On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Isaac Otsiabah 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? http://github.com/ceph/ceph-deploy is available for initial testing, but far from ready for widespread use. mkcephfs is still the preferred installation path. I'll make sure the 'deprecated' notation is removed until a real alternative is ready. > 2. Now, going forward, when will mkcephfs not work anymore (what > ceph version)? It will be maintained at least through cuttlefish (the next stable release), though probably longer, so that there is plenty of overlap with whatever tool will follow. sage
