The Blockbridge simulator makes it easy to try Elastic Programmable Storage (EPS) in a non-production environment. Blockbridge software transforms commodity and/or existing legacy infrastructure into secure multi-tenant storage that operates as a programmable service. Blockbridge provides automatic encryption, secure deletion, quality of service, secure replication, transport security and data exfiltration detection on your choice of hardware/storage.
The Blockbridge EPS simulator is available as a set of Docker containers. To install, simply clone the Blockbridge demo repository from GitHub.
git clone https://github.com/blockbridge/blockbridge-demo.git
cd blockbridge-demoThe easiest way to get started is to deploy a two-node simulator, with either private container networking or public networking (to access simulator from a remote host). In the two-node configuration, one node is responsible for API access and hosting the web application, while the other node hosts the storage services.
With only one IP address on the host, the run script will auto-detect it and program things accordingly:
$ ./simulator/complete_two_node/run_public.sh
Starting management node (using 172.16.5.193): 649050292d12e48c92f56a8bf8c3e97b248d9a5d33a5172a7b9cd8ac3f75f1a9
Starting storage node (using 172.16.5.193): 3bf832073934857a18b38bf7d2f53d95424f6a7dee7ea8c9661dcc73cd5e8109
For private networking, the containers are linked through the Docker network:
$ ./simulator/complete_two_node/run_private.sh
Starting management node: 13157c64db0175170ee2b83ae626ec36b444e48b8e24b9e5ebe06f4...
Starting storage node: 9a42763757c06e275c03ed5f195c0cbbc43f7e7eeb4137e388057ff38d026b73
After the management node boots for the first time, it randomly generates a set
of access credentials for both a storage administrator and a tenant user, then
prints them to the container logs. You'll need these to manage the simulator.
Retrieve the credentials now with the docker logs bbsim-mn command.
$ docker logs bbsim-mn
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Blockbridge simulator (container) has started.
Mode: management
Management node: management-649050292d12
IP Address: 172.16.5.193
Admin API Key: 1/+q3MIScHrz5NqZ5Xwp+AJN3RoveHunlxabeg05Qy4XTqrcwhJweufw
Admin account: system
Admin password: 576b3c43fefb35be49cf1f9228044647
User account: block
User password: 5d11f6670c0c1ffa132c516a8bcf4f3a
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Next, connect to the storage administrator account system with the management
web application. Simply point your web browser at the IP address of the host
running the management node. After accepting the certificate, # at the
Blockbridge login prompt with the system account and its generated password
from the Admin password line above. The administrator view looks like this:
This is the Global section of the Infrastructure side of the web application. It presents a summary of the storage provisioned to the simulator (about 64 GiB in this example). From this interface, you can define the pool of physical storage devices, create other accounts and users, and configure numerous other system-wide parameters.
Secure storage tenants are completely isolated from the details of the
Infrastructure part of the application -- and they're completely isolated from
each other's storage. To see a tenant view, log out of the administrator
account by selecting User: system from the top bar, then Logout. Sign
back in as the block user with the User password from the prior section.
You'll see a screen like this:
This is the Global section of the Storage side of the web application, where tenants manage their provisioned storage. It's empty -- this tenant has no storage provisioned yet!
- Configure the simulator with more storage nodes or different configurations.
- Explore the CLI tool running as a Docker container.
- Use docker volumes with the Blockbridge volume plugin for Docker