Ceph Archives - Makson Lee

Upgrade a Single-Node Ceph Squid (v19) cephadm Cluster to Tentacle (v20) on Ubuntu 24.04

Makson Lee / February 24, 2026

…and switch from Ubuntu’s apt cephadm (v19) to a manually downloaded cephadm (v20) This post documents a practical, works-in-real-life upgrade […]

Makson Lee / January 16, 2026

This post installs Grafana (UI) on your Kubernetes cluster and connects it to your existing backends: Note: Grafana can connect

Makson Lee / January 16, 2026

This post installs Grafana Tempo (traces backend) on Kubernetes, using Ceph RGW (S3-compatible) for long-term trace storage. If you already

Makson Lee / January 16, 2026

This post installs Grafana Loki (logs backend) on Kubernetes, using Ceph RGW (S3-compatible) for long-term object storage. This is the

Makson Lee / January 16, 2026

This post installs Grafana Mimir (metrics backend) on Kubernetes, using Ceph RGW (S3-compatible) for long-term object storage. Why Mimir first

Makson Lee / December 3, 2025

In previous posts, we: This post is the next step: use that same Ceph node as dynamic block storage for

Makson Lee / November 17, 2025

In my previous posts, This post is the next step: take that external Ceph cluster and hook it directly into

Makson Lee / November 17, 2025

In the previous post, we already: In this post, we’ll connect that existing CephFS to Proxmox VE 9 and use

Makson Lee / November 16, 2025

In my previous post, I set up: That setup is perfect for testing S3 object storage. But Ceph is more

Makson Lee / September 12, 2025

TL;DR: A file-browser style UI for Ceph RGW multisite that lets you browse, preview, and fetch objects across zones as