*We just published Garage v0.7, our second public beta release. In this post, we do a quick tour of its 2 new features: Kubernetes integration and OpenTelemetry support.*
Two months ago, we were impressed by the success of our open beta launch at FOSDEM and on Hacker News: [our intial post](https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/blog/2022-introducing-garage/) lead to more than 40k views in 10 days, going up to 100 views/minute.
Since this event, we continued to improve Garage, and - 2 months after the initial release - we are happy to announce version 0.7.0.
But first, we would like to thank the contributors that made this new release possible: Alex, Jill, Max Audron, Maximilien, Quentin, Rune Henrisken, Steam, and trinity-1686a.
This is also our first time welcoming contributors external to the core team, and as we wish for Garage to be a community-driven project, we encourage it.
As a noverlty as well, you can get this release using our binaries or the package provided by your distribution.
We ship [statically compiled binaries](https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/download/) for most Linux architectures (amd64, i386, aarch64 and armv6) and associated [Docker containers](https://hub.docker.com/u/dxflrs).
Garage now is also packaged by third parties on some OS/distributions. We are currently aware of [FreeBSD](https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/www/garage/Makefile) and [AUR for Arch Linux](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/garage).
Feel free to [reach us](mailto:garagehq@deuxfleurs.fr) if you are packaging (or planning to package) Garage, we welcome maintainers and will upstream specific patches if that can help. If you already did package garage, tell us and we'll add it to the documentation.
Before Garage v0.7.0, you had to deploy a Consul cluster or spawn a "coordinating" pod to deploy Garage on Kubernetes.
In this new version, Garage integrates a method to discover other peers by using Kubernetes [Custom Resources](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/api-extension/custom-resources/) to simplify cluster discovery.
Garage can self-apply the [Custom Resource Definition](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/extend-kubernetes/custom-resources/custom-resource-definitions/) (CRD) to your cluster, or you can manage it manually.
Let's see practically how it works with a minimalistic example (not secured nor suitable for production).
You can run it on [minikube](https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io) if you a more interactive reading.
Start by creating a [ConfigMap](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/configmap/) containg Garage's configuration (let's name it `config.yaml`):
```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: garage-config
namespace: default
data:
garage.toml: |-
metadata_dir = "/mnt/fast"
data_dir = "/mnt/slow"
replication_mode = "3"
rpc_bind_addr = "[::]:3901"
rpc_secret = "<secret>"
bootstrap_peers = []
kubernetes_namespace = "default"
kubernetes_service_name = "garage-daemon"
kubernetes_skip_crd = false
[s3_api]
s3_region = "garage"
api_bind_addr = "[::]:3900"
root_domain = ".s3.garage.tld"
[s3_web]
bind_addr = "[::]:3902"
root_domain = ".web.garage.tld"
index = "index.html"
```
The 3 important parameters are `kubernetes_namespace`, `kubernetes_service_name`, and `kubernetes_skip_crd`.
Configure them according to your planned deployment.
In this example, we keep it to `false`, which means we allow Garage to automatically create the CRD.
Apply this configuration on your cluster:
```bash
kubectl apply -f config.yaml
```
Allowing Garage to create the CRD is not enough, the process must have enough permissions.
A quick unsecure way to add the permission is to create a [ClusterRoleBinding](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/#rolebinding-and-clusterrolebinding) to give admin rights to our local user, effectively breaking Kubernetes' security model (we name this file `admin.yml`):
```yaml
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
name: garage-admin
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: ClusterRole
name: cluster-admin
subjects:
- apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: User
name: system:serviceaccount:default:default
```
Apply it:
```bash
kubectl apply -f admin.yaml
```
Finally, we create a [StatefulSet](https://kubernetes.io/fr/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset/) to run our service (`service.yaml`):
```yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
name: garage
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: garage
serviceName: "garage"
replicas: 3
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: garage
spec:
terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
containers:
- name: garage
image: dxflrs/amd64_garage:v0.7.0
ports:
- containerPort: 3900
name: s3-api
- containerPort: 3902
name: web-api
volumeMounts:
- name: fast
mountPath: /mnt/fast
- name: slow
mountPath: /mnt/slow
- name: etc
mountPath: /etc/garage.toml
subPath: garage.toml
volumes:
- name: etc
configMap:
name: garage-config
volumeClaimTemplates:
- metadata:
name: fast
spec:
accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
resources:
requests:
storage: 100Mi
- metadata:
name: slow
spec:
accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
resources:
requests:
storage: 100Mi
```
Garage is a stateful program, so it needs a stable place to store its data and metadata.
This feature is provided by Kubernetes' [Persistent Volumes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes/) that can be used only from a [StatefulSet](https://kubernetes.io/fr/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset/), hence the choice of this K8S object to deploy our service.
Kubernetes has many "drivers" for Persistent Volumes, for production uses we recommend **only** the `local` driver.
Using other drivers may lead to huge performance issues or data corruption, probably both in practice.
In the example, we are claiming 2 volumes of 100MB.
We use 2 volumes instead of 1 because Garage separates its metadata from its data.
By having 2 volumes, you can reserve a smaller capacity on a SSD for the metadata and a larger capacity on a regular HDD for the data.
Do not forget to change the reserved capacity, 100MB is only suitable for testing.
*Note how we are mounting our ConfigMap: we need to set the `subpath` property to mount only the `garage.toml` file and not the whole `/etc` folder that would prevent K8S from writing its own files
in `/etc` and fail the pod.*
You can apply this file with:
```bash
kubectl apply -f service.yaml
```
Now, you are ready to interact with your cluster, each instance must have discovered the other ones:
```bash
kubectl exec -it garage-0 --container garage -- /garage status
# ==== HEALTHY NODES ====
# ID Hostname Address Tags Zone Capacity
# e6284331c321a23c garage-0 172.17.0.5:3901 NO ROLE ASSIGNED
# 570ff9b0ed3648a7 garage-2 [::ffff:172.17.0.7]:3901 NO ROLE ASSIGNED
# e1990a2069429428 garage-1 [::ffff:172.17.0.6]:3901 NO ROLE ASSIGNED
```
Of course, to have a full deployment, you will probably want to deploy a [Service](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/) in front of your cluster and/or a reverse proxy.
If Kubernetes is not your thing, know that we are running Garage on a Nomad+Consul cluster.
We have not documented it yet but you can get a look at [our Nomad service](https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/infrastructure/src/commit/1e5e4af35c073d04698bb10dd4ad1330d6c62a0d/app/garage/deploy/garage.hcl).
