Re: State of Gluster project

[Rafi Kavungal <rafi.kavungal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

 

Talking about the gluster community contribution outside of Red Hat, you can count me in. I'm working as software engineer at iTernity GmbH, the company is committed to provide an archival solution. iTernity has been using Gluster backed storage solution mainly for archival use case. We have two dedicated developers to work on Gluster, David and Myself. We will be contributing/maintaining to the Gluster community mainly worm xlator, halo replication, snapshot feature, and probably crypto xlator in the future. Needless to say we will also be very happy to contribute to the other components of Gluster.

 

So in general we are very happy involve in ways to make Gluster community more vibrant and active.

 

Regards
Rafi KC

 

 

From: gluster-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <gluster-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Aravinda VK
Sent: 17 June 2020 11:09 AM
To: Mahdi Adnan <mahdi@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: gluster-users <gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: State of Gluster project

 

Hi Mahdi,

 

I am writing my views as an external contributor outside the Red Hat. Hopefully, someone from Red Hat will respond with their focus/roadmap on Gluster development.

 

Recently Amar wrote about the focus of the GlusterFS core team(https://www.gluster.org/update-from-the-team/). He mentioned that the attention of the core team would be stabilizing the FS layer and enable the ecosystem to adapt to their environment quickly.

 

From Kadalu.io(https://kadalu.io), we love GlusterFS and focusing on creating an Opinionated Storage solution based on GlusterFS. GlusterFS is so modular that it enables us to integrate natively with Kubernetes APIs without the need of Gluster's management layer Glusterd. Other projects we are focussing on now are Moana and Binnacle. Moana(https://github.com/kadalu/moana) is an external control plane for managing the GlusterFS storage layer. And Binnacle(https://github.com/kadalu/binnacle) is a distributed test framework with the focus on Tester's delight.

 

I do see a lot of activity in our Slack channel, at present more than 200 members in the Gluster Slack channel, which is encouraging. Please do join if not already joined.

 

https://join.slack.com/t/gluster/shared_invite/enQtODMwMDU5MTI0OTQ3LTNjMTA4NTJmMDY3OGM4YTA0ZDlhOGM5ZWYzNjRkYmQ0Mjg3NDUxODRjZGI4ZjQxNDczNTYxZWZjMmY5NDMyNzM

 

In summary, I agree that GlusterFS needs a lot of improvement in Performance, Monitoring, Documentation, and other areas. I am very hopeful that we will get there soon.

 

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Regards

Aravinda Vishwanathapura

https://kadalu.io

 

 

On 17-Jun-2020, at 2:36 AM, Mahdi Adnan <mahdi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

Hello,

 

 I'm wondering what's the current and future plan for Gluster project overall, I see that the project is not as busy as it was before "at least this is what I'm seeing" Like there are fewer blogs about what the roadmap or future plans of the project, the deprecation of Glusterd2, even Red Hat Openshift storage switched to Ceph.

As the community of this project, do you feel the same? Is the deprecation of Glusterd2 concerning? Do you feel that the project is slowing down somehow? Do you think Red Hat is abandoning the project or giving fewer resources to Gluster?

 

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Respectfully

Mahdi

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