begin:

Get an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server image or try something Fedora/CentOS.
Create guest virtual machine from the image.

What's in a <your-user-name>

Much of the configuration described in this guide requires escalated administrator (root) privileges; however, we assume that administrator logs in as an unprivileged user and can use sudo to run privileged commands.

Swift processes also run under a separate user and group, set by configuration option, and referenced as <your-user-name>:<your-group-name>. The default user is swift, which may not exist on your system. These instructions are intended to allow a developer to use his/her username for <your-user-name>:<your-group-name>.

Installing dependencies

On apt based systems:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl gcc memcached rsync sqlite3 xfsprogs \
                     git-core libffi-dev python-setuptools
sudo apt-get install python-coverage python-dev python-nose \
                     python-xattr python-eventlet \
                     python-greenlet python-pastedeploy \
                     python-netifaces python-pip python-dnspython \
                     python-mock

On yum based systems:

sudo yum update
sudo yum install curl gcc memcached rsync sqlite xfsprogs git-core \
                 libffi-devel xinetd python-setuptools \
                 python-coverage python-devel python-nose \
                 pyxattr python-eventlet \
                 python-greenlet python-paste-deploy \
                 python-netifaces python-pip python-dns \
                 python-mock

Note: This installs necessary system dependencies and most of the python dependencies. Later in the process setuptools/distribute or pip will install and/or upgrade packages.

Next, choose either partition-section or loopback-section.

Using a partition for storage

If you are going to use a separate partition for Swift data, be sure to add another device when creating the VM, and follow these instructions:

Set up a single partition:
sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1
Edit /etc/fstab and add:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 xfs noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8 0 0
Create the mount point and the individualized links:
sudo mkdir /mnt/sdb1
sudo mount /mnt/sdb1
sudo mkdir /mnt/sdb1/1 /mnt/sdb1/2 /mnt/sdb1/3 /mnt/sdb1/4
sudo chown ${USER}:${USER} /mnt/sdb1/*
sudo mkdir /srv
for x in {1..4}; do sudo ln -s /mnt/sdb1/$x /srv/$x; done
sudo mkdir -p /srv/1/node/sdb1 /srv/1/node/sdb5 \
              /srv/2/node/sdb2 /srv/2/node/sdb6 \
              /srv/3/node/sdb3 /srv/3/node/sdb7 \
              /srv/4/node/sdb4 /srv/4/node/sdb8 \
              /var/run/swift
sudo chown -R ${USER}:${USER} /var/run/swift
# **Make sure to include the trailing slash after /srv/$x/**
for x in {1..4}; do sudo chown -R ${USER}:${USER} /srv/$x/; done
Note: We create the mount points and mount the storage disk under /mnt/sdb1. This disk will contain one directory per simulated swift node, each owned by the current swift user.

We then create symlinks to these directories under /srv. If the disk sdb is unmounted, files will not be written under /srv/*, because the symbolic link destination /mnt/sdb1/* will not exist. This prevents disk sync operations from writing to the root partition in the event a drive is unmounted.
Next, skip to common-dev-section.

Using a loopback device for storage

If you want to use a loopback device instead of another partition, follow these instructions:

Create the file for the loopback device:
sudo mkdir /srv
sudo truncate -s 1GB /srv/swift-disk
sudo mkfs.xfs /srv/swift-disk
Modify size specified in the truncate command to make a larger or smaller partition as needed.
Edit /etc/fstab and add:
/srv/swift-disk /mnt/sdb1 xfs loop,noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8 0 0
Create the mount point and the individualized links:
sudo mkdir /mnt/sdb1
sudo mount /mnt/sdb1
sudo mkdir /mnt/sdb1/1 /mnt/sdb1/2 /mnt/sdb1/3 /mnt/sdb1/4
sudo chown ${USER}:${USER} /mnt/sdb1/*
for x in {1..4}; do sudo ln -s /mnt/sdb1/$x /srv/$x; done
sudo mkdir -p /srv/1/node/sdb1 /srv/1/node/sdb5 \
              /srv/2/node/sdb2 /srv/2/node/sdb6 \
              /srv/3/node/sdb3 /srv/3/node/sdb7 \
              /srv/4/node/sdb4 /srv/4/node/sdb8 \
              /var/run/swift
sudo chown -R ${USER}:${USER} /var/run/swift
# **Make sure to include the trailing slash after /srv/$x/**
for x in {1..4}; do sudo chown -R ${USER}:${USER} /srv/$x/; done
Note: We create the mount points and mount the loopback file under /mnt/sdb1. This file will contain one directory per simulated swift node, each owned by the current swift user.

