Bootstrap your Ceph cluster in Docker

Almost two years have passed since my first attempt to run Ceph inside Docker. Time has elapsed and I haven’t really got the time to resume this work until recently. For the last couple of months, I have been devoting a third part of my time to contributing on deploying Ceph in Docker. Before we start, I would like to highlight that nothing of this work would have been possible without the help of Seán C. McCord. Indeed the current ceph-docker repository is based on Seán’s initial work. Let’s see how you can get this running!

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Crash course: next generation servers with containers

For more than a year, containers have become more and more popular especially thanks to rise of Docker. Unfortunately the concept itself is not always clear for everyone. It is important to understand the difference between LXC and Docker. In this article, I will expose the different technologies available.

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First glimpse at CoreOS

CoreOS is an emergent project that aims to address one of the most pressing questions in the server’s world. We at eNovance, therefore released eDeploy: a tool that performs bare metal deployment and manages upgrades with ease. Deploying and upgrading servers are currently two major concerns in the IT world since none (or at least very few people know how to do). I couldn’t resist trying CoreOS.

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Introduction à Juju avec LXC

Juju fait parti des nouveaux outils développés par Ubuntu dans sa gamme Ubuntu Cloud pour déployer votre infrastructure Cloud privé. Il fait parti intégrante du projet Orchestra. Actuellement Juju est en cours de développement. Il est toutefois possible de réaliser des tests soit avec des instances Amazon EC2 soit en local avec des LXC. Pour ma part j’ai testé cela à partir de conteneur LXC.

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