I'm looking for guidance/recommendations on how to approach below topic. As I'm fairly new to Ceph as a whole, I might be using or looking for terms/solutions incorrectly or simply missing some obvious puzzle pieces. Please do not assume advanced Ceph knowledge on my part (-:
We are looking at building up multiple Ceph clusters, each possibly consisting of multiple different pools / different configurations (repair prio, etc.). This is not about multi-site clusters but about multiple individual clusters which have no direct knowledge about each other what-so-ever. Albeit still being in an investigate/research project phase, we are realizing already that we will (and already do) need a system to maintain our clusters' high-level information such as which nodes are (currently) associated with which cluster and general meta-information for each cluster like stage (live/qa/dev), name/id, Ceph version, etc. Seeing how we will want to connect to this service from multiple other systems (Puppet/Ansible/etc) we are looking for a service with a sensible API. As any such undertaking is prone to have, there are plenty of additional requirements we have in mind such as, full encryption (in-transport, at-rest), exchangeable storage layer (not hardwired to one DB/etc), versioned data storage (so we can query "the past" and not just the current state) and (a possibly fine-grained) access permission system. The entire list is quite lengthy and it probably won't help to list out each and every item here. Suffice it to say we are looking for a "holistic multi-cluster management" solution. One important note is that we need to be able to run it ourselves, "as a service" offerings are not an option for us. I suppose we are looking for an OSS project, though it might also be several ones pieced together. One particularly noteworthy find while searching for Ceph multi-cluster management: https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2022/multi-cluster-mgmt-survey/ Unfortunately, I could not find any derivations or similar following this survey and, at time of writing, it is the only article on ceph.io labeled "multi-cluster". Any recommendations or pointers where to look would be appreciated! Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
