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Several years ago I set down a path to move my personal infrastructure into juju control. Along the way I’ve written several charms and blog posts about the things I’ve learned and developed. Today I’m happy to announce I’m ending my solo effort because I am being joined by James... [Read More]

Many technology projects stop at implementation and configuration. However, the ongoing care and feeding of that solution is also a very important and often overlooked aspect. This is especially true in the hobby and home lab environment. This post will cover how you can leverage juju and charms to easily... [Read More]

Containers are a great tool for delivering and operating software. There are some situations that are difficult to run in containers including applications which require access to block devices. LXD provides a way to mount block devices into a container allowing applications like ceph-osd to run inside a LXD container.... [Read More]

Benchmarking is notoriously hard to do correctly, I’m going to provide the raw results of many hours of benchmarks. I’ll draw some conclusions specifically comparing performance on my hardware, hopefully it provides some insight for single node Ceph on commodity hardware for anyone else considering this setup. [Read More]

I’m going to show you how to deploy a single node Ceph with a juju bundle. The charms included in this bundle are all currently a work in progress and should only be used for testing purposes. I expect changes to be made as I’m getting them merged into their... [Read More]