Ceph In-Depth Training

Learn Ceph in depth from certified trainers. This course covers the full Ceph stack — architecture, RADOS, CRUSH, RBD, CephFS and the object gateway (RGW) — plus the operations, tuning, monitoring and failure-recovery skills you need to run Ceph in production.

Over 32 hours you build and deliberately stress a live cluster, so you learn what healthy recovery looks like and how to recognise problems before they become outages.

• Introduction — Trainer introduction and test environment access.
• General Ceph basics — History, horizontal vs. vertical scaling, RADOS/RBD/CephFS/S3 overview.
• Components of a Ceph cluster — MONs, MGRs, OSDs, MDSs, RGWs, CRUSH map, replication & erasure coding.
• Initial cluster setup — MON deployment and MGR services.
• Deploying OSDs — BlueStore setups, ceph-deploy and ceph-volume.
• Distributing data with CRUSH — Pools, placement groups, CRUSH rules and EC pools.
• RBD details — Mounting and using RBD, EC pool specifics, best practices.
• CephFS details — Creation, mounting and attributes.
• Other connectors — Samba/SMB/CIFS and NFS.
• RadosGW details — Deployment and S3 API access.
• Cluster planning — 1y/3y/5y planning, hardware sizing, failure domains.
• Network planning — Simple and complex designs, common problems, dos and don'ts.
• Authorization management — Ceph keys, RBD/CephFS permissions, firewall configuration.
• Operations — Disk failure scenarios, PG states, crash debugging, recovery speed, upgrades.
• Managing with cephadm — Conversion, dashboard configuration, service deployment and updates.
• Case studies — RGW for big data/video, RBD for virtualization, CephFS with NFS/SMB for backups.
• Monitoring and performance — Alerting, tuning and monitoring.