21 engineers on Hacker News describe using Ceph first-hand: 4 endorse it, 1 regret it, 5 are mixed.
“We run Ceph at work. Reliability problems have been exclusively caused by us penny-pinching and trying to have as few drives and servers as possible”
mixed · production · someonebaggy · 2026-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“solid backups with PBS, and Ceph storage. The paid subscription gives us reliable updates”
endorse · production · jusims · 2025-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“EBS costs were 10x+ the cost for same perfomance CEPH cluster on the node disks. We developed the inhouse expertise for how to do it and we were free.”
endorse · production · guywhocodes · 2024-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the two most frequent projects I run into this with are Ceph and Openvswitch”
regret · production · lathiat · 2023-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our strong recommendation is against this, based upon our experience with Ceph, distributed storage, and consumer SSDs.”
endorse · production · sijoe · 2016-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to Ceph. We've never looked back.”
endorse · production · shinydevops · 2016-08-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run ceph and use it in kubernetes. ... There's also some rough edges with locking for dead nodes, but it's definitely good enough”
mixed · production · ownagefool · 2015-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We still had problems that appeared to be locks between xfs above and below Ceph”
mixed · production · lloydde · 2015-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've been using it for about 15 months now without any problems with RADOS.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · enigmo · 2013-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run Hadoop on top of CephFS, and can deal with the occasional metadata server problem. CephFS is actively being hardened.”
mixed · production · noahdesu · 2013-05-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use a self-hosted ceph object storage cluster of 5 machines, about $100k of hardware.”
neutral · production · cullenking · 2024-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've replaced EBS with a distributed ceph storage cluster for significantly faster IOPS and throughput”
neutral · production · jacobwg · 2024-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run high-availability Ceph, Postgres, and Consul, across 3 Hetzner DCs”
neutral · production · 5 yr · nh2 · 2021-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Physical hardware failures are handled by having everything in VMs and storage handled by Ceph.”
neutral · production · Spivak · 2020-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Some people have started using Ceph for more experimental things, but in general these "industry" projects are only starting to replace the home-grown ones.”
neutral · personal · dguest · 2019-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“gets mirrored over to a ceph cluster connected to our serving kubernetes cluster.”
neutral · production · NegatioN · 2019-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run s3 (minio rook ceph on k8s) locally so the network latency is a cluster latency.”
neutral · production · gigatexal · 2019-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“has been successful in troubleshooting several production problems with Rook/Ceph”
neutral · production · marcc · 2018-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Its based on Cloudstack, highly distributed Ceph backend - HDD with NVMe fronting the disks.”
neutral · production · BrianT · 2017-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a ceph cluster on 4 of the DSS7500 storage nodes”
neutral · production · SEJeff · 2017-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Deis uses common OSS tools such as nginx and ceph to provide our layer 0 and part of our layer 1 for us”
neutral · production · bacongobbler · 2014-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?