Ceph: Designing and Implementing Scalable Storage Systems

Deploying a test cluster with Ansible

There are several examples on the Internet which contain a fully configured Vagrantfile and associated Ansible playbooks which allows you to bring up a fully functional Ceph environment with just one command. As handy as this may be it doesn't help to learn how to correctly configure and use the Ceph Ansible modules as you would if you were deploying a Ceph cluster on real hardware in a production environment. As such, this book will guide you through configuring Ansible from the scratch, although running on Vagrant provisioned servers.

At this point your Vagrant environment should be up and running, and Ansible should be able to connect to all six of your Ceph servers. You should also have a cloned copy ...