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container-storage-setup [Options]

container-storage-setup [Options] COMMAND [args]

 container-storage-setup configures storage for use by container
 runtimes.

 container-storage-setup without specifying a command defaults to
 using docker config files /etc/sysconfig/docker-storage-setup for
 input and /etc/sysconfig/docker-storage for output.

 container-storage-setup with a commnad creates and manages storage
 configurations.

 container-storage-setup can configure multiple backends:
 devicemapper, overlay, and overlay2.

--help

Print usage statement

--reset

Reset your container storage to init state. Reset does not remove
 volume groups or remove any of the disks added previously.

 Note: The --reset command is not always sufficient to cleanup your
 container runtime environment. Other tools (atomic storage reset)
 use this command to cleanup all storage.

--version

Print version information

Following commands are supported.

create Create storage configuration

remove Remove storage configuration

list List currently created storage configurations

activate Activate storage configuration

deactivate Deactivate storage configuration

add-dev Add block device to storage configuration

export Export file which can be used to set environment variables for use by container runtimes

Run container-storage-setup after setting up your configuration in the INPUTFILE or /etc/sysconfig/docker-storage-setup. One can look at /usr/share/container-storage-setup/container-storage-setup for various options and their default settings. Anything that the user wants to change, should be changed in the INPUTFILE. This is the file which will override any settings specified in /usr/share/container-storage-setup/container-storage-setup.

Create storage configuration example-config.

container-storage-setup create -o OUTPUTFILE example-config INPUTFILE

Above will create a storage configuration named example-config as specified in INPUTFILE and will put the output in OUTPUTFILE. OUTPUTFILE is a file which can be parsed by container runtime for various config options. In a typical form, output file can be passed in the EnvironmentFile directive of container runtime systemd unit file. That will set STORAGE_OPTIONS environment variable which in turn can be parsed by container runtime process.

To cleanup storage configuration, execute remove command.

container-storage-setup remove example-config

lvm2 version should be same or higher than lvm2-2.02.112 for lvm thin pool functionality to work properly.

Supported options for the configuration file:

STORAGE_DRIVER:
     Specify a storage driver to be used with container runtime.
     Default: "devicemapper".
     Valid values are overlay, overlay2 and "".
     "" tells container-storage-setup to not perform any storage setup.

CONTAINER_THINPOOL:
     Specify the thinpool name for the lvm thinpool. This is required
     when using the devicemapper STORAGE_DRIVER.  CONTAINER_THINPOOL
     is logical volume name passed to lvcreate when creating
     the thin pool volume.

EXTRA_STORAGE_OPTIONS:
     A set of extra options that should be passed to the container
     runtime daemon.
     Note: EXTRA_STORAGE_OPTIONS replaces EXTRA_DOCKER_STORAGE_OPTIONS
     which has been deprecated

DEVS: A quoted, space-separated list of devices to be used.
     If a drive is partitioned and contains a ${dev}1 partition,
     that partition will be configured for use. Unpartitioned
     drives will be partitioned and configured for use. If "VG"
     is not specified, then use of the root disk's extra space
     is implied.

VG:   The volume group to use for container storage.  Defaults to the
     volume group where the root filesystem resides.  If VG is
     specified and the volume group does not exist, it will be
     created (which requires that "DEVS" be nonempty, since we don't
     currently support putting a second partition on the root disk).

Note: lvm2 needs to be lvm2-2.02.112 or later for lvm thin pool functionality to work properly.

GROWPART:
     One can use this option to enable/disable growing of partition
     table backing root volume group. This is intended for
     virtualization and cloud installations. By default it is
     disabled. Use GROWPART=true to enable automatic partition
     table resizing.

AUTO_EXTEND_POOL:
     Enable automatic extension of pool by lvm. lvm can monitor
     the pool and automatically extend it when pool is getting full.

POOL_AUTOEXTEND_THRESHOLD:
     Determines the pool extension threshold in terms of percentage
     of pool size. For example, if threshold is 60, that means when
     pool is 60% full, threshold has been hit.

POOL_AUTOEXTEND_PERCENT:
     Determines the amount by which pool needs to be grown. This is
     specified in terms of % of pool size. So a value of 20 means
     that when threshold is hit, pool will be grown by 20% of existing
     pool size.

CHUNK_SIZE:
     Controls the chunk size/block size of thin pool. CHUNK_SIZE value
     must be suitable for passing to lvconvert --chunk-size.