We then create symlinks to these directories under /srv. If the loopback file is unmounted, files will not be written under /srv/*, because the symbolic link destination /mnt/sdb1/* will not exist. This prevents disk sync operations from writing to the root partition in the event a drive is unmounted.

Common Post-Device Setup

Add the following lines to /etc/rc.local (before the exit 0):

mkdir -p /var/cache/swift /var/cache/swift2 /var/cache/swift3 /var/cache/swift4
chown <your-user-name>:<your-group-name> /var/cache/swift*
mkdir -p /var/run/swift
chown <your-user-name>:<your-group-name> /var/run/swift

Note that on some systems you might have to create /etc/rc.local.

On Fedora 19 or later, you need to place these in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Getting the code

Check out the python-swiftclient repo:
cd $HOME; git clone https://github.com/openstack/python-swiftclient.git
Build a development installation of python-swiftclient:
cd $HOME/python-swiftclient; sudo python setup.py develop; cd -
Ubuntu 12.04 users need to install python-swiftclient's dependencies before the installation of python-swiftclient. This is due to a bug in an older version of setup tools:
cd $HOME/python-swiftclient; sudo pip install -r requirements.txt; sudo python setup.py develop; cd -
Check out the swift repo:
git clone https://github.com/openstack/swift.git
Build a development installation of swift:
cd $HOME/swift; sudo pip install -r requirements.txt; sudo python setup.py develop; cd -
Fedora 19 or later users might have to perform the following if development installation of swift fails:
sudo pip install -U xattr
Install swift's test dependencies:
cd $HOME/swift; sudo pip install -r test-requirements.txt

Setting up rsync

Create /etc/rsyncd.conf:
sudo cp $HOME/swift/doc/saio/rsyncd.conf /etc/
sudo sed -i "s/<your-user-name>/${USER}/" /etc/rsyncd.conf
Here is the default rsyncd.conf file contents maintained in the repo that is copied and fixed up above:

/../saio/rsyncd.conf
On Ubuntu, edit the following line in /etc/default/rsync:
RSYNC_ENABLE=true
On Fedora, edit the following line in /etc/xinetd.d/rsync:
disable = no
One might have to create the above files to perform the edits.
On platforms with SELinux in Enforcing mode, either set to Permissive:
sudo setenforce Permissive
Or just allow rsync full access:
sudo setsebool -P rsync_full_access 1
Start the rsync daemon
On Ubuntu, run:
sudo service rsync restart
On Fedora, run:
sudo systemctl restart xinetd.service
sudo systemctl enable rsyncd.service
sudo systemctl start rsyncd.service
On other xinetd based systems simply run:
sudo service xinetd restart
Verify rsync is accepting connections for all servers:
rsync rsync://pub@localhost/
You should see the following output from the above command:
account6012
account6022
account6032
account6042
container6011
container6021
container6031
container6041
object6010
object6020
object6030
object6040

Starting memcached

On non-Ubuntu distros you need to ensure memcached is running:

sudo service memcached start
sudo chkconfig memcached on

or:

sudo systemctl enable memcached.service
sudo systemctl start memcached.service

The tempauth middleware stores tokens in memcached. If memcached is not running, tokens cannot be validated, and accessing Swift becomes impossible.

Optional: Setting up rsyslog for individual logging

Install the swift rsyslogd configuration:
sudo cp $HOME/swift/doc/saio/rsyslog.d/10-swift.conf /etc/rsyslog.d/
Be sure to review that conf file to determine if you want all the logs in one file vs. all the logs separated out, and if you want hourly logs for stats processing. For convenience, we provide its default contents below:

/../saio/rsyslog.d/10-swift.conf
Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and make the following change (usually in the "GLOBAL DIRECTIVES" section):
$PrivDropToGroup adm
If using hourly logs (see above) perform:
sudo mkdir -p /var/log/swift/hourly
Otherwise perform:
sudo mkdir -p /var/log/swift
Setup the logging directory and start syslog:
On Ubuntu:
sudo chown -R syslog.adm /var/log/swift
sudo chmod -R g+w /var/log/swift
sudo service rsyslog restart
On Fedora:
sudo chown -R root:adm /var/log/swift
sudo chmod -R g+w /var/log/swift
sudo systemctl restart rsyslog.service

Configuring each node

After performing the following steps, be sure to verify that Swift has access to resulting configuration files (sample configuration files are provided with all defaults in line-by-line comments).

