Agenda

Introduction

Trainer and croit introduction, training process
Setting up access to the test environment

General Ceph basics

History of Ceph, horizontal vs. vertical scalability, Ceph vs. X
Typical Ceph use cases, overview of Ceph management systems
Introduction: RADOS (low-level object store), RBD, CephFS, S3/Swift (high-level object store)

Components of a Ceph cluster

MONs, MGRs, OSDs, MDSs, RGWs
CRUSH map
Replication and erasure code (EC), with example

Initial Ceph cluster setup

Obtaining Ceph, deployment automation
Setting up the first MON, adding further MONs, MGR services
Summary

Deploying OSDs

BlueStore device setup variants
ceph-deploy and ceph-volume
Summary

Distributing data into pools with CRUSH

Ceph pools and placement groups
CRUSH rules and adding them
Erasure coded pools
Summary

RBD details

Mounting and using RBD devices
Details of erasure coded pools
Best practices

CephFS details

Creating and mounting CephFS, CephFS attributes

Other connectors

Setting up and using Samba (SMB/CIFS) and NFS

RadosGW details

Deploying RadosGW, access via S3 API

Cluster planning

Clarifying requirements, planning for 1y/3y/5y
Performance expectations from hard drives, hardware sizing, failure domains
Exercise

Network planning

Simple and complex network design, example setups
Typical network related problems, dos and don'ts of cluster networks

Authorization management

Ceph keys, permissions for RBD and CephFS
Firewall configuration

Operations: error handling, upgrades and all that

Scenario: a disk died, what now? PG states
Debugging crashes with log files, using the objectstore tool
Cluster is running full, controlling recovery speed
Upgrading Ceph

Managing a cluster with cephadm

Convert an existing cluster to cephadm
Configure Ceph through cephadm & dashboard, custom service configuration
Deploy, troubleshoot and update Ceph services

Managing a cluster with croit (optional)

Import existing cluster, configure Ceph with croit
Setting up NFS & SMB, running an RGW HA group
Update croit (cluster & container)

Case studies

RGW for big data and video streaming
RBD for virtualization
CephFS with NFS and SMB for backups, CephFS for a large number of small files

Monitoring and performance

Alerting when something goes wrong
Tuning and monitoring performance

CEPH, OPEN SOURCE SCALE-OUT STORAGE

Ceph is a high-performance, open-source storage solution that scales to fit almost any use case: virtual servers, cloud, backup, and more. It's powerful, but getting it right takes more than reading the docs. Sessions are kept small, the focus stays hands-on, and the agenda can be tailored to your team's needs.

This training gives you the practical knowledge to plan, deploy, and operate Ceph with confidence.

OFFICIAL CEPH TRAINING BY CEPH FOUNDATION MEMBERS

croit is a Ceph Foundation Founding Member providing instructor-led Ceph training worldwide. Since 2017, we have helped organizations deploy, operate and scale production Ceph clusters. The course is taught by engineers who work with Ceph every day and covers architecture, deployment, operations, troubleshooting, performance tuning, CephFS, RBD, RGW/S3 and production best practices for enterprises and service providers.

TRAINER

Our trainers bring practical experience from real production Ceph environments, including deployment, operations, troubleshooting and 24/7 support. The sessions stay hands-on, with time for technical questions, architecture discussions and examples from real customer projects.

MATERIALS PROVIDED

Digital documentation
Virtual training center
Certificate of completion

TARGET GROUP

This course is for IT administrators responsible for keeping storage environments running 24/7. Whether you work closely with developers, support end users, or run your own storage applications, basic Linux knowledge is all you need to get started.

Reserve a seat for Oct 5

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