Chef cookbook for deploying the Ceph storage system

Note: "knife cookbook upload" needs this directory to be named "ceph". Please clone the repository as

git clone https://github.com/ceph/ceph-cookbooks.git ceph

(we cannot name this repository ceph.git, as that is the main project itself)

DESCRIPTION

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

The current version is focused towards deploying Monitors and OSD on Ubuntu.

For documentation on how to use this cookbook, refer to the USAGE section.

Work in progress:

• RadosGW
• MDS
• Other Distro (Debian, RHEL/CentOS, FC)

REQUIREMENTS

Platform

Tested as working:

• Ubuntu Precise (12.04)

Cookbooks

The ceph cookbook requires the following cookbooks from Opscode:

https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks

• apt
• apache2

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 contact Inktank:

http://ceph.com/docs/master http://ceph.com/resources/mailing-list-irc/ http://www.inktank.com/

Ceph Monitor

Ceph monitor nodes should use the ceph-mon role.

Includes:

• ceph::default
• ceph::conf

Ceph Metadata Server

Ceph metadata server nodes should use the ceph-mds role.

Includes:

• ceph::default

Ceph OSD

Ceph OSD nodes should use the ceph-osd role

Includes:

• ceph::default
• ceph::conf

Ceph Rados Gateway

Ceph Rados Gateway nodes should use the ceph-radosgw role

LICENSE AND AUTHORS

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

• Copyright 2013, DreamHost Web Hosting and Inktank Storage Inc.

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.