Anthony D’Atri - Learning Ceph: a unified, scalable, and reliable open source storage solution

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: January 2015

Second edition: October 2017

Production reference: 1121017

ISBN: 978-1-78712-791-3

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Anthony D'Atri's career in system administration has spanned laptops to vector supercomputers. He has brought his passion for fleet management and the underlying server components to bear on a holistic yet, detailed approach to deployment and operations. Experience with architecture, operation, and troubleshooting of NetApp, ZFS, SVM, and other storage systems dovetailed neatly into Ceph. T hree years with Ceph as a petabyte-scale object and block backend to multiple OpenStack clouds at Cisco, additionally built on Anthony's depth. Now helping deliver awesome storage to DigitalOcean's droplet customers, Anthony aims to help the growing community build success with Ceph.

Vaibhav Bhembre is a systems programmer working currently as a Technical Lead for cloud storage products at DigitalOcean. Before joining DigitalOcean, Vaibhav wore multiple hats leading backend engineering and reliability engineering teams at Sailthru Inc. From helping scale dynamically generated campaign sends to be delivered to over tens of millions of users on time, to architecting a cloud-scale compute and storage platform, Vaibhav has years of experience writing software across all layers of the stack.

Vaibhav holds a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai and a masters degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York in Buffalo. During his time in academia, Vaibhav co-published a novel graph algorithm that optimally computed closeness and betweeness in an incrementally updating social network. He also had the fortune of committing changes to a highly available distributed file-system built on top of iRODs data management framework as his masters project. This system, that was actively used across 10+ educational institutions live, was his foray into large-scale distributed storage and his transition into using Ceph professionally was only natural.

Karan Singh is a senior storage architect working with Red Hat and living with his charming wife Monika in Finland. In his current role, Karan is doing solution engineering on Ceph together with partners, customers and exploring new avenues for software defined storage.

Karan devotes a part of his time in learning emerging technologies and enjoys the challenges that comes with it.. He also authored the first edition of Learning Ceph and Ceph Cookbook, Packt Publishing. You can reach him on Twitter @karansingh010.

Christian Kauhaus set up his first Ceph cluster using the Argonaut release back in 2012. He got hooked on sysadmin stuff since helping out to set up his school's computer room back in the nineties. After studying Computer Science in Rostock and Jena, he spent a few years with the High Performance Computing group at the University of Jena. Currently, he is working as a systems engineer at Flying Circus Internet Operations GmbH, a small company providing managed hosting and data center related services located in Halle (Saale), Germany.

Apart from that, Christian likes to program in Python and Rust and is an active member of the NixOS community. He loves to play Jazz piano in his leisure time. He currently lives in Jena, Germany.