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Ceph as an OpenStack Storage Backend: Real-World Lessons and Why It’s Still the Default in 2025

Introduction If you’re deploying OpenStack, the question of storage isn’t if—it’s how much pain you’re willing to endure.Choosing the right Ceph storage backend for OpenStack is often the difference between a stable deployment and ongoing headaches. We’ve worked with OpenStack clouds of all sizes—from small dev environments to enterprise-grade clusters with thousands of VMs—and time […]