Hi! Is there any possibility to use cephadm without the container based tooling? (so to use bare-metal, with the packages directly installed on the machine)
If not, is there something technical that prevents it to happen or just that there is a policy that container based deployment is the only best way to do it therefore cephadm will only use it this way?
I ask this in the context of finding out that ceph-ansible is deprecated and that it should not be used, but i still need to use ansible for management and i think (so without factual experience) that bare metal services would be easier to manage after doing by hand deployment with cephadm
I am sticking for now to bare metal. As you wrote, containers is an extra layer again and you need to be proficient in using containers. Docker is already out of the question because if that daemon dies all tasks are killed.