Ceph Air-gapped Deployment

This article describes a way to deploy a Ceph cluster in an air-gapped environment. We will use Ubuntu 22.04 and Ceph Quicy version.

Preparation

We set up two servers: one for an Ubuntu repo and one for container registry. Ubuntu repo is for installing ceph-common package. Instructions for setting such servers are not in the scope of this article. We also download a cephadm executables.

curl --silent --remote-name --location https://github.com/ceph/ceph/raw/quicy/src/cephadm/cephadm