What software-defined storage really means, why Ceph is the reference implementation, and how to actually consume it — RBD block, CephFS file, and RGW object — from Linux, macOS, and Windows, plus deep Proxmox integration and the networking that holds it all together.
Object-Storage
-
Ceph as Software-Defined Storage: Block, File, and Object Across Every Platform -
Standalone Ceph Without Proxmox: cephadm, Pool Design, and Day-2 Operations Running Ceph on plain Linux without Proxmox hiding the complexity — bootstrapping with cephadm, designing pools and CRUSH rules for your hardware, exposing RBD, CephFS, and RGW, and the day-2 operations that keep a cluster healthy.
-
MinIO: Self-Hosted S3 — Deployment, Erasure Coding, and Performance Tuning Running MinIO as self-hosted, S3-compatible object storage — deployment topologies, how erasure coding protects data, and performance tuning for line-rate throughput on commodity hardware, with a clear-eyed note on recent licensing changes.
-
Object Storage Internals: How S3-Compatible Storage Works and Self-Hosting with MinIO A deep dive into how S3-compatible object storage works under the hood — consistency models, multipart uploads, lifecycle policies, erasure coding, and running production-grade storage with MinIO.