> if your DFS works within a docker container you'll have a very strong differentiator since the rest don't.

Untrue. Gluster is already deployed that way in many places. Yes, in production and at scale.

Do you mean hackery of this sort:

http://blog.xebia.com/persistence-with-docker-containers-tea...

Or do you know of clean, container only (no plugins or special external tools) solution ?

Oh, sorry, didn't realize we were playing the "move the goalposts" game. If you were to google for "gluster" and "containers" you'd get everything from slick marketing stuff to a presentation at the recent Gluster developer summit in Berlin. I have no idea if any of those would meet your next set of standards but, frankly, meh.

Container hosting with a homogeneous cluster constraint was a real requirement for me that I could not find a solution for amongst existing options but since you're a gluster dev you'd probably know better whether its possible; so happy to stand corrected. Thanks for correcting; and no offence intended.

It is certainly possible. The first user I know of who did this was using Mesos. Nowadays the push is more around doing it with Kubernetes and OpenShift; I know there was at least one presentation on it at Red Hat Summit. I'm a core-infrastructure guy, so that's kind of not my bailiwick, but if there's nothing in Gluster's own documentation about such things there might be something in one of those other communities.