Installing Gluster
For RPM based distributions, if you will be using InfiniBand, add the glusterfs RDMA package to the installations. For RPM based systems, yum is used as the install method in order to satisfy external depencies such as compat-readline5
Community Packages
Packages are provided according to this table.
For Debian
Add the GPG key to apt:
wget -O - http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/rsa.pub | apt-key add -
Add the source:
DEBID=$(grep 'VERSION_ID=' /etc/os-release | cut -d '=' -f 2 | tr -d '"')
DEBVER=$(grep 'VERSION=' /etc/os-release | grep -Eo '[a-z]+')
echo deb https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/LATEST/Debian/${DEBID}/apt ${DEBVER} main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gluster.list
Update package list:
apt-get update
Install:
apt-get install glusterfs-server
For Ubuntu
Ubuntu 10 and 12: install python-software-properties:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
Ubuntu 14: install software-properties-common:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
Then add the community GlusterFS PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gluster/glusterfs-3.8
sudo apt-get update
Finally, install the packages:
sudo apt-get install glusterfs-server
Note: Packages exist for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 12.10, 13.10, and 14.04 LTS
For Red Hat/CentOS
RPMs for CentOS and other RHEL clones are available from the CentOS Storage SIG mirrors.
For more installation details refer Gluster Quick start guide from CentOS Storage SIG.
For Fedora
Install the Gluster packages:
yum install glusterfs-server
Once you are finished installing, you can move on to configuration section.
For Arch Linux
Install the Gluster package:
pacman -S glusterfs