Chapter 1, 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.
Chapter 2, Deploying Ceph with Containers, is a no-nonsense, step-by-step instructional chapter on how to set up a Ceph cluster. This chapter covers ceph-deploy for testing and goes onto cover Ansible. Finally, we take a look at the Rook project to deploy Ceph clusters running atop of a Kubernetes cluster. A section on change management is also included, and explains how this is essential for the stability of ...
