G’day Francesco, Over the last year we stood up an Openstack using Kolla-ansible, with storage provided by a few Ceph clusters, which we provisioned using cephadm. We’ve also used ProxmoxVE and PVE-ceph, and well as PVE + cephadm; the modern cephadm process is just too easy, and is fairly well documented. Integration of external ceph with kolla-ansible is also very well documented, although is pretty agnostic to how Ceph itself is deployed. Kind Regards, Joel McLean From: Francesco Di Nucci <francesco.dinucci@na.infn.it> Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2025 4:55 PM To: Maksim Malchuk <maksim.malchuk@gmail.com> Cc: openstack-discuss <openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org> Subject: Re: CEPH deployment method: cephadm vs puppet Thank you, I'd read it, but as there also are other methods such as ceph-ansible and puppet-ceph I am trying to get a feedback from other operators about their experiences, as in this case I'm particularly interested in integration of CEPH with OpenStack Best regards -- Francesco Di Nucci System Administrator Compute & Networking Service, INFN Naples Email: francesco.dinucci@na.infn.it<mailto:francesco.dinucci@na.infn.it> On 19/05/25 16:29, Maksim Malchuk wrote: Hi Francesco, The CEPH community recommends using CEPHADM as the primary tool for deploying CEPH: https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/install/#recommended-methods On Mon, May 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM Francesco Di Nucci <francesco.dinucci@na.infn.it<mailto:francesco.dinucci@na.infn.it>> wrote: Hi all, we're planning (finally) to setup a CEPH cluster to be used as OpenStack backend. The cloud is actually set up with Foreman+Puppet, to setup CEPH what would you advice? cephadm as it's the preferred method in the CEPH docs or Puppet with the puppet-ceph module, as it's part of openstack? Thanks in advance -- Francesco Di Nucci System Administrator Compute & Networking Service, INFN Naples Email: francesco.dinucci@na.infn.it<mailto:francesco.dinucci@na.infn.it> -- Regards, Maksim Malchuk