Most applications require persistent storage in one way or another. Whether profile pictures, text documents or product information in an outsourced database, data always has to be stored somewhere. In the cloud, block storage or object storage is normally used for this. But what if the cloud environment does not meet your requirements or you want to manage your storage yourself? This is where Ceph comes into play. Ceph is an open source project for scalable, distributed storage across...

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