As a part of GlusterFS 3.5 testing and hackathon, I decided to put GlusterFS inside a docker container.So I installed docker on my Fedora20 desktop and then started a Fedora container Once I am inside the container I installed GlusterFS … Continue reading →
The bigtop smoke tests are a great way to hit your cluster with a broad range of hadoop workloads.One of the things I learned from running the diverse workloads that they offer for hadoop on top of gluster, is that gluster is really modular. Some…
This blog covers the steps and implementation details to use GlusterFS Samba VFS plugin. Please refer below link, If you are looking for architectural information for GlusterFS Samba VFS plugin, difference between FUSE mount vs Samba VFS plugin http://lalatendumohanty.wordpress.com/2014/04/20/glusterfs-vfs-plugin-for-samba/ I … Continue reading →
After four days of FOSDEM and CfgMgmtCamp, you might suspect that people would be too tuckered out to turn up for one more day of conference – but you’d be wrong. More than 80 people, almost all who’d been at FOSDEM and CfgMgmtCamp, turned up last Wednesday in Ghent for the first Infrastructure.Next.
The idea for Infrastructure.Next is to focus on “the future of the datacenter,” whether that be specific technologies, best practices, or culture that will enable teams to adapt and evolve as needed.
What’s the optimal length for a talk? These days, more and more events are settling on 30-minute talks for high-level concept talks. An hour is, truly, a daunting amount of time to fill – and with some preparation and practice, most speakers can distill their ideas and content into a 30-minute talk that will be more likely to retain the audience’s attention. So, with one or two exceptions, we set the time limit to 30 minutes for the speakers, with good results.
What a group of speakers we had, too! The day kicked off with CentOS contributor Jim Perrin, who walked through the recent changes in the CentOS community and a preview of what people could expect from CentOS in the near future. (Not to mention, how they can get involved directly to help influence CentOS and be part of the community.)
David Nalley of Citrix and a PMC member for Apache CloudStack gave an excellent talk on the operational requirements for cloud. This was an interesting contrast to Brian Proffitt’s talk immediately after, which asked whether cloud was really necessary for every organization. Had we a bit more time, it would have been interesting to put Proffitt, Nalley, and a few other speakers on a panel for their views on where data centers are (or should be) going this year.
Data centers do not live by IaaS alone, though. Diane Mueller finished the morning talks with a discussion about PaaS, specifically OpenShift, and the benefits it confers for organizations.
Michael Ducy of Chef was on hand to reprise his talk from the London Cloud Summit, “The Road to Hybrid Cloud is Paved with Automation.” As in London, Ducy’s talk inspired quite a bit of conversation – though it was a bit more difficult to engage the audience in the much larger room.
We also had a few good down-and-dirty technical talks on using specific technologies, courtesy of Doron Fediuck and Rich Bowen. Fediuck explained how to extend oVirt to fit your needs, with a couple of fun examples. Bowen discussed the importance of measurement and explained how to use OpenStack Ceilometer, which also kicked off some interesting discussions on monitoring and the right way to use such tools.
John Mark Walker and Sam Kottler had interesting talks that looked at emerging technologies. Walker, community leader for Gluster, discussed the future of data management, while Kottler looked at the changes in application deployment and how containerization is going to influence app deployment.
Leslie Hawthorn, community manager for Elasticsearch, discussed how organizations could apply DevOps principles for “happier, more productive people.” Not in terms of “if you’re practicing DevOps, you’ll have happier people,” but actually using the principles around working with people in your organization. It was an approach I hadn’t previously considered, but it certainly made sense.
The closing talk for Infrastructure.Next came from Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron, “You won’t believe the amazing things you ALREADY KNOW about DevOps from working in an open source community!” The tongue-in-cheek Upworthy-styled title aside, it was a really solid discussion and a great close for a long day of talks.
The event was sponsored by Red Hat, but would also not have been possible without the cooperation of our hosts from the University College Gent and the CfgMgmtCamp organizers. The facilities were top-notch, and everything went off without a hitch thanks to their assistance.
Contrasted with the London Cloud Summit the audience was a tad more subdued. No doubt, part of this was due to event fatigue. After three or four days of conferences, the spirit may be willing, but the flesh is just barely getting by on coffee and sheer willpower.
But, more than that, a larger crowd and larger room plays against the feeling of intimacy required to have a really good interaction. As we plan more events for 2014, we need to find a sweet spot between reaching the most people and ensuring that those in attendance are deeply engaged and getting the most out of the event.
If you missed Infrastructure.Next in Ghent, or just didn’t get enough the first time out, you can sign up for Infrastructure.Next @ SCALE. Co-located with SCALE 12x, tickets are free but registration is required. Sign up today!
We’re also looking to co-locate Infrastructure.Next with other events. If you have an event we should consider, please get in touch!
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In the open source software world, every day can be a test day, but there’s plenty to be gained when community members converge on an IRC channel to nick themselves on a project’s cutting edge. This month, there’s a handful of test days on tap:
Following the OpenStack Icehouse milestone 2 release, the RDO project is holding a pair of test days on February 4th and 5th. For more information, and to indicate that you’ll be participating, head to the test day page on the RDO wiki.
