Vitaliy Filippov
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- QEMU virtual disk migration with enabled iothread is finally fixed correctly. - Fixed operation of Proxmox VMs with swTPM without enabling NBD for all disks. - Debian packages are now again built with stable Antietcd released instead of the unstable master branch. - Antietcd cluster mode previously broken in that master branch is fixed. The symptom was Antietcd being unable to elect the leader in a cluster. - Fixed monitor startup with embedded Antietcd when using IPv6. - Fixed space statistics calculation for FS and S3 pools in the new storage ([PR #127](https://github.com/vitalif/vitastor/pull/127)).
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Documentation → Installation → Dockerized Installation
Dockerized Installation
Vitastor may be installed in Docker/Podman. In such setups etcd, monitors and OSD all run in containers, but everything else looks as close as possible to a usual setup with packages:
- host network is used
- auto-start is implemented through udev and systemd
- logs are written to journald (not docker json log files)
- command-line wrapper scripts are installed to the host system to call vitastor-disk, vitastor-cli and others through the container
Such installations may be useful when it's impossible or inconvenient to install Vitastor from packages, for example, in exotic Linux distributions.
If you don't want just a simple containerized installation, you can also take a look at Vitastor Kubernetes operator: https://github.com/Antilles7227/vitastor-operator
Installing Containers
The instruction is very simple.
- Download a Docker image of the desired version:
docker pull vitalif/vitastor:v3.0.15 - Install scripts to the host system:
docker run --rm -it -v /etc:/host-etc -v /usr/bin:/host-bin vitalif/vitastor:v3.0.15 install.sh - Reload udev rules:
udevadm control --reload-rules - Enable the vitastor-host service:
systemctl enable --now vitastor-host
After these steps, you can return to Quick Start.
Podman
If you use Podman, run the following commands as root before installing Vitastor containers:
ln -s podman /usr/bin/docker
mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service.d
cat >/etc/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service.d/override.conf <<EOF
[Service]
CapabilityBoundingSet=~
SystemCallFilter=@mount capset
EOF
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart systemd-udevd
Without it, udev fails to do calls into a Podman container and Vitastor disk detection doesn't work.
Upgrading Containers
First make sure to check the topic Upgrading Vitastor to figure out if you need any additional steps.
Then, to upgrade a containerized installation, you just need to change the VITASTOR_VERSION
option in /etc/vitastor/docker.conf and restart all Vitastor services:
systemctl restart vitastor.target
QEMU
Vitastor Docker image also contains QEMU, qemu-img and qemu-storage-daemon built with Vitastor support.
However, running QEMU in Docker is harder to setup and it depends on the used virtualization UI (OpenNebula, Proxmox and so on). Some of them also required patched Libvirt.
That's why containerized installation of Vitastor doesn't contain a ready-made QEMU setup and it's recommended to install QEMU from packages or build it manually.
fio
Vitastor Docker image also contains fio and installs a wrapper called vitastor-fio to use it from
the host system.