MicroCeph is snap-deployed Ceph with built-in clustering.
Deploying and operating a Ceph cluster is complex because Ceph is designed to be a general-purpose storage solution. This is a significant overhead for small Ceph clusters. MicroCeph solves this by being opinionated and focused on the small scale. With MicroCeph, deploying and operating a Ceph cluster is as easy as a Snap!
- Quick and consistent deployment with minimal overhead
- Single-command operations (for bootstrapping, adding OSDs, service enablement, etc)
- Isolated from the host and upgrade-friendly
- Built-in clustering so you don't have to worry about it!
The below commands will set you up with a testing environment on a single machine using file-backed OSDs - you'll need about 15 GiB of available space on your root drive:
sudo snap install microceph
sudo snap refresh --hold microceph
sudo microceph cluster bootstrap
sudo microceph disk add loop,4G,3
You're done! Check Ceph status:
sudo ceph status
You can remove everything cleanly with:
sudo snap remove microceph --purge
The documentation is found in the docs directory. It is
written in RST format, built with Sphinx, and published on Read The Docs:
- Join our online forum - Ubuntu Ceph on Matrix
- Contributing guidelines
- Code of conduct
- File a bug
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MicroCeph is free software, distributed under the AGPLv3 license (GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0). Refer to the COPYING file (the actual license) for more information.