In addition of object storage, Ceph is able to provide block devices. Ceph’s RADOS Block Device (RBD) provides access to block device images that are striped and replicated across the entire storage cluster. For example this is used to store Virtual Machines on OpenStack. With that solution, you’ve got a real fault tolerance system for your VM and distributed. The RBD part is an easy task when you’ve already setup a Ceph cluster.

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Following the previous post, on Ceph Storage, I’ve updated my documentation with informations to play with OSD. I’ve covered : Setup OSD Remove OSD Use Ceph Ojects Storage Using the object storage system is not complicated and easily scalable. It’s a real pleasure to work with that kind of solutions. If you’re already working with other objects storage solutions, you won’t be lost.

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I finally started to play with Ceph to add it in production. I’m still impressed by this storage solution. Just to remind, Ceph is an open-source, massively scalable, software-defined storage system which provides object, block and file system storage (not yet ready for production usage) in a single platform. It runs on commodity hardware-saving you costs, giving you flexibility. And as it’s in the Linux kernel, it’s easy to consume.

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Cgroups permit to restrict a process to specific hardware like CPU or limiting IO disk etc… Managing it manually could be a nightmare and hopefully, a good workaround exists. It’s called cgconfig and allows you to have a running daemon to apply restrictions on all new running process. I’ve made a documentation for it and spent time on it as it’s not properly Debian packaged yet :-(

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Piwik 2.0 has been released a few days ago. The upgrade of my version was done without any issues (as a rule with Piwik). I like the look of this new version and like the new mobile application on Android. It’s really better organized and really looks like as an application (compared with the first version). There are some new interesting features for professionals (not for my personal usage). If you don’t know it yet, it’s a good alternative to Google Analytics and you should try it.

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