Am 02.07.20 um 19:57 schrieb Oliver Freyermuth: > Dear Cephalopodians, > > as we all know, ceph-deploy is on its demise since a while and essentially in "maintenance mode". > > We've been eyeing the "ssh orchestrator" which was in Nautilus as the "successor in spirit" of ceph-deploy. > While we have not tried it out just yet, I find this module seems to be gone without a trace in Octopus. > There's still an Orchestrator module, but this seems to work "only" with containers. > > Is this true, or is there still an SSH orchestrator capable of bare-metal operation in Octopus (or are there plans to have something like this)? > > While I see many advantages of containers in many areas, and certainly also for smaller setups or test setups with Ceph, > as any technology, they come with their own problems. > Example issues (which all can be solved, but require extra work from the administrator) are: > - Operation on machines without connectivity to the internet (you'd need to mirror the containers or run your own registry), > - Ensuring automated security updates both outside the containers and inside the containers, or re-pull them regularly (and monitor that), > - Integrate with existing logging and configuration management systems, > - Potential hardware issues, such das InfiniBand RDMA. > > There's surely more (and there are also as many benefits), and as I said, all can be solved; the point I want to make is: > Containers are not the best solution in all environments and also not for all admins. > > So my question is: Is there something like the SSH orchestrator still available? > I guess essentially the cephadm orchestrator does something similar behind the screnes, with the added bells and whistles to manage the containers. > Of course, a reduced feature-set would be expected (e.g. no "ceph orch upgrade"), but it would jump into the hole ceph-deploy has left. we're renamed the SSH orchestrator into cephadm. See https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/32193 for the corresponding pull request. Hope that helps, Sebastian > > Maybe this is as easy as setting a configuration knob? Or is it also possible to switch to a "bare-metal edition" of cephadm (which might rely on users > or existing configuration management to install the packages, e.g.)? > > Cheers, > Oliver > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg). Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer
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