radosgw – rados REST gateway

Synopsis

radosgw

Description

radosgw is an HTTP REST gateway for the RADOS object store, a part of the Ceph distributed storage system. It is implemented as a FastCGI module using libfcgi, and can be used in conjunction with any FastCGI capable web server.

Options

-c ceph.conf, --conf=ceph.conf: Use ceph.conf configuration file instead of the default /etc/ceph/ceph.conf to determine monitor addresses during startup.

-m monaddress[:port]: Connect to specified monitor (instead of looking through ceph.conf).

-i ID, --id ID: Set the ID portion of name for radosgw

-n TYPE.ID, --name TYPE.ID: Set the rados user name for the gateway (eg. client.radosgw.gateway)

--cluster NAME: Set the cluster name (default: ceph)

-d: Run in foreground, log to stderr

-f: Run in foreground, log to usual location

--rgw-region=region: The region where radosgw runs

--rgw-zone=zone: The zone where radosgw runs

Configuration

Earlier RADOS Gateway had to be configured with Apache and mod_fastcgi. Now, mod_proxy_fcgi module is used instead of mod_fastcgi. mod_proxy_fcgi works differently than a traditional FastCGI module. This module requires the service of mod_proxy which provides support for the FastCGI protocol. So, to be able to handle FastCGI protocol, both mod_proxy and mod_proxy_fcgi have to be present in the server. Unlike mod_fastcgi, mod_proxy_fcgi cannot start the application process. Some platforms have fcgistarter for that purpose. However, external launching of application or process management may be available in the FastCGI application framework in use.

Apache must be configured in a way that enables mod_proxy_fcgi to be used with localhost tcp.

The following steps show the configuration in Ceph’s configuration file i.e, /etc/ceph/ceph.conf and the gateway configuration file i.e, /etc/httpd/conf.d/rgw.conf (RPM-based distros) or /etc/apache2/conf-available/rgw.conf (Debian-based distros) with localhost tcp:

For distros with Apache 2.2 and early versions of Apache 2.4 that use localhost TCP, append the following contents to /etc/ceph/ceph.conf:

[client.radosgw.gateway]
host = {hostname}
keyring = /etc/ceph/ceph.client.radosgw.keyring
log_file = /var/log/ceph/client.radosgw.gateway.log
rgw_frontends = fastcgi socket_port=9000 socket_host=0.0.0.0
rgw_print_continue = false

Add the following content in the gateway configuration file:

For Debian/Ubuntu add in /etc/apache2/conf-available/rgw.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/rgw_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/rgw_access.log combined

# LogLevel debug

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]

SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1

ProxyPass / fcgi://localhost:9000/

</VirtualHost>

For CentOS/RHEL add in /etc/httpd/conf.d/rgw.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html

ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/rgw_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/rgw_access.log combined

# LogLevel debug

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]

SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1

ProxyPass / fcgi://localhost:9000/

</VirtualHost>

Add the following content in the gateway configuration file:

For CentOS/RHEL add in /etc/httpd/conf.d/rgw.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html

ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/rgw_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/rgw_access.log combined

# LogLevel debug

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]

SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1

ProxyPass / unix:///var/run/ceph/ceph.radosgw.gateway.fastcgi.sock|fcgi://localhost:9000/

</VirtualHost>

Generate a key for radosgw to use for authentication with the cluster.

ceph-authtool -C -n client.radosgw.gateway --gen-key /etc/ceph/keyring.radosgw.gateway
ceph-authtool -n client.radosgw.gateway --cap mon 'allow rw' --cap osd 'allow rwx' /etc/ceph/keyring.radosgw.gateway

Add the key to the auth entries.

ceph auth add client.radosgw.gateway --in-file=keyring.radosgw.gateway

Start Apache and radosgw.

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
sudo /etc/init.d/radosgw start

CentOS/RHEL:

sudo apachectl start
sudo /etc/init.d/ceph-radosgw start

Usage Logging

radosgw maintains an asynchronous usage log. It accumulates statistics about user operations and flushes it periodically. The logs can be accessed and managed through radosgw-admin.

The information that is being logged contains total data transfer, total operations, and total successful operations. The data is being accounted in an hourly resolution under the bucket owner, unless the operation was done on the service (e.g., when listing a bucket) in which case it is accounted under the operating user.

Following is an example configuration:

[client.radosgw.gateway]
    rgw enable usage log = true
    rgw usage log tick interval = 30
    rgw usage log flush threshold = 1024
    rgw usage max shards = 32
    rgw usage max user shards = 1

The total number of shards determines how many total objects hold the usage log information. The per-user number of shards specify how many objects hold usage information for a single user. The tick interval configures the number of seconds between log flushes, and the flush threshold specify how many entries can be kept before resorting to synchronous flush.

Availability

radosgw is part of Ceph, a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system. Please refer to the Ceph documentation at https://docs.ceph.com for more information.