https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/distributed-storage/ Recent content in Distributed-Storage on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-15-self-hosted-ceph-deployment-cephadm-vs-rook-vs-ceph-ansible-guide/ Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-15-self-hosted-ceph-deployment-cephadm-vs-rook-vs-ceph-ansible-guide/ <p>Ceph is the leading open-source software-defined storage platform, providing object, block, and file storage in a unified system. But deploying and managing a Ceph cluster requires choosing the right orchestration tool. This guide compares the three most popular Ceph deployment methods: <strong>Cephadm</strong> (the official orchestrator), <strong>Rook</strong> (the Kubernetes operator), and <strong>Ceph-ansible</strong> (the legacy Ansible-based approach).</p>