[Blueprint servercloud-1311-ceph] Ceph activities for Trusty

[James Page]

Blueprint changed by James Page:

Whiteboard changed:
  [UDS DISCUSSION TOPICS]
  http://pad.ubuntu.com/uds-1311-servercloud-1311-ceph
  
  [USER STORIES]
  John is deploying Ceph with OpenStack Icehouse; he's able to leverage the latest Ceph integration features using Ceph directly from the Ubuntu Archive.
  
  Tony wants to deploy a geo-replicated RADOS Gateway on Ceph; he's able
  todo this using Ceph from the Ubuntu Archive.
  
  [ASSUMPTIONS]
  Firefly release schedule lines up with Ubuntu release schedule.
  
  [RISKS]
  Ceph is not really supportable for a 5 year LTS (mitigation - provision of newer Ceph in Cloud Archive for 14.04).
  
  [IN SCOPE]
  Charms
  Packages
  
  [OUT OF SCOPE]
  
  [USER ACCEPTANCE]
  
  [RELEASE NOTE/BLOG]
- Ubuntu 14.04 includes the latest stable release of Ceph, providing massively scalable object and block storage services.
+ Ubuntu 14.04 includes the latest stable release of Ceph, providing massively scalable object and block storage services.  New features in this release include Erasure encoding of objects and tiered storage pools.

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Ceph activities for Trusty
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-1311-ceph