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diff --git a/roles/openshift_storage_nfs_lvm/README.md b/roles/openshift_storage_nfs_lvm/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1ee02e18a --- /dev/null +++ b/roles/openshift_storage_nfs_lvm/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +# openshift_storage_nfs_lvm + +This role is useful to create and export nfs disks for openshift persistent volumes. +It does so by creating lvm partitions on an already setup pv/vg, creating xfs +filesystem on each partition, mounting the partitions, exporting the mounts via NFS +and creating a json file for each mount that an openshift master can use to +create persistent volumes. + +## Requirements + +* NFS server with NFS, iptables, and everything setup. + +* A lvm volume group created on the nfs server (default: openshiftvg) + +* The lvm volume needs to have as much free space as you are allocating + +## Role Variables + +``` +# Options of NFS exports. +osnl_nfs_export_options: "*(rw,sync,all_squash)" + +# Directory, where the created partitions should be mounted. They will be +# mounted as <osnl_mount_dir>/<lvm volume name> +osnl_mount_dir: /exports/openshift + +# Volume Group to use. +# This role always assumes that there is enough free space on the volume +# group for all the partitions you will be making +osnl_volume_group: openshiftvg + +# volume names +# volume names are {{osnl_volume_prefix}}{{osnl_volume_size}}g{{volume number}} +# example: stg5g0004 + +# osnl_volume_prefix +# Useful if you are using the nfs server for more than one cluster +osnl_volume_prefix: "stg" + +# osnl_volume_size +# Size of the volumes/partitions in Gigabytes. +osnl_volume_size: 5 + +# osnl_volume_num_start +# Where to start the volume number numbering. +osnl_volume_num_start: 3 + +# osnl_number_of_volumes +# How many volumes/partitions to build, with the size we stated. +osnl_number_of_volumes: 2 + +``` + +## Dependencies + +None + +## Example Playbook + +With this playbook, 2 5Gig lvm partitions are created, named stg5g0003 and stg5g0004 +Both of them are mounted into `/exports/openshift` directory. Both directories are +exported via NFS. json files are created in /root. + + - hosts: nfsservers + sudo: no + remote_user: root + gather_facts: no + roles: + - role: openshift_storage_nfs_lvm + osnl_mount_dir: /exports/openshift + osnl_volume_prefix: "stg" + osnl_volume_size: 5 + osnl_volume_num_start: 3 + osnl_number_of_volumes: 2 + + +## Full example + + +* Create an `inventory` file: + ``` + [nfsservers] + 10.0.0.1 + 10.0.0.2 + ``` + +* Create an ansible playbook, say `setupnfs.yaml`: + ``` + - hosts: nfsservers + sudo: no + remote_user: root + gather_facts: no + roles: + - role: openshift_storage_nfs_lvm + osnl_mount_dir: /exports/stg + osnl_volume_prefix: "stg" + osnl_volume_size: 5 + osnl_volume_num_start: 3 + osnl_number_of_volumes: 2 + +* Run the playbook: + ``` + ansible-playbook -i inventory setupnfs.yml + ``` + +## License + +Apache 2.0 |