Samba Operator

An operator for Samba as a service on PVCs in kubernetes.

Description

This project implements the samba-operator. It it responsible for the the SmbService and SmbPvc custom resources:

• SmbService describes an SMB service deployment that is created for a given PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC).
• SmbPvc describes a PVC bundled with an SmbService. I.e. you request a pvc along with an SmbService. When you delete the SmbPvc, the created backend PVC will also be deleted.

Trying it out

Prerequisite

You need to have a kubernetes cluster running. For example, minikube is sufficient.

Start the operator

In order to install the CRDs, other resorces, and start the operator, invoke:

make deploy

To use your own image, use:

make deploy IMG=<my-registry/and/image:tag>

To delete the operator and CRDs from the cluster, run:

make delete-deploy

Creating an SmbService

If you have a PVC mypvc, create a mysmbservice.yml file as folows (see examples/mysmbservice.yml):

apiVersion: samba-operator.samba.org/v1alpha1
kind: SmbService
metadata:
  name: my-smbservice
spec:
  pvcname: "mypvc"

And apply it with kubectl apply -f mysmbservice.yml. You will get a samba container deployment serving out your pvc as share share.

Creating an SmbPvc

For an SmbPvc example that uses the minikube gluster storage addon, see examples/smbpvc.yml. The yaml file looks like this:

apiVersion: samba-operator.samba.org/v1alpha1
kind: SmbPvc
metadata:
  name: "mysmbpvc1"
spec:
  pvc:
    accessModes:
      - ReadWriteMany
    resources:
      requests:
        storage: 1Gi
    storageClassName: glusterfile

Testing it with a Local Connection

Assuming a local Linux-based environment you can test out a connection to the container by forwarding the SMB port and using a local install of smbclient to access the share:

$ kubectl get pods              NAME                              READY
STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
my-smbservice-7f779ddc8c-nb6k6    1/1     Running   0          62m
samba-operator-5758b4dbbf-gk9pk   1/1     Running   0          70m
$ kubectl port-forward pod/my-smbservice-7f779ddc8c-nb6k6  4455:445
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:4455 -> 445
Forwarding from [::1]:4455 -> 445
Handling connection for 4455

$ smbclient -p 4455 -U sambauser //localhost/share
Enter SAMBA\sambauser's password:
Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \> ls
.                                   D        0  Fri Aug 28 14:43:26 2020
..                                  D        0  Fri Aug 28 14:32:53 2020
x                                   A   359386  Fri Aug 28 14:35:18 2020
gefcanilant                         A  5141264  Fri Aug 28 14:43:26 2020

4184064 blocks of size 1024. 4141292 blocks available
smb: \>

Above we forward the normal SMB port to an unprivileged local port, assuming you'll be running this as a normal user.

Containers on quay.io

This operator uses the container built from obnoxxx/samba-container as found on quay.io.

The container from this codebase is published on quay.io too.