Non profit OpenStack & Ceph cluster distributed over five datacenters

A few non profit organizations (April, FSF France, tetaneutral.net…) and volunteers constantly research how to get compute, storage and bandwidth that are:

  • 100% Free Software
  • Content neutral
  • Low maintenance
  • Reliable
  • Cheap

The latest setup, in use since ocbober 2013, is based on a Ceph and OpenStack cluster spread over five datacenters. It has been designed for the following use cases:

  • Free Software development and continuous integration
  • Hosting low activity web sites, mail servers etc.
  • Keeping backups
  • Sharing movies and music

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