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Ceph Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Karan Singh, Hackett, Umrao
Book Image

Ceph Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Karan Singh, Hackett, Umrao

Overview of this book

Ceph is a unified distributed storage system designed for reliability and scalability. This technology has been transforming the software-defined storage industry and is evolving rapidly as a leader with its wide range of support for popular cloud platforms such as OpenStack, and CloudStack, and also for virtualized platforms. Ceph is backed by Red Hat and has been developed by community of developers which has gained immense traction in recent years. This book will guide you right from the basics of Ceph , such as creating blocks, object storage, and filesystem access, to advanced concepts such as cloud integration solutions. The book will also cover practical and easy to implement recipes on CephFS, RGW, and RBD with respect to the major stable release of Ceph Jewel. Towards the end of the book, recipes based on troubleshooting and best practices will help you get to grips with managing Ceph storage in a production environment. By the end of this book, you will have practical, hands-on experience of using Ceph efficiently for your storage requirements.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Setting up OpenStack

OpenStack setup and configuration is beyond the scope of this book, however, for ease of demonstration, we will use a virtual machine that is preinstalled with the OpenStack RDO Juno release. If you like, you can also use your own OpenStack environment and can perform Ceph integration.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will demonstrate setting up a preconfigured OpenStack environment using Vagrant and accessing it via CLI and GUI:

  1. Launch openstack-node1 using vagrantfile as we did for Ceph nodes in the last chapter. Make sure that you are on the host machine and are under the Ceph-Cookbook-Second-Edition repository before bringing up openstack-node1 using Vagrant:
        # cd Ceph-Cookbook-Second-Edition...