DESCRIPTION

These are incomplete, use with caution. They have pulled from a working configuration using Debian. They will require work for other distributions. They also assume your package manager (apt-get, etc) are already configured for a ceph repository.

Installs and configures Ceph, a distributed network storage and filesystem designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability.

REQUIREMENTS

Platform

Tested as working:

• Debian Squeeze (6.x)

Cookbooks

The ceph cookbook requires the following cookbooks from Opscode:

https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks

• apache2

Also required are the following cookbooks New Dream Network (DreamHost.com):

https://github.com/NewDreamNetwork/ceph-cookbooks

ATTRIBUTES

Ceph Rados Gateway

• node[:ceph][:radosgw][:api_fqdn]
• node[:ceph][:radosgw][:admin_email]
• node[:ceph][:radosgw][:rgw_addr]

TEMPLATES

USAGE

Ceph cluster design is beyond the scope of this README, please turn to the public wiki, mailing lists, visit our IRC channel or Ceph Support page:

http://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/ http://ceph.newdream.net/mailing-lists-and-irc/ http://www.cephsupport.com/

This diagram helps visualize recipe inheritence of the ceph cookbook recipes:

Ceph Monitor

Ceph monitor nodes should use the ceph::mon recipe.

Includes:

• ceph::default
• ceph::rados-rest

Ceph Metadata Server

Ceph metadata server nodes should use the ceph::mds recipe.

Includes:

• ceph::default

Ceph OSD

Ceph OSD nodes should use the ceph::osd recipe

Includes:

• ceph::default

Ceph Rados Gateway

Ceph Rados Gateway nodes should use the ceph::radosgw recipe

Includes:

• ceph::rados-rest

LICENSE AND AUTHORS

• Author: Kyle Bader kyle.bader@dreamhost.com

• Copyright 2011, DreamHost Web Hosting

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.