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Configuring a Ceph cluster

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Configuring a Ceph cluster

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- So let's configure a Ceph cluster. Installation of Ceph has always been very complicated, but Ceph 5 and later has made it much easier because Ceph is now installed by running containers from quay.io and that replaces the old installation methods where Ansible playbooks were used and the even older installation methods where you needed to do everything manually. The cephadm utility is provided to manage the lifecycle of a Ceph cluster. And to manage Ceph, a dedicated container that starts the Ceph shell is started and you can access it using cephadm shell -- any ceph command, where any ceph command stands for any command that you want to run. Alternatively, there is a Ceph dashboard available as a web application and you can work from there as well. Now let's go set up some Ceph. We need to talk about pre requirements. You need three nodes and in this demo where I'm running Centos Stream, I would advise you to do the same. And once you master it, you can always try on another…

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