Next week is a big one for Linux and Open Cloud practitioners and enthusiasts: It’s the annual North American LinuxCon (and CloudOpen), put on by the Linux Foundation – and, following LinuxCon, the Gluster community is putting on a Gluster Community Day on September 19th. Naturally, LinuxCon is on my “don’t miss” list of events, […]

That is a pretty drastic title, especially given that I spend a significant part of my day job working with EMC storage arrays. The other day I replied to a tweet by Scott Lowe :

@scott_lowe with things like Gluster and Ceph what does shared storage a…

The oVirt Project is now putting the finishing touches on version 3.3 of its KVM-based virtualization management platform. The release will be feature-packed, including expanded support for Gluster storage, new integration points for OpenStack’s Neutron networking and Glance image services, … Continue reading →

Hey there, I’ve done a bit of puppet-gluster hacking lately to try to squeeze some extra features and testing in before Linuxcon. Here’s a short list: SELinux fixes to keep Dan Walsh happy 🙂 Ping and status checks before volume … Continue reading →

A git workflow that always give you clean pull requests :)This post is for all you naughty folks out there who forked a github repo, hacked on master, and now are repenting because you have no way of clearly and efficiently sharing your hacks with the …

The Gluster community is pleased to announce a major update to the glusterfs-hadoop project with the release of version 2.1. The glusterfs-hadoop project provides an Apache licensed Hadoop FileSystem plugin which enables Apache Hadoop 1.x and 2.x to run directly on top of GlusterFS. This release includes a re-architected plugin which now extends existing functionality within …Read more

Okay, I know I am little slow on the uptake here, but I was on holiday at the time. The announcement of Virtual SAN at VMWorld the last week got me thinking a bit.

Very briefly, Virtual SAN takes locally attached storage on you hypervisors. It then…

tl;dr – This is a long description designed to elicit constructive discussion of some recent Gluster Community governance initiatives. For all things related to Gluster Community Governance, see gluster.org/Governance The recent initiatives around GlusterFS development and project governance have been quite amazing to witness – we have been making steady progress towards a “real” open …Read more

John Mark Walker, (from Redhat) has been kind enough to invite me to speak at the Linuxcon Gluster Workshop in New Orleans. I’ll be speaking about puppet-gluster, giving demos, and hopefully showing off some new features. I’m also looking forward … Continue reading →

Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Debian Wheezy

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian Wheezy. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS
here. The client system will be able to access …

In the up coming Havana release of OpenStack Virtual Machine images can be downloaded a lot more efficiently.  This post will explain how to configure Glance and Nova so that VM images can be directly copied via the file system instead of routing all of the data over HTTP. Historically How An Image Becomes a […]

Github is great for collaborating with the world but gitorious is emerging as an alternative which is “truly” open source.  The democratic and atomic nature of git lends itself to the idea that any “hub” for commits should by easy to synchronize w…

I had a computer with some bad ram that created a corrupt index in Elasticsearch. After trying all weekend and half of Monday to figure out how to get Elasticsearch running again with no response on the IRC channel, I eventually figured it out with the…

Maven is increasingly being used to do more than build large, heterogenous projects: It provides idioms for the entire software development life cycle.Its no longer java specific: See the ambari and bigtop projects as examples of maven powered bui…

[Editor’s note: This post is the opinion of the author and not necessarily that of the Gluster Community] TLDR:  SourceForge, once a mighty force for the good of Open Source, has fallen far from its previous lofty heights. Dice, the new owners, bribe strongly encourage the top projects to use a new (closed source only) installer …Read more

People are always asking if its possible to install maven with yum. Me…Some other dudeThe answer is yes, but its not a one step install.Before I show you the trick… Listen to me ramble for a sec.Well.. I’m not sure why it hasnt become part of …

As described in my previous blog post, QEMU supports talking to GlusterFS using libgfapi which is a much better way to use GlusterFS to host VM images than using the FUSE mount to access GlusterFS volumes. However due to some bugs that exist in GlusterFS-3.4, any invalid specification of GlusterFS drive on QEMU command line […]

If you’ve been watching the Gluster Community Day Meetup.com page, you’ve noticed lots of activity lately. That’s because we are planning several of these around the world, in addition to a few others we’ve already run this year. What is … Continue reading →

If you’ve been watching the Gluster Community Day Meetup.com page, you’ve noticed lots of activity lately. That’s because we are planning several of these around the world, in addition to a few others we’ve already run this year.

What is a ‘Gluster Community Day?’ It’s a day for in-depth sessions, use cases, demos, and developer content presented by Gluster Community experts representing many layers of today’s cloud and data center infrastructure. A Gluster Community Day is where you learn best practices for deploying, managing and developing with GlusterFS as well as many of the adjunct projects that make up the Gluster Community.

We have several upcoming, and many more that we’re planning. Below is a list of those that we have locked in – check back at gluster.org/meetups/ or meetup.com/Gluster to always see the latest list:

• August 27 – San Francisco – Rackspace has generously agreed to host this Community Day

• September 4 – Stockholm, Sweden – Our first event in the nordic region!

• September 10 – London, England – Continuing the Northern road show

• September 19 – New Orleans, Louisiana – Co-located with LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America

• October 24 – Edinburgh, Scotland – Co-located with LinuxCon/CloudOpen Europe

And we’re actively seeking venues in Germany, France, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Bangalore, Chennai and Taipei. If you’d like to submit a venue for consideration, please send it to cfp (at) gluster.org

Would you like to speak at one of the events above? Send a brief note to cfp (at) gluster.org with a title and brief description of what you would like to speak about. Also include your personal bio, including talks you’ve given at other events.

Look forward to seeing you there!

-John Mark

If you’ve been watching the Gluster Community Day Meetup.com page, you’ve noticed lots of activity lately. That’s because we are planning several of these around the world, in addition to a few others we’ve already run this year. What is a ‘Gluster Community Day?’ It’s a day for in-depth sessions, use cases, demos, and developer …Read more