Glusterfs in RancherOS -- What is a normal setup?

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I’m fairly new to all of this container stuff and I guess I don’t understand some fundamental concepts.

If I create a few glusterfs servers should I install the client on my RancherOS host? Is that possible if I use the Ubuntu console? Will the client be removed when I eventually update RancherOS? I know the volume is destroyed if I switch consoles. Or should the client be installed in my WordPress container? If it should be installed to my WordPress container, how do I backup my data? I tried to create a volume from host to glusterfs client. And the files I created from my host didn’t sync. As you can see I have a huge gap in my knowledge of glusterfs, please help me fill it :slight_smile: .

Thanks.

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GlusterFS servers need to be located on main hosts (which one/many provide volume(-s)), then in rancher OS inside docker install Convoy-Agent (example files located bottom). After that in docker images used for critical data, use convoy-glusterfs driver to store and sync data from it.

And the example (working right now on my cattle cloud):
http://pastebin.com/SUGJF7cR (rancher-compose.yml)
http://pastebin.com/yT9LSgNm (docker-compose.yml)

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How are you able to install GlusterFS on RancherOS? Do you have to use one of the other consoles like Ubuntu?