The Gluster Community would like to congratulate the OpenStack Foundation and developers on the Havana release. With performance-boosting enhancements for OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder), Compute (Nova) and Image Service (Glance), as well as a native template language for OpenStack Orchestration (Heat), the OpenStack Havana release points the way to continued momentum for the OpenStack community. […]
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Some Thoughts on Gluster Community Governance
tl;dr - This is a long description designed to elicit constructive discussion of some recent Gluster Community governance initiatives. For all things related to Gluster Community Governance, see gluster.org/Governance The recent initiatives around GlusterFS development and project governance have been quite amazing to witness – we have been making steady progress towards a “real” open […]
Gluster World Tour: Coming to a City Near You
If you’ve been watching the Gluster Community Day Meetup.com page, you’ve noticed lots of activity lately. That’s because we are planning several of these around the world, in addition to a few others we’ve already run this year. What is a ‘Gluster Community Day?’ It’s a day for in-depth sessions, use cases, demos, and developer […]
Vote Now! Gluster-related Talks at OpenStack Summit
Several talks related to the Gluster Community have been proposed for the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong in November. You have to vote for your favorites so that we can be sure to get on the program. Remember to vote early and often! Proposed Talks: Shared Storage: Data Availability Across Clouds and Traditional Datacenters Scaling […]
Community Day @ San Francisco on August 27
(NOTE: if you’re interested in contributing or presenting at the community day, add your ideas in the comments) The Summer of Gluster continues! We’re happy to announce a Community Day for San Francisco on Tuesday, August 27 at Rackspace’s SOMA office in San Francisco. RSVP here. Thanks to Rackspace for agreeing to host – this […]
New Release Cycle (and deadlines) for GlusterFS 3.5
As you may have already heard, the GlusterFS 3.5 release planning cycle is well underway. The deadline is this Thursday, August 14. If you have a feature or patchset you’ve been working on and want to include it in the GlusterFS 3.5 release, please update the page and add your feature proposal to the list. […]
GlusterFS 3.4 is Here!
We are very pleased to inform you that GlusterFS 3.4 has now hit GA! This marks an incredible milestone for the Gluster community, and pushes GlusterFS into exciting new directions, including virtual block storage, OpenStack integration and a lot more. -> Download here. Changes Of Note Improvements for Virtual Machine Image Storage A number of […]
Gluster Community Day at Portland – July 23
We have an amazing community day scheduled in Portland, OR, on July 23. If you’re in town for OSCON, swing by – we’ll be at the Mission Theater, which is close to the MAX for easy access. Here are just a few of the highlights: Theron Conrey will talk about the integration points between OpenStack […]
The Summer of Gluster is Here!
I wanted to take a moment and share all the things that are going on in the Gluster Community. It really has been an amazing year, and we’re only halfway through. Here’s a recap for those of you watching from home: Launched the Gluster Community Forge in early May – http://forge.gluster.org/ as of now, there […]
GlusterFS portability on full view – ARM 64
Today at Red Hat Summit, Jon Masters, Red Hat’s chief ARM architect, demonstrated GlusterFS replicated on two ARM 64 servers, streaming a video. This marks the first successful demo of a distributed filesystem running on ARM 64. Video and podcast to come soon.
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