In this chapter, you learned all of the necessary steps to allow you to successfully plan and implement a Ceph project. You also learned about the available hardware choices, how they relate to Ceph's requirements, and how they affect both Ceph's performance and reliability. Finally, you also learned of the importance of the processes and procedures that should be in place to ensure a healthy operating environment for your Ceph cluster.

The following chapters in this book will build on the knowledge you have learned in this chapter and help you put it to use to enable you to actually deploy, manage, and utilize Ceph storage.