[Bug 2065515] Re: [SRU] Ceph Squid release

[Rgpublic]

@james-page: Thanks! I see where you're coming from. Just let me point
out: I understand that Ceph is targeting for the most part rather huge
installations where Ceph is running on its own servers or in a Docker
container and that's what the Ceph folks suggest to use. And I certainly
understand that that's the more "exicting" part of Ceph's abilities.
Development-wise as well as business-wise. And it's amazing that Ceph is
able to run on such huge installations. And while it certainly is more
efficient to run Ceph like that, please don't forget us SMEs completely.

For us, every single rather miniscule complexity that's added means more
costs. For us, running Ceph and the web services on just two nodes,
connected via crosslink means: A very efficient and comfortable way to
have a small server but still have failover. Fact is: Nothing comes even
close to the performance, stability and reliability of Ceph for that. No
Gluster, no NFS - nothing. And when everything is on one the same
server, we often need to be able to use a recent ubuntu version Apache,
PHP etc. Ceph packages are in fact available on Ubuntu Mantic and you
allow a do-release-upgrade on 23.04 even with Ceph packages installed.

So this is obviously not sth. Canonical totally blocks. And over the
years, this worked just perfectly. The problem arose when there were
buggy GIT packages delivered with the Update without any warning -
crashing the installation. I *almost* got the Reef packages running on
Noble by using lots of APT-ignores but eventually failed only with the
MGR service due to Python dependency hell. So, I guess the whole problem
could have been easily avoided if you just provided Reef packages for
24.04 until the Squid packages arrive. I might be wrong, but I assume
the infrastructure to create these packages should be there. I'm a
developer myself, though, so I understand that things sometimes just
don't run as planned. So, "no front", just wanted to add another
perspective on this issue.

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Title:
  [SRU] Ceph Squid release

Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive:
  Triaged
Status in Ubuntu Cloud Archive caracal series:
  Triaged
Status in ceph package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ceph source package in Noble:
  Triaged
Status in ceph source package in Oracular:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  TBC

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