Hello Salty Goodness

Anyone who’s ever deployed Ceph presumably knows about ceph-deploy. It’s right there in the Deployment chapter of the upstream docs, and it’s pretty easy to use to get a toy test cluster up and running. For any decent sized cluster though, ceph-deploy rapidly becomes cumbersome… As just one example, do you really want to have to `ceph-deploy osd prepare` every disk? For larger production clusters it’s almost certainly better to use a fully-fledged configuration management tool, such as Salt, which is what this post is about.

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Salt and Pepper Squid with Fresh Greens

A few days ago I told Andrew Wafaa I’d write up some notes for him and publish them here. I became hungry contemplating this work, so decided cooking was the first order of business:

Salt and Pepper Squid with Fresh Greens

It turned out reasonably well for a first attempt. Could’ve been crispier, and it was quite salty, but the pepper and chilli definitely worked (I’m pretty sure the chilli was dried bhut jolokia I harvested last summer). But this isn’t a post about food, it’s about some software I’ve packaged for managing Ceph clusters on openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

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