Ceph – the best match for OpenStack

In the last few years, OpenStack has been getting amazingly popular, as it's based on software defined on a wide range, whether it's computing, networking, or even storage. And when you talk about storage for OpenStack, Ceph will get all the attention. An OpenStack user survey, conducted in September 2015, showed Ceph dominating the block storage driver market with a whopping 62% usage.

Ceph provides the robust, reliable storage backend that OpenStack was looking for. Its seamless integration with OpenStack components such as cinder, glance, nova, and keystone provides an all in one cloud storage backend for OpenStack. Here are some key benefits that make Ceph the best match for OpenStack:

  • Ceph provides an enterprise-grade, ...

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