Fisk - Mastering Ceph

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Nick Fisk is an IT specialist with a strong history in enterprise storage. Having worked in a variety of roles throughout his career, he has encountered a wide variety of technologies. In 2012, Nick was given the opportunity to focus more on open source technologies, and this is where he got his first exposure to Ceph. Having seen the potential of Ceph as a storage platform and the benefits of moving away from the traditional closed stack storage platforms, Nick pursued Ceph with keen interest.
Throughout the following years, his experience with Ceph increased with the deployment of several clusters and enabled him to spend time in the Ceph community, helping others and improving certain areas of Ceph.

Michael Hackett is a storage and SAN expert in customer support. He has been working on Ceph and storage-related products for over 13 years. He co-authored the Ceph Cookbook and holds several storage and SAN-based certifications. Michael is currently working at Red Hat, based in Massachusetts, where he is a principal software maintenance engineer for Red Hat Ceph storage and the technical product lead for the global Ceph team.

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Ceph, a unified, highly resilient, distributed storage system that provides block, object, and file access, has enjoyed a surge in popularity over the last few years. Due to being open source, Ceph has enjoyed rapid adoption by both developers and end users alike, with several well-known corporations being involved in the project. With every new release, the scale of its performance and feature set continue to grow, further enhancing Ceph's status.

With the current demands for ever-increasing data storage, and the challenges faced by legacy RAID-based systems, Ceph is well placed to offer an answer to these problems. As the world moves toward adopting new cloud technologies and object-based storage, Ceph is ready and waiting to be the driving force behind the new era of storage technologies.

In this book, we will cover a wide variety of topics, from installing and managing a Ceph cluster, through to how to recover from disasters, should you ever find yourself in that situation. For those that have interest in getting their applications to talk directly to Ceph, this book will also show you how to develop applications that make use of Ceph's libraries, and even how to perform distributed computing by inserting your own code into Ceph. By the end of this book, you will be well on your way to mastering Ceph.

The second edition of Mastering Ceph now includes updates around the new BlueStore technology introduced in the Luminous release, with guides to help you understand BlueStore and upgrade your existing cluster to take advantage of it.

If you are a storage professional, system administrator, or cloud engineer looking for solutions to build powerful storage systems for your cloud and on-premise infrastructure, then this book is for you.

, Planning for Ceph , covers the fundamentals of how Ceph works, its basic architecture, and examines some good use cases. It also discusses the planning steps that you should take before implementing Ceph, including setting design goals, developing proof of concepts and working on infrastructure design.