2020 has not been a year we would have been able to predict. With a worldwide pandemic and lives thrown out of gear, as we head into 2021, we are thankful that our community and project continued to receive new developers, users and make small gains. For that and a lot of other things we …Read more

Lots of people at Vault this week! Last month’s newsletter included a list of all of the Gluster related talks, so if you’re here, come by the Red Hat booth and say hi!   New things: 3.7.11 Released: https://www.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2016-April/049155.html We’ve got a new Events (https://www.gluster.org/events/) page to replace the publicpad. (https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/gluster-events) – Feel free to add …Read more

In November 2015, we did our annual Gluster Community Survey, and we had some great responses and turnout! We’ve taken some of the highlights and distilled them down for our overall community to review. Some interesting things: 68% of respondents have been using Gluster for less than 2 years. 3 shall be the number:The most …Read more

There is plenty of action planned out for GlusterFS in the period between Jan 30th to Feb 8th 2015. Our community enthusiasts will be attending and presenting at various conferences and meetups across the globe. Here is a breakdown of the planned action: GlusterFS QuickStart Tutorial by Lalatendu Mohanty at the CentOS Dojo in Brussels, …Read more

Just in time for Halloween, GlusterFS 3.6.0 has been released. The newest release, as you would expect, is full of new features and new elements for stability. GlusterFS, as you may know, is a general-purpose scale out distributed file system. It aggregates storage exports over network interconnects provide a single unified namespace, is stackable and …Read more

What’s that bug worth? One of the values of open source and open development is the impact of Community involvement. That involvement takes many forms, code development, innovation and evangelism, guidance for new users and solutions and identifying bugs. Finding and fixing problems in existing code is incredibly valuable in building production ready systems. And …Read more

Diversity is important to communities. Diversity adds new ideas, new concepts, innovative approaches and unique values. Open source thrives on those same things, and open source communities need to recognize and strive to increase their own diversity. Today, I’d like to share “A Challenge to the Open Storage Community” from Sage Weil. Sage is talking specifically …Read more

All good things must come to an end. I can say with no equivocation that the last three years have been the most rewarding from a work perspective than any other job I’ve ever had. When I accepted this challenge in May, 2011, I had no idea that the project and community would blossom as …Read more

If you saw our Gluster Spotlight (“Integration Nation”) last week, you’ll recall that Javi and Jaime from the OpenNebula project were discussing their recent advances with GlusterFS and libgfapi access. Here’s a post where they go into some detail about it: The good news is that for some time now qemu and libvirt have native …Read more

This week’s spotlight will be all about software integrated with storage services. GFAPI has opened the floodgates for this type of integration with GlusterFS. In this spotlight, we’ll hear from people who have been actively working on integrations with Apache CloudStack, Pydio, and OpenNebula. Hear about how they integrated with GlusterFS and they would suggest …Read more

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

***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

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

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

In about 90 minutes, Louis Zuckerman and I will be “hanging out” and talking about how he came to deploy GlusterFS on AWS, and why he’d developing a Java Filesystem integration with GlusterFS. I’ll post the embedded YouTube link here when we’re about to go live. Hangout starts at 11am EST, 8am PST, 16:00GMT – …Read more

Some of you have been asking what the Red Hat + CentOS deal means for the Gluster Community, so we’re writing this in response to those inquiries. Some of us work for Red Hat, but the Gluster Community made the strategic decision to explicitly support all distributions, not just those in the Red Hat/RPM universe. …Read more

Louis Zuckerman, CTO of Picture Marketing, is working on not one, but two interesting projects for Gluster. Zuckerman is working on a Java filesystem backed by GlusterFS and Java Native Interface (JNI) bindings for GlusterFS’s native library (libgfapi). Zuckerman says he’s using GlusterFS with storing media for Picture Marketing. “Brand ambassadors use our mobile apps …Read more

Or “How I learned to start worrying and never trust the cloud.” The Clouderati have been derping for some time now about how we’re all going towards the public cloud and “private cloud” will soon become a distant, painful memory, much like electric generators filled the gap before power grids became the norm. They seem …Read more

This post continues my holiday detour into things not necessarily tech related. Forgive me this indulgence – there is at least one more post I’ll make in a similar vein. Open Source communities are different. At least, I’ve always felt that they are. Think of the term “community manager.” If you’re a community manager in …Read more