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CVMFS

CVMFS

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If not explicitly disabled, clusters deployed with Magnum support mounting CVMFS volumes.

Below we give examples of how to do it in each different container engine.

Docker Swarm

Example creating a swarm service using the repository cms.cern.ch (repo name goes in option source):

$ docker service create --mount 'type=volume,volume-driver=cvmfs,source=cms.cern.ch,destination=/cvmfs/cms.cern.ch' busybox sleep 10000

You can also pass a specify CVMFS repository tag or a hash on creation.

$ docker service create --mount 'type=volume,volume-driver=cvmfs,source=cms.cern.ch@trunk-previous,destination=/cvmfs/cms.cern.ch' busybox sleep 10000

Example mounting hash SOMEHASH:

$ docker service create --mount 'type=volume,volume-driver=cvmfs,source=cms.cern.ch@trunk-previous,destination=/cvmfs/cms.cern.ch' busybox sleep 10000

You can also launch a single container passing a cvmfs repository:

docker run -it --volume-driver cvmfs -v cms.cern.ch:/cvmfs/cms.cern.ch busybox sh

Kubernetes

For kubernetes we rely on the csi-cvmfs driver.

NOTE: For kubernetes versions 1.13 or earlier the provisioner field in the StorageClass below should be csi-cvmfsplugin

Here's an example mounting the cms.cern.ch cvmfs repo (we use the nginx server for convenience):

$ cat nginx-cvmfs.yaml
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
kind: StorageClass
metadata:
  name: csi-cvmfs-cms
provisioner: cvmfs.csi.cern.ch
parameters:
  repository: cms.cern.ch
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: csi-cvmfs-cms-pvc
spec:
  accessModes:
  - ReadOnlyMany
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 1Gi
  storageClassName: csi-cvmfs-cms
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: web-server
spec:
  containers:
   - name: web-server
     image: nginx
     volumeMounts:
       - mountPath: /cvmfs/cms.cern.ch
         name: cms-pvc
  volumes:
   - name: cms-pvc
     persistentVolumeClaim:
       claimName: csi-cvmfs-cms-pvc
       readOnly: true

You can define the mount location on the volumeMounts part of the Pod definition (in this case it was /cvmfs/cms.cern.ch). The storage size parameter is irrelevant for CVMFS volumes, the value is ignored (1Gi in the case above).

If you want to mount a specific CVMFS repository tag or a hash simply add @TAGNAME or #SOMEHASH to the repository name, as in cms.cern.ch@trunk-previous.


Last update: June 1, 2022