Ceph Deployment Interface

Ceph Deployment Interface (WIP)

Informal description of Ceph deployment procedure

Ceph is constituted by several components, and its deployment procedure also involves several steps. To handle the deployment complexity, several projects were developed to help the user in the task of deploying Ceph in a cluster of computers.

Ceph Deployment Abstraction

Resources:

• Computer Node
  • Disk Drive
  • Memory
  • CPU
  • Network device

Actions:

• show resources
• validate resource allocation
• deploy ceph
• undeploy (keep data)
• purge ceph

Deployment States:

• Provisioning
• Deploying Mons
• Deploying OSDs
• Deploying Mgrs
• Deploying RGW
• Deploying MDS