SIZE ADJUSTABLE VOLUMES FOR CONTAINERS

• US 20170242617A1
• Filed: 02/23/2016
• Published: 08/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Walsh, Daniel J., Goyal, Vivek, Mahajan, Shishir
• Granted Patent: US 9,916,110 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0608 Saving storage space on storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0631 by allocating resources to storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0632 by initialisation or re-initialisation of storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0643 Management of files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0644 Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0653 Monitoring storage devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0673 Single storage device

Abstract

Implementations of the disclosure provide for size adjustable volumes for containers. A method of the disclosure includes determining, by a processing device of the PaaS system, a size used space in a storage volume with respect to a container associated with an execution of an application. The size is a summation of current usage of disk space for the storage volume by the application. This size of the used space is compared to a threshold size. The threshold size indicates a determined amount of the storage volume allocated to the container. Responsive to the size meeting the threshold size, an increase in the allocated amount of the storage volume associated with the container is regulated by the processing device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a processing device of a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system, a size of used space in a storage volume with respect to a container associated with an execution of an application, wherein the size is a summation of current usage of disk space for the storage volume by the application;

comparing the size of the used space to a threshold size, the threshold size indicating an allocated amount of the storage volume to the container; and

responsive to the size meeting the threshold size, regulating, by the processing device, increases in the allocated amount of the storage volume associated with the container.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the storage volume is mounted onto the container.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein regulating the increases further comprises preventing an increase in the size by terminating execution of the application.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising generating an alert indicating that the storage volume is out of space for the container.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein regulating the increases further comprises providing an increase in the allocated amount of the storage volume to the container.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the provided increase is in view of service level agreement associated with a user of the application.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein providing the increase comprises mapping a storage device to the storage volume.

8. A system comprising:

a memory to store a container; and

a processing device coupled to the memory, the processing device to;

map a storage volume to a container associated with an execution of an application;

identify a size of used space in the storage volume with respect to the container, wherein the size is a summation of current usage of disk space associated with the storage volume by the application;

determine that the size of the used space meets a threshold size associated with the storage volume; and

responsive to the determination, control increases in an amount of the storage volume mapped to the container.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the processing device further to receive a client request indicating a size limitation for the storage volume to map to the container.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein to control the increases the processing device further to prevent an increase in the size by terminating execution of the application.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processing device further to generate an alert indicating that the storage volume is out of space for the container.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein to control the increases, the processing device further to increase a size of the storage volume mapped to the container.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein to increase the size of the storage volume mapped to the container, the processing device further to map a storage device to the storage volume.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the increase a size of the storage volume mapped to the container is in view of service level agreement associated with a user of the application.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that when executed, by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

receive, by the processing device, a request to map a storage volume to a container associated with an execution of an application, the request comprises a size limitation for the storage volume;

obtain a size of used space in the storage volume with respect to the container, wherein the size is a summation of current usage of disk space associated with the storage volume by the application;

determine whether the size of the used space meets the size limitation for the storage volume; and

control an increase in the size limitation for the for the storage volume mapped to the container in view of the determination.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein to control the increase the processing device is further to terminate the execution of the application.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the processing device is further to generate an alert indicating that the storage volume out of space for the container.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein to provide an increase in the size limitation, the processing device is further to increase a size of the storage volume mapped to the container.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein to increase the size of the storage volume mapped to the container, the processing device is further to map a storage device to the storage volume.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the provided increase in the size limitation is in view of service level agreement associated with a user of the application.