Sébastien Han

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Luminous is just around the corner but we have been having packages available for a couple of weeks already. That’s why I recently thought: “how come don’t we have any Ceph container image for Luminous then?”. And I know a lot of you are eager to test the latest developments of Bluestore (the new method to store objects, directly on a raw device).

Now it’s done, you can fetch the ceph/daemon image using one of these two tags:

• tag-build-master-luminous-centos-7
• tag-build-master-luminous-ubuntu-16.04

And you will get a running Ceph cluster on Luminous.

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Thanks to this recent pull request, you can now bootstrap the Ceph Manager daemon. This new daemon was added during the Kraken development cycle, its main goal is to act as a hook for existing system to get monitoring information from the Ceph cluster. It normally runs alongside monitor daemons but can be deployed to any particular node. Using your preferred method, you can deploy it in a non-containerized or containerized fashion with ceph-ansible.

Also, we just released a new tag for ceph-ansible, 2.2.0, we will go through heavy testing during the next couple of weeks. This will result in a new stable version branched on stable-2.2. I will a new blog post for stable-2.2 once it’s out to highlight some of the best features and functionality we added.

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For the last couple of weeks, Erwan Velu and I have been busy refactoring the entire ceph-docker code base. Through these cosmetic changes, we implemented new mechanisms to finely grained debug containers at run time. This article was co-written with Erwan Velu and will explain what we worked on.

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During the last CDM (Ceph Developer Monthly), I presented a blueprint that will help Ceph playing nicely when it’s being containerized.

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I’m really sorry for being so quiet lately, I know I promised to release articles more regularly and I clearly failed… Many things are going on and where motivation is key to write articles, I’ve been having a hard time to find the right motivation to write :/

However, I am not giving up and I finally found the time to write a little bit on the things we improved in ceph-docker, our Ceph in container project.

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I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the RBD mirroring daemon so I thought I will do a blog post similar to a FAQ. Most of the features described in this article will likely be released for Ceph Luminous. Luminous should land this spring, so be patient :).

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Recently, I wrote an article that was published on InformationWeek. The article helps you understand the benefits of Storage Defined Software along with containers. In case you’re interested in reading it, click here.

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Just like promised last Monday, this article is the first of a series of informative blog posts about incoming Ceph features. Today, I’m cheating a little bit because I will decrypt one particular feature that went a bit unnoticed with Jewel. So we are discussing something that is already available but will have follow-ups with new Ceph releases. The feature doesn’t really have a name but it’s along the line of having an iSCSI support with the RBD protocol. With that, we can connect Ceph storage to hypervisors and/or operating systems that don’t have a native Ceph support but understand iSCSI. Technically speaking this targets non-Linux users who can not use librbd with QEMU or krbd directly.

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Happy New year! Bonne Année ! Best wishes to my readers :).

C’est le turfu and Ceph is moving fast, really fast and you won’t believe how many awesome features are currently in the pipe. So to start the year off the wheels, I’m planning on publishing a set of articles to tease you a little bit. But don’t get to excited, this is on-going work that will mature next year only. Starting this week on Friday and all the following ones and for an undetermined period of time. See you this Friday for the first blog post!

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I guess you got lucky, or maybe I felt so bad not posting anything for more than a month but here it is the last blog post of the year :).

With the latest release of Ceph, Jewel, a new Rados Gateway feature came out. This feature hasn’t really been advertised yet so I thought I will do a blog post. This is an initial implementation that will be improved in the first releases of Ceph obviously.

As this requires a couple of components, it is quite difficult at the moment to get it easily working. So even if we support it in ceph-ansible, this is not that stable yet. For example on Ubuntu, we need it to ship Ceph v10.2.5 on Xenial so that nfs-ganesha 2.4 can build a working Rados Gateway FSAL.

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