OpenEBS Director 1.5 streamlines Helm and SuSe CaaS platform support

MayaData OpenEBS Enterprise Platform (OEP) is a one-stop solution for visualization, monitoring, management, and migration of Kubernetes stateful workloads using OpenEBS persistent volumes. The suite includes OpenEBS, Litmus, and Director as the three main components. OpenEBS is the leading open-source container attached storage (CAS) solution to manage the storage needs of all kinds of stateful workloads on Kubernetes. Litmus is a cloud-native chaos engineering toolset for Kubernetes SREs and developers alike. OpenEBS Director is the control center of the entire OpenEBS Platform suite, used for visualization, monitoring, and management of all the stateful applications on Kubernetes.

In accordance with our monthly release cadence, we released version 1.5 of the OpenEBS Platform on the 13th of this month. This includes OpenEBS 1.5, Litmus 0.9, and Director 1.5. Here I’d like to blog about the highlights of the Director 1.5 release.

Helm 3.0 support

Director on-prem can now be installed on a cluster having helm 3.0.0 version.

SuSE CaaS Platform 4 support

Director on-prem can now be installed on the SuSE CaaS platform, starting from version 4 onwards.

OpenEBS 1.5 upgrade support

OpenEBS pools and volumes of versions prior to 1.5 can now be upgraded to 1.5 from the Director portal. For more details on the upgrade process, please refer to the blog on How to perform the upgrade of OpenEBS data components from the Director.

Multiple pool/volume selection during upgrades

Director now provides the option of selecting more than one cStor storage pools and volumes and upgrade them in one go. Director has the intelligence to ensure that no two pools belonging to the same Storage Pool Claim (SPC)/cStor Storage Pool Cluster (CSPC) or no two volumes belonging to the same application will be upgraded simultaneously. This ensures maximum availability of the storage and minimum disruption to the application.

Fig (a) below shows a screenshot of an upgrade process from the portal where two pools belonging to the first CSPC and one pool belonging to the second CSPC are being upgraded simultaneously.

Fig. (a)

Secure Redis monitoring

Director now supports the monitoring of password-protected Redis application. Fig (b) below shows a screenshot of the Redis application monitoring page with password input.

Fig. (b)

DMaaS Fix for synchronizing backup metadata

Fixed an issue where the DMaaS restore used to kick-off without waiting to sync metadata of all backups.

For complete release notes, please refer here.

Upcoming release - 1.6

Keeping up with the release cadence, we will be having 1.6 versions of the software on the 15th of Jan 2020. Notable enhancements that will be a part of 1.6 are:

1. Teaming - Director users can invite other users to their projects; the invitee can assume the role of project admin or read-only admin.
2. AD authentication - Enterprise admins will be able to setup Director portal authentication to their AD servers.

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