OpenStack adoption continues to rise at an incredible rate, and it is incredibly popular as it's based on software-defined on a wide range, whether it's computing, networking, or even storage. And when you talk about storage for OpenStack, Ceph will get all the attention. An OpenStack user survey, conducted in April 2017, showed Ceph dominating the block storage driver market with a whopping 65% usage, 41% higher (Source - https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April2017SurveyReport.pdf) than the next storage driver.
Ceph provides the robust, reliable storage backend that OpenStack was looking for. Its seamless integration with OpenStack components such as Cinder, Glance, Nova, and Keystone provides an all-in-one cloud storage backend for OpenStack. Here are some key benefits that make Ceph the best match for OpenStack...