Ceph is an open source fault tolerant distributed storage system. It’s getting a lot of attention in the Kubernetes world via the Rook project, but you can install it directly onto servers using the cephadm tool.
However, the official curl-based
installation doesn’t work on
Ubuntu due to an outstanding bug with
the add-repo command. But that’s easily fixed like this:
ubuntu@srv-n2uas:~$ curl --silent https://download.ceph.com/keys/release.asc | sudo apt-key add -
ubuntu@srv-n2uas:~$ sudo apt-add-repository https://download.ceph.com/debian-pacific
ubuntu@srv-n2uas:~$ sudo apt install -y cephadmThis installs cephadm and all the dependencies necessary to use it.
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