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autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <p> Designed from the ground up for petabyte-scale deployments, Canonical's Ceph solutions include only open source components with highly automated operations to drive down the total cost of ownership. </p> <p> If you do not have the in house expertise to operate your own storage infrastructure Canonical Ceph is available as a managed service. </p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="p-section"> <div class="row--50-50"> <hr class="p-rule" /> <div class="col"> <h2> Proven success <br /> with Ceph storage </h2> </div> <div class="col"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3"> <div class="p-image-container is-highlighted u-hide--medium u-hide--small"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_852,h_1278/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/9eff1bee-yahoo.png" srcset="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_1704,h_2556/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/9eff1bee-yahoo.png 2x" alt="" width="852" height="1278" loading="lazy" class="p-image-container__image" /> </div> <p> In the early days of Ceph, Yahoo! Japan searched for a local company who could support them in implementing an open-source distributed storage solution from the Linux operating system all the way to Ceph. </p> <p> Canonical provided not only Ceph but also the tooling and expertise that reduced the OpEx associated with managing a large storage cluster. </p> <div class="p-cta-block u-hide--large"> <a href="https://pages.ubuntu.com/rs/066-EOV-335/images/Yahoo%21%20JAPAN%20User%20case%20study-v2_AW.pdf">Learn more about Yahoo! 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Japan's Ceph cluster ›</a> </p> </div> <div class="col-3"> <p> <a href="https://pages.ubuntu.com/rs/066-EOV-335/images/Wellcome%20Sanger%20Institute%20Case%20Study.pdf">Learn how Wellcome Sanger achieved a cost-effective Ceph infrastructure ›</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="p-section"> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <div class="row--50-50"> <hr class="p-rule" /> <div class="col"> <h2>Ceph storage deployment and operations</h2> </div> <div class="col"> <p> Canonical can help you to design and install your Ceph cluster or provide consulting to enable you to run Ceph autonomously. Day 2 operations are straightforward with highly automated procedures to upgrade and expand clusters, and manage hardware replacements.If you prefer to treat your storage as-a-service, <a href="/ceph/managed">we offer Managed Ceph</a> – a Ceph cluster fully managed by Canonical. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-start-large-4 col-9"> <hr class="p-rule--muted" /> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-medium-3"> <h3 class="p-heading--5">Benefits of Ceph on Ubuntu</h3> </div> <div class="col-medium-3 col-6"> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <p> The choice is yours as to whether to use your own operational framework or leverage the benefits of Canonical Ceph. Each Ubuntu LTS release ships with a version of Ceph that is supported for up to 10 years. Newer releases of Ceph can be installed from the Ubuntu Cloud Archive, allowing flexibility to select the right version of Ceph for your environment. </p> <p> To maximize Ceph upgrade flexibility for customers, Ceph versions are regularly released and maintained via Ubuntu updates and security repositories, as well as the Ubuntu Cloud Archive. This leads to a flexible mix between remaining at the forefront of innovation and providing long-term support predictability. </p> <p> With many global enterprises and telco operators running Ceph on Ubuntu, organizations are able to combine block, file and object storage at scale while tapping into the economic and upstream benefits of open source. </p> </div> <table aria-label="Diagram that shows which versions of Ceph are supported in each LTS release"> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col" class="u-darker-background"> Ubuntu <br /> 20.04.x LTS <br /> Focal </th> <th scope="col" class="u-darker-background"> Ubuntu <br /> 22.04.x LTS <br /> Jammy </th> <th scope="col" class="u-darker-background"> Ubuntu <br /> 24.04.x LTS <br /> Noble </th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Ceph Quincy 17.2.x</td> <td>Ceph Reef 18.2.x</td> <td class="u-darker-background"> Ceph Squid 19.2.x *<span class="u-off-screen">Release supported under full LTS commitment</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ceph Pacific 16.2.x</td> <td class="u-darker-background"> Ceph Quincy 17.2.x *<span class="u-off-screen">Release supported under full LTS commitment</span> </td> <td aria-hidden="true">–</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="u-darker-background"> Ceph Octopus 15.2.x *<span class="u-off-screen">Release supported under full LTS commitment</span> </td> <td aria-hidden="true">–</td> <td aria-hidden="true">–</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <hr class="p-rule--muted" /> <p class="u-text--muted">The Ubuntu and Ceph support cadence</p> <i class="u-text--muted" aria-hidden="true">* Releases denoted with an asterisk are supported under the full LTS commitment.