With Ceph Day on 12. November the last online day of storage2day 2020 takes place in a week. The central topic is the open source object storage Ceph and its integration in the most varied of environments. Seven lectures lead the participants through the quasi-standard of software-defined storage.

After an introduction to the distributed storage system, there are two first inconvenient topics: Ceph security and myths about object storage. The time around the lunch break belongs to the topic of integration: First, Ceph is to be married to Samba, then to become part of a container environment, in two ways: On the one hand, Ceph itself is to be operated within a container environment, on the other hand, it is to be provided as a storage container .

Two practical reports fill out the afternoon: First, Klaus Steinberger reports on a highly available virtualization cluster with Ceph and open source at the LMU Munich. Then the lecture “GitOps for Storage – A Merge Request to the Productive Ceph Cluster” shows how the administrators of HanseMerkur-Versicherung applied the GitOps concept to the deployment of the Ceph cluster and took on the challenge of using this approach with SUSE’s Ceph – Marrying the Deployment solution Deepsea and distributing the cluster fail-safe over two locations.

Continuation in the year 2021 Ceph Day concludes this year’s storage2day, which is taking place online this year due to Corona. In February 2021 the iX conference resumes for storage networks and data management, their program continues seamlessly with the topic of storage with open source. This is followed by the days for storage architecture in March and storage performance after the Easter holidays.

Like the on-site counterpart 2019, the online conference is also aimed at admins, data center and storage managers and IT managers who want to receive further training in the field of storage technology. The Ceph Day is flanked by two Ceph workshops: The workshop introducing Ceph “Object Storage 101: The fastest way to your own Ceph Cluster “takes place all day on . November and the further “ROOK – Ceph-Storage for Kubernetes” also all day on 17. November.

Ceph Day: program, registration, workshops (sun)