An operator for Samba as a service on PVCs in kubernetes.

This project implements the samba-operator. It it responsible for the the SmbShare custom resource:

• SmbShare describes an SMB Share that will be used to share data with clients.

You need to have a kubernetes cluster running. For example, minikube is sufficient.

In order to install the CRDs, other resorces, and start the operator, invoke:

make deploy

To use your own image, use:

make deploy IMG=<my-registry/and/image:tag>

To delete the operator and CRDs from the cluster, run:

make delete-deploy

A share can be created that uses pre-existing PVCs, ones that are not directly managed by the operator.

Assuming you have a PVC named mypvc, you can create a new SmbShare using the example YAML below:

apiVersion: samba-operator.samba.org/v1alpha1
kind: SmbShare
metadata:
  name: smbshare1
spec:
  storage:
    pvc:
      name: "mypvc"
  readOnly: false

A share can be created that embeds a PVC definition. In this case the operator will automatically manage the PVC along with the share. This example assumes you have a default storage class enabled.

For example:

apiVersion: samba-operator.samba.org/v1alpha1
kind: SmbShare
metadata:
  name: smbshare2
spec:
  storage:
    pvc:
      spec:
        accessModes:
          - ReadWriteOnce
        resources:
          requests:
            storage: 1Gi
  readOnly: false

Assuming a local Linux-based environment you can test out a connection to the container by forwarding the SMB port and using a local install of smbclient to access the share:

$ kubectl get pods              NAME                              READY
STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
my-smbservice-7f779ddc8c-nb6k6    1/1     Running   0          62m
samba-operator-5758b4dbbf-gk9pk   1/1     Running   0          70m
$ kubectl port-forward pod/my-smbservice-7f779ddc8c-nb6k6  4455:445
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:4455 -> 445
Forwarding from [::1]:4455 -> 445
Handling connection for 4455

$ smbclient -p 4455 -U sambauser //localhost/share
Enter SAMBA\sambauser's password:
Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \> ls
.                                   D        0  Fri Aug 28 14:43:26 2020
..                                  D        0  Fri Aug 28 14:32:53 2020
x                                   A   359386  Fri Aug 28 14:35:18 2020
gefcanilant                         A  5141264  Fri Aug 28 14:43:26 2020

4184064 blocks of size 1024. 4141292 blocks available
smb: \>

Above we forward the normal SMB port to an unprivileged local port, assuming you'll be running this as a normal user.

This operator uses the container built from samba-in-kubernetes/samba-container as found on quay.io.

The container from this codebase is published on quay.io too.