Hey! What's up?!

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It has been a long time since I’ve been giving updates or even blogging. Let’s take some time here (while being on the plane) to update you on what I’m doing these days.

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The new Ceph container demo is super dope!

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I have been recently working on refactoring our Ceph container images. We used to have two separate images for daemon and demo. Recently, for Luminous, I decided to merge the demo container into daemon. It makes everything easier, code is in a single place, we only have a single image to test with the CI and users have a single image to play with.

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Disabling scenarios in ceph-docker

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I recently completed a full resync from Kraken to Jewel in ceph-docker in which I introduced a new feature to disable scenarios. Running an application on bleeding edge technology can be tough and challenging for individuals and also for companies. Even me, as a developer and for bleeding edge testers I’m tempted to release unstable features (understand not recommended for production). So sometimes it’s handy to have the ability to restrict the use of a software by disabling some of its functionality. This is exactly what I did for ceph-docker, in this article I’ll explain how that works.

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Test Ceph Luminous pre-release with ceph-docker

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/!\ DISCLAIMER /!\

/!\ DO NOT GET TOO EXCITED, AT THE TIME OF THE WRITTING LUMINOUS IS NOT OFFICIALLY RELEASE IN STABLE YET /!\

/!\ USE AT YOUR OWN RISK, DO NOT PUT PRODUCTION DATA ON THIS /!\

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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No more privileged containers for Ceph OSDs

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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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