July Community Conversation

Many in last month's meeting expressed interest in a working meeting where decisions are made on how to move forward with a cohesive storage plug-in that can be used by many as a framework for more vendor specific tools. View this post to watch the recording or read a recap of the meeting.

This meeting covered deployment patterns, collaboration, and architectural discussions for ColdFront storage plugins and dashboarding.

Poll Insights

• 4:00 – ColdFront deployment trends and OS, DB, Python preferences.

Community Sharing

• 7:00 – No formal agenda, call for community demos.

Storage Plugin Strategy

• 11:30 – Portable plugin architecture using base libraries + shims.
• 16:00 – Vast and TrueNAS API-based abstraction challenges.

Storage Use Cases

• 30:00 – Permissions, quotas, and usage monitoring.

Visualization Enhancements

• 50:00 – XDMod + Slurm data visualized via D3/Plotly.