Since the last newsletter, I have been busy with conferences. First, I attended the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit in Vienna. Unfortunately, lower Austria was hit by severe rainfall and a huge storm just before it started. It was a bumpy flight for the attendees from far away. For some of the locals, it was next to impossible to get to the conference venue through the flooded area. Even with the unexpected weather, I was able to meet with people from OpenNebula and Proxmox.
The Linux Foundation’s Membership summit followed that. At the one-day event, I learned that Switzerland now has a law that requires government organizations to open-source any code they develop using taxpayers’ money. “Public money, public code” is a campaign for the FSFE to become a reality. While at that event, I met Charles from Vates, the company behind XCP-ng.
So, you might think that only ShapeBlue, the company behind CloudStack, is missing. But Rene met them in Frankfurt at the Cloud Stack European User Group meeting. As usual, we perceived high interest in combining CloudStack and LINBIT SDS.
Finally, I am preparing for the Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit. Here, we are testing the waters for updating DRBD® in the upstream Linux kernel to version 9.
Moving onto LINBIT content, the team has been productive since I last wrote. ‘Setting Up Highly Available Storage for Proxmox Using LINSTOR & the LINBIT GUI’ guides readers through installing and integrating LINSTOR with Proxmox VE using the open-source LINBIT GUI instead of the LINSTOR CLI client.
Next, ‘Managing Software-Defined Storage with the LINBIT GUI’ is more of a general topic, focusing on the benefits of managing storage with the LINBIT GUI after we made the software open source.
‘Independent Performance Testing of DRBD by E4’ is a guest blog post by Davide Obbi, a Storage Specialist at the Italy-based company E4. They evaluated DRBD for use in their high-performance computing (HPC) ecosystem, and we are delighted to share the results and data on our blog.
I’d also like to share ‘Scaling Jenkins for HA & DR using AWS, Kubernetes, & LINSTOR,’ which is quite self-explanatory, and ‘Highly Available NFS Exports with DRBD & Pacemaker,’ which explains how to configure a highly available (HA) active/passive NFS server on a three-node Linux cluster by using DRBD and Pacemaker.
The Linux Foundation has released three LINBIT presentations from the recent Open Source Summit event in Austria. You can watch all of them here. Hidden in Plain Sight: Corner Case Defects by Robert Altnoeder, Kustomize Your Operator by Moritz Wanzenböck, and Virter – How the “Docker for VMs” Can Help You Test the Linux Kernel by Christoph Böhmwalder.
Finally, recent software updates include linstor-server 1.29.1, which increases performance on large LVM-THIN pool clusters > 1200 LVs, and an update to python-linstor/linstor-client 1.23.1.
