Hi, I don't have any book suggestions, but in my experience, the best way to learn is to set up a cluster and start intentionally breaking things, and see how you can fix them. Perform upgrades, add load, etc. I do suggest starting with Pacific (the upcoming 16.2.8 release would likely be a good start) and deploying with cephadm to get a feel for the current "standard" deployment method. (Lots of opinions on if this is good/bad, you'll run into them all, but it will be a good learning experience one way or another). Just spin up 3 VMs with a few virtual disks, and do a deployment! Once you get a cluster up and running, setup RGW, some RBD mounts, create some RGW users/use an S3 client, and "use" the cluster a bit, things will start to snap into focus. Then try breaking things! Power down a VM with a hard power off. Remove a disk without shutting down the OSD if possible, etc. You'll learn a lot working through that, and also come to see one of Ceph's strongest features - durability. You'll also find some of the warts, which is quite helpful to learn. Hope that helps, David On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:17 PM Angelo Höngens <angelo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey guys and girls, > > Can you recommend some books to get started with ceph? I know the docs are > probably a good source, but books, in my experience, do a better job of > glueing it all together and painting the big picture. And I can take a book > to places where reading docs on a laptop is inconvenient. I know Amazon has > some books, but what do you think are the best books? > > I hope to read about the different deployment methods (cephadm? Docker? > Native?), what pg’s and crush maps are, best practices in building > clusters, ratios between osd, wal, db, etc, what they do and why, use cases > for cephfs vs rdb vs s3, etc. > > Looking forward to your tips! > > Angelo. > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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