MicroCeph

MicroCeph is the easiest way to get up and running with Ceph. It is focused on providing a modern deployment and management experience to Ceph administrators and storage software developers.

The below commands will set you up with a testing environment on a single machine using file-backed OSDs - you'll need about 15 GiB of available space on your root drive:

 sudo snap install microceph

 sudo snap refresh --hold microceph

 sudo microceph cluster bootstrap

 sudo microceph disk add loop,4G,3

 sudo ceph status

You're done!

You can remove everything cleanly with:

 sudo snap remove microceph

To learn more about MicroCeph see the documentation:

https://canonical-microceph.readthedocs-hosted.com