[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Proposal for GlusterD-2.0

Balamurugan Arumugam bala at gluster.com
Thu Sep 11 09:16:34 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Krishnan Parthasarathi" <kparthas at redhat.com>
> To: "Balamurugan Arumugam" <barumuga at redhat.com>
> Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 2:25:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Proposal for GlusterD-2.0
> 
> Bala,
> 
> I think using Salt as the orchestration framework is a good idea.
> We would still need to have a consistent distributed store. I hope
> Salt has the provision to use one of our choice. It could be consul
> or something that satisfies the criteria for choosing alternate technology.
> I would wait for a couple of days for the community to chew on this and
> share their thoughts. If we have a consensus on this, we could 'port'
> the 'basic'[1] volume management commands to a system built using Salt and
> see for real how it fits our use case. Thoughts?
> 

For distributed store, I would think of MongoDB which provides distributed/replicated/highly available/master read-write/slave read-only database.  Lets get what community think about SaltStack and/or MongoDB.



> 
> [1] basic commands - peer-probe, volume-create, volume-start and
> volume-add-brick
> 

Regards,
Bala


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