Chapter 1. Introduction

This guide is for those who intend to deploy a Ceph Object Gateway environment for production. It provides a sequential series of topics for planning, designing and deploying a production Ceph Storage cluster and Ceph Object Gateway cluster with links to general Ceph documentation where appropriate.

This guide assumes the reader has a basic understanding of the Ceph Storage Cluster and the Ceph Object Gateway. Readers with no Ceph experience should consider setting up a small Ceph test environment or using the Ceph Sandbox Environment to get familiar with Ceph concepts before proceeding with this guide.

This guide assumes a single-site cluster consisting of a single Ceph Storage cluster and multiple Ceph Object Gateway instances in the same zone. This guide assumes the single-site cluster will expand to a multi-zone and multi-site cluster by repeating the procedures in this guide for each zone group and zone with the naming modifications required for secondary zone groups and zones.

This guide covers the following topics when setting up a Ceph Storage Cluster and a Ceph Object Gateway for production: