Cephalocon 2022

Large enterprises, public cloud operators, and governments rely on Ceph technology to provide users with the scale-out dynamics and economics that cloud workloads require — at petabyte scale capacities. Ceph achieves these milestones while also delivering consistent and scalable performance. In this keynote session, you will first learn how Red Hat envisions the future of the datacenter as a software-defined entity spanning from compute all the way to storage, and what our five year vision looks like. We touch on what our two-year investment roadmap in Ceph technology looks like. We then show how Ceph addresses orthogonal performance dimensions by delivering consistent performance for thousands of Kubernetes persistent volumes backed by a managed Rook cluster, and doing so while volumes are constantly being created and destroyed in the background. 
Ten Billion Objects
We share the result of joint work with Seagate and Intel to store more than a billion objects in RGW. The lessons learned observing the cluster’s performance while ingesting more than a billion objects into a relatively small cluster are enlightening.
Twenty Thousand PVs
Rook-managed clusters face impressive rates of volume churn as container lifecycles are fast and furious: a container could be instantiated, tested and decommissioned all within minutes. We share the inside track on Red Hat’s Storage testing of Rook on Amazon AWS Kubernetes clusters.