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The native NVMe-oF CAS engine of OpenEBS |
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Mayastor is a performance optimised "Container Attached Storage" (CAS) solution of the CNCF project OpenEBS. The goal of OpenEBS is to extend Kubernetes with a declarative data plane, providing flexible persistent storage for stateful applications.
Design goals for Mayastor include:
- Highly available, durable persistence of data
- To be readily deployable and easily managed by autonomous SRE or development teams
- To be a low-overhead abstraction for NVMe-based storage devices
Mayastor incorporates Intel's Storage Performance Development Kit. It has been designed from the ground up to leverage the protocol and compute efficiency of NVMe-oF semantics, and the performance capabilities of the latest generation of solid-state storage devices, in order to deliver a storage abstraction with performance overhead measured to be within the range of single-digit percentages.
By comparison, most "shared everything" storage systems are widely thought to impart an overhead of at least 40% (and sometimes as much as 80% or more) as compared to the capabilities of the underlying devices or cloud volumes; additionally traditional shared storage scales in an unpredictable manner as I/O from many workloads interact and compete for resources.
While Mayastor utilizes NVMe-oF it does not require NVMe devices or cloud volumes to operate and can work well with other device types.
Mayastor's source code and documentation are distributed amongst a number of GitHub repositories under the OpenEBS organisation. The following list describes some of the main repositories but is not exhaustive.
- openebs/mayastor : contains the source code of the data plane components
- openebs/mayastor-control-plane : contains the source code of the control plane components
- openebs/mayastor-api : contains common protocol buffer definitions and OpenAPI specifications for Mayastor components
- openebs/mayastor-dependencies : contains dependencies common to the control and data plane repositories
- openebs/mayastor-extensions : contains components and utilities that provide extended functionalities like ease of installation, monitoring and observability aspects
- openebs/mayastor-docs : contains Mayastor's user documenation