</i> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="p-section"> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <div class="row--50-50"> <hr class="p-rule" /> <div class="col"> <h2> More choice, <br /> for your infrastructure </h2> </div> <div class="col"> <p> Across all shapes and sizes of infrastructure, Canonical Ceph can provide all the benefits of upstream Ceph in easily deployable and securely delivered packages. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="p-equal-height-row"> <div class="p-equal-height-row__col"> <div class="p-equal-height-row__item"> <div class="p-image-container--3-2-on-small p-image-container--square-on-medium p-image-container--2-3-on-large is-highlighted"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_852,h_1278/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/a36e134c-private-cloud.png" srcset="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_1704,h_2556/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/a36e134c-private-cloud.png 2x" alt="" width="852" height="1278" loading="lazy" class="p-image-container__image" /> </div> </div> <div class="p-equal-height-row__item"> <hr class="p-rule--highlight u-hide--medium u-hide--small" /> <p class="p-heading--5"> Private Cloud <br /> Canonical Charmed Ceph </p> </div> <p class="p-equal-height-row__item"> Use Juju and Charms to deploy and manage all of your infrastructure and applications. </p> </div> <div class="p-equal-height-row__col"> <div class="p-equal-height-row__item"> <div class="p-image-container--3-2-on-small p-image-container--square-on-medium p-image-container--2-3-on-large is-highlighted"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_852,h_1278/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/4f840180-cephadm.png" srcset="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_1704,h_2556/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/4f840180-cephadm.png 2x" alt="" width="852" height="1278" loading="lazy" class="p-image-container__image" /> </div> </div> <div class="p-equal-height-row__item"> <hr class="p-rule--highlight u-hide--medium u-hide--small" /> <p class="p-heading--5"> cephadm/rook <br /> Canonical Ceph rocks </p> </div> <p class="p-equal-height-row__item">Use your own choice of tooling, with trusted OCI compliant container images.</p> </div> <div class="p-equal-height-row__col"> <div class="p-equal-height-row__item"> <div class="p-image-container--3-2-on-small p-image-container--square-on-medium p-image-container--2-3-on-large is-highlighted"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_852,h_1278/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/a729fd97-edge%20cloud.png" srcset="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_1704,h_2556/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/a729fd97-edge%20cloud.png 2x" alt="" width="852" height="1278" loading="lazy" class="p-image-container__image" /> </div> </div> <div class="p-equal-height-row__item"> <hr class="p-rule--highlight u-hide--medium u-hide--small" /> <p class="p-heading--5"> Edge cloud <br /> Canonical MicroCeph </p> </div> <p class="p-equal-height-row__item">Lightweight deployment and management for edge computing use-cases.</p> </div> <div class="p-equal-height-row__col"> <div class="p-equal-height-row__item"> <div 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economics in the datacenter</h2> </div> <div class="col"> <p> Canonical Ceph management tooling enables you to manage the entire lifecycle of deployment, configuration, and operation of a Ceph cluster, no matter its size or complexity. Our tooling simplifies both installation automation as well as Day-2 operations orchestration, such as monitoring, scaling, upgrades and hardware maintenance while remaining interoperable with other infrastructure and application management solutions. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-start-large-4 col-9"> <hr class="p-rule--muted" /> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-medium-3"> <h3 class="p-heading--5">Benefits of Canonical Ceph</h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-medium-3"> <ul class="p-list--divided"> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Highly scalable from Terabytes to Exabytes</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Highly reliable with no single point of failure in the cluster</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Fault-tolerant through data replication and erasure coding</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Enable BCP/DR with remote replication</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Highly secure client authentication and at rest encryption</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Compatible with Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift APIs</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Decrease CapEx by using commodity hardware</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Decrease OpEx through failure detection, self-management and self-healing</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Configurable