We have seen previously that by using orchestration tools such as Ansible we can reduce the work required to deploy, manage, and maintain a Ceph cluster. We have also seen how these tools can help you discover available hardware resources and deploy Ceph to them.
However, using Ansible to configure bare-metal servers still results in a very static deployment, possibly not best suited for today's more dynamic workloads. Designing Ansible playbooks also needs to take into account several different Linux distributions and also any changes that may occur between different releases; systemd is a great example of this. Furthermore, a lot of development in orchestration tools needs to be customized to handle discovering, deploying, and managing Ceph. This is a common theme that the Ceph developers have thought about; with the use of Linux containers and their...
