Presented by Noah Watkins

1. Ceph Days
Santa Clara
19 September 2018

2. Ceph Days
● Half or full day of Ceph content
● Wide variety of topics
○ Ceph engineers
○ Users and community
○ Industry and use-cases
● Organized worldwide since 2016
● Past ceph days archive
○ Speakers and topics
○ Videos and slides
○ https://ceph.com/cephdays
● Berlin, Germany (November 2018)
● London, England
● Darmstadt, Germany
● Santiago, Chile
● Buenos Aires, Argentina
● Sao Paulo, Brazil
● Stockholm, Sweden
● Ede, Netherlands
● Taipei, Taiwan (2x)
● Seoul, South Korea (2x)
● Beijing, China (2x)
● Boston, USA
● Warsaw, Poland
● Munich, Germany
● Tokyo, Japan
● Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
● Meyrin, Switzerland
● Hillsboro, Oregon, USA
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3. Ceph Days
● Third bay area appearance
○ Sunnyvale, 2016
○ San Jose, 2017
○ Santa Clara, 2018
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9:30, 9:45 Welcome
9:30, 10:15 Ceph Research at UC Santa Cruz
10:15, 10:30 NVMe over Fabrics and Composable Infrastructure - What Do They Mean for
Software Defined Storage, Tom Lyon
10:30, 11:15 UCSC Genomics Institute, Rob Currie
11:15, 12:00 NantOmics, Aaron Bassett
12:00, 13:00 Networking Lunch
13:00, 13:45 What's new in Ceph Mimic?
13:45, 14:30 Building a Ceph Storage Appliance That's Cooler Than A Dog, Phil Straw
14:30, 14:45 Break
14:45, 15:30 My personal journey through the World of Open Source! How What Was Old
Becomes New, Steve Wakefield
15:30, 16:15 Disk Health Prediction for Ceph (ProphetStor), Brian Jeng
16:15, 16:45 Panel Q&A with all speakers
16:45, 17:45 Networking Reception
Interested in hosting Ceph Days?
Mike Perez miperez@redhat.com
Danielle Womboldt dwombold@redhat.com

4. Ceph in 30 seconds
● Research project at UC Santa Cruz (~ 2006)
○ Focused on HPC file system performance / scalability
● No viable open-source storage systems
● Sage Weil continued development after graduation
● File system client merged into Linux (2010)
● Inktank Storage was formed (2012)
● Ceph joins Red Hat (2014)
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Ceph is a scalable, distributed open-source storage
system offering object, block, and file interfaces.

5. Ceph community
● Fully open-source at https://github.com/ceph
● 75-100 contributors per month
● ~1000 commits per month
● https://ceph.com/community
○ IRC
○ Mailing lists
○ Blog
○ Developer information
○ Governance
● YouTube channel
○ https://bit.ly/2PJO7MN
● And much more...
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6. Ceph Developer Monthly (CDM)
● Online monthly meeting
○ Discuss new features
○ Coordinate efforts
○ Technical advice / guidance
● First wednesday of the month
○ Alternate meeting times
○ Both APAC / EMEA friendly
● Planning and past videos are online
○ https://bit.ly/2QD8zQI
● Approximately 30 CDMs since 2016
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7. Ceph Tech Talks
● Discuss / present technical
content related to Ceph
● Online with BlueJeans
● Recent topics
○ Ceph used in cancer research
○ Ceph on ARM
○ Rook (Ceph on Kubernetes)
○ Big data analytics
● https://ceph.com/ceph-tech-talks/
● Code walkthroughs
○ https://bit.ly/2D5dVBM
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8. Cephalocon 2018
● March 2018, Beijing
● Community organized
● ~1000 attendees
● Next Cephalocon
○ Europe in the Spring
○ 2 days, 3-4 tracks
○ Finalizing plans
● All videos online
○ https://bit.ly/2xqDWoV
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9. Welcome to Ceph Days
● Noah Watkins
● noah@redhat.com
● @noahdesu
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