I also have a fairly small deployment of 14 nodes, 42 OSDs, but even I use
some automation. I do my OS installs and partitioning with PXE / kickstart,
then use chef for my baseline install of the "normal" server stuff in our
env and admin accounts. Then the ceph-specific stuff I handle by hand and
For reference, I'm currently running 26 nodes (338 OSDs); will be 35
nodes (455 OSDs) in the near future.
Node/OSD provisioning and replacements:
Mostly I'm using ceph-deploy, at least to do node/osd adds and
replacements. Right now the process is:
Use FAI (http://fai-project.org) to setup softw
I'm running a small cluster, but I'll chime in since nobody else has.
Cern had a presentation a while ago (dumpling time-frame) about their
deployment. They go over some of your questions:
http://www.slideshare.net/Inktank_Ceph/scaling-ceph-at-cern
My philosophy on Config Management is that it s
I'm curious what people managing larger ceph clusters are doing with
configuration management and orchestration to simplify their lives?
We've been using ceph-deploy to manage our ceph clusters so far, but
feel that moving the management of our clusters to standard tools would
provide a little mor
