Confluent

Confluent is a software package to handle essential bootstrap and operation of scale-out server configurations. It supports stateful and stateless deployments for various operating systems.

Check this page for a more detailed list of features.

Confluent is the modern successor of xCAT. If you're coming from xCAT, check out this comparison.

Documentation

Confluent documentation is hosted on: https://xcat2.github.io/confluent-docs/

Download

Get the latest version from: https://xcat2.github.io/confluent-docs/downloads/

Check release notes on: https://xcat2.github.io/confluent-docs/release_notes/

Open Source License

Confluent is made available under the Apache 2.0 license: https://opensource.org/license/apache-2-0

Developers

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Versioning and releases

The top-level VERSION file names the release the current branch is working toward. Build scripts call ./mkversion, which turns it into the version stamped on packages: the tag itself on a release tag (4.0.1), otherwise a development version (4.0.1.dev5+gdeadbee, or 4.0.1~dev5+gdeadbee for the packages that have no setup.py).

mkversion also derives a version from the newest tag reachable from HEAD and uses whichever is higher, so forgetting to bump VERSION after tagging the current branch cannot walk the version backwards. Staying ahead of tags on other branches is what VERSION itself is for: patch releases are tagged on release branches, which master never sees.

Cutting a new series:

1. Land the release commit on master and tag X.Y.0 there.
2. Create branch X.Y from that tag; it inherits VERSION=X.Y.0.
3. Only then bump VERSION on master. Doing it before step 2 leaves the release branch on the wrong series.

Patch releases land on branch X.Y and are tagged X.Y.Z there; no VERSION edit is needed.