Running Ceph as a service

In the last recipe, we learned about Ceph service management using sysvinit; in this recipe, we will understand managing Ceph as a service, that is, using the Linux service command. Starting from the Ceph Argonaut release, we can manage Ceph daemons using the Linux service command with the following syntax:

service ceph [options] [command] [daemons]

Starting and stopping all daemons

To start or stop all Ceph daemons, perform the following set of commands.

How to do it…

Let's see how to start and stop all Ceph daemons:

  1. To start your Ceph cluster, execute Ceph with the start command. This command will start all Ceph services that you have deployed for all the hosts mentioned in the ceph.conf file. Once you start Ceph with the ...

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