Hi,
I'm still in the process of preparing a OpenStack POC. I'm 100% sure that I want to use CEPH and so I purchased the book Mastering CEPH 2nd edition. First of all, It's a really good book. It basically explains the various methods how ceph can be deployed and also the components that CEPH is build of. So I played around a lot with ceph-ansible and rook in my virtualbox environment. I also started to play with tripleo ceph deployment, although I haven't had the time yet to sucessfully deploy a openstack cluster with CEPH. Now I'm wondering, which of these 3 methods should I use?
rook
ceph-ansible
tripleo
I also want to use CEPH for NFS and CIFS (Samba) as we have plenty of VMs running under vSphere that currently consume storage from a ZFS storage via CIFS and NFS. I don't know if rook can be used for this. I have the feeling that it is purely meant to be used for kubernetes? And If I would like to have CIFS and NFS maybe tripleo is not capable of enabling these features in CEPH? So I would be left with ceph-ansible?
Any suggestions are very welcome.
Best Regards,
Oliver