[ceph-users] First 6 nodes cluster with Octopus

Hello, I am planning to setup a small Ceph cluster for testing purpose with 6 Ubuntu nodes and have a few questions mostly regarding planning of the infra. 1) Based on the documentation the OS requirements mentions Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, is it ok to use Ubuntu 20.04 instead or should I stick with 18.04? 2) The documentation recommends using Cephadm for new deployments, so I will use that but I read that with Cephadm everything is running in containers, so is this the new way to go? Or is Ceph in containers kind of still experimental? 3) As I will be needing cephfs I will also need MDS servers so with a total of 6 nodes I am planning the following layout: Node 1: MGR+MON+MDS Node 2: MGR+MON+MDS Node 3: MGR+MON+MDS Node 4: OSD Node 5: OSD Node 6: OSD Does this make sense? I am mostly interested in stability and HA with this setup. 4) Is there any special kind of demand in terms of disks on the MGR+MON+MDS nodes? Or can I use have my OS disks on these nodes? As far as I understand the MDS will create a metadata pool on the OSDs. Thanks for the hints. Best, Mabi