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Ceph

The Future of Storage

An open-source storage platform that implements storage on a single distributed computer cluster and provides a 3-in-1 interface for object-, block- and file-level storage.

python
javascript
c++

distributed systems
Software-Defined-Storage

Project ideas

5 ideas on its 2026 ideas page. 6 mentors named.

radosgw-admin UX and documentation improvements
Kafka security for bucket notifications
RGW tcmalloc profiling
Carbonization and UX consistency improvements for the Ceph Dashboard
Meet the community

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

Not in the public archive yet (its first year, or listed under another name).

On GitHub

36 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Python (13), Go (4), C (3), Shell (3), Dockerfile (2), HTML (2).

Links and channels

Website: https://ceph.io/en/
Ideas page: https://ceph.io/en/developers/google-summer-of-code/
Contributor guide: https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/dev/developer_guide/
Source code: https://github.com/ceph
Mailing list: https://ceph.io/en/community/connect/
Chat: https://join.slack.com/t/ceph-storage/shared_invite/zt-1n8yigss2-yYg099VlTiGMCLIziG_h4Q

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "Ceph" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Ceph"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Ceph"

or ask your assistant:
"Which Ceph repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.