Re: Right way to use community Gluster on genuine RHEL?

Nico van Royen <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 13 Aug 2022 01:43:28 +0200 (CEST)

In our company we're using both the official RHGS and CentOS versions on (official) RHEL8 and 9 systems and both work great.
The way we install anything is via ansible playbooks/roles and for glusterfs we do the same.  Not just creating the cluster and volumes, also some other stuff like extending volumes, enabling snapshots etc.

Modified our regular ansible-role slightly to work with CentOS8/Rocky8 (or any other) and published this on https://github.com/royen99/ansible-role-glusterfs.
To use it with actual RHEL system it needs the codeready-builder repo instead of the PowerTools repo.
Hope it can be of use to anyone.

Nico van Roijen

Van: "Thomas Cameron" <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Aan: "gluster-users" <gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Verzonden: Maandag 18 juli 2022 17:52:45
Onderwerp: Re:  Right way to use community Gluster on genuine RHEL?

On 7/18/22 10:45, Yaniv Kaul wrote:

          On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 6:34
            PM Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
            wrote:

          On 7/18/22 09:18, Péter
            Károly JUHÁSZ wrote:

            > The best would be officially pre built rpms for RHEL.

            Where are there official Red Hat Gluster 10 RPMs for RHEL?

          There's no
            such thing. Let's not confuse the upstream Gluster project
            and Red Hat product - RHGS (Red Hat Gluster Storage), which
            has a different version[1] and lifecycle[2] than the
            project.
          Red Hat does
            not build upstream project official RPMs for RHEL.

          That being
            said, I'm somewhat surprised the CentOS RPMs don't work on
            RHEL - is that indeed the case?
          Y.

          [1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/543123
          [2] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhs

    I know, I was being something of a smartass. Sorry if that was
      not clear. 

    I am interested in trying the latest, community versions of
      Samba-416 and Gluster-10 on RHEL. That was why I was asking the
      question. Sure, I can absolutely use the Red Hat Gluster Storage
      software from the official repos, but I am interested in playing
      with the latest and greatest community bits... but on RHEL. I
      *can* use CentOS, but I prefer to use genuine RHEL. I was
      wondering if there was a "right" way of doing so. I am playing
      with the CentOS Gluster-10 and Samba-416 repos just to learn. It
      looks like they work just fine once I enabled EPEL and those
      CentOS repos.

    I was more checking to see if there were any problems just
      enabling the CentOS Storage SIG repos on RHEL. So far, it does not
      appear that there are problems. So far, it seems to be working.
    Thanks for all the responses. I appreciate them.
    Thomas

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