It has been a while since we provided an update to the Gluster community. Across the world various nations, states and localities have put together sets of guidelines around shelter-in-place and quarantine. We request our community members to stay safe, to care for their loved ones, to continue to be outstanding citizens and take time …Read more

This is part of a new series on using Gluster! OpenVPN is open source software that serves as the basis for a Virtual Private Network capable of supporting a point-to-point or site-to-site connection. Along with the fact that it’s free to use, it also has the benefit of being one of the most secure (some …Read more

Recently, I had a chance to think about an outage that I debugged and fixed a few years ago that involves Jenkins and systemd (or in this case lack thereof!). Generally, if you want to run a task at the end of every Jenkins job whether the job has passed or failed, you have two …Read more

Announcing mountpoint, August 27-28, 2018 Our inaugural software-defined storage conference combining Gluster, Ceph and other projects! More details at: http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-May/034039.html CFP at: http://mountpoint.io/   Out of cycle updates for all maintained Gluster versions: New updates for 3.10, 3.12 and 4.0 http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/announce/2018-April/000098.html   Project Technical Leadership Council Announced http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/announce/2018-April/000094.html   Gluster and Red Hat Summit: Gluster’s …Read more

4.0 is out! As part of this, we’re doing a release retrospective. What do you want the Gluster community to know? [gravityform id=”10″ title=”true” description=”true” ajax=”true”]

The Gluster community celebrates 13 years of development with this latest release, Gluster 4.0. This release enables improved integration with containers, an enhanced user experience, and a next-generation management framework. The 4.0 release helps cloud-native app developers choose Gluster as the default scale-out distributed file system. We’re highlighting some of the announcements and major features …Read more

The Gluster 4.0 release is coming out, one of the most important releases for the Gluster community in quite some time. The bump in the major version is being brought about by a few new changes, namely a change in the on-wire protocol, and the new management framework, GlusterD2 (GD2 for short). GD2 has been …Read more

We occasionally find leaks in Gluster via bugs filed by users and customers. We definitely have benefits from checking for memory leaks and address corruption ourselves. The usual way has been to run it under valgrind. With ASAN, the difference is we can compile the binary with ASAN and then anyone can run their tests …Read more

Static analysis programs are quite useful, but also prone to false positives. It’s really hard to keep track of static analysis failures on a fairly large project. We’ve looked at several approaches in the past. The one that we used to do was to publish a report every day which people could look at if …Read more

Right after Open Source Europe, we had Gluster Summit. It was a 2-day event with talks and BoFs. I had two key things to do at the Gluster Summit. One was build out the minnowboard setup to demo Tendrl. This didn’t work out. I had volunteered to help with the video work as well. According …Read more

I’ve been wanting to work on upgrading build.gluster.org setup for ages. There’s a lot about that setup that isn’t ideal in how people use Jenkins anymore. We used the unix user accounts for access to Jenkins. This means Jenkins needs to read /etc/passwd and everyone has SSH access via passwords by default. Very often, the …Read more

If you run an infrastructure, there’s a good chance you have some debt tucked in your system somewhere. There’s also a good chance that you’re not getting enough time to fix those debts. There will most likely be a good reason why something is done in the way it is. This is just how things …Read more

Yesterday we had the opportunity to run a Gluster Community Day at USENIX LISA in Washington D.C. Turns out it was well worth the time, as we had a fantastic group turn up for some really excellent talks. The crowd wasn’t … 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 … Continue reading →

I wanted to take a moment and share all the things that are going on in the Gluster Community. It really has been an amazing year, and we’re only halfway through. Here’s a recap for those of you watching from … Continue reading →

UPDATE: We’re extending testing until 00:00 UTC on Tuesday, June 25. We want to give everyone a chance to get their RDMA clusters set up. It’s that time again – we want to test the GlusterFS 3.4 beta before we … Continue reading →

Last month, over 80 users and developers gathered at Intel’s Shanghai China Campus for a two-day workshop centered on oVirt, the Open Virtualization management platform. Jackson He, General Manager of Intel Asia and Pacific R&D Ltd. and Intel Software and … Continue reading →

The first beta of glusterfs 3.4 is scheduled for release tomorrow, and the project plans to greet this new beta with GlusterFest: a 24-hour test day, starting at 8pm PDT May 7/03:00 UTC May 8. Since I plan on participating … Continue reading →