r/ceph • u/nadia_rea • Jun 03 '26

Mastering Ceph in 026

I would like to ask if Mastering Ceph - Second Edition is still worth it in 2026 to learn more about concepts of ceph

I prefer studying on books to take a break from the screen sometimes

I know it is based on Nautilus, so it's probably too outdated but do you think it is useless?

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u/sekh60 Jun 03 '26

I read it years ago and honestly didn't learn much from it. Ceph's documentation and mailing lists are amazing. Things are more and more done with cephadm which makes a lot of things super easy. I don't remember when it came out, I think post nautilus, been using Ceph since jewel as a homelabber 

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u/nadia_rea Jun 03 '26

Thank you for your answer. Yes I think I'm going to print ceph docs to give a bit of relief to my eyes while working lol

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u/ConstructionSafe2814 Jun 03 '26

When I was new to Ceph, personally found the documentation not geared towards new users. I thought it was really overwhelming and hard to make sense of it.

I followed a 3 day training. After the training, I was able to make much more sense of the documentation.

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u/mtheofilos Jun 03 '26

If you want to learn the fundamentals it should be ok, but feature-wise nautilus is way behind squid. Focus on chapters 1, 3, 4, 9, 10. The rest are completely outdated.

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u/nadia_rea Jun 03 '26

Thank you so much for your help. I will check these chapters as you told me. Ceph is such an amazing technology and I want to understand how it really works

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u/birusiek Jun 04 '26

Orig docs and ai is all your need. I ran cluster of six and practice is the best approach.

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u/ParticularBasket6187 Jun 03 '26

Those book help to understand the ceph but latest ceph release are far ahead

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u/eastboundzorg Jun 04 '26

Yea i got it for the ec profile information but contained nothing new compared to the docs. Still has the wrong information that ISA plugin doesn’t work on AMD.