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

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September 8, 2013
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