Ceph comes with a vey powerful deployment tool known as ceph-deploy. The ceph-deploy tool relies on SSH for deploying Ceph software on cluster nodes, so it has the basic requirement that node should be installed with OS and it should be reachable on the network. The ceph-deploy tool does not demand additional system resources and it can perform well on a regular workstation machine that should have access to cluster nodes.

You can also consider using any of your monitor nodes as a ceph-deploy node. The ceph-deploy tool makes Ceph deployment easy with initial default configuration that can be modified later based on your use case. The ceph-deploy tool provides features such as installing Ceph packages, cluster creation, monitor and OSD addition, Ceph key management, MDS creation, configuring admin hosts, and tearing down the Ceph cluster.

Earlier in this book, in Chapter 2, Ceph Instant Deployment, we have seen how to deploy a Ceph cluster...