Preface

Learning Ceph, Second Edition will give you all the skills you need to plan, deploy, and effectively manage Ceph clusters. You will begin with an introduction to Ceph use cases and components, then progress through advice on selecting and planning servers and components. We then cover a number of important decisions to make before provisioning your servers and clusters and walk through hands-on deployment of a fully functional virtualized sandbox cluster. A wide range of common (and not so common) management tasks are explored. A discussion of monitoring is followed by a deep dive into the inner workings of Ceph, a selection of topics related to provisioning storage, and an overview of Ceph's role as an OpenStack storage solution. Rounding out our chapters is advice on benchmarking and tuning for performance and stability.

By the end of the book you will have learned to deploy and use Ceph effectively for your data storage requirements.