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Introduction

This page documents the concept and vision for 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 or VM hosts that themselves may provide shares for consumption by container workloads.

Projects

Manila

Source code	https://github.com/openstack/manila
Bug tracker	https://bugs.launchpad.net/manila
Feature tracker	https://blueprints.launchpad.net/manila

Python Manila Client

Source code	https://github.com/openstack/python-manilaclient
Bug tracker	https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-manilaclient
Feature tracker	https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-manilaclient

Core Team

Current Core Team members

Meetings

Project Agenda & Meetings

Overview Presentation from Juno (Atlanta) Summit

Getting Started with Manila

Instructions for getting started with Manila using Devstack are available at: Manila on Devstack

Developer documentation is still in progress, but is available in a draft state: Manila Documentation

For general installation instructions, see the Manila Administrator Reference.

Learn more about Shared File Systems from an Administration and Security perspective.

Project Plan & Progress

Manila Work for Stein Cycle

Design & Use Cases

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

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-== Contents ==
+== Introduction ==
+This page documents the concept and vision for 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:Shares_Service.png]]
-==OpenStack File Shares ("Manila")==
+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.
-==Related Projects==
+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 or VM hosts that themselves may provide shares for consumption by container workloads.
-* Cinder
-* Python Manila Client
-==What is Manila?==
+== Projects==
-Manila is an OpenStack affiliated project to provide virtual file shares (a/k/a  "file as a service" or virtual NAS).   Manila is a spin-off of the Cinder project.  Whereas Cinder exposes virtual block storage, Manila exposes mountable file shares.  These file shares can be presented the a Nova guest via NFS, SMB, VirtFS, Glusterfs Native protocol or vendor-specific network attached storage protocols.  Manila file shares can be concurrently mounted by multiple Nova guests.
-The Manila project was initiated in August 2013 and is currently in start-up.  know what they're doing with Neutron).
+=== Manila ===
-If you're a storage geek and like to hack on OpenStack, please join!
+{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
+| Source code
+| https://github.com/openstack/manila
+|-
+| Bug tracker
+| https://bugs.launchpad.net/manila
+|-
+| Feature tracker
+| https://blueprints.launchpad.net/manila
+|}
-More Info:
+=== Python Manila Client ===
-*<ref>Manila Overview</ref>
+{| border="1" cellpadding="2"
-*<ref>Manila Storage Integration Patterns</ref>
+| Source code
+| https://github.com/openstack/python-manilaclient
+|-
+| Bug tracker
+| https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-manilaclient
+|-
+| Feature tracker
+| https://blueprints.launchpad.net/python-manilaclient
+|}
-==Why Manila?==
+=== Core Team ===
-==Using Manila==
+[https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/213,members Current Core Team members]
-==Current Project Status==
+=== Meetings ===
-==Participate==
+[[Manila/Meetings|Project Agenda & Meetings]]
-==Related Pages==
+[[Manila/JunoSummitPresentation|Overview Presentation from Juno (Atlanta) Summit]]
+=== Getting Started with Manila ===
+Instructions for getting started with Manila using Devstack are available at: [[Manila/KiloDevstack|Manila on Devstack]]
+Developer documentation is still in progress, but is available in a draft state: [[Manila/docs|Manila Documentation]]
+For general installation instructions, see the [http://docs.openstack.org/developer/manila/adminref/ Manila Administrator Reference].
+Learn more about Shared File Systems from an [http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/shared_file_systems.html Administration] and [http://docs.openstack.org/security-guide/shared-file-systems.html Security] perspective.
+=== Project Plan & Progress ===
+[[Manila/SteinCycle|Manila Work for Stein Cycle]]<br />
+== Design & Use Cases ==
+[[Manila/design|Manila Component Design]]<br />
+[[Manila/usecases|Manila Use Cases]]
+{{Special:PrefixIndex/:Manila/design|hideredirects=1 }}
+== Known issues ==
+[[Manila/issue-neutron-on-localhost-ipv6|Connection to neutron failed.]]
+== Subpages ==
+{{Special:PrefixIndex/:Manila/|hideredirects=1 }}
+[[Manila/ManilaWithGREtunnels]]
+[[Manila/ManilaWithVXLANtunnels]]
+[[Manila_devstack_script|Manila/Manila Devstack Script]]
+[[Setting up Manila Network Plugins|Manila/Setting up Manila Network Plugins]]
+[[Category:Manila]]