[Gluster-devel] Creating the Gluster Software Distribution Bundle

[John Mark Walker]

Greetings,

One of the things I wanted to do with the forge, was use it as the basis for creating a software distribution of tools related to GlusterFS. GlusterFS would remain the centerpiece, and we would add all some tools into the mix that would be helpful for admins and developers. Some of the packages I had in mind include:

- GlusterFS 3.5.x
- oVirt, pre-configured for GlusterFS
- puppet-gluster
- pmux + gflocator - file-based map/reduce tools
- pmux-gw - RESTful gateway for interacting with pmux
- glubix - zabbix integration
- nagios integration
- Swift on File
- GlusterFlow (ELK-based profiling and analysis web app for GlusterFS)
- HDFS integration
- various GFAPI bindings
- GluPy (unless already included in 3.5)
- gluster-deploy
- dispersed volume (I know it's marked for 3.6, but you can use it with 3.5, and this encourages early adopters)
- smallfile perf testing

Any others? For many of these, we'll need some packaging help. For a first cut release, I don't think the packaging needs to be perfect. In fact, this may be the sort of thing we want to release as a self-contained and fully deployed virtual machine/container/appliance. 

Thoughts?

-JM