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Re: ClusterHQ is shutting down

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Post by icebraining »

halestock wrote: post #25
BinaryIdiot wrote: post #8

How many people were employed at ClusterHQ? Honestly I never even heard of the company but I had heard of some of the open source projects. Maybe I'm just out of the loop. Also any information as to lessons learned, etc? Basically why it failed? Looking at the marketing material I didn't see anything really remarkable about it (nothing that stood out as a "oh this is why I would give them money") so I'm curious. > I’…

It kind of reeks of entitlement to me. You would never see someone who is barely scraping by at a blue-collar job make a post celebrating getting laid off.

How does celebrating the shut down of their company show that they believe themselves to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment?

Re: ClusterHQ is shutting down

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Post by colanderman »

chrissnell wrote: post #15

We've been running Kubernetes (500+ containers) in production for over a year now. I believe (and hope) that 2017 will be the year that persistent data storage will be solved. We are ready to move our data out of OpenStack and have our data services (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB) join the rest of our apps on Kube-orchestrated infrastructure. But, we're not there yet. The options just aren't good enough. L…

Check out the startup I work for, ClearSky Data [1]. We provide cloud-hosted block storage with SAN-level performance to your private datacenter and enterprise-grade durability and availability at a competitive price. I'd be glad to answer any questions you have (I'm an engineer) or point you to someone who can.

[1] http://www.clearskydata.com/

Re: ClusterHQ is shutting down

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Post by chrissnell »

colanderman wrote: post #53
chrissnell wrote: post #15

We've been running Kubernetes (500+ containers) in production for over a year now. I believe (and hope) that 2017 will be the year that persistent data storage will be solved. We are ready to move our data out of OpenStack and have our data services (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB) join the rest of our apps on Kube-orchestrated infrastructure. But, we're not there yet. The options just aren't good enough. L…

Check out the startup I work for, ClearSky Data [1]. We provide cloud-hosted block storage with SAN-level performance to your private datacenter and enterprise-grade durability and availability at a competitive price. I'd be glad to answer any questions you have (I'm an engineer) or point you to someone who can. [1] http://www.clearskydata.com/

We don't use public cloud. We're hosted on dedicated hardware for a number of reasons. While we're not opposed to commercial solutions, we strongly prefer open source solutions for obvious reasons (like, this ClusterHQ situation).

Re: ClusterHQ is shutting down

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Post by blazespin »

Johnny555 wrote: post #32

It seems a little odd to do this 3 days before Christmas. Holiday depression is already a real problem, and making people unemployed a few days before the holiday sounds like a bad thing. And it's a terrible time to be job hunting. Why not hold on a few more weeks, let employees enjoy the holidays and announce in mid-January when employees can actually talk to hiring managers and get some good job prospects instead o…

How do you magically hold on a few more weeks? Is there some magical startup christmas pay holiday fund I don't know about? Or are you proposing to just string them along and simply not pay them in the new year?

Re: ClusterHQ is shutting down

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Post by colanderman »

chrissnell wrote: post #54
colanderman wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out the startup I work for, ClearSky Data [1]. We provide cloud-hosted block storage with SAN-level performance to your private datacenter and enterprise-grade durability and availability at a competitive price. I'd be glad to answer any questions you have (I'm an engineer) or point you to someone who can. [1] http://www.clearskydata.com/

We don't use public cloud. We're hosted on dedicated hardware for a number of reasons. While we're not opposed to commercial solutions, we strongly prefer open source solutions for obvious reasons (like, this ClusterHQ situation).

You don't have to. We provide iSCSI or FC access points in your private datacenter.

Re: ClusterHQ is shutting down

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Post by parasubvert »

chrissnell wrote: post #30
sandGorgon wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

curious to know what you are doing right now ? I'm planning to deploy a redis cluster on a private cloud and am wondering what to use. do you use hostpath right now ?

We don't put any persistent data into Kube. Everything goes into OpenStack instances (Ubuntu), orchestrated by Chef. We hate it. OpenStack SDN has been flaky, Chef is a pain and doesn't support the latest Ubuntu releases well, none of the devs or technical ops engineers like it. It's my #1 goal for 2017: figure out persistent volumes for Kube.

Disclaimer I work at Pivotal but - I'd suggest taking a look at http://bosh.io which can handle full stack automation ; there already are quality releases for MySQL, elastic, mongo (from anynines), and Cassandra, with commercially supported releases in some cases with fully orchestrated vm and volume management on Openstack.

These are for cloud foundry nominally but (yay actually collaborating foundations) the open service broker API ( https://www.openservicebrokerapi.org/ ) allows you to hook these into Kube and (the best part) standardize how your CI/CD pipelines manage the lifecycle of these services independently of whether they're backed by Openstack today or Kubernetes tomorrow.

Persistent volumes for these sorts of services on Kube will require the new PetSet primitive to mature.

Re: ClusterHQ is shutting down

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Post by parasubvert »

chrissnell wrote: post #15

We've been running Kubernetes (500+ containers) in production for over a year now. I believe (and hope) that 2017 will be the year that persistent data storage will be solved. We are ready to move our data out of OpenStack and have our data services (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB) join the rest of our apps on Kube-orchestrated infrastructure. But, we're not there yet. The options just aren't good enough. L…

I'd suggest looking at ScaleIO from EMC which is free for unsupported use I believe. It is blazing fast, runs on bog standard Linux, and supports K8S and Cinder. It's the most impressive block storage product for high performance I've seen.

http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/killing-the-sto...

Re: ClusterHQ is shutting down

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Post by tw04 »

chrissnell wrote: post #15

We've been running Kubernetes (500+ containers) in production for over a year now. I believe (and hope) that 2017 will be the year that persistent data storage will be solved. We are ready to move our data out of OpenStack and have our data services (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB) join the rest of our apps on Kube-orchestrated infrastructure. But, we're not there yet. The options just aren't good enough. L…

>NFS? No way. Not performant.

Really?

https://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/res2011q4/sfs2008-20111...

And those are nothing compared to modern systems.

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