libStorage

Opening up storage for all

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Overview

libStorage provides a vendor agnostic storage orchestration model, API, and reference client and server implementations. It focuses on being a portable storage driver framework that brings external storage functionality to any platform or application.

Features

The project has some very unique qualities that make it perfect for embedding in upstream projects to centralize external storage functionality.

• Lightweight client package enable minimal dependencies to provide full featured storage functionality to platforms
• Embedded and remotable modes for providing choice of centralized control of storage operations
• Optionally enables storage platforms to serve as libStorage servers making integration of application platforms native
• Dynamically downloaded executors run specific storage tasks without critical long running plugins per host
• Includes Go client/server packages for simple integration to other platforms and applications
• Flexible HTTP/JSON API for other deployment opportunities

Operations

Today libStorage supports the following volume management features.

• List/Inspect for retrieving volumes and detailed information
• Create/Remove for managing volume lifecycle
• Attach/Detach for getting volumes to instaces to be used
• Mount/Unmount to comprehensively get volumes to instances, discover, optionally format, and mount
• Path to review the existing mounted path of a volume
• Map to list the current attached volumes to an instance

The operations for Snapshots and Storage Pools is planned for future releases.

Getting Started

Using libStorage can be broken down into several, distinct steps:

1. Configuring libStorage
2. Understanding the API
3. Identifying a production server and client implementation, such as REX-Ray

Getting Help

To get help with libStorage, please use the discussion group, GitHub issues, or tagging questions with EMC at StackOverflow.

The code and documentation are released with no warranties or SLAs and are intended to be supported through a community driven process.