Appendix J. Purging a Ceph Cluster by Using Ansible

1. Declare the OSD devices in the osds.yml file. See Section 3.2, “Installing a Red Hat Ceph Storage Cluster” for more details.
2. Comment out the osd_auto_discovery option in the osds.yml file.

To purge the Ceph cluster…​

1. As root, navigate to the /usr/share/ceph-ansible/ directory:

   # cd /usr/share/ceph-ansible

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2. As root, copy the purge-cluster.yml Ansible playbook to the current directory:

   # cp infrastructure-playbooks/purge-cluster.yml .

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3. Run the purge-cluster.yml Ansible playbook:

   $ ansible-playbook purge-cluster.yml

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