When moving a customer’s onpremise data centre to the public cloud, we were commissioned to plan the Ceph clusters for the Microsoft Azure environment for use with Microsoft Azure AKS. After an intensive testing and optimisation phase, we put the Ceph clusters into production there and took over the migration to the Microsoft Azure AKS offering.
Since 2021, we have supported one of our customers in the architecture and operation of more than 150 Kubernetes clusters with Ceph worldwide in all hyperscalers, such as GCP, AWS, Microsoft Azure and AliCloud.
Use of programming languages to define customised infrastructure environments using Terraform. Use of language constructs and tools that follow Infrastructure as Code (IoC) design patterns.
Use of functions and libraries within programming languages to develop complex infrastructure projects.
Use programming languages such as TypeScript, Python and Go to map multi-cloud environments. With the modular and open architecture to include hundreds of vendors and thousands of module definitions.
After more than 10 years of experience with different evolutionary stages of timeseries monitoring systems and the growing need for metrics, we decided to replace database and file based solutions.
To store metrics for the long term, we rely on object storage technology to provide almost unlimited storage capacity in the backend.
The Object Storage is provided to us by multiple Ceph clusters. We are now also able to dynamically connect alternative storage locations, such as AWS and/or GCP, as needed.
*TISAX* (Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange) is a standard for information security defined by the automotive industry. A large number of automotive manufacturers and suppliers in the German automotive industry have required many business partners to have existing TISAX certification since 2017.
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISAX](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TISAX)
On behalf of the customer, we support the customer in replacing its existing storage solution and introducing and commissioning Ceph as a future-proof and TISAX-compliant storage solution for its internal processes and data volumes.
The customer decided to connect its existing environment with NFS and Kerberos authentication and for its private cloud to connect via RBD.
Wed, June 8, 2:50pm - 3:20pm | Berlin Congress Center - B - B09
Ceph RADOS, RBD and CephFS have been ported on Microsoft Windows, a community effort led by SUSE and Cloudbase Solutions. The goal consisted in porting librados and librdb on Windows Server, providing a kernel driver for exposing RBD devices natively as Windows volumes, support for Hyper-V VMs and last but not least, even CephFS. During this session we will talk about the architectural differences between Windows and Linux from a storage standpoint and how we retained the same CLI so that long time Ceph users will feel at home regardless of the underlying operating system. Performance is a key aspect of this porting, with Ceph on Windows significantly outperforming the iSCSI gateway, previously the main option for accessing RBD images from Windows nodes. There will be no lack of live demos, including automating the installation of the Windows binaries, setting up and managing a Ceph cluster across Windows and Linux nodes, spinning up Hyper-V VMs from RBD, and CephFS.
Quincy is the 17th stable release of Ceph. It is named after Squidward Quincy Tentacles fromSpongebob Squarepants.
CentOS Linux 8 will reach End Of Life (EOL) on December 31st, 2021. Here’s what that means.
End dates are coming for CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Linux 7 We’ve got an important message for Developers, Administrators, and Users.