I can see groundwork has already been laid to allow connecting to existing CEPH/Linstor setups in IncusOS.
Is there plans to allow IncusOS hosts themselves to host a clustered storage service? Much akin to how PVE allows users to do so, as this would help massively in moving production workloads over to IncusOS.
Many thanks for creating such a great solution,
bonzi
Yes but we would run it through containers rather than directly at the OS level, we really don’t want to have specific IncusOS servers in a cluster that are different from the rest.
So for Ceph for example, mds, mgr, mom, rgw would run as containers on the local storage pool with multiple instances if running in a cluster. Then the OSDs would also be containers but those obviously set so they are tied to a fixed host.
Thanks for the reply!
That makes sense, certainly a novel approach, but I suppose given the fact the the actual IncusOS setup is as bare-bones as possible, using a containerized approach provides a nice middle ground.
I’ll keep an eye on this thread, and will see about getting some hardware together in order to test this once the team implement it!
I believe Ceph these days recommends a containerized deployment anyway. So using their existing OCI images on Incus should be a good fit.