Lowering the bar to installing Ceph The last few years have seen Ceph continue to mature in stability, scale and performance to become the leading open source storage platform. However, getting started with Ceph has typically involved the administrator learning automation products like Ansible first. While learning Ansible brings its own rewards, wouldn’t it be …Read more

We are excited to announce a number of significant features and improvements for the Ceph operator for Kubernetes in Rook v1.1. Major themes CSI driver ready for production Dynamic bucket provisioning for object storage Connections to an external Ceph cluster Configuration of Mons and OSDs on top of dynamic underlying storage Enablement of Ceph manager …Read more

Announcements Ceph Upstream Documenter Opportunity While the Ceph community continues to grow and the software improves, an essential part of our success will be a focus on improving our documentation. We’re excited to announce a new contract opportunity that would be funded by the Ceph Foundation to help with this initiative. Below is the contract …Read more

Since the Mimic (13.2.x) release, Ceph includes the telemetry module. This (opt-in) component sends anonymous, non-identifiable metrics about the cluster back to the Ceph project. These include for example high-level summaries of pool configuration, number of nodes and OSDs, as well Ceph, OS, kernel versions, crashes encountered, and total cluster capacity. More details are available …Read more

While the Ceph community continues to grow and the software improves, an essential part of our success will be a focus on improving our documentation. We’re excited to announce a new contract opportunity that would be funded by the Ceph Foundation to help with this initiative. Below is the contract description. Deliverables and Responsibilities: Create, …Read more

Ceph Nautilus introduces a new orchestrator interface that provides the ability to control external deployment tools like ceph-ansible, DeepSea or Rook.  The vision is to provide a bridge between administrators, Ceph, and external deployment systems. In order to accomplish that, the orchestrator interface enables the Ceph dashboard or the ceph command line tool to access to data provided by different deployment tools …Read more

Introduction Recap: In Blog Episode-3 We have covered RHCS cluster scale-out performance and have observed that, upon adding 60% of additional hardware resources we can get 95% higher IOPS, this demonstrates the scale-out nature of Red Hat Ceph Storage Cluster. This is the fourth episode of the performance blog series on RHCS 3.2 BlueStore running …Read more

Eight months ago the Ceph Foundation was announced with 31 founding organization members to create an open, collaborative, and neutral home for project stakeholders to coordinate their development and community investments in the Ceph ecosystem.  Since then, three more members have joined, two as General members and one as an Associate member. Today we’re excited …Read more

Announcements Nautilus Shirts are now available: March 19 we announced the new release of Ceph Nautilus! Take a look at our blog post that captures the major features and upgrade notes. Watch the talk from Sage Weil, co-creator and project leader, on the state of the cephalopod. We’re now pleased to announce the availability of …Read more

Work continues to improve the CephFS file system in Nautilus. As with the rest of Ceph, we have been dedicating significant developer time towards improving usability and stability. The following sections go through each of these works in detail MDS stability MDS stability has been a major focus for developers in the past two releases. …Read more

The Ceph Dashboard shipped with Ceph Mimic was the first step in replacing the original read-only dashboard with a more flexible and extensible architecture and adding management functionality derived from the openATTIC project. One goal for the team working on the dashboard for Ceph Nautilus was to reach feature parity with openATTIC, and we’re quite …Read more

BlueStore Nautilus comes with a bunch of new features and improvements for RADOS. To begin with, BlueStore is even more awesome now! If you were ever wondering how BlueStore uses space on your devices, stop wondering any further. With Nautilus, BlueStore space utilization information is much more granular and accurate, with separate accounting of space …Read more