Ceph nano is getting better and better

cn big updates

Long time no blog, I know, I know… Soon, I will do another blog entry to “explain” a little why I am not blogging as much I used too but if you’re still around and reading this then thank you! For the past few months, cn has grown in functionality so let’s explore what’s new and what’s coming.

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Huge changes in ceph-container

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A massive refactor done a week ago on ceph-container. And yes, I’m saying ceph-container, not ceph-docker anymore. We don’t have anything against Docker, we believe it’s excellent and we use it extensively. However, having the ceph-docker name does not reflect the content of the repository. Docker is only the Dockerfile, the rest is either entrypoints or examples. In the end, we believe ceph-container is a better match for the repository name.

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Ansible module to create CRUSH hierarchy

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First post of the year after a long time with no article, three months… I know it has been a while, I wish I had more time to do more blogging. I have tons of draft articles that never made it through, I need to make up for lost time.

So for this first post, let me introduce an Ansible I wrote for ceph-ansible: ceph_crush.

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Learning Ceph - Second Edition

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Learning Ceph - Second Edition was published in October 2017.

This is special post to highlight a new book I’ve been helping with. Good colleagues of mine wrote that book and I encourage anyone willing to learn Ceph to get a copy of it. The book is available on Amazon.

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Introducing ceph-nano

Introducing ceph-nano

I’ve recently started a small project that aims to help developers working with the S3 API. The program is called cn for Ceph Nano, is available on github let me give you a tour of what it does. I initially presented the program during my talk at the last OpenStack summit in Sydney. Originally, I wrote a quick prototype in Bash, then moved to Go.

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