Appendix I. General Ansible settings
These are the most common configurable Ansible parameters. There are two sets of parameters depending on the deployment method, either bare-metal or containers.
This is not an exhaustive list of all the available Ansible parameters.
Bare-metal and Containers Settings
monitor_interfaceThe interface that the Ceph Monitor nodes listen on.
- Value
- User-defined
- Required
- Yes
- Notes
-
Assigning a value to at least one of the
monitor_*parameters is required.
monitor_addressThe address that the Ceph Monitor nodes listen too.
- Value
- User-defined
- Required
- Yes
- Notes
-
Assigning a value to at least one of the
monitor_*parameters is required.
monitor_address_blockThe subnet of the Ceph public network.
- Value
- User-defined
- Required
- Yes
- Notes
-
Use when the IP addresses of the nodes are unknown, but the subnet is known. Assigning a value to at least one of the
monitor_*parameters is required.
ip_version- Value
-
ipv6 - Required
- Yes, if using IPv6 addressing.
public_networkThe IP address and netmask of the Ceph public network, or the corresponding IPv6 address, if using IPv6.
- Value
- User-defined
- Required
- Yes
- Notes
- For more information, see Verifying the Network Configuration for Red Hat Ceph Storage.
cluster_networkThe IP address and netmask of the Ceph cluster network, or the corresponding IPv6 address, if using IPv6.
- Value
- User-defined
- Required
- No
- Notes
- For more information, see Verifying the Network Configuration for Red Hat Ceph Storage.
configure_firewallAnsible will try to configure the appropriate firewall rules.
- Value
-
trueorfalse - Required
- No
Bare-metal-specific Settings
ceph_origin- Value
-
repositoryordistroorlocal - Required
- Yes
- Notes
-
The
repositoryvalue means Ceph will be installed through a new repository. Thedistrovalue means that no separate repository file will be added, and you will get whatever version of Ceph that is included with the Linux distribution. Thelocalvalue means the Ceph binaries will be copied from the local machine.
ceph_repository_type- Value
-
cdnoriso - Required
- Yes
ceph_rhcs_version- Value
-
4 - Required
- Yes
ceph_rhcs_iso_pathThe full path to the ISO image.
- Value
- User-defined
- Required
-
Yes, if
ceph_repository_typeis set toiso.
Container-specific Settings
ceph_docker_image- Value
-
rhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8, orcephimageinlocalreg, if using a local Docker registry. - Required
- Yes
ceph_docker_image_tag- Value
-
The
latestversion ofrhceph/rhceph-4-rhel8or thecustomtaggiven during the local registry configuration. - Required
- Yes
containerized_deployment- Value
-
true - Required
- Yes
ceph_docker_registry- Value
-
registry.redhat.io, orLOCAL_FQDN_NODE_NAME, if using a local Docker registry. - Required
- Yes
