GFS-Moo (LAMP+GlusterFS+Moodle on Debian)

GlusterFS for Moodle

Redundant Storage Pool Using GlusterFS on Debian Servers for moodle

Architecture

Prerequisites

Launch three ubuntu based EC2/VM (EIP recommended for production) & security groups with ports open as shown below.

Security Groups

Security Group For GFS

Type	Protocol	Ports	Source	Description
SSH	SSH	22	Administration Host Security Group	Administration Host Security Group
Custom TCP Rule	TCP	24007	Gluster Server	Gluster Daemon
Custom TCP Rule	TCP	111	Gluster Server	Portmapper
Custom UCP Rule	UDP	111	Gluster Server	Portmapper
Custom TCP Rule	TCP	49152-49155	Gluster Server	Each brick for every volume on your host requires its own port
Custom TCP Rule	TCP	2049	Gluster Server	NFS

Security Group For Moodle (LAMP)

Type	Protocol	Ports	Source	Description
HTTP	TCP	80	Users	For HTTP traffic
HTTPS	TCP	443	Users	For HTTPS traffic
Custom ICMP IPv4	All	All	0.0.0.0/0	For ICMP traffic

Security Group For Database

Type	Protocol	Ports
RDS	TCP	3306

EC2

Here is AWS CLI script if you want to launch through CLI or use AWS Console

 aws ec2 run-instances \ 
   --image-id ami-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx\ 
    --count 3 \ 
    --instance-type xx.xxxx \ 
    --key-name YourKey \ 
    --security-group-ids sg-xxxxxxxxxxxx \ 
    --subnet-id subnet-xxxxxxx \ 
    --associate-public-ip-address \ 
    --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=instance,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=GlusterFS -}]' 

Use Putty to SSH into all three Servers, Configure putty If you want to use muti-SSH try mRemoteNG Also Note down the Public IP for all three servers, for the easy of understanding

Let's Re-name Servers on Console

Server	Rename to	Public IP
Server 1	GlusterFS-01	ip1 (use your server1 public IP)
Server 2	GlusterFS-02	ip2 (use your server2 public IP)
Server 3	GlusterFS-03	ip3 (use your server3 public IP)

Git

Make sure EC2/VM have git installed
To check

git --version

To install git

sudo apt install git-all

Tutorial

Blog on installing GlusterFS + LAMP + Moodle

Read on dev.to
Read on iCTPro.co.nz

Blog on installing one click install for LAMP + Moodle

Read on dev.to
Read on iCTPro.co.nz

Basic Installation

SSH into Servers orderly and run commands

Get root privilages to run command

sudo su -

Stage	On Server	Command
1	GlusterFS-03	wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anuvindhs/GFS-Moo/main/install.sh chmod u+x install.sh ./install.sh
2	GlusterFS-02	wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anuvindhs/GFS-Moo/main/install.sh chmod u+x install.sh ./install.sh
3	GlusterFS-01	wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anuvindhs/GFS-Moo/main/install.sh chmod u+x install.sh ./install.sh

Inspect install.sh Code

Mount Folder

sudo mount -t glusterfs gfs-moo-01:/gv0 /var/www/moodledata

License

Released under the MIT license.