We’re excited to announce that Ceph and Rook will participate in this next Outreachy December 2020 round! “Outreachy internships were inspired in many ways by Google Summer of Code and by how few women and minorities applied for it in the past. By having a program targeted specifically towards people traditionally underrepresented in tech, we …Read more

Announcements Outeachy December 2020 We’re excited to announce that Ceph and Rook will participate in this next Outreachy December 2020 round! See our latest blog post for more details. Code Walkthrough: KRBD I/O Flow Illya Dryomov gives a code walkthrough of the Linux Kernel RBD client. Catch our next walkthrough with Patrick Donnelly on the …Read more

Thank you to our 300 completed respondents participating in the Ceph User Survey for 2019! If you’re interested in participating for the planning of the user survey for 2020, please email foundation at ceph.io for details.

Announcements Ceph Tech Talk for July 2020: A Different Scale – Running small ceph clusters in multiple data centers Yuval Freund presented a different perspective of smaller Ceph clusters running in multiple data centers. More on Ceph Tech Talks Project updates CephFS Continuing work on `ceph fs top` master/slave terminology removed from CephFS codebase New …Read more

Announcements Virtual Ceph Days Thank you to everyone who has participated in our Virtual Ceph Day questionnaire. We are still in the process of finalizing a platform and details. If you were previously selected as a presenter for the planned Cephalocon 2020 event, consider applying for the CFP. Ceph Tech Talk for July 2020: A …Read more

This is a follow-up to my previous blog post “New in Octopus: Dashboard Enhancements” in which I highlighted some of the added and enhanced functionality related to Ceph Dashboard itself. In this post I’d like to focus on the Ceph-specific new management features that have been added to the Dashboard during the Ceph Octopus development …Read more

(This is a guest post by Sebastian Krah from the Ceph Dashboard Team. He is coordinating the efforts around localization and internationalization of the Dashboard) Ceph Dashboard is the perfect entry point for everyone who is interested in Ceph and prefers working with a graphical user interface. Like every good UI, the Dashboard can be …Read more

Ceph Dashboard is a built-in web-based management and monitoring application that is part of the open source Ceph distribution. Like in previous Ceph releases, the Dashboard developer community has been very active in adding new features and improving existing functionality. In this article, I’d like to cover the most noteworthy overall user interface enhancements that …Read more

A few weeks ago, a number of virtual Ceph Developer Summit meetings took place as a replacement for the in-person summit that was planned as part of Cephalocon in Seoul. The Ceph Dashboard team also participated in these and held three video conference meetings to lay out our plans for the “Pacific” release. For details, …Read more

It is our pleasure to announce the immediate availability of dashboards based on the data reported via Ceph’s telemetry feature. Introduced with Ceph Mimic, Ceph telemetry after opt-in sends aggregated, anonymous statistics about how Ceph is being used and deployed to the Ceph Foundation’s community infrastructure under the CDLA-1.0 Sharing. The new dashboards, courtesy of …Read more

The Linux Kernel CephFS client has gained the ability to automatically recover access to the cluster after a blacklisting and unblacklisting event. CephFS relies heavily on delegating recallable stateful objects (represented by file capabilities, dentries, etc.) to the clients to attain good performance. This allows the clients to effectively cache granular information about the filesystem. …Read more

We are excited to announce a number of significant features and improvements for the Ceph operator for Kubernetes in Rook v1.3. Major Themes Octopus Support Pool Compression OSD Configuration Legacy OSD Removal Ceph-CSI v2.0 Cluster Cleanup on Uninstall Controller Runtime Conversion Design for RGW MultiSite Octopus Support With each release of Ceph, we strive to …Read more