I recently worked on a new feature that ceph-ansible was laking of: support for dmcrypt. This dmcrypt scenario basically allows you to deploy encrypted OSD data directories. The encrypted key is stored on the monitor’s key/value store. Until recently ceph-ansible wasn’t capable of deploying such configuration. Let’s see how this can be configured.
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.
Some use cases might require to zap a device (destroy partition tables) prior to run your Ceph OSD container with a dedicated disk. While running development environment this is particularly interesting as this allows us to quickly bootstrap and tear down sandboxes.
I recently pushed into ceph-docker the support for thr RBD mirror. This daemon is responsable for asynchronously replicating RBD images from one cluster to another. The main purpose of the daemon is to address disaster recovery use cases.
For those of you who are not familiar with the concept yet, I’m going to give a quick introduction on Hyperconverged infrastructure.
I have been having a hard time keeping up with all things happening at the office and the blog. One of the main reason is that I actively resumed my work on ceph-docker, in this article I will explain some of the things I have been working on.
Quick tip on how to configure SSL with Civetweb on Rados Gateway.
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.
Picture of our galaxy :). This picture describes the state of the integration of Ceph into OpenStack.
OpenStack Mitaka brought the support of a new feature. This feature is a follow-up of the Nova discard implementation. Now it is possible to configure Cinder per backend.