yucca/ansible/ceph/README.md

ceph -- Ceph Tentacle on Bare Metal

Ansible automation for provisioning, deploying, tuning, hardening, and operating Ceph Tentacle (v20) clusters on bare-metal hardware via cephadm. Lives in the yucca monorepo at ansible/ceph/; secrets and inventory scaffolding are provisioned from yucca/tf/ (see ../../tf/).

Cluster	Domain	Location	Hardware	Nodes
sietch	staging.austin.int.futo.cloud	Austin DC	Dell R730xd	3

Clusters are declared in yucca/tf/deployment/staging/austin/ceph/clusters.auto.tfvars; tofu apply renders inventories/<partition>-<region>/<cluster>/inventory.ini and secrets.yml.tpl per cluster. The CEPH_ENV variable selects the active cluster for any mise run or direct ansible invocation.

Architecture

graph TB
    subgraph "Controller (your workstation)"
        A[mise + ansible + 1Password CLI]
    end

    subgraph "Austin DC -- 10.10.10.0/24"
        direction TB
        L[laurel<br/>MON+MGR+OSD+RGW]
        W[lawson<br/>MON+MGR+OSD+RGW]
        S[samara<br/>MON+MGR+OSD+RGW]
    end

    A -->|SSH| L
    A -->|SSH| W
    A -->|SSH| S

See docs/architecture.md for role dependencies, data flow, and design rationale.

Quick Start

# 1. Render cluster inventories + secrets templates (once, from yucca/tf/)
(cd ../../tf/deployment/staging/austin/ceph && tofu init && tofu apply)

# 2. Set up the ansible side
mise trust && mise run setup          # bootstrap dev environment

# 3. Run mise tasks against the target cluster. Export CEPH_ENV once per
#    shell (or prefix it inline). It is deliberately NOT in mise's [env]
#    block -- that would override your shell value and silently target the
#    wrong cluster; see docs/scripts.md "Setting CEPH_ENV".
export CEPH_ENV=inventories/staging-austin/sietch/inventory.ini
mise run preflight       # TF artifacts + 1P + SSH + connectivity
mise run status          # read-only cluster health check
mise run drift           # configuration drift detection
mise run deploy          # full pipeline (idempotent)

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full development workflow.

Roles

Order	Role	Description
1	provision_host	Bare-metal Debian 12 install via debootstrap (Austin only)
2	baseline	Post-boot OS baseline: ops user, packages, /etc/hosts, services
3	os_tuning	Kernel sysctl, TCP buffers, optional centralized logging
4	hardware_tuning	I/O scheduler, readahead, udev rules, optional CPU governor
5	ceph_deploy	cephadm bootstrap, join, placement, OSDs, RGW, monitoring
6	ceph_tuning	Recovery throttling, scrub window, CRUSH, telemetry, audit
7	security	nftables firewall, SSH hardening
8	ceph_destroy	Complete cluster teardown (safety-gated)
9	s3_bench	Parallel S3 benchmark against local RGW

Playbooks

Playbook	Description
site.yml	Full pipeline: baseline + tune + deploy + tune + harden
provision.yml	Bare-metal provisioning (Austin, -i provision inventory)
baseline.yml	OS baseline (users, packages, hosts)
tune-os.yml	Kernel/sysctl tuning
tune-hardware.yml	Disk I/O tuning
deploy-ceph.yml	Ceph cluster deployment (tags: prerequisites, bootstrap, join, placement, lvm, osds, crush, rgw, monitoring, verify)
tune-ceph.yml	Post-deploy Ceph config tuning
harden.yml	Firewall + SSH hardening
destroy-ceph.yml	Cluster teardown (destroy inventory, requires flags)
status.yml	Quick health check (read-only)
drift.yml	Configuration drift detection
bench.yml	S3 benchmark (RGW round-trip)
rados-bench.yml	RADOS bench (raw cluster I/O, bypasses RGW)
backup-config.yml	Export cluster config for DR
post-deploy-capture.yml	Snapshot RGW TLS + admin keyring to 1P for disaster recovery
rotate-certs.yml	RGW TLS certificate rotation
rotate-ssh-key.yml	Distribute current ansible-iac pubkey from 1P to nodes
migrate-networkd.yml	One-shot networkd/bridge migration (rolling, noout-gated)
hardware-inventory.yml	Hardware facts to JSON

mise Tasks

Task	Description
setup	Bootstrap dev environment (venv, deps, collections)
lint	yamllint + ansible-lint + shellcheck (no 1P required)
check	Syntax-check all playbooks (no 1P required)
test	Molecule tests
preflight	TF artifacts + 1P session + SSH + connectivity
status	Cluster health check
drift	Configuration drift detection
deploy	Full pipeline
destroy	Cluster teardown (interactive)
backup	Export cluster config for DR
capture	Snapshot RGW TLS + admin keyring to 1P for disaster recovery
bench	S3 benchmark (RGW round-trip)
bench-rados	RADOS bench (raw cluster I/O)
rotate-certs	RGW TLS certificate rotation
rotate-ssh-key	Distribute current ansible-iac pubkey from 1P to nodes
hardware-inventory	Capture hardware facts to JSON
migrate-networkd	One-shot networkd/bridge migration (rolling, noout-gated)

Inventory + secrets-template scaffolding live in yucca/tf/ -- run tofu apply in tf/deployment/staging/austin/ceph/ to (re-)render inventories/<partition>-<region>/<cluster>/inventory.ini and secrets.yml.tpl.

Documentation

Document	Audience
CONTRIBUTING.md	Developers -- setup, workflow, conventions
docs/architecture.md	Developers -- role graph, data flow, design
docs/patterns.md	Developers -- coding idioms, anti-patterns
docs/adding-a-role.md	Developers -- role skeleton, conventions
docs/adding-a-cluster.md	Developers -- inventory setup, secrets
docs/secrets.md	Developers/ops -- 1Password integration
docs/naming.md	Everyone -- hostname and inventory naming
docs/hardware.md	Ops/procurement -- node specs and hardware shapes
docs/s3-integration.md	App developers -- endpoints, boto3, certs
docs/security-model.md	InfoSec -- encryption, users, firewall
docs/capacity-planning.md	Managers -- costs, formulas, growth
docs/troubleshooting.md	SRE/on-call -- symptom/diagnosis/fix
docs/runbooks/	Ops -- add/replace node, replace disk, rotate certs/secrets/SSH/SA token, remote hands, bad-tofu-apply recovery, backup/restore

Known Limitations

• Single-network topology: public = cluster network on sietch.
• Self-signed TLS: RGW clients need --no-verify-ssl. Production needs real certs.
• ops user is password-only: no SSH keys installed; password sourced from 1P. Intended as an interactive console or recovery account, not for automation.
• DNS not managed: s3.<domain> and *.s3.<domain> records must exist externally.