and optimizable for cost and performance</li> </ul> </div> </div> <hr class="p-rule--muted" /> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-medium-3"> <h3 class="p-heading--5">Encryption at rest</h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-medium-3"> <p> Canonical Ceph allows for encryption at rest to be configured through our deployment tooling to provide data encryption and integrity assurance for Ceph OSDs. </p> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <div class="p-image-container is-highlighted"> <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_1800,h_1013/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/54ea8180-encryption.png" 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srcset="https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/c_limit,f_auto,q_auto,fl_sanitize,w_3600,h_2256/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/045c9e3a-fully-managed-ceph.png 2x" alt="" width="1800" height="1128" loading="lazy" class="p-image-container__image" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="p-section"> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <div class="u-fixed-width"> <hr class="p-rule" /> <h2>Getting started with Ceph on Ubuntu</h2> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-6"> <hr class="p-rule--highlight u-no-margin--bottom" /> <div class="p-card--overlay u-no-padding--top" style="padding: 1.5rem; height: 95%; overflow: hidden"> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <h3>Charmed Ceph</h3> </div> <hr class="p-rule--muted" /> <ul class="p-list--divided p-section--shallow"> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Deploy large-scale complex Ceph clusters in minutes</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Easily upgrade to newer Ceph versions</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Provide model-driven orchestration for repeatability and predictability</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">RBD, CephFS and RGW support</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">NFS and iSCSI support</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Configure nodes consistently</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Replace failing disk drives and retire old hardware</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Expand the capacity of your storage cluster</li> </ul> <div class="p-cta-block"> <a href="/ceph/install">Install Charmed Ceph ›</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-6"> <hr class="p-rule--highlight u-no-margin--bottom" /> <div class="p-card--overlay u-no-padding--top" style="padding: 1.5rem; height: 95%; overflow: hidden"> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <h3>Ceph support on Ubuntu</h3> </div> <hr class="p-rule--muted" /> <ul class="p-list--divided p-section u-sv1"> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked"> Ceph support is included in <a href="/pro">Ubuntu Pro</a> </li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Simple and predictable pricing model</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Up to 384TB of raw storage included per node</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">OCI compliant rocks for cephadm and Rook or packages available</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Get access to the Ceph storage experts 24/7 or during business hours</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked"> Alternatively, get extended security maintenance if all you need is peace of mind by consuming security patches from the world's leading security team </li> </ul> <div class="p-cta-block"> <a href="/pricing/infra">Learn more about Ubuntu Pro ›</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-6"> <hr class="p-rule--highlight u-no-margin--bottom" /> <div class="p-card--overlay u-no-padding--top" style="padding: 1.5rem; height: 95%; overflow: hidden"> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <h3>MicroCeph</h3> </div> <hr class="p-rule--muted" /> <ul class="p-list--divided p-section--shallow"> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Streamlined and effortless Ceph</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Opinionated and automated cluster deployment and management</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">RBD, CephFS and RGW support</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Perfect for edge computing and remote offices</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Isolated deployment package to protect underlying systems</li> <li class="p-list__item is-ticked">Developer friendly, ideal for training delivery and local development</li> </ul> <div class="p-cta-block"> <a href="https://snapcraft.io/microceph">Install MicroCeph ›</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-6"> <hr class="p-rule--highlight u-no-margin--bottom" /> <div class="p-card--overlay u-no-padding--top" style="padding: 1.5rem; height: 95%; overflow: hidden"> <div class="p-section--shallow"> <h3>Managed Ceph</h3> </div> <hr class="p-rule--muted" /> <ul class="p-list--divided 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