I think this is fantastic. Looking forward to the sambaxp talk too! CephFS + SMB is something we make use of very much of, and have had a lot of success working with. It is nice to see it getting some more integration. Regards, Bailey > -----Original Message----- > From: John Mulligan <phlogistonjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: March 21, 2024 4:13 PM > To: ceph-users@xxxxxxx; dev@xxxxxxx > Subject: Call for Interest: Managed SMB Protocol Support > > Hello Ceph List, > > I'd like to formally let the wider community know of some work I've been > involved with for a while now: adding Managed SMB Protocol Support to > Ceph. > SMB being the well known network file protocol native to Windows systems > and supported by MacOS (and Linux). The other key word "managed" > meaning integrating with Ceph management tooling - in this particular case > cephadm for orchestration and eventually a new MGR module for managing > SMB shares. > > The effort is still in it's very early stages. We have a PR adding initial support > for Samba Containers to cephadm [1] and a prototype for an smb MGR > module [2]. We plan on using container images based on the samba- > container project [3] - a team I am already part of. What we're aiming for is a > feature set similar to the current NFS integration in Ceph, but with a focus on > bridging non-Linux/Unix clients to CephFS using a protocol built into those > systems. > > A few major features we have planned include: > * Standalone servers (internally defined users/groups) > * Active Directory Domain Member Servers > * Clustered Samba support > * Exporting Samba stats via Prometheus metrics > * A `ceph` cli workflow loosely based on the nfs mgr module > > I wanted to share this information in case there's wider community interest > in this effort. I'm happy to take your questions / thoughts / suggestions in > this email thread, via Ceph slack (or IRC), or feel free to attend a Ceph > Orchestration weekly meeting! I try regularly attend and we sometimes > discuss design aspects of the smb effort there. It's on the Ceph Community > Calendar. > Thanks! > > > [1] - https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/55068 > [2] - https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/56350 > [3] - https://github.com/samba-in-kubernetes/samba-container/ > > > Thanks for reading, > --John Mulligan > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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