Introducing ceph-deploy

It’s been a while that I heard that mkcephfs was deprecated, but for the benefit of which tool? I have named ceph-deploy. The project is young and it’s work in progress but at a reasonnable advancement. Let’s get a first impression!

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Quantum plugin comparison

Folsom has been released, it’s probably time for some of you to deploy OpenStack. This is a follow up to the article titled From nova-network to Quantum. One of the main question with Folsom is: which Quantum plugin should I use? The answer could be in this article! Another article co-written with Emilien Macchi. Deep dive into the available plugins in Quantum for OpenStack Folsom.

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From nova-network to quantum

Before starting anything I’d like highlight the fact that this article was co-written with Emilien Macchi, who has a better expertise on Quantum that I do. In this article, we focused on both aspects of nova-network and quantum. We did not want to compare the two or similarly make them take each other head-on. This article is just a step back about the state of the networking in OpenStack. Basically what did we lose and what did we gain?

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Ceph admin socket

The release of the first stable version of Ceph brought a lot of improvment at admin socket level. This is a really useful command that you should use.

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