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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)

Change and configuration management

If you deploy your infrastructure with an orchestration tool such as Ansible, managing the Ansible playbooks becomes important. As we have seen Ansible allows you to rapidly deploy both the initial Ceph cluster but also configuration updates further down the line. It must be appreciated that this power can also have devastating effects if incorrect configuration or operations are deployed. By implementing some form of configuration management, Ceph administrators will clearly be able to see what changes have been made to the Ansible playbooks before running them.

A recommended approach would be to store your Ceph Ansible configuration in a git repository, this will allow you to track changes and gives the ability to implement some form of change control either by monitoring git commits or by forcing people to submit merge requests into the master branch.

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