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
< at >gluster .

Cheers,
Niels de Vos
Storage SIG member & Gluster maintainer