First off, congrats to inktank! I'm sure having Redhat backing the project it will see even quicker development. My only worry is support for future non-RHEL platforms; like many others we've built our ceph stack around ubuntu and I'm just hoping it won't deteriorate into something like how it is only built/tested around Centos/Redhat ( ie moving the I+C from ubuntu to only be on Centos/Redhat -> http://ceph.com/docs/master/start/os-recommendations/ and just keep a basic build-test around all other distroes) I fear a political decision to only have those extra tests on Centos/Redhat will 'force' people to run it on Centos/Redhat eventually. Cheers, Martin On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Sage Weil <sage at inktank.com> wrote: > Today we are announcing some very big news: Red Hat is acquiring Inktank. > We are very excited about what this means for Ceph, the community, the > team, our partners, and our customers. Ceph has come a long way in the ten > years since the first line of code has been written, particularly over the > last two years that Inktank has been focused on its development. The fifty > members of the Inktank team, our partners, and the hundreds of other > contributors have done amazing work in bringing us to where we are today. > > We believe that, as part of Red Hat, the Inktank team will be able to > build a better quality Ceph storage platform that will benefit the entire > ecosystem. Red Hat brings a broad base of expertise in building and > delivering hardened software stacks as well as a wealth of resources that > will help Ceph become the transformative and ubiquitous storage platform > that we always believed it could be. > > For existing Inktank customers, this is going to mean turning a reliable > and robust storage system into something that delivers even more value. In > particular, joining forces with the Red Hat team will improve our ability > to address problems at all layers of the storage stack, including in the > kernel. We naturally recognize that many customers and users have built > platforms based on other Linux distributions. We will continue to support > these installations while we determine how to provide the best customer > experience moving forward and how the next iteration of the enterprise > Ceph product will be structured. In the meantime, our team remains > committed to keeping Ceph an open, multiplatform project that works in any > environment where it makes sense, including other Linux distributions and > non-Linux operating systems. > > Red Hat is one of only a handful of companies that I trust to steward the > Ceph project. When we started Inktank two years ago, our goal was to build > the business by making Ceph successful as a broad-based, collaborative > open source project with a vibrant user, developer, and commercial > community. Red Hat shares this vision. They are passionate about open > source, and have demonstrated that they are strong and fair stewards with > other critical projects (like KVM). Red Hat intends to administer the Ceph > trademark in a manner that protects the ecosystem as a whole and creates a > level playing field where everyone is held to the same standards of use. > Similarly, policies like "upstream first" ensure that bug fixes and > improvements that go into Ceph-derived products are always shared with the > community to streamline development and benefit all members of the > ecosystem. > > One important change that will take place involves Inktank's product > strategy, in which some add-on software we have developed is proprietary. > In contrast, Red Hat favors a pure open source model. That means that > Calamari, the monitoring and diagnostics tool that Inktank has developed > as part of the Inktank Ceph Enterprise product, will soon be open sourced. > > This is a big step forward for the Ceph community. Very little will change > on day one as it will take some time to integrate the Inktank business and > for any significant changes to happen with our engineering activities. > However, we are very excited about what is coming next for Ceph and are > looking forward to this new chapter. > > I'd like to thank everyone who has helped Ceph get to where we are today: > the amazing research group at UCSC where it began, DreamHost for > supporting us for so many years, the incredible Inktank team, and the many > contributors and users that have helped shape the system. We continue to > believe that robust, scalable, and completely open storage platforms like > Ceph will transform a storage industry that is still dominated by > proprietary systems. Let's make it happen! > > sage > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/attachments/20140501/432c5887/attachment.htm>
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