Using cephadm-ansible modules

Use cephadm-ansible modules in Ansible playbooks to administer your IBM Storage Ceph cluster.

The cephadm-ansible package provides several modules that wrap cephadm calls to let you write your own unique Ansible playbooks to administer your cluster.
Note: cephadm-ansible modules only support the most important tasks. Any operation not covered by cephadm-ansible modules must be completed using either the command or shell Ansible modules in your playbooks.

cephadm-ansible modules

The cephadm-ansible modules are a collection of modules that simplify writing Ansible playbooks by providing a wrapper around cephadm and ceph orch commands. You can use the modules to write your own unique Ansible playbooks to administer your cluster using one or more of the modules.

The cephadm-ansible package includes the following modules:

  • cephadm_bootstrap
  • ceph_orch_host
  • ceph_config
  • ceph_orch_apply
  • ceph_orch_daemon
  • cephadm_registry_login