Ceph — advanced administration and production operations

• Drive the cluster lifecycle through declarative service specifications.
• Customize the CRUSH map: failure and performance domains.
• Provide block storage beyond the native protocol: iSCSI and NVMe-oF gateways.
• Deploy the object gateway in multisite mode and expose the file system over NFS.
• Implement block and file mirroring for disaster recovery.
• Tune performance, carry out an upgrade and troubleshoot.

• Storage engineers and senior systems administrators.
• Cloud architects and data infrastructure managers.
• Teams running a Ceph cluster in production.

• Ceph Overview course or hands-on cluster operations experience.
• Advanced Linux administration and solid container skills.

Day 1 — Declarative deployment and configuration

• Service specifications and OSD deployment strategies
• Cluster configuration parameters, monitors and dedicated networks
• OSDs on logical volumes and deploying a second cluster

Day 2 — Pools, authentication and CRUSH

• Creating and configuring pools, managing authentication
• CRUSH map structure and custom rules
• Multi-rack failure domains and resilience levels

Day 3 — Block storage and disaster recovery

• Block image management: snapshots, import and export
• Block mirroring: modes, promotion, failover and failback
• iSCSI and NVMe-oF block storage gateways

Day 4 — Advanced object and file storage

• Multisite object gateway: realms, zone groups and zones
• Advanced S3 API, load balancing and certificates
• Multi-server file system, mirroring and NFS gateway

Day 5 — Operations, performance and lifecycle

• Monitoring, maintenance and non-disruptive OSD replacement
• Tuning: scheduler, storage engine, scrubbing and networking
• Automated upgrade, troubleshooting and OpenStack and OpenShift integration