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title: Rook Ceph
description: Rook is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph storage to natively integrate with Kubernetes.
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  tagline: Rook is an open source cloud-native storage orchestrator for Kubernetes, providing the platform, framework, and support for Ceph storage to natively integrate with Kubernetes.
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  actions:
    - text: Source
      link: https://github.com/rook/rook
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    - text: Deployment Chart
      link: https://gitea.alexlebens.dev/alexlebens/infrastructure/src/branch/main/clusters/cl01tl/helm/rook-ceph
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import { Aside } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';

<Aside type="tip">Has an internal [Ceph Dashboard](https://ceph.alexlebens.net/).</Aside>

<Aside type="tip">Has an internal [Grafana Dashboard](https://grafana.alexlebens.net/goto/afit8gbo47pc0b?orgId=1).</Aside>

# Purpose

Clustered storage that runs on the SSDs in cluster to provide durable and reliable block and filesystem volumes.

# Notes

Runs [Ceph](https://ceph.io/en/) underneath and managed by Rook pods.

Ensure this system is healthy before any upgrades and restarts.

One of the main pressures to increase node count to expand host and disk count of this cluster for more space as well as durabiliy during node outages.