During CDM on Wednesday I suggested that ceph-daemon should probably be
renamed before octopus (and before the name sticks).  In speech "ceph
daemon" is confusing, and the name doesn't really reflect what it
is:

a user-facing tool
 - to bootstrap a new cluster,
 - launch a (containerized) shell,
 - enter an existing daemon container,
 - tail a daemon's log, or
 - adopt a daemon deployed with a legacy tool (ceph-deploy, ceph-ansible,
   etc) into a ceph-daemon style container
 - remove all trace of a cluster from the localhost,

and an internal tool used by ssh-orch to
 - deploy or remove a container running a ceph daemon
 - start, stop, or update an existing container
 - run ceph-volume (to gather device inventory, create osds, zap, etc.)
 - gather a host inventory of services (containers)

The original tool was more like "ceph daemon tool" but it was shortened to
ceph-daemon at the start.

We voted on some alternatives here:

        https://pad.ceph.com/p/ceph-daemon-tool

but the winner is currently 'cephctl' with is IMO a non-starteer. 
Usually 'ctl' utilities are for interacting with running systems/daemons
via some runtime API--that's basically what the 'ceph' CLI utility is. 
ceph-daemon is more akin to kubeadm or ceph-deploy or something like
that.

So... I shortened/pruned the list again.  Please weigh in.  And if you
have a bright idea for a better name, feel free to add it.

Thanks!
sage
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