This document summarizes updates from the Ceph community and development. It discusses the post-acquisition environment, upcoming Ceph Days events, metrics on community growth, the user committee, Google Summer of Code involvement, the CentOS Storage SIG, governance plans, the Ceph Developer Summit, the status of releases including Giant and new features for RBD, RGW and CephFS, improvements in deployment and orchestration tools, and plans for improved release cycle communications.

1. Ceph Status && Community Update
Ceph Day Paris 2014

2. AGENDA
COMMUNITY
DEV
 Giant
 Modules
 Orchestration / Deployment
 Release Cycle
QUESTIONS
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3. COMMUNITY

4. LIVING IN A POST-ACQUISITION
WORLD
 Focused on being non-disruptive
 RHEL / Fedora / CentOS coverage
 Maintaining Ubuntu / SUSE coverage
 Co-Existing with Gluster
 Bi-directional learning is fun!
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5. CEPH DAYS
 You’re here!
 Turning up the heat
 100% Community-focused
 Upcoming
 San Jose
 NYC
 London
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6. METRICS
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 Bitergia Platform
 New Quarterly View
 Community-driven
 Good growth
 Code/Tracker/IRC/Lists
 Continuing to evolve

7. USER COMMITTEE
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 Started after Dumpling
 Current chair: Eric Mourgaya
 Periodic meetings to discuss community matters
 Most recently:
 Release cadence
 Contributor credits
 Meetups
 RADOS Gateway use cases
 Discuss upcoming work
 First steps towards broader governance

8. Google Summer of Code
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 Ceph project’s first year
 Two successful student projects
 Wireshark
 Reliability Model
 Work published on Ceph wiki
 Get involved!

9. CentOS Storage SIG
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 Creating a collection of packages
 http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialIntere
stGroup/Storage/Proposal
 Easier to deploy CentOS as a
storage node
 Early days
 Packages for Ceph & Gluster
 Get involved!

10. GOVERNANCE
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We haven’t forgotten about you!

11. CEPH DEVELOPER SUMMIT
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 Quarterly developer summit
 100% online (Blue Jeans / IRC)
 Next up: “Hammer”
 Call for blueprints opening soon!

12. DEVELOPMENT

13. GIANT STATUS
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 Tree frozen 09 Sep
 0.85 dev release includes
 RDMA support groundwork
 Improved SSD performance
 Improvements to stand alone
civetwed-based RGW frontend
 New ‘osd blocked by’ command
 0.86 released 07 Oct (Giant RC)
 Low level OSD debugging tool
 LRC plugin
 Librados locking refactor
 MDS and mon improvements

14. RBD
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 Client-side caching by default
 New option that makes cache write-through until “flushed”
 Long-requested options for OpenStack
 https://mdshaonimran.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/eucalypt
us-block-storage-service-with-ceph-rbd/

15. RGW
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 Stand-alone civetweb front end
 Civetweb – embedded C/C++ web server
 No need for Apache overhead, dependencies, etc
 Examining bucket limits

16. CephFS
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 Getting back to work!
 1/3 of core team assigned here
 A *lot* of outside commits
 Using internally on QA infrastructure
 Sanding rough edges
 “Not Supported” vs “Not Ready”
 Feedback encouraged

17. DEPLOYMENT / ORCHESTRATION
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 Ceph-deploy continuing to evolve
 Chef / Puppet / Ansible / Salt / Juju
 Docker

18. RELEASE CYCLE COMMS
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 Increased communication requested (user committee)
 Alternating releases (ex: emperor vs firefly)
 Product vs upstream church and state

19. THANK YOU!
Patrick McGarry
Dir Ceph Community
pmcgarry@
redhat.com
@scuttlemonkey