We're very happy to announce the first stable release of the Reef series.
We express our gratitude to all members of the Ceph community who
contributed by proposing pull requests, testing this release,
providing feedback, and offering valuable suggestions.
Major Changes from Quincy:
- RADOS: RocksDB has been upgraded to version 7.9.2.
- RADOS: There have been significant improvements to RocksDB iteration
overhead and performance.
- RADOS: The perf dump and perf schema commands have been deprecated
in favor of the new counter dump and counter schema commands.
- RADOS: Cache tiering is now deprecated.
- RADOS: A new feature, the "read balancer", is now available, which
allows users to balance primary PGs per pool on their clusters.
- RGW: Bucket resharding is now supported for multi-site configurations.
- RGW: There have been significant improvements to the stability and
consistency of multi-site replication.
- RGW: Compression is now supported for objects uploaded with
Server-Side Encryption.
- Dashboard: There is a new Dashboard page with improved layout.
Active alerts and some important charts are now displayed inside
cards.
- RBD: Support for layered client-side encryption has been added.
- Telemetry: Users can now opt in to participate in a leaderboard in
the telemetry public dashboards.
We encourage you to read the full release notes at
https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2023/v18-2-0-reef-released/
Getting Ceph
------------
* Git at git://github.com/ceph/ceph.git
* Tarball at https://download.ceph.com/tarballs/ceph-18.2.0.tar.gz
* Containers at https://quay.io/repository/ceph/ceph
* For packages, see https://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/install/get-packages/
* Release git sha1: 5dd24139a1eada541a3bc16b6941c5dde975e26d
Did you know? Every Ceph release is built and tested on resources
funded directly by the non-profit Ceph Foundation.
If you would like to support this and our other efforts, please
consider joining now https://ceph.io/en/foundation/.
Hi everyone!
Here's a quick community update.
Ceph Days
========
- [Ceph Days Seoul](https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2023/ceph-days-korea/) June 14
- [Ceph Days Vancouver](https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2023/ceph-days-vancouver/) June 15
We are still looking for speakers for Ceph Days Vancouver until May 17. So if you are attending the OpenInfra Summit, consider adding Ceph Days Vancouver to your schedule and use this speaking opportunity!
Registrants will receive a significant discount to attend both conferences! But hurry, prices go up on May 12.
[Call for Proposals](https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/TVCCCQ)
[Register](https://openinfrafoundation.formstack.com/forms/ceph_day_at_openi…
If you want to host your local Ceph Days, please contact me directly for assistance.
Cephalocon 2023
=============
After a couple of cancellations due to working around the challenges of the pandemic, the Ceph community finally came together in masses on April 16-18. The first day was focused on the future development of Ceph at the Developer Summit. The following two days were packed and dedicated to breakout sessions by the community on a wide range of topics around Ceph.
If you couldn't join us, the recordings are now available on our Ceph YouTube channel [Cephalocon 2023 playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrBUGiINAakPd9nuoorqeOuS9P….
Blog
===
- [Celebrating one exabyte of Ceph storage!](https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2023/telemetry-celebrate-1-exabyte/)
- [Ceph Reef Freeze Part 1: RBD Performance](https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2023/reef-freeze-rbd-performance/)
- [Ceph Reef Freeze Part 2: RGW Performance](https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2023/reef-freeze-rgw-performance/)
- [Introducing a new landing page](https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2023/landing-page/)
--
Mike Perez
Community Manager
Ceph Foundation
As an open source project, our goal is to create software that is
accessible, transparent, and inclusive. We believe that user feedback
is a crucial part of achieving that goal. By taking just a few minutes
to complete our survey, you can help shape the future of our project
and ensure that it remains a valuable resource for the wider
community.
https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/s2D7RQ
Here are a few reasons why we believe taking our user survey is worth your time:
Your voice matters: We want to hear from as many users as possible to
ensure that we are meeting the needs of a diverse range of people and
use cases. Your feedback will help us make informed decisions about
the direction of the project.
We are committed to transparency: By sharing your thoughts and
opinions with us, you can help us maintain transparency and
accountability in our development process. Your feedback will help us
identify areas where we can improve our documentation, communication,
and community engagement.
We want to make the project better: We are constantly striving to
improve our project and make it more useful for our users. Your
feedback will help us identify areas where we can improve our
features, functionality, and user experience.
The survey should take no more than 10-15 minutes to complete, and all
responses will be kept confidential. Your participation is completely
voluntary, and you can opt-out at any time.