Optionally remove an existing swift directory:
sudo rm -rf /etc/swift
Populate the /etc/swift directory itself:
cd $HOME/swift/doc; sudo cp -r saio/swift /etc/swift; cd -
sudo chown -R ${USER}:${USER} /etc/swift
Update <your-user-name> references in the Swift config files:
find /etc/swift/ -name \*.conf | xargs sudo sed -i "s/<your-user-name>/${USER}/"

The contents of the configuration files provided by executing the above commands are as follows:

/etc/swift/swift.conf

/../saio/swift/swift.conf

/etc/swift/proxy-server.conf

/../saio/swift/proxy-server.conf

/etc/swift/object-expirer.conf

/../saio/swift/object-expirer.conf

/etc/swift/container-reconciler.conf

/../saio/swift/container-reconciler.conf

/etc/swift/container-sync-realms.conf

/../saio/swift/container-sync-realms.conf

/etc/swift/account-server/1.conf

/../saio/swift/account-server/1.conf

/etc/swift/container-server/1.conf

/../saio/swift/container-server/1.conf

/etc/swift/object-server/1.conf

/../saio/swift/object-server/1.conf

/etc/swift/account-server/2.conf

/../saio/swift/account-server/2.conf

/etc/swift/container-server/2.conf

/../saio/swift/container-server/2.conf

/etc/swift/object-server/2.conf

/../saio/swift/object-server/2.conf

/etc/swift/account-server/3.conf

/../saio/swift/account-server/3.conf

/etc/swift/container-server/3.conf

/../saio/swift/container-server/3.conf

/etc/swift/object-server/3.conf

/../saio/swift/object-server/3.conf

/etc/swift/account-server/4.conf

/../saio/swift/account-server/4.conf

/etc/swift/container-server/4.conf

/../saio/swift/container-server/4.conf

/etc/swift/object-server/4.conf

/../saio/swift/object-server/4.conf

Setting up scripts for running Swift

Copy the SAIO scripts for resetting the environment:
mkdir -p $HOME/bin
cd $HOME/swift/doc; cp saio/bin/* $HOME/bin; cd -
chmod +x $HOME/bin/*
Edit the $HOME/bin/resetswift script

The template resetswift script looks like the following:

/../saio/bin/resetswift

If you are using a loopback device add an environment var to subsitute /dev/sdb1 with /srv/swift-disk:
echo "export SAIO_BLOCK_DEVICE=/srv/swift-disk" >> $HOME/.bashrc
If you did not set up rsyslog for individual logging, remove the find /var/log/swift... line:
sed -i "/find \/var\/log\/swift/d" $HOME/bin/resetswift
Install the sample configuration file for running tests:
cp $HOME/swift/test/sample.conf /etc/swift/test.conf
The template test.conf looks like the following:

/../../test/sample.conf
Add an environment variable for running tests below:
echo "export SWIFT_TEST_CONFIG_FILE=/etc/swift/test.conf" >> $HOME/.bashrc
Be sure that your PATH includes the bin directory:
echo "export PATH=${PATH}:$HOME/bin" >> $HOME/.bashrc
Source the above environment variables into your current environment:
. $HOME/.bashrc
Construct the initial rings using the provided script:
remakerings
The remakerings script looks like the following:

