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CoreOS Launches Torus, a New Open Source Distributed Storage System (infoworld.com)
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.
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.
CEPH is cool when will VMware be able to use it with out an iscsi bridge
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.
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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.
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Proxmox uses ceph natively.
Did you just seriously use the term "web scale"?
Their main competitor, docker, is also written in go. What you are suggesting is very unlikely.
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Actually, there was this argument recently that not most, but all tools in this class of software are being written in Go nowadays. I can't seem to find the link, though. Someone on Twitter was surprised about having found it out. (Is there even any other example of something similar? I can only think of most OS kernels being written in C.)
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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.
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