CoreOS Launches Torus, a New Open Source Distributed Storage System (infoworld.com) 26
CoreOS on Wednesday launched Torus, an open source project that provides storage primitives designed for cloud-native apps and can be deployed like a containerized app via Kubernetes. With Torus, startups and enterprises get access to the same kind of technologies that web-scale companies such as Google already use internally. NetworkWorld reports: Torus is deployed by Kubernetes, side by side with the apps to which it provides storage, and it uses Kubernetes's Flexvolume plugin to allow dynamic mounting of volumes for nodes in the cluster. This allows, for example, PostgreSQL to run atop Torus storage volumes. Torus also demonstrates how CoreOS is working on what happens around containers, not only what happens inside them. A key part of Torus is etcd, a distributed key/value store used by CoreOS to automatically keep configuration data consistent across all machines in a cluster. In Torus, etcd is used to store and replicate metadata for all the files and objects stored in the pool.
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CEPH is cool when will VMware be able to use it with out an iscsi bridge
Re: Ceph? (Score:1)
Proxmox uses ceph natively.
Re:I have no idea what this is. (Score:4, Informative)
My understanding is it's basically an open source way of creating something like a file system without any bottlenecks, so thousands of containers can use it all at the same time.
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I will concur. There have been very good and very useless releases, and we get the marketing view which unfortunately confuses things. Buzzwords are prioritized over the actual thing. For example, there's a lot of talk about containers and postgresql, but it's not clear that there's really good reason to call those technologies out as intrinsically related. I say that but it's clear that the postgresql is completely unrelated, just an example of using it.
Only missed CoreOS Fest by this much . (Score:2)
No word at all about this at CoreOS Fest just a few weeks earlier?
It was very interesting that all their vendors and tech demos were based on Kubernetes, rather than CoreOS-developed Fleet, actually there was a single Fleet based demo, by the NginX guys, but they seems pretty aware that they were demoing their product with a depreciated system.
Caveat Emptor: it's all written in Go and Shell (Score:3, Interesting)
I took a quick look at CoreOS and all it's companion software noticed that everything the but the lowest level stuff was written entirely in Go and Shell... and LOTS of it. While Shell will live on, no guarantees that Go won't be unsupported in a few years. This really looks like another unmaintainable mess.
Re: Caveat Emptor: it's all written in Go and Shel (Score:3, Informative)
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Re: Caveat Emptor: it's all written in Go and Shel (Score:1)
Perl us undead and cannot be killed by mortal weapons
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I guess you don't know that bash is not the only shell or that their have been other shell scripting languages in the past that are no not used often?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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and i guess you don't know that Shell is a UNIX standard. [opengroup.org]
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I suppose Google could abandon the language, but if they developed it to specifically address problems they were having, then I would expect it to be around for some time.
Really? (Score:1)
Did you just seriously use the term "web scale"?
Naming confusion (Score:2)