Linuxcon day one, Monday

I’m here in New Orleans at Linux Con, hacking on puppet-gluster and talking to lots of interesting folks. I’ve met gluster hacker Theron Conrey, and my host John Mark Walker, Fedora and Raspberry Pi experts Spot and Ruth Suehle, and many others too.

The hotel is very nice. The bathroom sink has two taps of course, but both of them are hot. The New Orleans heat is probably the cause of this.

I’m hacking at full speed to get some new features and testing in before my talk on Thursday. I’ve been reworking the simple firewall support in my puppet module. For those that want automated and correct firewall configuration, expect some improvements soon.

I also pushed some work on property management for gluster volumes. This commit adds a list of all available gluster properties. The patch is still missing type information for many of them, because I haven’t yet tested each one, but if there are some you’d like to use, please let me know. This is easy to patch.

More code is landing soon. Don’t be afraid to contact me if you’re not sure how to get started with puppet gluster, or if there’s a use case that I am not currently solving.

Happy Hacking,

James

PS: Sorry I published this late!

New puppet-gluster features before Linuxcon

Hey there,

I’ve done a bit of puppet-gluster hacking lately to try to squeeze some extra features and testing in before Linuxcon. Here’s a short list:

• SELinux fixes to keep Dan Walsh happy :)
• Ping and status checks before volume creation. Now puppet-gluster will be less noisy about failures or missing executions that are due to the necessary incremental nature of puppet-gluster runs. You’ll need multiple puppet runs to get a complete setup, so don’t let puppet complain part way through. This is due to the design of puppet.
• Simple filesystem paths for bricks. This is very useful for prototyping with virtual machines.
• Automatic UUID assignment for hosts. This requires exported resources.
• Updated examples
• And more…

If there are features or bugs that you’d like to see added or removed (respectively) please let me know ASAP so that I can try to get something ready for you before my Linuxcon talk. I also don’t have any hardware RAID or physical hardware to test external storage partitions (bricks) on. If you have any that you can donate or let me hack on for a while, there are some features I’d like to test. Contact me!

I’ve got a few more things queued up too, but you’ll have to wait and see. Until then,

Happy hacking,

James

Puppet-Gluster and me at Linuxcon

John Mark Walker, (from Redhat) has been kind enough to invite me to speak at the Linuxcon Gluster Workshop in New Orleans. I’ll be speaking about puppet-gluster, giving demos, and hopefully showing off some new features. I’m also looking forward to meeting up with gluster expert Joe Julian.

If there are features that puppet-gluster is missing, or you have a use case that I haven’t covered, please let me know, and I’ll try to work on it for you ahead of the conference. If you want to meet up for some puppet-gluster help, or to hack on code, I’ll be around from the 16th to the 20th of September. My talk is on the 19th.

Special thanks to John Mark and Redhat for sponsoring this trip. Without them, none of this would be possible.

Happy hacking,

James