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Version: 3.1

Secure your volumes with PX Security

This section covers information on utilizing the Portworx CSI driver on Nomad.

Prerequisites

Be sure to enable PX security when installing Portworx.

Configure Authorization and Authentication

Perform the following steps to provision and mount volumes with security enabled:

  1. Create a file named volume.hcl with the following content and replace <AUTH_TOKEN> with a JWT token you generated:

    id           = "volume-1"
    name = "database"
    type = "csi"
    plugin_id = "portworx"
    capacity_min = "1G"
    capacity_max = "1G"

    capability {
    access_mode = "single-node-reader-only"
    attachment_mode = "file-system"
    }

    capability {
    access_mode = "single-node-writer"
    attachment_mode = "file-system"
    }
    secrets {
    auth-token = <AUTH_TOKEN>
    }
  2. Create a volume using thevolume.hcl file you just created:

    nomad volume create volume.hcl
  3. Create a nomad job configuration file named job.hcl with the following contents:

    job "mysql-server" {
    datacenters = ["dc1"]
    type = "service"

    group "mysql-server" {
    count = 1

    volume "database" {
    attachment_mode = "file-system"
    access_mode = "single-node-writer"
    type = "csi"
    read_only = false
    source = "volume-1"
    }

    network {
    port "db" {
    static = 3306
    }
    }

    restart {
    attempts = 10
    interval = "5m"
    delay = "25s"
    mode = "delay"
    }

    task "mysql-server" {
    driver = "docker"

    volume_mount {
    volume = "database"
    destination = "/srv"
    read_only = false
    }

    env {
    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD = "password"
    }

    config {
    image = "hashicorp/mysql-portworx-demo:latest"
    args = ["--datadir", "/srv/mysql"]
    ports = ["db"]
    }

    resources {
    cpu = 500
    memory = 1024
    }

    service {
    name = "mysql-server"
    port = "db"

    check {
    type = "tcp"
    interval = "10s"
    timeout = "2s"
    }
    }
    }
    }
    }
  4. Create a job using the job.hcl configuration you just created:

    nomad job run job.hcl
  5. Check the status of your job:

    nomad job status mysql-server

    It should be running shortly after the image pull has finished:

  6. After the installation completes, clean up the setup by stopping the job and and deleting the volume:

    nomad job stop mysql-server 
    nomad volume delete volume-1
note

Snapshots with authorization and authentication enabled

Due to a few limitions with Nomad, Portworx authorization and authentication will not work with snapshotting. You can track the following issues for information on this support:

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