Ceph is an open source, software-defined storage solution, which runs on commodity hardware to provide exabyte-level scalability. It is well known to be a highly reliable storage system that has no single point of failure.

This book will give you all the skills you need to plan, deploy, and effectively manage your Ceph cluster, guiding you through an overview of Ceph's technology, architecture, and components. With a step-by-step, tutorial-style explanation of the deployment of each Ceph component, the book will take you through Ceph storage provisioning and integration with OpenStack.

You will then discover how to deploy and set up your Ceph cluster, discovering the various components and why we need them. This book takes you from a basic level of knowledge in Ceph to an expert understanding of its most advanced features.

About the Author

Karan Singh

Karan Singh is a curious IT expert and an overall tech enthusiast living with his beautiful wife, Monika, in Espoo, Finland. He holds a bachelor's (honors) degree in computer science and a master's degree in system engineering from BITS Pilani, India. In addition to this, he is a certified professional for technologies such as OpenStack, NetApp, and Oracle Solaris. Karan is currently working as a system specialist of storage and platform for CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd. in Finland. He is actively involved in providing IaaS cloud solutions based on OpenStack and Ceph Storage at his workplace and has been building economic multipetabyte storage solutions using Ceph. Karan possesses extensive system administration skills and has excellent working experience on a variety of Unix environments, backup, enterprise storage systems, and cloud platforms. When not working on Ceph and OpenStack, Karan can be found working with technologies such as Ansible, Docker, Hadoop, IoT, and other cloud-related areas. He aims to get a PhD in cloud computing and big data and wants to learn more about these technologies. He is an avid blogger at http://karan-mj.blogspot.fi/. You can reach him on Twitter as @karansingh010 and Ceph and OpenStack IRC channels as ksingh. You can also e-mail him at karan_singh1@live.com.