DEVICE_WAIT_TIMEOUT:
     Specifies a device wait timeout value in seconds. In certain
     cases required devices might not be immediately available and
     container-storage-setup might decide to wait for it. This timeout
     specifies how long one should wait for the device.
     Default is 60 seconds. 0 disables wait.

WIPE_SIGNATURES:
     Wipe any signatures found on disk. Valid values are
     true/false and default value is false. By default if any
     signatures are found on disk operation is aborted. If this value
     is set to true, then signatures will either be wiped or
     overwritten as suitable. This also means that if there is any
     data on disk, it will be lost.

CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_NAME:
    Name of the logical volume that will be mounted on
    CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_MOUNT_PATH. If a user is setting
    CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_MOUNT_PATH, he/she must set
    CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_NAME.

CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_MOUNT_PATH:
    Creates a logical volume named CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_NAME and mounts
    it at the specified path. By default no new logical volume will
    be created. For example:
    CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_MOUNT_PATH=/var/lib/containers/container-runtime
    would carve out a logical volume, format it with an XFS filesystem
    and mount it on /var/lib/containers/container-runtime.

    Note: DOCKER_ROOT_VOLUME is deprecated. Specifying
    DOCKER_ROOT_VOLUME and CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_MOUNT_PATH at the same
    time is not allowed.

CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_SIZE:
    Specify the desired size for CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_MOUNT_PATH
    root volume. It defaults to 40% of all free space.

    CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_SIZE can take values acceptable to
    lvcreate -L as well as some values acceptable to
    lvcreate -l. If user intends to pass values acceptable
    to lvcreate -l, then only those values which contains "%"
    in syntax are acceptable.  If value does not contain "%" it
    is assumed value is suitable for lvcreate -L.

    Note: If both STORAGE_DRIVER=devicemapper and
    CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_MOUNT_PATH is set, container-storage-setup
    would set up the thin pool for devicemapper first,
    followed by extra volume. e.g if free space in the
    volume group is 10G, devicemapper thin pool size
    would be 4G (40% of 10G) and extra volume would be
    2.4G (40% of 6G).

    Note: DOCKER_ROOT_VOLUME_SIZE is deprecated. Specifying
    DOCKER_ROOT_VOLUME_SIZE and CONTAINER_ROOT_LV_SIZE at the same
    time is not allowed.

Options below should be specified as values acceptable to lvextend -L.

ROOT_SIZE: The size to which the root filesystem should be grown.

ROOT_SIZE can take values acceptable to lvcreate -L as well as some values acceptable to lvcreate -l. If user intends to pass values acceptable to lvcreate -l, then only those values which contains "%" in syntax are acceptable.  If value does not contain "%" it is assumed value is suitable for lvcreate -L.

DATA_SIZE: The desired size for container runtime thin pool data LV. Defaults: 40% free space in the VG after the root LV and container runtime metadata LV have been allocated/grown.

DATA_SIZE can take values acceptable to lvcreate -L as well as some values acceptable to lvcreate -l. If user intends to pass values acceptable to lvcreate -l, then only those values which contains "%" in syntax are acceptable.  If value does not contain "%" it is assumed value is suitable for lvcreate -L.

MIN_DATA_SIZE: Specifies the minimum size of the thin pool data LV. If sufficient free space is not available, the pool creation will fail.

Value should be a number followed by a optional suffix. "bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE" are valid suffixes. If no suffix is specified then value will be considered as megabyte unit.

Both upper and lower case suffix represent same unit of size. Use suffix B for Bytes, S for sectors as 512 bytes, K for kibibytes (1024 bytes), M for mebibytes (1024 kibibytes), G for gibibytes, T for tebibytes, P for pebibytes and E for exbibytes.

POOL_META_SIZE: Specifies the size of thin pool metadata LV. If sufficient free space is not available, the pool creation will fail.

Value should be a number followed by a optional suffix. "bBsSkKmMgGtTpPeE" are valid suffixes. If no suffix is specified then value will be considered as megabyte unit.

Both upper and lower case suffix represent same unit of size. Use suffix B for Bytes, S for sectors as 512 bytes, K for kibibytes (1024 bytes), M for mebibytes (1024 kibibytes), G for gibibytes, T for tebibytes, P for pebibytes and E for exbibytes.

Sample

A simple, sample INPUTFILE:

DEVS=/dev/vdb

DATA_SIZE=8GB

atomic(1)

November 2014, originally compiled by Joe Brockmeier <jzb@redhat.com> based on comments in Andy Grimm's <agrimm@redhat.com> script. February 2017, Modified by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.

Joe Brockmeier Andy Grimm Dan Walsh