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This sub-session achieved the end-to-end deployment and validation of a QA environment for the FGW distributed storage system on three physical nodes (head node 10.1.232.82, kuri1 10.1.232.83, kuri2 10.1.232.84). The assistant built the deployment from scratch using Ansible, installing a single-node YugabyteDB, creating both SQL and CQL keyspaces, building and deploying kuri and s3-proxy binaries, and securing sensitive credentials (CIDgravity token, wallet files) in restricted-access vault files rather than plaintext. When kuri services failed to start due to "dirty migration" flags left by prior tests in the `schema_migrations` CQL tables, the assistant manually corrected those flags to false, enabling both storage nodes to launch successfully. Cross-node S3 reads initially failed because each node could only serve local blocks; the assistant resolved this by deploying the s3-proxy frontend on the head node, configuring it with all backend node addresses, and routing all S3 traffic through the proxy, which correctly dispatched requests to the owning node based on stored object metadata. The assistant also demonstrated disciplined infrastructure management by switching from manual SSH to Ansible playbooks when the user questioned the approach, and restored the repository to a clean state by reverting unintended code deletions that had removed GC and cache integration code.

QA cluster deployment on physical nodesResolving dirty CQL migration stateS3 proxy frontend for cross-node accessSecure credential vaulting with runtime loadingAnsible-driven infrastructure automationMulti-node distributed storage verificationRepository state restoration and cleanliness

From Bare Metal to Balanced Traffic: The Complete QA Cluster Deployment of a Distributed Storage System 4755 words

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