<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Hello everyone,</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">We are announcing v1.0RC release of GlusterCS this week!**</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">The version 1.0 is due along with <b>glusterfs-6.0</b> next month. Below are the Goals for v1.0:</p><ul class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">RWX PVs - Scale and Performance</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">RWO PVs - Simple, leaner stack with Gluster’s Virtual Block.</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Thin Arbiter (2 DataCenter Replicate) Support for RWX volume.<ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">RWO hosting volume to use Thin Arbiter volume type would be still in Alpha.</li></ul></li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Integrated monitoring.</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Simple Install / Overall user-experience.</li></ul><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Along with above, we are in Alpha state to support GCS on ARM architecture. We are also trying to get the website done for GCS @ <a href="https://gluster.github.io/gcs" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://gluster.github.io/gcs</a></p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">We are looking for some validation of the GCS containers, and the overall gluster stack, in your k8s setup.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">While we are focusing more on getting stability, and better user-experience, we are also trying to ship few tech-preview items, for early preview. The main item on this is loopback based bricks (<a href="https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/pull/1473" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://github.com/gluster/glusterd2/pull/1473</a>), which allows us to bring more data services on top of Gluster with more options in container world, specially with backup and recovery.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">The above feature also makes better snapshot/clone story for gluster in containers with reflink support on XFS. <em style="box-sizing:border-box">(NOTE: this will be a future improvement)</em></p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">This email is a request for help with regard to testing and feedback on this new stack, in its alpha release tag. Do let us know if there are any concerns. We are ready to take anything from ‘This is BS!!’ to ‘Wow! this looks really simple, works without hassle’</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><img alt=":smile:" class="emoji" src="https://hackmd.io/build/emojify.js/dist/images/basic/smile.png" title=":smile:" style="box-sizing: content-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 1.5em; height: 1.5em; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: -0.25em; background-size: contain; max-width: none; background-color: transparent;"></p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Btw, if you are interested to try / help, few things to note:</p><ul class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;padding-left:2em;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">GCS uses CSI spec v1.0, which is only available from k8s 1.13+</li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">We do have weekly meetings on GCS as announced in <a href="https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055774.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-devel/2019-January/055774.html</a> - Feel free to jump in if interested.<ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2em"><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box">ie, Every Thursday, 15:00 UTC.</li></ul></li><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">GCS doesn’t have any operator support yet, but for simplicity, you can also try using <a href="https://github.com/aravindavk/kubectl-gluster" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://github.com/aravindavk/kubectl-gluster</a></li><ul><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">Planned to be integrated in later versions.</li></ul><li class="gmail-" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0.25em">We are not great at creating cool website, help in making GCS homepage would be great too :-)</li></ul><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Interested? feel free to jump into Architecture call today.</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">Regards,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Gluster Container Storage Team</p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">PS: The meeting minutes, where the release pointers were discussed is @ <a href="https://hackmd.io/sj9ik9SCTYm81YcQDOOrtw?both" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://hackmd.io/sj9ik9SCTYm81YcQDOOrtw?both</a></p><p class="gmail-part" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&quot;Segoe UI&quot;,Roboto,&quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;,&quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0.35px">** - subject to resolving some blockers @ <a href="https://waffle.io/gluster/gcs?label=GCS%2F1.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none">https://waffle.io/gluster/gcs?label=GCS%2F1.0</a></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Amar Tumballi (amarts)<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>