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

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

The initial rounds of conversation around the planning of content for release 8 has helped the project identify one key thing – the need to stagger out features and enhancements over multiple releases. Thus, while release 8 is unlikely to be feature heavy as previous releases, it will be the starting point in the set …Read more

In order to plan the content for upcoming releases, it is good to take a moment of pause, step back and attempt to look at the consumption of GlusterFS within large enterprises. With the enterprise architecture taking large strides towards cloud and more specifically, the hybrid cloud, continued efforts towards capabilities should attempt to serve …Read more

The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of 7.0, our latest release. This is a major release that includes a range of code improvements and stability fixes along with a few features as noted below. A selection of the key features and bugs addressed are documented in this [1] page. Announcements: 1. Releases …Read more

Progress cannot be made without change. As technologists, we recognize this every day. Most of the time, these changes are iterative: progresssive additions of features to projects like Gluster. Sometimes those changes are small, and sometimes not. And that’s, of course, just talking about our project. But one of the biggest strengths of our community’s …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

Congratulations to the team for getting Gluster 6 released! https://www.gluster.org/announcing-gluster-6/ https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036144.html   Our retrospective survey is open through April 8th, give us feedback on what we should start, stop or continue! https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2019-March/036144.html   Gluster 7 Roadmap Discussion kicked off for our 7 roadmap on the mailing lists, see [Gluster-users] GlusterFS v7.0 (and v8.0) roadmap discussion …Read more

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The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of 6.0, our latest release. This is a major release that includes a range of code improvements and stability fixes along with a few features as noted below. Specifically,  this release addresses one of the major concerns regarding FUSE mount process memory footprint, by introducing client side …Read more

Thank you all for giving us feedback in our user survey for February! Help us test Gluster 6! https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-February/055876.html Contributors Top Contributing Companies: Red Hat, Comcast, DataLab, Gentoo Linux, Facebook, BioDec, Samsung, Etersoft Top Contributors in February: Yaniv Kaul, Raghavendra G, Nithya B, Amar Tumballi, Sanju Rakonde, Shyamsundar R Noteworthy Threads: [Gluster-users] Memory management, OOM …Read more

Hi all, We are calling out our users, and developers to contribute in validating ‘glusterfs-6.0rc0’ build in their usecase. Specially for the cases of upgrade, stability, and performance. Some of the key highlights of the release are listed in release-notes draft. Please note that there are some of the features which are being dropped out …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

Gluster Monthly Newsletter, January 2019 Gluster Community Survey – open from February 1st through February 28! Give us your feedback, we’ll send you a never before seen Gluster branded item!  https://www.gluster.org/gluster-community-survey-february-2019/   See you at FOSDEM! We have a jampacked Software Defined Storage day on Sunday, Feb 3rd  (with a few sessions on the previous …Read more

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Today, we are announcing the availability of GCS (Gluster Container Storage) 0.5. Highlights and updates since v0.4: GCS environment updated to kube 1.13 CSI deployment moved to 1.0 Integrated Anthill deployment Kube & etcd metrics added to prometheus Tuning of etcd to increase stability GD2 bug fixes from scale testing effort. Included components: Glusterd2: https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2 …Read more

See you at FOSDEM! We have a jampacked Software Defined Storage day on Sunday, Feb 3rd  (with a few sessions on the previous day): https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/software_defined_storage/ We also have a shared stand with Ceph, come find us! Gluster 6 – We’re in planning for our Gluster 6 release, currently scheduled for Feb 2019. More details on …Read more

Today, we are announcing the availability of GCS (Gluster Container Storage) 0.4. The release was bit delayed to address some of the critical issues identified. This release brings in a good amount of bug fixes along with some key feature enhancements in GlusterD2. We’d request all of you to try this out and provide feedback. …Read more

Gluster 6 – We’re in planning for our Gluster 6 release, currently scheduled for Feb 2019. More details on the mailing lists at https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2018-November/055672.html Upcoming Community Meeting – December 19 – 15:00 UTC in #gluster-meeting on freenode. https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings has the agenda. Want swag for your meetup? https://www.gluster.org/events/ has a contact form for us to let …Read more

Gluster Monthly Newsletter, October 2018 Gluster 5 is out and our retrospective is currently open! This feedback is anonymous and goes to our release team. https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2018-October/035171.html https://www.gluster.org/gluster-5-0-retrospective/ Upcoming Community Meeting  – November 7, November 21 – 15:00 UTC in #gluster-meeting on freenode. https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings has the agenda. We’re participating in Outreachy this cycle! https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/gluster/ Want swag …Read more