[somacert]

I thought ceph had a reputation of easy to run, at least compared to it's rivals in the distributed storage space. (gluster, lustre, et al)

[Operyl]

Sure, but when you’re running a service you kind of want to know what you’re running. I’m sure Drew is able to figure out the beginning rather easy, but you kind of want to be able to see pitfalls and common misconfigurations etc. It takes a bit of tinkering :).