Hello,
Are there any current Perl modules for Ceph? I found a thread [1] from 2011 with a version of Ceph::RADOS, but it only has functions to deal with pools, and the ->list_pools function causes a seg. fault.
I'm interested in controlling Ceph via script / application and I was wondering [hoping] if anyone else had a current module before I go reinventing the wheel. (My wheel would likely leverage calls to system() and use the rbd/rados/ceph functions directly initially... I'm not proficient with C/XS)
I've been primarily using OpenNebula, though I've evaluated OpenStack, CloudStack, and even Eucalyptus and they all seem to meet ($x-1)/$x criteria (one project seems to do one thing better than another, but they all are missing one feature that another project has--this is a generalization, but this isn't the OpenNebula mailing list). What I'm looking to do at the moment is simplify my lab deployments. My current workflow only takes 10 minutes or so to deploy a new vm:
1) dump xml of existing vm (usually the "base" vm that the template was created from, I actually have a "template" that I just copy and modify now)
2) clone rbd to new vm (usually using vmname)
3) edit vm template to relflect new values
-- change name of vm to the new vmname
-- remove specific identifiers (MAC, etc. unnecessary when copying "template")
-- update disk to reflect new rbd
4) login to console and "pre-provision" vm
-- update system
-- assign hostname
-- generate ssh-keys (I remove the sshd host keys when "sysprepping" for cloning, ubuntu I know for sure doesn't regenerate the keys on boot, I _THINK_ RHEL might)
I actually already did this work on automating deployments[2], but that was back when I was primarily using qcow2 images. It leverages guestfish to do all of the vm :management" (setting IP, hostname, generating ssh host keys, etc). But now I want to leverage my Ceph cluster for images.
Couple of tangentially related questions that I don't think warrant a whole thread:
1) Is it possible to zero and compress rbds? (I like to use virt-sysprep and virt-sparcify to prepare my images, then, when I was using qcow images, I would compress them before cloning)
2) has anyone used virt-sysprep|virt-sparcify against rbd images? I suppose if I'm creating a template image, I could create the qcow image then convert it to an rbd, but qcow-img creates format 1 images.
3) anyone know of a way to create format 2 images with qemu-img? When I specify -O rbd qemu-img seg faults, and rbd2 is an invalid format.
4) Is it possible to mount an RBD to multiple vms as readonly? I'm thinking like readonly iso images converted to rbds? (is it even possible to convert an iso to an image?)
Thanks for your help.
Best Regards,
Jon A
