Introduction¶

The OpenStack File Share service allows you to offer file-share services to users of an OpenStack installation. The Shared File Systems service can be configured to run in a single-node configuration or across multiple nodes. The Shared File Systems service can be configured to provision shares from one or more back ends, so it is required to declare at least one back end. To administer the Shared File Systems service, it is helpful to understand a number of concepts like share networks, shares, multi-tenancy and back ends that can be configured with the Shared File Systems service. The Shared File Systems service consists of three types of services, which are similar to those of the Block Storage service:

• manila-api
• manila-scheduler
• manila-share

Installation of first two - manila-api and manila-scheduler is common for almost all deployments. But configuration of manila-share is backend-specific and can differ from deployment to deployment.