FlockerHub and Fli AWS CloudFormation

Ryan WallnerDeveloper Evangelist, ClusterHQ

What’s in here?

1. Brief review of Fli and FlockerHub2. Getting Started with Fli using AWS

CloudFormation

Introduction

● FlockerHub is a Hub for data, like GitHub is a Hub for source code and DockerHub is a Hub for container images.

● Specifically, FlockerHub lets you store your Docker data volumes and organize them into volumesets and branches that are owned by organizations, teams and individual users.

● FlockerHub also provides a user interface for organizing and controlling access to snapshots.

● Docs at https://flockerhub-docs.clusterhq.com

Introduction

● Fli, the FlockerHub CLI, is like Git for data. Just like you can use Git to copy, branch,

push and pull code, you can use Fli to copy, branch, push and pull your data volumes.

● Fli lets you take incremental snapshots of any database or data volume that runs on

Linux and push those snapshots to a hosted volume repository called FlockerHub.

● There they can be accessed by any person or machine to whom you’ve granted

access. Fli can also be used without FlockerHub to manage data volumes locally.

● Open-source: https://github.com/clusterhq/fli

● Docs https://fli-docs.clusterhq.com

Fli and FlockerHub Architecture

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Getting StartedWith CloudFormation

https://fli-docs.clusterhq.com/en/latest/GettingStarted.html

If you want to follow long

● An AWS account. You can sign up for free here.

● An SSH client. ssh from a Linux or Mac terminal, or something like PuTTY on Windows.

*new regions such as Canada, London and Ohio are currently unsupported.

What we will be doing

● Go to the Amazon CloudFormation Console.

● Click “Create Stack”● Choose “Upload a template”, and

then choose the fli-CloudFormation-Ubuntu16.04 template from this repository.

● Click “Next”● Choose your SSH Key and give

your Stack a name.● Click “Create” to start the Stack.

● CloudFormation will output the DNS address of your new Fli client in the “output” tab. SSH to this address.

Setup Fli with your ZPOOL and Token

$ ssh -i ~/yourkey.pem ubunutu@<DNS-NAME-FROM-CLOUDFORMATION-OUTPUT>

$ sudo su

$ fli setup --zpool chq

$ fli config --token /root/token.txt

Use Fli

$ fli init MyFirstVolumeset -a owner=me,env=cf -d "My first volumeset for snapshots!"

$ fli create MyFirstVolumeset my-first-volume -a first_volume=true

$ fli snapshot MyFirstVolumeset:my-first-volume MySnapshot

$ fli sync MyFirstVolumeset

$ fli push MyFirstVolumeset:MySnapshot

Recording of getting started with AWS CloudFormation

https://youtu.be/hE3P-hkNUR8

Blog Post Versionhttps://clusterhq.com/2016/12/14/fli-aws-cf/

Thank You.

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