Welcome to the landing page of the Gluster Experience for Developers and Integration (GEDI) team. We are a group of people that are working on integrations of Gluster in different projects, and help others on our mailinglist.
This git repository does not intend to have any source code. Instead, it is only used for GitHub Issues that are the base for tracking progress on different projects.
The main use-case for integrating projects closely with Gluster is to enhance
the usability and in many cases performance. Many projects use libgfapi to
natively connect to Gluster Volumes and perform I/O without going through a
mountpoint in the filesystem. libgfapi can be used from different programming
languages, bindings are available for:
- C, native
libgfapi.sofrom the GlusterFS Project - Python
- Java
- Golang
Below follows a (likely incomplete) list of other software projects that have been integrated with Gluster in some way or form. Additions, corrections and improved descriptions can be contributed through GitHub Pull Requests.
gluster-containers provides Docker container specifications for GlusterFS.
gluster-kubernetes provides tools and examples for deploying and using GlusterFS in the Kubernetes and OpenShift container platforms. It uses heketi to facilitate volume management of GlusterFS from within the container platforms.
heketi is a versatile, RESTful volume management interface for GlusterFS, able to manage volumes across multiple clusters and thus enabling GlusterFS at larger scales. It can be run as a system daemon or as a container, and can manage containerized and non- containerized GlusterFS clusters.
NFS-Ganesha is a userspace NFS-server that
supports different storage backends through the so called FSAL interface. There
is a FSAL_GLUSTER that uses libgfapi to connect to Gluster Volumes and
export those over NFSv3 and NFSv4.
oVirt is an open-source virtualization platform that allows users to manage virtual machines, storage and virtualized networks from a web interface. Gluster has been integrated with oVirt to provide the storage for virtual machine images and can be deployed in hyperconverged mode. oVirt can also manage and monitor your standalone Gluster deployments.
gluster-swift Gluster-Swift provides object interface to GlusterFS volumes. It allows files and directories created on GlusterFS volume to be accessed as objects via the OpenStack Swift and S3 API.
gluster-block makes it easy to export block-images stored on Gluster Volumes through iSCSI (with multipath). The project planning for gluster-block tracks the tasks that are planned, happening and finished.
nagios-server-addons and gluster-nagios-addons provide plugins to configure and monitor gluster services via Nagios.