When you say cephadm, do you mean all the commands under “ceph orch” / enabling the cephadm mgr module, without deploying the containers?
If so then I don’t think so. Cephadm assumes it is handling containers. I can go into more detail if this is the case. On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM Adrian Sevcenco <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! Is there any possibility to use cephadm without the container based > tooling? > (so to use bare-metal, with the packages directly installed on the machine) > > If not, is there something technical that prevents it to happen or just > that there is a policy that container based deployment is the only best > way to do it > therefore cephadm will only use it this way? > > I ask this in the context of finding out that ceph-ansible is deprecated > and > that it should not be used, but i still need to use ansible for management > and i think (so without factual experience) that bare metal services > would be easier to manage after doing by hand deployment with cephadm > > Thank you! > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
