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Install Ceph Cluster on Kubernetes using Rook

Josphat Mutai Updated Mar 26, 2026 · 1 min read

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Josphat Mutai

Founder of Computingforgeeks. Senior Systems Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and managing production infrastructure. Core expertise in Linux/UNIX administration, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and Kubernetes ecosystems (EKS, GKE, OpenShift). Deep experience with virtualization (KVM, Proxmox, OpenStack), infrastructure as code (Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Crossplane), GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, FluxCD), Nix/NixOS, and container orchestration at scale. Currently focused on integrating AI and LLMs into DevOps and platform engineering workflows. Every guide on this site is tested on real systems before publishing.

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13 thoughts on “Install Ceph Cluster on Kubernetes using Rook”

  2. Totally agree with the comment of @Ghilman. Perfect hands-on guide, well explained (maybe not fully on k8s beginner-level, a bit more advanced) but overall straightforward!

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  4. Hello, nice tutoriel ! 🙂 But at the end i ve a problem with “archived”: “2023-05-13 14:38:20.033594”,
    “backtrace”: [
    ” File \”/usr/share/ceph/mgr/nfs/module.py\”, line 169, in cluster_ls\n return available_clusters(self)”,
    ” File \”/usr/share/ceph/mgr/nfs/utils.py\”, line 38, in available_clusters\n completion = mgr.describe_service(service_type=’nfs’)”,
    ” File \”/usr/share/ceph/mgr/orchestrator/_interface.py\”, line 1488, in inner\n completion = self._oremote(method_name, args, kwargs)”,
    ” File \”/usr/share/ceph/mgr/orchestrator/_interface.py\”, line 1555, in _oremote\n raise NoOrchestrator()”,
    “orchestrator._interface.NoOrchestrator: No orchestrator configured (try `ceph orch set backend`)”

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  6. amazing work! I have some questions about how to manage custom ceph cluster with rook. For example, how can I configure the number of replicas in a pool? Or how can I configure the minimum amount of OSDs?

    THANKS!

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  7. I like your articles very much!!! Thanks a lot!
    You are describing how to access the rook-dashboard. I was trying to change the servicetype to NodePort or to LoadBalancer with “kubectl edit…”, but to my surprise after a short amout of type the servictype gets somehow automatically switched back to ClusterIP…
    Any ideas?

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