REX-Ray provides a vendor agnostic storage orchestration engine. The primary
design goal is to provide persistent storage for Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesos.
It is additionally available as a Go package, CLI tool, and Linux service which enables it to be used for additional use cases.
You will find complete documentation for REX-Ray at rexray.readthedocs.org, including
licensing and
support information.
Documentation provided at RTD is based on the latest stable build. The /.docs
directory in this repo will refer to the latest or specific commit.
REX-Ray is available as a standalone process today and as a distributed
model of client-server. The client performs a level abstraction of local
host processes (request for volume attachment, discovery, format, and mounting
of devices) while the server provides the necessary abstraction of the
control plane for multiple storage platforms/
The following storage providers and platforms are supported by REX-Ray.
| Provider | Storage Platform | Docker | CSI | Containerized |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon EC2 | EBS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| EFS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| S3FS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Ceph | RBD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Local | CSI-BlockDevices | ✓ | ✓ | |
| CSI-NFS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| CSI-VFS | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Dell EMC | Isilon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ScaleIO | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| DigitalOcean | Block Storage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FittedCloud | EBS Optimizer | ✓ | ✓ | |
| GCE Persistent Disk | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Microsoft | Azure Unmanaged Disk | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OpenStack | Cinder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| VirtualBox | Virtual Media | ✓ | ✓ |
The following operating systems are supported by REX-Ray:
| OS | Command Line | Service |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 12+ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Debian 6+ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RedHat | ✓ | ✓ |
| CentOS 6+ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CoreOS | ✓ | ✓ |
| TinyLinux (boot2docker) | ✓ | ✓ |
| OS X Yosemite+ | ✓ | |
| Windows |
The following command will install the REX-Ray client-server tool. If using
CentOS, Debian, RHEL, or Ubuntu the necessary service manager is used
to bootstrap the process on startup
curl -sSL https://dl.bintray.com/emccode/rexray/install | sh -
REX-Ray can be run as an interactive CLI to perform volume management capabilities.
$ export REXRAY_SERVICE=ebs
$ export EBS_ACCESSKEY=access_key
$ export EBS_SECRETKEY=secret_key
$ rexray volume ls
ID Name Status Size
vol-6ac6c7d6 attached 8Additionally, it can be run as a service to support Docker, Mesos, and other
platforms that can communicate through HTTP/JSON.
$ export REXRAY_SERVICE=ebs
$ export EBS_ACCESSKEY=access_key
$ export EBS_SECRETKEY=secret_key
$ rexray service start
Starting REX-Ray...SUCCESS!
The REX-Ray daemon is now running at PID XX. To
shutdown the daemon execute the following command:
sudo /usr/bin/rexray stop
$ docker run -ti --volume-driver=rexray -v test:/test busybox
$ df -h /testStarting with Docker 1.13, Docker now supports a new plugin architecture in which plugins can be installed as containers.
$ docker plugin install rexray/ebs EBS_ACCESSKEY=access_key EBS_SECRETKEY=secret_key
Plugin "rexray/ebs:latest" is requesting the following privileges:
- network: [host]
- mount: [/dev]
- allow-all-devices: [true]
- capabilities: [CAP_SYS_ADMIN]
Do you grant the above permissions? [y/N] y
latest: Pulling from rexray/ebs
2ef3a0b3d192: Download complete
Digest: sha256:86a3bf7fdab857c955d7ef3fb94c01e350e34ba0f7fd3d0bd485e45f1592e1c2
Status: Downloaded newer image for rexray/ebs:latest
Installed plugin rexray/ebs:latest
$ docker plugin ls
ID NAME DESCRIPTION ENABLED
450420731dc3 rexray/ebs:latest REX-Ray for Amazon EBS true
$ docker run -ti --volume-driver=rexray/ebs -v test:/test busybox
$ df -h /test