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Learning Ceph

You're reading from   Learning Ceph Unifed, scalable, and reliable open source storage solution

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787127913
Length 340 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Karan Singh Karan Singh
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Bryan Stillwell Bryan Stillwell
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Anthony D'Atri Anthony D'Atri
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Vaibhav Bhembre Vaibhav Bhembre
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Ceph Storage FREE CHAPTER 2. Ceph Components and Services 3. Hardware and Network Selection 4. Planning Your Deployment 5. Deploying a Virtual Sandbox Cluster 6. Operations and Maintenance 7. Monitoring Ceph 8. Ceph Architecture: Under the Hood 9. Storage Provisioning with Ceph 10. Integrating Ceph with OpenStack 11. Performance and Stability Tuning

Bootstrapping our Ceph cluster

The first step is to download the latest copy of ceph-ansible on to your machine. It is important to note that all changes we will make to bootstrap a Ceph cluster will be made from within a dedicated directory so use  cd  to move to the appropriate location before downloading. The following command will download ceph-ansible within a new directory called ceph-ansible in your current directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible.git ceph-ansible 

If you want your directory name to be something other than ceph-ansible change the text of the last field in the above command. As all future changes and commands will be performed from within this directory we need to cd into it:

$ cd ceph-ansible 

Now we are in the ceph-ansible directory. This directory holds the code for all Ansible playbooks that will be used to configure...

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