openATTIC is an open source storage management system that provides a web-based interface for managing Ceph clusters and other storage technologies. It aims to provide an alternative to proprietary storage management and support scale-out storage. Recent changes have removed licensing restrictions and opened development. openATTIC uses standard tools and supports multiple Linux distributions. It offers unified storage management, monitoring, and a REST API for software-defined storage.

1. Ceph and Storage Management
with openATTIC
Ceph Day Munich 2016, Munich, Germany
2016-09-23
Lenz Grimmer <lenz@openattic.org>

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openATTIC – Our Vision
 Develop an alternative to proprietary storage
management systems
 „Traditional” unified storage (NAS/SAN)
 Support Ceph for scale-out scenarios
 Open Source, Backed with commercial support and
services

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openATTIC – Notable Recent Changes
 Removed Enterprise/Community Edition split
 Now fully under the GPLv2
 Removed requirement for CLA
 DCA (“Signed-off-by”) is all that's needed
 Public Jira Bug Tracker (Issue tracking & roadmap)
 Public pull requests / code reviews on BitBucket
 Monthly releases & nightly snapshot builds
 Entire code base (Backend/WebUI/Test/Docs) in one branch
 Active collaboration with SUSE on Ceph management

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openATTIC – What Sets us Apart?
 Focus on data center storage management
 Support both SAN and NAS functionality without limitations
 Fully Open Source (GPLv2)
 Fully open and inclusive development process
 No arbitrary functional restrictions
 Low entrance barrier for adoption
 Based on standard Linux / OSS tools
 Multiple Linux distributions (Debian/Ubuntu/Red Hat/SUSE)
 Well-established technology stack (e.g. drivers, hardware support)
 Broad user base

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 Modern Web UI
 RESTful API (Software-
Defined Storage)
 Unified Storage
 NAS (NFS, CIFS, HTTP)
 SAN (iSCSI, Fibre Channel)
 LVM, XFS, ZFS, Btrfs,
ext3/4
 Volume mirroring (DRBD®)
 Multi-node support
 Monitoring (Nagios/Icinga)
built-in
 Ceph management and
monitoring
 Development sponsored
by it-novum
openATTIC – Open Source Storage Management

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 Backend
 Python (Django)
 Django REST Framework
(RESTful API)
 Linux tools for storage
management, e.g. LVM, LIO,
filesystem utilities, DRBD,
etc.
 Nagios/Icinga &
PNP4Nagios (Monitoring
and Graphing)
 Web Frontend
 AngularJS (JS framework)
 Bootstrap (HTML, CSS, and
JS framework)
 Uses REST API exclusively
 Automated Test Suites
 Python Unit Tests
 REST Backend Tests
(Gatling)
 WebUI Tests
(Protractor/Jasmine)
openATTIC – Components

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openATTIC – High Level Architecture

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openATTIC – Ceph Cluster Monitoring

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openATTIC – Ceph Management Goals
 Create a management & monitoring GUI tool
 A tool that administrators actually want to use
 That scales without becoming overwhelming
 Still should allow changes to be made elsewhere, without
becoming inconsistent

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openATTIC – Current Ceph Development Status
 Ceph Cluster Status Dashboard incl. Performance Graphs
 “NoDB” and “TaskQueue” backend architecture in place
 Ceph Pool management (view/create/delete)
 Ceph OSD management (view)
 Ceph RBD management (view/create/delete/map)
 Cluster health/performance & pool monitoring
 CRUSH map editor
 Support for managing multiple Ceph clusters

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https://wiki.openattic.org/display/OP/openATTIC+Ceph+REST+API+overview
openATTIC – Ceph Management REST API

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openATTIC – Ceph Development Roadmap
 Task Queue implementation for long-running tasks
 Extend Ceph Pool Management
 OSD Monitoring/Management
 RBD Management/Monitoring
 CephFS Management / Monitoring
 RGW Management (users, buckets keys)
 Deployment, remote configuration of Ceph nodes (via Salt Open &
SUSE‘s „DeepSea“ framework)
 Remote node monitoring (via collectd)
 Public Roadmap on the openATTIC Wiki: http://bit.ly/28PCTWf

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openATTIC – Storage Management Dashboard

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openATTIC – Ceph Cluster Dashboard

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openATTIC – Ceph Pool List

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openATTIC – Ceph Pool Monitoring (Preview)

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openATTIC – Ceph OSD List

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openATTIC – Ceph RBD List

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openATTIC – Create Ceph RBD

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openATTIC – Ceph CRUSH map editing

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 www.openattic.org
 demo.openattic.org
 blog.openattic.org
 docs.openattic.org
 bitbucket.org/openattic
 tracker.openattic.org
 Twitter: @openATTIC
 G+: openATTIC
openATTIC – Resources

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