What kind of workload are you using Ceph for? (Part-1)

AvengerMoJo
8 min readOct 13, 2021

Distributed Object Store has multiple access interfaces, RBD, CephFS, RGW, and if you are developers you can even use librados and other language bindings directly connect to the cluster, etc. However, if you don’t know what they are but still want to understand how a distributed object store can support your storage needs. The aquarium project is what you are looking for.

RBD, Rados Block Device is the most popular choice of interface in the Ceph user survey 2021. As expected the block device is the easiest way to provide storage to…

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AvengerMoJo

Startup Advisor, SUSE Enterprise Storage, Travel Assistance, BlockChain Advisory, Ex-SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop Developer