iXsystems, the company that develops the FreeNAS distribution for rapid deployment of network storage and the commercial TrueNAS products based on it, has published the first stable release of the TrueNAS SCALE distribution, notable for its use of the kernel Linux and package base Debian, while all previously released products from this company, including TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD), were based on FreeBSD. Like TrueNAS CORE (FreeNAS), the new product can be downloaded and used free of charge. The ISO image size is 1.5 GB. Development of TrueNAS SCALE-specific build scripts, web interface, and intermediaries is underway on GitHub.
Development and support of TrueNAS CORE (FreeNAS) based on FreeBSD will continue - solutions based on FreeBSD and Linux will coexist and complement each other, using a common toolkit codebase and a standard web interface. TrueNAS SCALE uses ZFS (OpenZFS) as its file system. Providing an additional kernel-based edition Linux The reason for this is the desire to implement certain ideas that are unachievable using FreeBSD. It's worth noting that this isn't the first such initiative—in 2009, the OpenMediaVault distribution forked from FreeNAS and migrated to the kernel. Linux and package base Debian.
One of the key improvements in TrueNAS SCALE is the ability to create storage hosted on multiple nodes, while TrueNAS CORE (FreeNAS) is positioned as a single-node solution. ServerIn addition to increased scalability, TrueNAS SCALE also features isolated containers, simplified infrastructure management, and suitability for building software-defined infrastructures. TrueNAS SCALE provides support for Docker containers, KVM-based virtualization, and ZFS scaling across multiple nodes using the Gluster distributed file system.
SMB, NFS, iSCSI Block Storage, S3 Object API, and Cloud Sync are supported for accessing the storage. For secure access, the connection can be made via VPN (OpenVPN). The storage can be deployed on a single node and then, as needs increase, gradually expanded horizontally by adding additional nodes.
In addition to performing tasks related to storage management, nodes can also be used to provide services and run applications in containers orchestrated using the Kubernetes platform or in KVM-based virtual machines. Future plans include the introduction of a catalog of ready-made containers with additional applications, such as NextCloud and Jenkins. Future plans also include support for OpenStack, K8s, KubeVirt, and pNFS. Wireguard, scaling FS snapshots and replication.
Source: opennet.ru
