A small comparison between gluster and ceph

1. Gluster vs Ceph
Infracoders II Meetup Vienna
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2. About ME2Digital
• Aleksandar Lazic since ~20 years in IT
• Since 2003 active in haproxy community
• Since 2006 active in nginx community => nginxpert
• Since ??? in curl active community
• Since 2015 in openshift community
• Stay always curious
• I like what I do and I do it with passion ;-)
• I founded ME2Digital in 2017
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3. History of gluster
• Gluster Inc. founded 2005
• Initial version 2010
• It’s a so called SDS ( = software defined storage)
• Acquired by Red Hat 2011 Red Hat to Acquire Gluster
• Active community
• Docs
• Wikipedia Gluster
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4. Gluster Architecture
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5. History of Ceph
• Created by Sage Weil at ~2007
• Inktank Storage created 2012
• It’s a so called SDS ( = software defined storage)
• Acquired by Red Hat 2014 Red Hat to Acquire Inktank
• Active community
• Docs
• Wikipedia Ceph
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6. Ceph Architecture
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7. Compare
• Gluster:
• POSIX filesystem
• FUSE mount
• No REST interface
• Ceph:
• Object store
• Block device
• REST Interface
• Gluster and Ceph:
• Owned by Red Hat
• Container Native Storage (=CNS)
• Both can be used natively in kubernetes and openshift
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8. Demo Setup on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Architecture
Docker Client mit GlusterFS 3 Node Cluster
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9. Demo Setup on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Architecture
Docker Client mit GlusterFS 3 Node Cluster
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10. Demo on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Architecture
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• Docker Client mit GlusterFS 3 Node Cluster
• DEMO
• LINKS
• Storage for Containers Overview – Part I

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