On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Isaac Otsiabah <zmoo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I am trying to understand ceph deployment direction because from this link > http://ceph.com/docs/master/rados/deployment/ > it > is mentioned that mkcephfs is dreprecated. It also has the statement > below which mentions light-weight deployment scripts to help you > evaluate Ceph. > > > "We provide light-weight deployment scripts to help you evaluate Ceph. For > professional deployment, you should consider professional deployment systems > such as Juju, Puppet, Chef or Crowbar." > > I think there is a need to have native ceph deployment tools that aren't > dependent upon any third party deployment tools. So my question is this > > 1. when will the light-weight deployment scripts be > available and which ceph version will they be released into?
Check out ceph-deploy, available at https://github.com/ceph/ceph-deploy. It works against development releases now, and I believe also against argonaut v0.48.2. > 2. Now, going forward, when will mkcephfs not work anymore (what ceph > version)? It will continue to work at least as well as it has throughout Bobtail. (In fact, we're hoping to get a few more patches in that make it slightly less painful.) However, as anybody who's tried long-term use of a Ceph cluster deployed with mkcephfs will tell you, it's just not much fun. This is why we're developing the new ceph-deploy system, which supports things like adding new daemons, building the system in multiple, re-runnable steps, etc. Our messaging has been somewhat inconsistent because there are all these problems with mkcephfs, but ceph-deploy hasn't been well-tested yet either. Look for us to start pushing people more strongly in the coming months once we've validated it. -Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
