Has anyone had any luck at all in installing Linstor on their Debian server?
I would like to run Debian Bookworm with my setup but it’s been very hard to get everything working and even with Docker it doesn’t seem to work right for the satellite and controllers. I have used the releases from linbit website and tried to use their git repo as well. It works very easily with Ubuntu which is nice, but I would like to avoid Ubuntu at all costs.
Anyone have any insight in this?
As an example:
Am I suppose to run the docker images with any special parameters? I can’t run any linstor commands if I just run the docker image. Documentation is pretty bad, im hoping someone knows something?
@bensmrs what have you been deploying your environment on?
So far I’ve done my own testing on Ubuntu but I’ll eventually want to run it on Debian too. Though in my case I’ll only really care about the Satellites, the Controller can run in a container or VM and so can be on Ubuntu easily enough.
On Debian, this can get tricky. I don’t recommend using LINBIT’s PPA, because Ubuntu PPAs are notoriously not that well supported on Debian, but I think you can still get it working. LINBIT only makes available their official Debian packages for Proxmox (the full repos require a subscription). Would be nice to have that packaged in Debian
Step 1: Use LINBIT’s Proxmox repository
My current environment is running Bookworm (I still have to test if it can be upgraded to Trixie), so the corresponding Proxmox version is 8. I’m using the following sources file:
Note that LINBIT provides a linbit-keyring package; do NOT install it, as it installs their key in trusted.gpg.d. Unarchive the linbit-keyring package to find the key, or use this one:
Save it to /etc/apt/keyrings/linbit.asc, apt update, and you’re good to go
Step 2: Install DRBD 9
apt install linux-headers-amd64 drbd-dkms
Optional, but required if you’re using secure boot: register your DKMS MOK
yes dkms | head -n 2 | mokutil --import /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
Reboot and enroll the key when prompted (with the password dkms).
Step 3: Install LINSTOR
For a hyperconverged setup, apt install linstor-client linstor-controller linstor-satellite.
You may drop whichever package you don’t need. On my setup, I also need drbd-reactor.
I have worked on an Ansible role at $job to automate everything and reconfigure LINSTOR to have a fully distributed controller. I’ll release it in a few days (but it will need to be adapted, as it’s only meant to work on my environment).