--
Mike Perez
Hi everyone,
Today is the last day to sponsor Cephalocon Amsterdam 2023! I want to
thank our current sponsors:
Platinum: IBM
Silver: 42on, Canonical Ubuntu, Clyso
Startup: Koor
Also, thank you to Clyso for their lanyard add-on and 42on's offsite
attendee party.
We are still short in covering the costs for the event, so I'm asking
for contributors and members of the Ceph Foundation to consider
applying today.
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cephalocon/sponsor/
Sponsor Prospectus:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/sponsor-ceph-…
Please get in touch with us at sponsorships(a)ceph.foundation to get
started. Thank you!
--
Mike Perez
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
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<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cephalocon/>
We heard your feedback on the short notice for the Call for Proposals
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cephalocon/program/cfp/> and have
extended the deadline to Sunday, February 19, at 11:59 pm PST!
Cephalocon <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cephalocon/> is the premier
yearly event that brings together the global community of operators,
developers, and researchers for Ceph, the open source distributed storage
system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and
scalability. Join new and existing community members worldwide to learn
more about Ceph and the project’s future from the developers writing the
code and the operators deploying it at scale.
SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cephalocon/program/cfp/>
Important Dates
- *CFP Closes: *Sunday, February 19 at 11:59 pm PST
- *CFP Notifications:* Friday, February 24
- *Schedule Announcement:* Wednesday, March 1
- *Presentation Slide Due Date:* Wednesday, April 12
- *Event Dates:* Monday, April 17 – Tuesday, April 18 (Developer Summit
Sunday, April 16)
Sponsorship
Sponsoring Cephalocon
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cephalocon/sponsor/> is a unique
opportunity to gain valuable mindshare with an elite audience of engineers,
researchers, and end-users. Building on the success of Ceph Days and
virtual Developer Summits, Cephalocon brings together more than 400
attendees from across the globe to showcase Ceph’s history and its future,
real-world applications, and of course, highlight vendor solutions.
Cephalocon 2023 promises to make for incredible community building,
cross-company collaboration, and cutting-edge training.
Contact us at sponsorships(a)ceph.foundation to secure your sponsorship,
request additional details or discuss custom options.
See Sponsorship Prospectus
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cephalocon/sponsor/>
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Hi everyone,
Ceph Days are coming to Southern California, co-located with our friends at
SCALE - the Southern California Linux Expo! The event will be a full day of
Ceph content on March 9.
The CFP ends on *2023-02-02*, so start drafting and completing your
proposals quickly.
https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/3UBUpChttps://ceph.io/en/community/events/2023/ceph-days-socal/
Here are some suggested topics:
- Ceph operations, management, and development
- New and proposed Ceph features, development status
- Ceph development roadmap
- Best practices
- Ceph use-cases, solution architectures, and user experiences
- Ceph performance and optimization
- Platform Integrations
- Kubernetes, OpenShift
- OpenStack (Cinder, Manila, etc.)
- Spark
- Multi-site and multi-cluster data services
- Persistent memory, ZNS SSDs, SMR HDDs, DPUs, and other new hardware
technologies
- Storage management, monitoring, and deployment automation
- Experiences deploying and operating Ceph in production and/or at scale
- Small-scale or edge deployments
- Long-term, archival storage
- Data compression, deduplication, and storage optimization
- Developer processes, tools, challenges
- Ceph testing infrastructure, tools
- Ceph community issues, outreach, and project governance
- Ceph documentation, training, and learner experience
--
Mike Perez
There are other Ceph speaking opportunities to consider:
- Ceph Days NYC <https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2023/ceph-days-nyc/> -
February 21st, 2023 - Schedule and registration are available
- Ceph Days Southern California
<https://ceph.io/en/community/events/2023/ceph-days-socal/> - March 9th,
2023 - CFP open until *February 2nd*.
- Cephalocon 2023 <https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cephalocon/>
(co-located
with KubeCon in Amsterdam) - April 16 - 18 - CFP now available!
- Ceph Tech Talk (virtual) <https://ceph.io/en/community/tech-talks/> -
Monthly
Make sure to join our Announcement list or social media for further updates
on events
- Ceph Announcement list
<https://lists.ceph.io/postorius/lists/ceph-announce.ceph.io/>
- Twitter <https://twitter.com/ceph>
- LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceph/>
- FaceBook <https://www.facebook.com/cephstorage/>
