go-ceph/README.md

go-ceph - Go bindings for Ceph APIs

Installation

go get github.com/ceph/go-ceph

The native RADOS library and development headers are expected to be installed.

On debian systems (apt):

libcephfs-dev librbd-dev librados-dev

On rpm based systems (dnf, yum, etc):

libcephfs-devel librbd-devel librados-devel

go-ceph tries to support different Ceph versions. However some functions might only be available in recent versions, and others may be deprecated. In order to work with non-current versions of Ceph, it is required to pass build-tags to the go commandline. A tag with the named Ceph release will enable/disable certain features of the go-ceph packages, and prevent warnings or compile problems. For example, to ensure you select the library features that match the "nautilus" release, use:

go build -tags nautilus ....
go test -tags nautilus ....

Documentation

Detailed documentation is available at https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ceph/go-ceph.

Connecting to a cluster

Connect to a Ceph cluster using a configuration file located in the default search paths.

conn, _ := rados.NewConn()
conn.ReadDefaultConfigFile()
conn.Connect()

A connection can be shutdown by calling the Shutdown method on the connection object (e.g. conn.Shutdown()). There are also other methods for configuring the connection. Specific configuration options can be set:

conn.SetConfigOption("log_file", "/dev/null")

and command line options can also be used using the ParseCmdLineArgs method.

args := []string{ "--mon-host", "1.1.1.1" }
err := conn.ParseCmdLineArgs(args)

For other configuration options see the full documentation.

Object I/O

Object in RADOS can be written to and read from with through an interface very similar to a standard file I/O interface:

// open a pool handle
ioctx, err := conn.OpenIOContext("mypool")

// write some data
bytesIn := []byte("input data")
err = ioctx.Write("obj", bytesIn, 0)

// read the data back out
bytesOut := make([]byte, len(bytesIn))
_, err := ioctx.Read("obj", bytesOut, 0)

if !bytes.Equal(bytesIn, bytesOut) {
    fmt.Println("Output is not input!")
}

Pool maintenance

The list of pools in a cluster can be retreived using the ListPools method on the connection object. On a new cluster the following code snippet:

pools, _ := conn.ListPools()
fmt.Println(pools)

will produce the output [data metadata rbd], along with any other pools that might exist in your cluster. Pools can also be created and destroyed. The following creates a new, empty pool with default settings.

conn.MakePool("new_pool")

Deleting a pool is also easy. Call DeletePool(name string) on a connection object to delete a pool with the given name. The following will delete the pool named new_pool and remove all of the pool's data.

conn.DeletePool("new_pool")

Development

docker run --rm -it --net=host \
  --device /dev/fuse --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --security-opt apparmor:unconfined \
  -v ${PWD}:/go/src/github.com/ceph/go-ceph:z \
  -v /home/nwatkins/src/ceph/build:/home/nwatkins/src/ceph/build:z \
  -e CEPH_CONF=/home/nwatkins/src/ceph/build/ceph.conf \
  ceph-golang

Run against a vstart.sh cluster without installing Ceph:

export CGO_CPPFLAGS="-I/ceph/src/include"
export CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/ceph/build/lib"
go build

Contributing

Contributions are welcome & greatly appreciated, every little bit helps. Make code changes via Github pull requests:

• Fork the repo and create a topic branch for every feature/fix. Avoid making changes directly on master branch.
• All incoming features should be accompanied with tests.
• Make sure that you run go fmt before submitting a change set. Alternatively the Makefile has a flag for this, so you can call make fmt as well.
• The integration tests can be run in a docker container, for this run:

make test-docker

Interactive "Office Hours"

The maintenance team plans to be available regularly for questions, comments, pings, etc for about an hour twice a week. The current schedule is:

• 2:00pm EDT (currently 18:00 UTC) Mondays
• 9:00am EDT (currently 13:00 UTC) Thursdays

We will use the #ceph-devel IRC channel