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Learn Ceph - Pre-Requisite Skills & Environment Setup
Before touching Ceph, you need to understand block, file, and object storage concepts, as well as the basics of distributed systems and fault tolerance. In this episode you will prepare the Linux environment, bootstrap your first cluster with cephadm, and verify the cluster health.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Ceph - History, Background & Why Choose Ceph
Ceph was born in 2006 from Sage Weil's thesis and grew into the de facto standard for distributed storage. This episode reviews Ceph's evolution, the advantages of unified storage and scalability, comparisons with SAN/NAS and GlusterFS, and use cases in cloud block storage, file systems, object storage, and database backends.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Ceph - Core Concepts & Architecture
This episode dissects the Ceph architecture from the core components MON, OSD, MDS, MGR, and RGW, down to RADOS as the foundation of all services. You will also learn about the CRUSH map and data placement, the concept of pools, placement groups, replication, and erasure coding.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Ceph - Installation & Basic Cluster Setup
This episode guides you through building a real Ceph cluster: installation with cephadm, configuring MON, OSD, and MGR, understanding the config file and cluster keys, and verifying health with ceph status. You will have a three-node cluster ready for use.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Ceph - RADOS & Pool Management
This episode focuses on RADOS pool management: creating pools, setting replication levels, distinguishing replicated and erasure coded pools, tuning placement groups and failure domains, and managing the OSD lifecycle from adding to removing a broken OSD.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Ceph - Block Storage with RBD
This episode covers RBD, Ceph's block storage interface: concepts and use cases for VMs, creating RBD images and mapping them as block devices, integration with OpenStack Cinder and the Kubernetes RBD CSI, and snapshots, clones, and thin provisioning.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Ceph - File Storage with CephFS
This episode covers CephFS, Ceph's file storage interface: the metadata server architecture and data path, creating a filesystem and mounting clients with POSIX semantics, active-active MDS for scaling metadata, and quotas, snapshots, and client consistency.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Ceph - Object Storage with RGW
This episode covers the RADOS Gateway, Ceph's object storage interface: RGW concepts and the S3/Swift API, setting up realms, zones, and zonegroups, bucket, object, and user management, and integration with S3 clients and object lifecycle.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Ceph - Ceph Client Integration
This episode covers how to connect Linux clients to CephFS and RBD, configure RADOS Gateway clients, integrate with Kubernetes CSI drivers and cloud platforms, and best practices for client authentication and keyring management.
August 10, 2026
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Learn Ceph - Performance Tuning & Data Placement
This episode covers tuning Ceph cluster performance: OSD optimization with BlueStore and DB/WAL, network tuning with public and private network separation, adjusting placement groups and device classes, and monitoring throughput, latency, and backfill.
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