Ceph storage on Ubuntu
Canonical Ceph provides a flexible open source storage option for OpenStack, Kubernetes or as a stand-alone storage cluster.
Production-worthy
Ceph storage
Designed from the ground up for petabyte-scale deployments, Canonical's Ceph solutions include only open source components with highly automated operations to drive down the total cost of ownership.
If you do not have the in house expertise to operate your own storage infrastructure Canonical Ceph is available as a managed service.
Proven success
with Ceph storage
The Wellcome Sanger Institute initially opted for self-maintained Ceph storage, but as their capacity needs grew from 3 PB to over 20 PB, they turned to Canonical to resolve their scaling issues.
With the help of Canonical support, the Institute's latest Ceph rollout decreased from a month to just four days.
Ceph storage deployment and operations
Canonical can help you to design and install your Ceph cluster or provide consulting to enable you to run Ceph autonomously. Day 2 operations are straightforward with highly automated procedures to upgrade and expand clusters, and manage hardware replacements. If you prefer to treat your storage as-a-service, we offer Managed Ceph – a Ceph cluster fully managed by Canonical.
Benefits of Ceph on Ubuntu
The choice is yours as to whether to use your own operational framework or leverage the benefits of Canonical Ceph. Each Ubuntu LTS release ships with a version of Ceph that is supported for up to 10 years. Newer releases of Ceph can be installed from the Ubuntu Cloud Archive, allowing flexibility to select the right version of Ceph for your environment.
To maximize Ceph upgrade flexibility for customers, Ceph versions are regularly released and maintained via Ubuntu updates and security repositories, as well as the Ubuntu Cloud Archive. This leads to a flexible mix between remaining at the forefront of innovation and providing long-term support predictability.
With many global enterprises and telco operators running Ceph on Ubuntu, organizations are able to combine block, file and object storage at scale while tapping into the economic and upstream benefits of open source.
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Ubuntu
20.04.x LTS Focal |
Ubuntu
22.04.x LTS Jammy |
Ubuntu
24.04.x LTS Noble |
|---|---|---|
| Ceph Quincy 17.2.x | Ceph Reef 18.2.x | Ceph Squid 19.2.x *Release supported under full LTS commitment |
| Ceph Pacific 16.2.x | Ceph Quincy 17.2.x *Release supported under full LTS commitment | |
| Ceph Octopus 15.2.x *Release supported under full LTS commitment |
The Ubuntu and Ceph support cadence
* Releases denoted with an asterisk are supported under the full LTS commitment.
More choice,
for your infrastructure
Across all shapes and sizes of infrastructure, Canonical Ceph can provide all the benefits of upstream Ceph in easily deployable and securely delivered packages.
Private Cloud
Canonical Charmed Ceph
Use Juju and Charms to deploy and manage all of your infrastructure and applications.
cephadm/rook
Canonical Ceph rocks
Use your own choice of tooling, with trusted OCI compliant container images.
Edge cloud
Canonical MicroCeph
Lightweight deployment and management for edge computing use-cases.
Training / Local dev
Canonical MicroCeph
Small scale deployments for training and local-development.
Canonical Ceph for best economics in the datacenter
Canonical Ceph management tooling enables you to manage the entire lifecycle of deployment, configuration, and operation of a Ceph cluster, no matter its size or complexity. Our tooling simplifies both installation automation as well as Day-2 operations orchestration, such as monitoring, scaling, upgrades and hardware maintenance while remaining interoperable with other infrastructure and application management solutions.
Benefits of Canonical Ceph
- Highly scalable from Terabytes to Exabytes
- Highly reliable with no single point of failure in the cluster
- Fault-tolerant through data replication and erasure coding
- Enable BCP/DR with remote replication
- Highly secure client authentication and at rest encryption
- Compatible with Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift APIs
- Decrease CapEx by using commodity hardware
- Decrease OpEx through failure detection, self-management and self-healing
- Configurable and optimizable for cost and performance
Encryption at rest
Canonical Ceph allows for encryption at rest to be configured through our deployment tooling to provide data encryption and integrity assurance for Ceph OSDs.
Tested architecture
Our Ceph reference architectures have been developed after extensive testing and production experience with leading hardware vendors.
Utilize nearline SAS or SATA drives for bulk storage to drive lower storage costs with NVMe flash as a cache device to increase performance.
Getting started with Ceph on Ubuntu
Learn more about Ceph
Webinar
A single Ceph cluster can address block, file and object storage needs, while complementing proprietary and public cloud solutions. In this webinar, we review the storage challenges faced by enterprises, and explain how Ceph can solve many of them. We will also demonstrate some of the key features of Ceph that provide solutions for disaster recovery and compliance requirements.
Whitepapers
Moving away from hosted container solutions? Storage is a critical part of the equation. Learn how to align dynamic cloud-native application delivery with persistent storage in this whitepaper.
What’s the most cost-effective approach to cloud storage?
Calculating the total cost of ownership of cloud storage isn’t straightforward, as pricing typically includes components beyond the capacity consumed. In this whitepaper, we break down the total cost of storing large data sets in public clouds, and explore how adopting Ceph can reduce costs.
Blogs
As datasets grow over time, the cost of public cloud storage can become overwhelming. In this blog, learn about how you can use Canonical Ceph for your on-premises or co-located self-hosted storage system – all while reducing costs.
Recently, the team at MinIO archived the open source project. For developers hoping to stay at the cutting edge of storage solutions, what’s the next step? In this blog, learn about MicroCeph: the superior MinIO alternative.