ceph-ansible

Ansible playbook for Ceph!

Clone me:

git clone https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible.git
cp vagrant_variables.yml.sample vagrant_variables.yml

What does it do?

General support for:

• Monitors
• OSDs
• MDSs
• RGW

More details:

• Authentication (cephx), this can be disabled.
• Supports cluster public and private network.
• Monitors deployment. You can easily start with one monitor and then progressively add new nodes. So can deploy one monitor for testing purpose. For production, I recommend to always use an odd number of monitors, 3 tends to be the standard.
• Object Storage Daemons. Like the monitors you can start with a certain amount of nodes and then grow this number. The playbook either supports a dedicated device for storing the journal or both journal and OSD data on the same device (using a tiny partition at the beginning of the device).
• Metadata daemons.
• Collocation. The playbook supports collocating Monitors, OSDs and MDSs on the same machine.
• The playbook was validated on Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and CentOS 6.4.
• Tested on Ceph Dumpling and Emperor.
• A rolling upgrade playbook was written, an upgrade from Dumpling to Emperor was performed and worked.

Setup with Vagrant

Run your virtual machines:

$ vagrant up --provider=virtualbox
...
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< PLAY RECAP >
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            (__)\       )\/\
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mon0                       : ok=16   changed=11   unreachable=0    failed=0
mon1                       : ok=16   changed=10   unreachable=0    failed=0
mon2                       : ok=16   changed=11   unreachable=0    failed=0
osd0                       : ok=19   changed=7    unreachable=0    failed=0
osd1                       : ok=19   changed=7    unreachable=0    failed=0
osd2                       : ok=19   changed=7    unreachable=0    failed=0
rgw                        : ok=20   changed=17   unreachable=0    failed=0

Check the status:

$ vagrant ssh mon0 -c "sudo ceph -s"
    cluster 4a158d27-f750-41d5-9e7f-26ce4c9d2d45
     health HEALTH_OK
     monmap e3: 3 mons at {ceph-mon0=192.168.0.10:6789/0,ceph-mon1=192.168.0.11:6789/0,ceph-mon2=192.168.0.12:6789/0}, election epoch 6, quorum 0,1,2 ceph-mon0,ceph-mon1,ceph-mon
     mdsmap e6: 1/1/1 up {0=ceph-osd0=up:active}, 2 up:standby
     osdmap e10: 6 osds: 6 up, 6 in
      pgmap v17: 192 pgs, 3 pools, 9470 bytes data, 21 objects
            205 MB used, 29728 MB / 29933 MB avail
                 192 active+clean

To re-run the Ansible provisioning scripts:

$ vagrant provision

Specifying fsid and secret key in production

The Vagrantfile specifies an fsid for the cluster and a secret key for the monitor. If using these playbooks in production, you must generate your own fsid in group_vars/all and monitor_secret in group_vars/mons. Those files contain information about how to generate appropriate values for these variables.

Specifying package origin

By default, ceph-common installs from Ceph repository. However, you can set ceph_origin to "distro" to install Ceph from your default repository.

For Debian based systems

If you want to use "backports", you can set "true" to ceph_use_distro_backports. Attention, ceph-common doesn't manage backports repository, you must add it yourself.

Vagrant Demo

Bare metal demo

Deployment from scratch on bare metal machines: