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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

Example librados application

We will now go through some example librados applications that use librados to get a better understanding of what you can accomplish with the library.

The following example will take you through the steps to create an application which, when given an image file as a parameter, will store the image as an object in a Ceph cluster and store various attributes about the image file as object attributes. The application will also allow you to retrieve the object and export it as an image file. This example will be written in Python, which is also supported by librados. The following example also uses the Python Imaging Library (PIL) to read an image's size and the argument parser library to read command-line parameters:

  1. Install the librados Python bindings and image-manipulation libraries:
$ sudo apt-get install python-rados python-imaging

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