Hi, This was roughly what we were planning with the terraform ceph provider but we lost momentum on that activity and it's quite incomplete: https://github.com/cernops/terraform-provider-ceph I don't know of another multi-cluster manager, but would be interested to watch this thread. Cheers, Dan On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 2:21 PM Thomas Eckert <thomas.eckert1@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > I've posted pretty much the same question to ceph-users@xxxxxxx on November 23rd [2] but got no response there. Seeing how dev@xxxxxxx was (literally) mentioned on your corresponding survey [1], I figured I'll try dev@ next. > > > I'm looking for guidance/recommendations on how to approach below topic. As I'm > fairly new to Ceph as a whole, I might be using or looking for terms/solutions incorrectly > or simply missing some obvious puzzle pieces. Please do not assume advanced Ceph knowledge > on my part (-: > > We are looking at building up multiple Ceph clusters, each possibly consisting of multiple > different pools / different configurations (repair prio, etc.). This is not about > multi-site clusters but about multiple individual clusters which have no direct knowledge > about each other what-so-ever. > > Albeit still being in an investigate/research project phase, we are realizing already that > we will (and already do) need a system to maintain our clusters' high-level > information such as which nodes are (currently) associated with which cluster and general > meta-information for each cluster like stage (live/qa/dev), name/id, Ceph version, etc. > > Seeing how we will want to connect to this service from multiple other systems > (Puppet/Ansible/etc) we are looking for a service with a sensible API. > > As any such undertaking is prone to have, there are plenty of additional requirements we > have in mind such as, full encryption (in-transport, at-rest), exchangeable storage layer > (not hardwired to one DB/etc), versioned data storage (so we can query "the > past" and not just the current state) and (a possibly fine-grained) access permission > system. The entire list is quite lengthy and it probably won't help to list out each > and every item here. Suffice it to say we are looking for a "holistic multi-cluster > management" solution. > > One important note is that we need to be able to run it ourselves, "as a > service" offerings are not an option for us. I suppose we are looking for an OSS > project, though it might also be several ones pieced together. > > One particularly noteworthy find while searching for Ceph multi-cluster management was [1]. Unfortunately, I could not find any derivations or similar following this survey and, at > time of writing, it is the only article on ceph.io labeled "multi-cluster". > > Any recommendations or pointers where to look would be appreciated! > > Regards, > Thomas > > [1] https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2022/multi-cluster-mgmt-survey/ > [2] https://lists.ceph.io/hyperkitty/list/ceph-users@xxxxxxx/thread/IB25BO55LUX5ETB2BGDN3CFOKHFWJN66/ > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list -- dev@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to dev-leave@xxxxxxx
