In this chapter, you learned about Ceph's various deployment methods and the differences between them. You will now also have a basic understanding of how Ansible works and how to deploy a Ceph cluster with it. It would be advisable at this point to continue investigating and practicing the deployment and configuration of Ceph with Ansible, so that you are confident enough to use it in production environments. The remainder of this book will also assume that you have fully understood the contents of this chapter in order to manipulate the configuration of Ceph.

You have also learned about the exciting new developments in deploying Ceph in containers running on the Kubernetes platform. Although the Rook project is still in the early stages of development, it is clear it is already a very powerful tool that will enable Ceph to function to the best of its ability while...