Hosting a web site in radosgw

Posted on Tue 26 January 2016 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph • 6 min read

If you’re familiar with web site hosting on Amazon S3, which is a simple and cheap way to host a static web site, you might be wondering whether or not you can do the same in Ceph radosgw.

The short answer is you can’t. Bucket Website is listed …


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Removing buckets in radosgw (and their contents)

Posted on Wed 23 December 2015 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph • 1 min read

Every once in a while you’ll want to remove a bucket in radosgw, including all the objects contained in that bucket.

Now you might use a utility like s3cmd for that purpose:

s3cmd rb --recursive s3://mybucket

The advantage to this approach is that your users can do it …


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A minimal Ubuntu OpenStack Juju configuration in just four nodes

Posted on Wed 23 December 2015 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with OpenStack, Juju • 3 min read

Juju is Ubuntu’s supported and preferred means of deployment automation for an OpenStack cloud. While in Juju, a deployment unit (a Juju charm) generally expects to fully own the filesystem it is being deployed on, Juju allows you to co-deploy charms on the same physical machines, by way of …


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A Python one-liner for pretty-printing radosgw utilization

Posted on Thu 17 December 2015 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph, Python • 1 min read

In case you need a quick overview of how many radosgw objects live in your Ceph cluster, here‘s how you do that in one (slightly involved) line of Python.


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Understanding radosgw benchmarks

Posted on Wed 18 November 2015 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Ceph • 7 min read

We’ve noticed that there are a few common misconceptions around radosgw performance, and we’re hoping that this post can clear up some of those.

radosgw is of course Ceph’s RESTful object gateway. That means that you can use any client that speaks the Amazon S3 or OpenStack …


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