I am happy to announce the General Availability of Gluster 3.6 and 3.7 for CentOS 6 on x86_64. These packages are following the upstream Gluster Community releases, with one minor update for each version per month.

Users of CentOS 6 can now simply install Gluster with only these two commands:

# yum install centos-release-gluster # yum install glusterfs-server

The centos-release-gluster content comes from the centos-release-gluster37 package delivered via CentOS Extras repos. This contains all the metadata and dependancy information, needed to install Gluster 3.7.

For people looking at running Gluster 3.6, there is the centos-release-gluster36 package. In order to get this version, substitute the step-1 mentioned above with:

# yum install centos-release-gluster36

We have a quickstart guide specifically built around the packages are available now, it makes for a good introduction to Gluster and will help get you started in just a few simple steps, this quick start is available at https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/gluster-Quickstart

More details about the packages that the Gluster project provides in the Storage SIG is available in the documentation: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/Gluster

The centos-release-gluster* repositories offer additional packages that enhance the usability of Gluster itself. Users can request additional tools and applications to be provided, just send us an email with your suggestions. The current list of packages that is (planned to become) available can be found here: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage/Gluster/Ecosystem-pkgs

Gluster is the first project that provides packages through the Storage SIG. Other projects are in the process to do so too. General information about the SIG can be read in the wiki: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage

We welcome all feedback, comments and contributions. You can get in touch with the CentOS Storage SIG on the centos-devel mailing list ( https://lists.centos.org ) and with the Gluster developer and user communities at https://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo , we are also available on irc at #gluster on irc.freenode.net, and on twitter at @gluster .

Cheers, Niels de Vos Storage SIG member & Gluster maintainer