Ceph: managing CRUSH with the CLI
Getting more familiar with the Ceph CLI with CRUSH.
For the purpose of this exercise, I am going to:
- Setup two new racks in my existing infrastructure
- Simply add my current server in them
- Create a new CRUSH rule that uses both racks
Let's start by creating two new racks:
bash $ ceph osd crush add-bucket rack1 rack added bucket rack1 type rack to crush map $ ceph osd crush add-bucket rack2 rack added bucket rack2 type rack to crush map
As you can see racks are empty (and this normal):
```bash $ ceph osd tree
id weight type name up/down reweight
-6 0 rack rack2 -5 0 rack rack1 -1 11.73 root default -2 5.46 host test1 0 1.82 osd.0 up 1 1 1.82 osd.1 up 1 -3 5.46 host test2 2 1.82 osd.2 up 1 3 1.82 osd.3 up 1 ```
Now we assign each host to a specific rack:
```bash $ ceph osd crush move test1 rack=rack1 moved item id -2 name 'test1' to location {rack=rack1} in crush map
$ ceph osd crush move test2 rack=rack2 moved item id -3 name 'test2' to location {rack=rack1} in crush map ```
We move both racks into the default root:
bash $ ceph osd crush move rack2 root=default moved item id -6 name 'rack2' to location {root=default} in crush map $ ceph osd crush move rack1 root=default moved item id -5 name 'rack1' to location {root=default} in crush map
Check the final result:
```bash $ ceph osd tree
id weight type name up/down reweight
-1 11.73 root default -6 0.81 rack rack2 2 1.82 osd.2 up 1 3 1.82 osd.3 up 1 -5 10.92 rack rack1 -2 5.46 host os-ci-test10 0 1.82 osd.0 up 1 1 1.82 osd.1 up 1 ```
Eventually create a new rule for this placement:
bash $ ceph osd crush rule create-simple racky default rack
{ "rule_id": 3,
"rule_name": "racky",
"ruleset": 3,
"type": 1,
"min_size": 1,
"max_size": 10,
"steps": [
{ "op": "take",
"item": -1},
{ "op": "chooseleaf_firstn",
"num": 0,
"type": "rack"},
{ "op": "emit"}]}]
Finally, you can assign a pool to this ruleset:
bash $ ceph osd pool set rbd crush_ruleset 3 set pool 2 crush_ruleset to 3
Ceph's CLI is getting more and more powerful. It is good to see that we don't need to download the CRUSH map, then edit it manually and eventually re-commit it :).