Jewel is just around the corner and the first release candidate just came out yesterday (tagged: v10.1.0). If you are not familiar with BlueStore yet, checkout my recent article: Ceph Jewel Preview: A New Store Is Coming, BlueStore.

Start by edit your group_vars/all with the following content:

ceph_dev: true ceph_dev_branch: v10.1.0 monitor_interface: <your interface> public_network: <your subnet> osd_objectstore: bluestore ceph_conf_overrides: global: enable experimental unrecoverable data corrupting features: 'bluestore rocksdb' bluestore fsck on mount: true bluestore block db size: 67108864 bluestore block wal size: 134217728 bluestore block size: 5368709120

Just one more step, jump into group_vars/osds and activate the fith OSD scenario using:

bluestore: true

That’s all, now run ansible as usual: ansible-playbook site.yml . Wait a little bit and you should see the following: