
This article is co-authored with Gregory Charot (author of the tool).
Have you ever found yourself doing long series of pipes to get a particular value that is not directly provided by a Ceph CLI command or just trying to remove surrounding text to get a particular value?
This situation often results in quick & dirty sed
/awk
pipelines ending (best case scenario) as alias or forgotten in your shell history until next time you need it.
Here comes ceph-lazy, a shell toolkit that combines some of these queries that require multiple processing or text manipulation.
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For those of you who are not familiar with the concept yet, I’m going to give a quick introduction on Hyperconverged infrastructure.
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Quick tip on how to configure SSL with Civetweb on Rados Gateway.
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The new Ubuntu LTS 16.04, code name: Xenial Xerus was just released a couple of weeks ago.
Interestingly the new Ceph LTS, code name Jewel also just got released!
Being a really lover of Ansible, I just got what I would call an interesting idea.
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As presented in my preview of BlueStore, this new store has the ability tp be configured with multiple devices.
Since the ceph-disk
utility does not support configuring multiple devices, OSD must be configured manually.
Let’s see how we can configure this.
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Another feature preview for Jewel.
NBD driver for RBD that allows librbd to present a kernel-level block device
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The RBD mirroring feature will be available for the next stable Ceph release: Jewel.
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A new way to efficiently store objects using BlueStore.
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Get the modification time of a RBD image.
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Following last week article, here is another CRUSH example.
This time we want to store our first replica on SSD drives and the second copy on SATA drives.
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