Scaling out your Ceph cluster

From the roots, Ceph has been designed to grow from a few nodes to several hundreds, and it's supposed to scale on the fly without any downtime. In this recipe, we will dive deep into the Ceph scale-out feature by adding MON, OSD, MDS, and RGW nodes.

How to do it...

Scaling out a Ceph cluster is important as the need for increased capacity in the cluster grows. Let's walk through expanding several areas of the Ceph cluster:

Adding the Ceph OSD

Adding an OSD node to the Ceph cluster is an online process. To demonstrate this, we require...