Good day We currently have 12 nodes in 4 Racks (3x4) and getting another 3 nodes to complete the 5th rack on Version 12.2.12, using ceph-ansible & docker containers. With the 3 new nodes (1 rack bucket) we would like to make use of a non-containerised setup since our long term plan is to completely move away from OSD containers. How would one go forward running a hybrid environment in the interim until we've rebuilt all our existing osd nodes? I can assume that i would require a separate /ceph-ansible directory with site.yml to my existing site-docker.yml Would I require separate inventory files, one for the existing 12 nodes & one for the 3 new nodes? How would I connect the new nodes to the current controller (mds,mgr, mon) container nodes? Regards -- *Jeremi-Ernst Avenant, Mr.*Cloud Infrastructure Specialist Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy 5th Floor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Cape Town Tel: 021 959 4137 <0219592327> Web: www.idia.ac.za <http://www.uwc.ac.za/> E-mail (IDIA): jeremi@idia.ac.za <mfundo@idia.ac.za> Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7600, South Africa