Ceph is a fully open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability from terabytes to exabytes. Ceph utilizes a novel placement algorithm (CRUSH), active storage nodes, and peer-to-peer gossip protocols to avoid the scalability and reliability problems associated with centralized controllers and lookup tables. Ceph is part of a tremendous and growing ecosystem where it is integrated in virtualization platforms (Proxmox), Cloud platforms (OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenNebula), containers (Docker), and big data (Hadoop, as a meted server for HDFS).
Welcome folks, to my latest Six Degrees column!
Now, I wanted to mix it up a little bit for this one. In previous columns, I have written pieces about trends and patterns in communities and open source. This one is instead designed to provide some practical recommendations of tools you can use today as you build strong and empowered communities.
Prominent GNOME developer Matthew Garrett talked about the recent change in Ubuntu’s IP, and he is saying that anyone using a container image with a modified version of Ubuntu is infringing the license.
Some background is required. Canonical has recently changed its policy after a couple of ye… (read more)
