{"id":1929,"date":"2012-02-09T21:24:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T03:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2012-06-01T12:49:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:49:43","slug":"recap-ceph-lords-openstack-sf-meetup-feb-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/recap-ceph-lords-openstack-sf-meetup-feb-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: &#8220;Ceph Lords&#8221; OpenStack SF Meetup Feb 02"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/openstack_sf_meetup_ceph.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/openstack_sf_meetup_ceph.jpeg\" alt=\"OpenStack SF Meetup Ceph\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>\n<p class=\"lead\">On February 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, a league of extraordinary gentlemen gathered inside a crowded chamber for the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dreamhost.com\/2012\/01\/30\/dreamhost-ceph-openstack-meetup-2\/\">Ceph Lords<\/a>\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/openstack\/\">OpenStack SF Meetup<\/a>.\u00a0 About 75 Stackers were in attendance making this event a smashing success!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed this Meetup, then you should watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pistoncloud.com\/2012\/02\/ceph-lords-san-francisco-openstack-event\/\">recorded presentations<\/a> in order to experience the lively discourse.\u00a0 Also, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/77692232@N00\/sets\/72157629218977431\/with\/6814501589\/\">photos<\/a> that were taken by the Piston Cloud crew.\u00a0 They did a good job capturing the fun, relaxed ambiance of the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>The Meetup was facilitated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pistoncloud.com\/\">Piston Cloud<\/a> and hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamhost.com\/\">DreamHost<\/a>.\u00a0 Scrumptious tacos were catered by <a href=\"http:\/\/tacolicioussf.com\/\">Tacolicious<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/magnoliapub.com\/\">Magnolia Brewery<\/a> provided a keg of ice-cold California Kolsh beer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ceph.newdream.net\/openstack\/\">Ceph<\/a>\u00a0was in the spotlight throughout the Meetup.\u00a0 For those few who are still unfamiliar with Ceph, it\u2019s a massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system.\u00a0 The presenters focused primarily on how Ceph works with the cloud software stack, and how it\u2019s currently being implemented in production.<\/p>\n<p>The DreamHost team kicked off the event.\u00a0 Ben Cherian provided a brief overview on the reasons why DreamHost chose to use Ceph as the storage foundation for their current hosting products and upcoming cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>Tommi Virtanen dived into the Ceph platform from a technical perpective.\u00a0 He described the major components of Ceph, its storage architecture, and how it distributes data.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Perry talked about how DreamHost is currently deploying Ceph.\u00a0 He touched on specifics such as the hardware and tools involved, the level of automation, and things learned along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher MacGown, Co-Founder and CTO of Piston Cloud, was the final presenter.\u00a0 He opened with how storage should work in a cloud environment and why Piston Cloud chose Ceph as the backend storage solution.\u00a0 He finished by describing how his company is using Ceph with the Piston Enterprise OS\u2122 software.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/openstack-sf-meetup-ceph.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/openstack-sf-meetup-ceph.jpeg\" alt=\"OpenStack SF Meetup Ceph\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/openstack-sf-meetup-ceph.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/openstack-sf-meetup-ceph-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">Written by: Brent Scotten<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 2nd, a league of extraordinary gentlemen gathered inside a crowded chamber for the \u201cCeph Lords\u201d OpenStack SF Meetup.\u00a0 About 75 Stackers were in attendance making this event a smashing success! If you missed this Meetup, then you should watch the recorded presentations in order to experience the lively discourse.\u00a0 Also, check out the&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/recap-ceph-lords-openstack-sf-meetup-feb-02\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Recap: &#8220;Ceph Lords&#8221; OpenStack SF Meetup Feb 02\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}