CephAIO

Requires: Ubuntu 16.04 and Ansible 2.3.0 or higher

Creates an AIO for ceph using LXC containers

The goal of this project was to create an all in one enviroment of ceph that resembled what a production ceph cluster may look like. Each container is treated as a "server".

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| Container |    IP     |                  Type                   |
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| cephadmin | 10.0.3.51 | Deployment Host, ceph monitoring host   |
| cephmon   | 10.0.3.52 | ceph monitoring host                    |
| cephosd1  | 10.0.3.53 | ceph osd host                           |
| cephosd2  | 10.0.3.54 | ceph osd host                           |
| cephosd3  | 10.0.3.55 | ceph osd host                           |
| cephrgw   | 10.0.3.56 | ceph rados gateway host                 |
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Known to Work on:

  Rackspace Public Cloud
    - 15 GB Compute v1   
    - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) (PVHVM)  
    - 75 GB Standard SATA block device:
        * unmounted
        * unformatted
        * listed in AIO_user_config (defauolt: /dev/xvdb)

Boot Strap the Host

Use bootstrap.sh to stage the host:

Add ansible repo and run update package lists

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt-get update

Install ansible

sudo apt-get install -y ansible

Create a passwordless ssh-key and copy the key to itself

su - $USER -c "echo |ssh-keygen -t rsa"
cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

Disable password entry

sed -i '/PasswordAuthentication yes/c\PasswordAuthentication no' /etc/ssh/sshd_config

To Create the CephAIO

cd CephAIO
bash bootstrap.sh
ansible-playbook -i inventory build.yml

To Teardown

ansible-playbook -i inventory teardown.yml

After using the teardown playbook, ensure that the ceph disk has been completely wiped. Ceph leaves some residual data that interferes with future deployments. The teardown playbook currently uses shred to perform the data wipe (this takes awhile), but I am pretty sure that removing the block device and adding a new one would accomplish the same end result.

Clean Up

ansible-playbook -i inventory cleanup.yml

If the containers and drives are created but the installation of ceph fails then cleanup.yml will stop and destory the containers then remove the 3 partitions from the external drive and then run the ' shred ` command. This provides the ability to reset the host back to a clean state if an error installing ceph happens.

Tests

The directory tests contains information on how to test the success of some installed components.

TO DO:

• Add variable to control the number of osds deployed