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"You also have to deploy Ceph to get storage, which is itself an entire beast" You do not have to use Ceph, although it is the most popular storage backend for
by neverartful 4y ago
"You also have to deploy Ceph to get storage, which is itself an entire beast"
You do not have to use Ceph, although it is the most popular storage backend for OpenStack. Cinder is the OpenStack project that's used to provision block storage for OpenStack. Look at the list of Cinder drivers [0] to see what the storage options are. I do agree with this part: "is itself an entire beast"!
[0] https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/reference/support-matrix.html#driver-support-matrix https://docs.openstack.org/cinder/latest/reference/support-m...
- wmf 4y agoMany of those drivers either don't work or are shims for very expensive proprietary storage. If you want to run an actual open stack, Ceph was pretty much the option for a long time.