Faking Out Ceph-Deploy in OpenStack

I wanted to build a functional Ceph deployment for testing but did not have hardware to use.   So I decided I would use my instances in OpenStack.   The image choice I used for this configuration was the stock RHEL 6.5 cloud image from Redhat.   However when I went to do a ceph-deploy install on my monitor server, I ran into this:

[root@ceph-mon ceph]# ceph-deploy install ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.conf][DEBUG ] found configuration file at: /root/.cephdeploy.conf

[ceph_deploy.cli][INFO  ] Invoked (1.5.2): /usr/bin/ceph-deploy install ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.install][DEBUG ] Installing stable version firefly on cluster ceph hosts ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.install][DEBUG ] Detecting platform for host ceph-mon ...

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] connected to host: ceph-mon

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] detect platform information from remote host

[ceph_deploy][ERROR ] UnsupportedPlatform: Platform is not supported:

It didn;t really say what platform it thought this was that was unsupported, but I knew that Redhat 6.5 was supported so it really did not make any sense.   What I discovered though was that the following file was missing within my cloud image:

/etc/redhat-release

So I manually add it:

vi /etc/redhat-release

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

Then when I reran ceph-deploy it detected a supported platform:

 

[root@ceph-mon ceph]# ceph-deploy install ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.conf][DEBUG ] found configuration file at: /root/.cephdeploy.conf

[ceph_deploy.cli][INFO  ] Invoked (1.5.2): /usr/bin/ceph-deploy install ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.install][DEBUG ] Installing stable version firefly on cluster ceph hosts ceph-mon

[ceph_deploy.install][DEBUG ] Detecting platform for host ceph-mon ...

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] connected to host: ceph-mon

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] detect platform information from remote host

[ceph-mon][DEBUG ] detect machine type

[ceph_deploy.install][INFO  ] Distro info: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.5 Santiago

[ceph-mon][INFO  ] installing ceph on ceph-mon

[ceph-mon][INFO  ] Running command: yum clean all