# Gluster Gluster is a software defined distributed storage that can scale to several petabytes. It provides interfaces for object, block and file storage. ## Development Contributions to gluster in the form of patches and new feature additions can be made by following steps outlined at [Developers Guide](http://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Developer-guide/Developers-Index/#contributing-to-the-gluster-community). ## Documentation The Gluster documentation can be found at [Gluster Docs](http://docs.gluster.org). ## Deployment Quick instructions to build and install can be found in [INSTALL](INSTALL) file. ## Maintainers The list of Gluster maintainers is available in [MAINTAINERS](MAINTAINERS) file. ## License Gluster is dual licensed under [GPLV2](COPYING-GPLV2) and [LGPLV3+](COPYING-LGPLV3). Please visit the [Gluster Home Page](http://www.gluster.org/) to find out more about Gluster.