[Gluster-devel] GlusterFS configuration scripts

[Samuel Douglas]

While working on setting up GlusterFS as part of a University project,
I started working on some Python scripts to dynamically generate
GlusterFS configurations, and seeing John's question about separate
spec files for each server, decided I should post what I had done
here.

The main 'library' script is available at:

  http://cs.waikato.ac.nz/~sjd29/glusterfs-config/glfsconf.py

Volume definitions are represented as classes in the script which can
be configured and put together, then output ready to be read into
GlusterFS as the config file when it starts up. You write a second
Python script which utilises these classes and functions to actually
construct your site-specific configuration, either hard coding the
information or using some config files or whatever -- you write that
bit.

Here is the example config I came up with to try it on our test cluster:

   http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~sjd29/glusterfs-config/glusterconf_waikato.py

Pretty much the result of an afternoon of hacking around. Not very
well documented but could be a good starting point for anyone looking
for a dynamic config system.

-- Samuel