Managing the Ceph Object Gateway

As a storage administrator, you can deploy Ceph Object Gateway using the command line interface or by using the service specification.

You can also configure multi-site Ceph Object Gateways, and remove the Ceph Object Gateway.

cephadm deploys Ceph Object Gateway as a collection of daemons that manages a single-cluster deployment or a particular realm and zone in a multi-site deployment.
Note:
  • With cephadm, the Ceph Object Gateway daemons are configured using the monitor configuration database instead of a ceph.conf or the command line. If that configuration is not already in the client.rgw section, then the Ceph Object Gateway will start up with default settings and bind to the port 80.
  • The .default.rgw.buckets.index pool is created only after the bucket is created in Ceph Object Gateway, while the .default.rgw.buckets.data pool is created after the data is uploaded to the bucket.

Prerequisites

  • A running IBM Storage Ceph cluster.

  • Root-level access to all the nodes.

  • Hosts are added to the cluster.

  • All the managers, monitors, and OSDs are deployed in the storage cluster.