Anyone heard of CEPH?

[Markverhyden]

Anyone? First time I heard of it was a comment in some subreddit the other day.

Ceph Storage Cluster — Ceph Documentation

 

[trevm999]

Yes, I have heard of Ceph. Either in the context of setting up storage in k8s via Rook, or as an alternative for S3 compatible storage with the recent MinIO rug pull, since it is a stable project.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Ceph, yes... it's declarative storage. You can use it to make RAID arrays over disks in different physical platforms. Powerful stuff.

Lets you build your own object storage. Think AWS S3 Bucket, or Azure Blob Storage.

 

[Wend]

I’ve messed around with Ceph in a home lab setting and it’s honestly a beast, but the learning curve is steep. If you’re looking for high availability and something that scales infinitely by just adding more nodes, it’s the gold standard, but it can be overkill if you're just running a few drives. It really shines with block storage and S3-compatible object storage; just make sure you have a solid 10GbE network backend or the latency will drive you crazy during data rebalancing. Definitely worth spinning up in a VM to get the hang of the CLI before putting anything critical on it.