Manila

Introduction
This page introduces the shared file system service for OpenStack -- Manila. Manila derived from the Cinder project and provides a canonical storage provisioning control plane in OpenStack for shared or distributed file systems similarly to the way Cinder provides such a canonical control plane for block storage.

The design and implementation of Manila provide extensibility for multiple backends (to support vendor or file system specific nuances / capabilities) but is sufficiently abstract to accommodate any of a variety of shared or distributed file system types.



File-based storage continues to be a thriving market. Diverse applications, from server virtualization to relational or distributed databases to collaborative content creation, can leverage the performance, scalability and simplicity of management associated with file-based systems, and the large ecosystem of supporting software products.

While manila was designed to provide self-service provisioning and access control of file-shares to compute instances in multi-tenant OpenStack clouds, since it serves up storage over the network it can provide file-share infrastructure for clients running in other clouds or for bare-metal, VM hosts or containerized workloads.

People
Current Manila Core Team members

Current Python Manilaclient Core Team members

Current Manila Tempest Plugin Core Team members

Current Manila UI Core Team members

Launchpad Bug Supervisors

Cross Project Liaisons (CPLs)

† - Core Reviewer(s) in openstack/python-manilaclient

‡ - Core Reviewer(s) in openstack/manila-tempest-plugin

Meetings
Project Agenda & Meetings

Documentation

 * Contributor Guide
 * Installation Guide
 * User Guide
 * Administrator Guide
 * API Reference
 * Configuration Reference
 * Security Guide

Project Etherpads
Etherpads

Design & Use Cases
The following wiki documents are design specifications. They should not be treated as documentation. Since the Newton release, design specifications are hosted here


 * Overview Presentation from Juno (Atlanta) Summit
 * Manila Component Design
 * Manila Use Cases

Known issues
Connection to neutron failed.

Subpages
Manila/ManilaWithGREtunnels

Manila/ManilaWithVXLANtunnels

Manila/Manila Devstack Script

Manila/Setting up Manila Network Plugins

Outreachy Applicants Guide