GlusterFS is a distributed file system that can be used to create high-performance and highly-available storage infrastructures. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps of installing GlusterFS on Alpine Linux latest.
Before we begin, we need to update the package manager:
sudo apk update
Run the following command to install GlusterFS:
sudo apk add glusterfs
By default, the GlusterFS service is not started automatically after installation. You will need to start it manually using the following command:
sudo rc-service glusterd start
Alternatively, you can enable it to start automatically at boot time:
sudo rc-update add glusterd
Create a directory where we will create our Gluster Volume. This is the directory where Gluster will store files on the distributed file system:
sudo mkdir /gluster-brick1
Next, add the server to the trusted pool so it can participate in the distributed file system:
sudo gluster peer probe <server_name_or_ip_address>
Next, create a new Gluster volume. For example, if we want to create a volume named gfs-test, we would run the following command:
sudo gluster volume create gfs-test <server_name_or_ip_address>:/gluster-brick1
Once the volume is created, start it using the following command:
sudo gluster volume start gfs-test
You can check the status of the volume with this command:
sudo gluster volume status
Now that our GlusterFS volume is up and running, let's mount it using FUSE:
sudo mkdir /mnt/gfs-test
sudo mount -t glusterfs <server_name_or_ip_address>:/gfs-test /mnt/gfs-test
Congratulations! You have successfully installed GlusterFS on Alpine Linux latest and configured a distributed file system that can be used for high-performance and highly-available storage infrastructures.
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