Hello Zac, If possible also include the installation guide. Regards On Sat, 2 Dec 2023, 13:30 Zac Dover, <zac.dover@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The Upstream Documentation Team is writing a Beginner's Guide. If you're > reading this email, then you are invited to contribute to it. > > I have a firm idea of what I want the Beginner's Guide to contain, but it > is important to me to consult the Ceph community during the early stages of > the composition of the Beginner's Guide, to make sure that we create a > Beginner's Guide that is useful. > > The first section of the Beginner's Guide will be a brief overview of the > components of a Ceph cluster. This section will be brief enough to be read > in just a couple of minutes. > > The second section of the Beginner's Guide will be a set of reference > architectures. This section will describe the differences between the > different kinds of clusters. For example, a CephFS cluster requires > Monitors, Managers, OSDs, and also Metadata Servers. An object storage > cluster requires Monitors, Managers, OSDs, and a RADOS Gateway. The second > section of the Beginner's Guide will describe the various kinds of storage > clusters and the pieces that each of the kinds requires. After reading this > section, a beginner will know for example which kind of cluster requires a > metadata server (it's a CephFS cluster). > > I am considering writing a third section of the Beginner's Guide that > addresses early misconceptions about Ceph. This section would consist of > things that people wish they had known when they started using Ceph. The > User+Dev Monthly Meetup of November 2023 generated a beefy list of these > things, and here are some of them: different storage types (block, file, > object) are all built on RADOS, but they don't interact with each > other--you can't treat your S3 bucket the way you treat a CephFS directory; > there is a difference between a RADOS object and an S3 object. This section > would also answer some Ceph-beginner questions: just what is the CRUSH map > and what does it do?; which components of a Ceph cluster can run in VMs and > which must run on bare metal?; what is the difference between consumer > grade hardware and enterprise grade hardware? > > I expect to have finished writing the Beginner's Guide by Cephalocon 2024. > > Please tell me if there is something that you'd like to see in a Ceph > Beginner's Guide that I haven't mentioned. > > Zac Dover > Upstream DocumentationCeph Foundation > _______________________________________________ > 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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