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Mastering Ceph

By : Nick Fisk
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Mastering Ceph

By: Nick Fisk

Overview of this book

Mastering Ceph covers all that you need to know to use Ceph effectively. Starting with design goals and planning steps that should be undertaken to ensure successful deployments, you will be guided through to setting up and deploying the Ceph cluster, with the help of orchestration tools. Key areas of Ceph including Bluestore, Erasure coding and cache tiering will be covered with help of examples. Development of applications which use Librados and Distributed computations with shared object classes are also covered. A section on tuning will take you through the process of optimisizing both Ceph and its supporting infrastructure. Finally, you will learn to troubleshoot issues and handle various scenarios where Ceph is likely not to recover on its own. By the end of the book, you will be able to successfully deploy and operate a resilient high performance Ceph cluster.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

You should now have an understanding on what RADOS classes are and how they can be used to speed up processing by moving tasks directly to OSD. From building simple classes via Lua to developing classes in the Ceph source tree via C++, you should now have the knowledge to build a RADOS class for whatever problem you are trying to solve. By building on this concept, there is nothing stopping you from building a larger application that can take advantage of the scale-out nature of a Ceph cluster to provide large amounts of storage and compute resource.

For more examples of how to use RADOS object classes, please consult the hello object class in the Ceph source tree found at https://github.com/ceph/ceph/blob/master/src/cls/hello/cls_hello.cc.