One of the future highly user-visible improvements in the Ceph Manager Dashboard is a new landing page that will use “native” JavaScript widgets to inform the user about the current state of the cluster at a glance. This feature has been in the works for quite some time now; after initial discussions on the related …Read more

This is the second bugfix release of the Mimic v13.2.x long term stable release series. This release contains many fixes across all components of Ceph. We recommend that all users upgrade. Changelog¶ build/ops: Boost system library is no longer required to compile and link example librados program (issue#25073, issue#25054, pr#23201, Nathan Cutler) build/ops: debian/rules: fix …Read more

Hello Cephers! Information about Ceph Days coming to Poland created quite a movement in our development team. We have been working with Ceph from the inside out for few years now and the opportunity to share our view and approach to this innovative SDS was quite exciting! We were also simply curious as to who …Read more

We’re glad to announce the next point release in the Luminous v12.2.X stable release series. This release contains a range of bugfixes and stability improvements across all the components of ceph. We thank everyone for contributing towards this release. Upgrade notes from previous luminous releases When upgrading from v12.2.5 or v12.2.6 please note that upgrade …Read more

Rook is an orchestrator for storage services that run in a Kubernetes cluster. In the Rook v0.8 release, we are excited to say that the orchestration around Ceph has stabilized to the point to be declared Beta. If you haven’t yet started a Ceph cluster with Rook, now is the time to take it for a …Read more

This is the first bugfix release of the Mimic v13.2.x long term stable release series. This release contains many fixes across all components of Ceph, including a few security fixes. We recommend that all users upgrade. Notable Changes¶ CVE 2018-1128: auth: cephx authorizer subject to replay attack (issue#24836, Sage Weil) CVE 2018-1129: auth: cephx signature …Read more

From Tuesday, 17th to Thursday, 19th of July, the developers working on the Ceph Manager Dashboard held a first face to face meeting in Nuremberg, Germany. The meeting was hosted by SUSE and was attended by 23 representatives from Red Hat and SUSE that work on the dashboard or related components like Prometheus/Grafana or the …Read more

This is the seventh bugfix release of Luminous v12.2.x long term stable release series. This release contains several fixes for regressions in the v12.2.6 and v12.2.5 releases. We recommend that all users upgrade to v12.2.7. note: The v12.2.6 release has serious known regressions. While 12.2.6 wasn’t formally announced, if you’ve still installed this release, please …Read more

To better understand how our current users utilize Ceph, we conducted a public community survey from May 1st to May 25th 2018. The Ceph User Survey 2018 Slides contain the graphs from Survey Monkey. We are also making the (only slightly cleaned up) responses available under the Community Data License Agreement – Sharing, Version 1.0 here: …Read more

This point releases brings a number of important bugfixes and has a few important security fixes. This is expected to be the last Jewel release. We recommend all Jewel 10.2.x users to upgrade. Notable Changes¶ CVE 2018-1128: auth: cephx authorizer subject to replay attack (issue#24836, Sage Weil) CVE 2018-1129: auth: cephx signature check is weak …Read more

Hey Cephers! June 2018 is about to end and here is a summary of activities and news for Ceph Project. Enjoy! Announcements Mimic is out! After 9 months of work the Engineering released Ceph Mimic (v13.2.x series) with lots of features and improvements. A full list of changes, as well the upgrading instructions and a …Read more

(this is a guest post by Mohamad Gebai from SUSE, who developed the iostat plugin) The Mimic release of Ceph has brought with it a small yet useful feature for monitoring the activity on a Ceph cluster: the iostat command, which comes as a form of a Ceph manager plugin. The iostat module is enabled …Read more