My 44th release of Ceph since we started enterprise-class product releases is now on the wire, and a little celebration is in order. This June, we have a special release of Ceph. As Josh and I first announced a year ago at the OpenInfra Summit’s State of the Cephalopod , and was then introduced in Tech Preview with 7.0 in December, we have a major addition to the Ceph family of protocols with the…
This June, we restored the tradition of the annual upstream + downstream “State of the Cephalopod” talk that Sage Weil and I used to present to Red Hat Summit customers annually. Many things have changed since, but now that the travel situation has normalized it is time we restored old traditions. Josh and I have been working closely since 2015, but amusingly this is the first time we give a talk…
The Storage Engineering team at Bloomberg graciously hosted our first Ceph Days event of the year in their New York City offices. The event was an absolute blast, it was great to see so many Community members and even colleagues face to face again after such a long forced pause, and everyone gave their level best to make this a near-perfect event. Sage and I joined a very illustrious roster of…
Making Ceph failed disk replacement seamless # with Sebastian Wagner (Red Hat), Paul Cuzner (Red Hat), and Ernesto Puerta Treceno (Red Hat) Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 introduces cephadm, a new integrated control plane that is part of the storage system itself, and enjoys a complete understanding of the cluster’s current state — something that external tools could not quite achieve as well because of…
This October, Ana McTaggart, Michael Hackett and myself presented a fast-paced security overview of all things Ceph and Rook at the newfangled CNCF Security Conference . This was a mixed virtual and in-person event. We elected to go virtual, but we saw from pictures the in-person session was well attended, despite travel restrictions. Yay vaccines! Due to the virtual format, this talk was…
Introducing the Pacific codebase of Red Hat’s flagship storage product # with Marcel Hergaarden (Red Hat) Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 is now generally available. This release includes support for NFSv4, additional disaster recovery capabilities for CephFS and RBD, as well as new security features and performance improvements. New features # Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 introduces significant new…
The Pacific Ocean spans a quarter of the Earth’s surface. While our ambitions for Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 are slightly smaller, it is only just so. Releasing RHCS 5 today on Mary Shelley’s day is a fitting tribute to the amazing creative effort of the more than 195 people who worked on the product directly — and the many, many others who did so indirectly as part of the largest Open Source…
with Sage Weil (Red Hat) Sage and I renewed the now annual tradition of delivering a recorded roadmap session for the Red Hat Summit virtual audience. This year, we have been selected for the launch of Red Hat TV, which will happen later this summer, so our session’s release may be delayed, becoming available at a time separate from the virtual Red Hat Summit event itself. I covered the upcoming…
The Red Hat Ceph Storage life cycle: upgrade scenarios and long-lived deployments # with Sean Murphy (Red Hat) Different industries have varying requirements for the software systems on which their respective businesses rely. Some operators choose to quickly embrace the latest and greatest release when facing change and integration updates. Others defer upgrades for as long as possible, trying to…
Highlights of Alpha 4 release include the new integrated installer # with Daniel Pivonka (Red Hat) and Paul Cuzner (Red Hat) We’re delighted to announce availability of the new Alpha 4 release of Red Hat Ceph Storage 5, built on the upstream project’s Pacific release cycle. This post is the first of a series that will walk you through the enhancements coming with the next major upgrade of Ceph…