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The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of 5.0, our latest release. This is a major release that includes a range of code improvements and stability fixes with some management and standalone features as noted below. A selection of the key features and changes are documented on this page. Announcements: 1. Releases that …Read more

Today, we are announcing the availability of GCS (Gluster Container Storage) 0.1. This initial release is designed to provide a platform for community members to try out and provide feedback on the new Gluster container storage stack. This new stack is a collaboration across a number of repositories, currently including the main GCS repository [1], …Read more

Gluster 5.0 is just around the corner! We’re in testing for 5.0rc0, https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/maintainers/2018-September/005073.html has more details for testing with CentOS.   Community Meeting – October  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 for your meetup? https://www.gluster.org/events/ has a contact form for …Read more

Gluster Monthly Newsletter, August 2018 mountpoint Thank you all for a great mountpoint! We’ve published the videos on YouTube if you missed it! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfDF40G2ww02V9ILhvXugtg   Community Meeting – September 12, 15:00 UTC in #gluster-meeting on freenode. https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings has the agenda.   We’re participating in Outreachy this cycle! Our project will be posted on September 12th, …Read more

mountpoint August 27-28 at the Vancouver Convention Center! We’ve published some schedule updates: https://mountpoint.io/ If you haven’t already registered, please do! Registration is available at https://mountpoint.io    Community Meeting – August 1, 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 …Read more

mountpoint We’ve published the program schedule for mountpoint! Registration available at: http://mountpoint.io/   4.1 Released: our 4.1 release came out in June! Have you installed it? Do you have thoughts on how our releases could be improved? Our 4.1 retrospective is out! https://www.gluster.org/4-1-retrospective/   Community Meeting postponed due to July 4 Holiday, next community meeting …Read more

Gluster Monthly Newsletter, July 2017 — The Gluster Summit CfP has been extended to midnight Pacific time, August 15th. Want to get your talk in but wasn’t sure what to say? Drop something in before August 15th anyways! https://www.gluster.org/events/summit2017   Welcome new maintainers!

Important happenings for Gluster for June: Gluster Summit 2017! Gluster Summit 2017 will be held in Prague, Czech Republic on October 27 and 28th. More details at: https://www.gluster.org/events/summit2017   Our weekly community meeting has changed: we’ll be meeting every other week instead of weekly, moving the time to 15:00 UTC, and our agenda is at: …Read more

We’re doing something new now with releases, running a retrospective on what things we as a community should stop, what we should start, and what we should continue. With last week’s release, here’s our quick form for 3.11  – 3.11 Retrospective Google Form Or, if you prefer: https://goo.gl/forms/OkhNZDFspYqdN00g2 We’ll keep this open until June 15th to give …Read more

Gluster Monthly Newsletter, May 2017 Important happenings for Gluster for May: — 3.11 Release! Our 3.11 release is officially out! https://blog.gluster.org/2017/05/announcing-gluster-3-11/ Note that this is a short term supported release. 3.12 is underway with a feature freeze date of July 17, 2017. — Gluster Summit 2017! Gluster Summit 2017 will be held in Prague, Czech …Read more

Release notes for Gluster 3.11 The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of Gluster 3.11. This is a short term maintenance (STM) Gluster release that includes some substantial changes. The features revolve around, improvements to small file workloads, Halo replication enhancement from Facebook, some usability and performance improvements, among other bug fixes. The …Read more

  Release 3.11 has been branched and tagged! More details on the mailing list. http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-April/030764.html   Our weekly community meeting has changed: we’ll be meeting every other week instead of weekly, moving the time to 15:00 UTC, and our agenda is at: https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings We hope this means that more people can join us. Kaushal outlines …Read more

  3.10 Release: If you didn’t already see this, we’ve released Gluster 3.10. Further details on the blog. https://blog.gluster.org/2017/02/announcing-gluster-3-10/   Our weekly community meeting has changed: we’ll be meeting every other week instead of weekly, moving the time to 15:00 UTC, and our agenda is at: https://bit.ly/gluster-community-meetings We hope this means that more people can …Read more

Containers are designed to run applications and be stateless in nature. This necessitates containerized applications to store data externally on persistent storage. Since applications can be launched at any point in time in a container cloud, the persistent storage shares also need to be dynamically provisioned without any administrative intervention. Gluster has been taking big …Read more

One of the salient features in Gluster 3.10 goes by the rather boring – and slightly opaque – name of brick multiplexing.  To understand what it is, and why it’s a good thing, read on.

This year at FOSDEM, we helped run a Software Defined Storage DevRoom on Sunday, February 5th: For those who weren’t able to make it, we’ve collected the recordings from the event related to Gluster here. GlusterD-2.0 – the next generation of GlusterFS management – Kaushal Madappa https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/glusterd2/ Gluster Features Update – Niels de Vos https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/cephglustercommunity/ …Read more

This release of Gluster ushers in improvements for container storage, hyperconverged storage and scale-out Network Attached Storage (NAS) use cases. These use cases have been the primary focus areas for previous releases over the last 12-18 months and will continue to be the primary focus for the next three planned releases. One of the things …Read more

Release notes for Gluster 3.10.0 The Gluster community is pleased to announce the release of Gluster 3.10. This is a major Gluster release that includes some substantial changes. The features revolve around, better support in container environments, scaling to larger number of bricks per node, and a few usability and performance improvements, among other bug …Read more

3.10 is at RC1 and is tracking towards a February GA release! Read more about RC1 release — http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2017-February/030031.html   Find us at Vault next month! http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/vault     Our weekly community meeting has changed: we’ll be meeting every other week instead of weekly, moving the time to 15:00 UTC, and our agenda is at: …Read more