Ceph

A number of users aspire to run Ceph on NixOS, and recommend varying approaches in different forums online. Here is a collection of links that can lead you along, though please consider; these experiences come from older versions of Ceph, such as v10, while (as of now) Ceph is on v19.

The Ceph Nix package has been hard-pressed to keep up with Ceph, as filesystem concerns are a larger challenge on NixOS than on other Linux lineages. Please make a Wiki account and add your experiences, if you made progress running a modern Ceph version.

Bind all Ceph OSD shares using systemd:

  systemd.services.ceph-mesh = {
    enable = true;
    description = "Ceph OSD Bindings";
    unitConfig = {
      After = "local-fs.target";
      Wants = "local-fs.target";
    };
    serviceConfig = {
      Type = "oneshot";
      KillMode = "none";
      Environment = "CEPH_VOLUME_TIMEOUT=10000 PATH=$PATH:/run/current-system/sw/bin/";
      ExecStart = "/bin/sh -c 'timeout $CEPH_VOLUME_TIMEOUT /run/current-system/sw/bin/ceph-volume lvm activate --all --no-systemd'";
      TimeoutSec = 0;
    };
    wantedBy = ["multi-user.target"];
  };