/../saio/bin/remakerings

You can expect the output from this command to produce the following. Note that 3 object rings are created in order to test storage policies and EC in the SAIO environment. The EC ring is the only one with all 8 devices. There are also two replication rings, one for 3x replication and another for 2x replication, but those rings only use 4 devices:
Device d0r1z1-127.0.0.1:6010R127.0.0.1:6010/sdb1_"" with 1.0 weight got id 0
Device d1r1z2-127.0.0.1:6020R127.0.0.1:6020/sdb2_"" with 1.0 weight got id 1
Device d2r1z3-127.0.0.1:6030R127.0.0.1:6030/sdb3_"" with 1.0 weight got id 2
Device d3r1z4-127.0.0.1:6040R127.0.0.1:6040/sdb4_"" with 1.0 weight got id 3
Reassigned 1024 (100.00%) partitions. Balance is now 0.00.  Dispersion is now 0.00
Device d0r1z1-127.0.0.1:6010R127.0.0.1:6010/sdb1_"" with 1.0 weight got id 0
Device d1r1z2-127.0.0.1:6020R127.0.0.1:6020/sdb2_"" with 1.0 weight got id 1
Device d2r1z3-127.0.0.1:6030R127.0.0.1:6030/sdb3_"" with 1.0 weight got id 2
Device d3r1z4-127.0.0.1:6040R127.0.0.1:6040/sdb4_"" with 1.0 weight got id 3
Reassigned 1024 (100.00%) partitions. Balance is now 0.00.  Dispersion is now 0.00
Device d0r1z1-127.0.0.1:6010R127.0.0.1:6010/sdb1_"" with 1.0 weight got id 0
Device d1r1z1-127.0.0.1:6010R127.0.0.1:6010/sdb5_"" with 1.0 weight got id 1
Device d2r1z2-127.0.0.1:6020R127.0.0.1:6020/sdb2_"" with 1.0 weight got id 2
Device d3r1z2-127.0.0.1:6020R127.0.0.1:6020/sdb6_"" with 1.0 weight got id 3
Device d4r1z3-127.0.0.1:6030R127.0.0.1:6030/sdb3_"" with 1.0 weight got id 4
Device d5r1z3-127.0.0.1:6030R127.0.0.1:6030/sdb7_"" with 1.0 weight got id 5
Device d6r1z4-127.0.0.1:6040R127.0.0.1:6040/sdb4_"" with 1.0 weight got id 6
Device d7r1z4-127.0.0.1:6040R127.0.0.1:6040/sdb8_"" with 1.0 weight got id 7
Reassigned 1024 (100.00%) partitions. Balance is now 0.00.  Dispersion is now 0.00
Device d0r1z1-127.0.0.1:6011R127.0.0.1:6011/sdb1_"" with 1.0 weight got id 0
Device d1r1z2-127.0.0.1:6021R127.0.0.1:6021/sdb2_"" with 1.0 weight got id 1
Device d2r1z3-127.0.0.1:6031R127.0.0.1:6031/sdb3_"" with 1.0 weight got id 2
Device d3r1z4-127.0.0.1:6041R127.0.0.1:6041/sdb4_"" with 1.0 weight got id 3
Reassigned 1024 (100.00%) partitions. Balance is now 0.00.  Dispersion is now 0.00
Device d0r1z1-127.0.0.1:6012R127.0.0.1:6012/sdb1_"" with 1.0 weight got id 0
Device d1r1z2-127.0.0.1:6022R127.0.0.1:6022/sdb2_"" with 1.0 weight got id 1
Device d2r1z3-127.0.0.1:6032R127.0.0.1:6032/sdb3_"" with 1.0 weight got id 2
Device d3r1z4-127.0.0.1:6042R127.0.0.1:6042/sdb4_"" with 1.0 weight got id 3
Reassigned 1024 (100.00%) partitions. Balance is now 0.00.  Dispersion is now 0.00
Read more about Storage Policies and your SAIO policies_saio
Verify the unit tests run:
$HOME/swift/.unittests
Note that the unit tests do not require any swift daemons running.
Start the "main" Swift daemon processes (proxy, account, container, and object):
startmain
(The "Unable to increase file descriptor limit. Running as non-root?" warnings are expected and ok.)

The startmain script looks like the following:

/../saio/bin/startmain
Get an X-Storage-Url and X-Auth-Token:
curl -v -H 'X-Storage-User: test:tester' -H 'X-Storage-Pass: testing' http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/v1.0
Check that you can GET account:
curl -v -H 'X-Auth-Token: <token-from-x-auth-token-above>' <url-from-x-storage-url-above>
Check that swift command provided by the python-swiftclient package works:
swift -A http://127.0.0.1:8080/auth/v1.0 -U test:tester -K testing stat
Verify the functional tests run:
$HOME/swift/.functests
(Note: functional tests will first delete everything in the configured accounts.)
Verify the probe tests run:
$HOME/swift/.probetests
(Note: probe tests will reset your environment as they call resetswift for each test.)

Debugging Issues

If all doesn't go as planned, and tests fail, or you can't auth, or something doesn't work, here are some good starting places to look for issues:

Everything is logged using system facilities -- usually in /var/log/syslog, but possibly in /var/log/messages on e.g. Fedora -- so that is a good first place to look for errors (most likely python tracebacks).
Make sure all of the server processes are running. For the base functionality, the Proxy, Account, Container, and Object servers should be running.
If one of the servers are not running, and no errors are logged to syslog, it may be useful to try to start the server manually, for example: swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server/1.conf will start the object server. If there are problems not showing up in syslog, then you will likely see the traceback on startup.
If you need to, you can turn off syslog for unit tests. This can be useful for environments where /dev/log is unavailable, or which cannot rate limit (unit tests generate a lot of logs very quickly). Open the file SWIFT_TEST_CONFIG_FILE points to, and change the value of fake_syslog to True.

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