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Mastering Ceph - Second Edition

By : Nick Fisk
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Mastering Ceph - Second Edition

By: Nick Fisk

Overview of this book

Ceph is an open source distributed storage system that is scalable to Exabyte deployments. This second edition of Mastering Ceph takes you a step closer to becoming an expert on Ceph. You’ll get started by understanding the design goals and planning steps that should be undertaken to ensure successful deployments. In the next sections, you’ll be guided through setting up and deploying the Ceph cluster with the help of orchestration tools. This will allow you to witness Ceph’s scalability, erasure coding (data protective) mechanism, and automated data backup features on multiple servers. You’ll then discover more about the key areas of Ceph including BlueStore, erasure coding and cache tiering with the help of examples. Next, you’ll also learn some of the ways to export Ceph into non-native environments and understand some of the pitfalls that you may encounter. The book features a section on tuning that will take you through the process of optimizing both Ceph and its supporting infrastructure. You’ll also learn to develop applications, which use Librados and distributed computations with shared object classes. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll learn to troubleshoot issues and handle various scenarios where Ceph is not likely to recover on its own. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to master storage management with Ceph and generate solutions for managing your infrastructure.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Planning And Deployment
6
Section 2: Operating and Tuning
13
Section 3: Troubleshooting and Recovery

Ceph in containers

We have seen previously that by using orchestration tools such as Ansible we can reduce the work required to deploy, manage, and maintain a Ceph cluster. We have also seen how these tools can help you discover available hardware resources and deploy Ceph to them.

However, using Ansible to configure bare-metal servers still results in a very static deployment, possibly not best suited for today's more dynamic workloads. Designing Ansible playbooks also needs to take into account several different Linux distributions and also any changes that may occur between different releases; systemd is a great example of this. Furthermore, a lot of development in orchestration tools needs to be customized to handle discovering, deploying, and managing Ceph. This is a common theme that the Ceph developers have thought about; with the use of Linux containers and their...