Anouncement: napp-it cs, any OS, 1/4/6/8 node management for RustFS on ZFS software raid

[guenther-alka]

We are pleased to announce the availability of napp-it cs rc9. This release focuses on comprehensive code refactoring, security audits, and enhanced AI-friendly capabilities for managing cross-platform ZFS and S3 RustFS server groups in 1/4/6/8-node, "single disk" setups (=ZFS raid in managed in ZFS) and RustFS Site replication planned for network mirrors.

Key Features & Architecture

• Client-Server Architecture: A single frontend management server (Web-GUI) connects to and controls multiple backend servers using a lightweight, highly efficient 50K remote control socket service with RustFS S3 and Restic encryption keys only on Frontend, never on Nodes.

• Sngle folder, copy and run setup: No installation required

• Cross-OS Support: Fully compatible with FreeBSD, Illumos (OmniOS, OpenIndiana), Linux, macOS, Solaris, and Windows.

• main focus: OmniOS LTS serverside (Unix, Solaris fork) due its ultra fast and minimalistic setup and superiour ZFS stability and Linux/Proxmox due marketshare

Storage Technology Integration: Unified management for OpenZFS (including Illumos and Solaris ZFS native flavors), S3 Object Storage via RustFS, Restic and Rclone, and Windows Storage Spaces.

• AI-Driven Customization: Designed to be AI-friendly. Developers can upload the complete napp-it cs folder to an AI assistant (such as Claude) to seamlessly implement private menus, fix bugs, or perform code reviews based on our integrated behavior guidelines

• https://www.napp-it.org/pdf/csweb-gui_use_ai.pdf

Release Candidate 9 download
single node setup is always free, 3 node setup free for noncommercial use

• http://napp-it.org/doc/downloads/napp-it_cs.zip (all OS, unzip csweb-gui to /var and run)
• http://napp-it.org/doc/downloads/xampp.zip (Windows, unzip xampp to c:\xampp and run)

discuss:
https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?forums/solaris-nexenta-openindiana-and-napp-it.26/ or https://hardforum.com/threads/openzfs-nas-bsd-illumos-linux-osx-solaris-windows-storage-spaces-with-napp-it-web-gui.1573272/

[guenther-alka]

I have added a Menu Pool > S3 > Site Replication to current rc 9.1
but I am undecided about options

Opt1: single bucket replication
Opt2: multiple bucket replication
Opt3: all buckets=site replication

Site replication=single node only or n x node cluster?

As I mainly want to use single node, single disk setup (on a ZFS pool) with a 1:1 replication to a second RustFS,
my preferred option is propable single node with single bucket or site (all buckets) replication

I will add rc client for management