The beta3 packages for Gluster 3.5 are expected to hit FTP this week, with a GlusterFest testing weekend to follow. This one is still somewhat TBD, so check the Gluster project site and mailing lists for updates and confirmation.
oVirt 3.4 is nigh, with a projected general availability date of February 24th.
Leading up to the final 3.4 release, there’s a pair of test days scheduled for shaking out as many issues as possible ahead of the release. For more information, see the 3.4 test days page on the oVirt project wiki.
The Fedora Project isn’t holding any test days for February, due in part to a longer-than-normal lead-in period for Fedora.next, an umbrella term for the “shape of Fedora in the post-F20 future.”
However, Fedora QA titan Adam Williamson offered up a great list of suggested testing activities during the pre-F21 lull that’s well worth reading and acting on.
And, speaking of Fedora.next and Adam Williamson, Adam wrote a very insightful post about the new initiative and Fedora’s near future, based on the recent discussions of these matters in the Fedora community.
Join us on March 4 for the Gluster Community seminar and learn how to improve your storage. This half day seminar brings you in-depth presentations, use cases, demos and developer content presented by Gluster Community experts. REGISTRATION Register today for this free half-day seminar and reserve your seat since spaces are limited. Click here to …Read more
I decided to record some screencasts to show how easy it is to deploy GlusterFS using Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant. You can follow along even if you don’t know anything about Puppet or Vagrant. The hardest part of this process was producing the … Continue reading →
So you want to enable SSL on glusterfs and you are lost? Well you are not alone – SSL mode is not documented and you can find little info about it on mailing lists. I will try to help you out with this small tips… So here it goes, firs…
This post is very raw… I’ll refine it later……. But for those that run into ClassNotFound/MethodNotFound issues, it might be useful food for thought. Poking around in AMBARI recently, I found that there is this parameter that defines the yar…
Just a bit over a week before the London Cloud Summit for 29 January, and we have a great line-up of speakers for the event. One small housekeeping note, we’ve had a venue change from Shoreditchworks to The Bakery, which is here: View Larger Map If you haven’t signed up yet, there are a few […]
***UPDATE: Due to weather-related flight cancelations and rebooking, we had to push this back to Thursday, January 23, at noon PST/3pm EST/20:00 GMT*** James Shubin is known in the Gluster community for his work on the Puppet-Gluster module. Recently, he’s begun to create powerful cocktails of Puppet and Vagrant to create recipes for automated Gluster …Read more
I needed a base image “box” for my Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant work. It would have been great if good boxes already existed, and even better if it were easy to build my own. As it turns out, I wasn’t able to satisfy … Continue reading →
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The GlusterFS community is having a “test day”. Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant is a great tool to help with this, and it has now been patched to support alpha, beta, qa, and rc releases! Because it was built so well (*cough*, shameless plug), … Continue reading →
As I mentioned yesterday, the GlusterFest is nigh. This time, we’ll break out testing into two types: Performance testing Feature testing To learn about the GlusterFest and what it is, visit the GlusterFest home at gluster.org/gfest Remember that if you file a bug that is verified by the Gluster QE team, you’ll win a t-shirt …Read more
Like a lot of folks, I caught the “4K is for Programmers” post off Hacker News a few days ago (it’s here, but the link seems to be borked at the moment) and got to thinking about more desktop space. Much more. My current setup, when not traveling, involves a 27″ 2560×1440 display – usually […]
If you’re a fan of scale-out storage, datacenter virtualization, or (like me) a mixture of the two, you’ll want to mark your calendar for this pair of upcoming test days for the Gluster and oVirt projects.
This weekend, from Friday the 17th at midnight UTC to Monday the 20th at midnight UTC, the Gluster project is having a test weekend (aka Glusterfest) for its 3.5 release. There’s a breakdown of all the features slated for 3.5 on the release’s planning page.
For this Glusterfest iteration, the project hopes to smooth the process of multi-node testing with the availability of James Shubin’s Puppet-Gluster module. James recently wrote the how-to post, Automatically deploying GlusterFS with Puppet-Gluster + Vagrant, which ought to come in handy this weekend.
After giving James’ post a run-through myself, I’m interested in trying it out with this Vagrant oVirt/RHEV Provider I found on github.
Speaking of oVirt, the project has its own test day coming up on January 23rd, this one for the project’s 3.4 release.
The oVirt 3.4 feature I’m most excited about is the Self Hosted Engine option, in which one or more oVirt compute nodes can host the oVirt management engine. This feature promises to eliminate the engine as a single point of failure, as well as free up the separate machine that’s typically used to host the engine.
If you’re raring to jump on the 3.4 code right away, alpha packages are now available. Check out these release notes for more information about how to get rolling.
For more information on this weekend’s Glusterfest, check out the Gluster project wiki. To find out more about next week’s oVirt 3.4 Test Day, check out the oVirt project wiki.
The first GlusterFS 3.5 Beta is here! See what features made it in over at the 3.5 planning page. Here are some of the marquee features: File Snapshot Quota Scalability Brick Failure Detection On-wire Compression and Decompression Disk Encryption With this first beta, we’ll have the next weekend GlusterFest! We’ll kick it off on Friday, …Read more
Dan Mons came across GlusterFS at his job with Cutting Edge, a VFX company. He needed lots of storage space that was available to many different users – and he needed it to be able to expand as he needed. That it was free and ran on commodity systems was a big plus. Come join …Read more