Cephadm Reference Material

cephadm is a new function introduced in Ceph Octopus 15. It allows for an easier method to install and manage Ceph nodes.

The following sections include common examples:

Invoke shells to run traditional Ceph commands

On ncn-s001/2/3:

ncn-s00[123]# cephadm shell  # creates a container with access to run ceph commands the traditional way

Optionally, execute the following command:

ncn-s00[123]# cephadm shell -- ceph -s

ceph-volume

There are multiple ways to do Ceph device operations now.

Use cephadm

cephadm ceph-volume

Use cephadm shell

Optionally, this can be done by invoking a cephadm shell by appending a ceph command to the cephadm command.

cephadm shell -- ceph-volume

Use ceph orch

Optionally, the following command will allow users to specify a single node name to just list that nodes drives.

On ncn-s001/2/3:

ceph orch device ls
ceph orch device ls <node name>