To use: * Setup a Linode account and get an API key: https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/api/api-key * Clone ceph-ansible: https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible.git * Setup a virtualenv with linode-python: $ virtualenv2 linode-env && source linode-env/bin/activate && pip install linode-python * Modify the CLUSTER variable in linode-launcy.py to have the desired count and Linode plan for each daemon type. * Add a group_vars directory in this checkout with the necessary settings. See: https://github.com/ceph/ceph-ansible/wiki#common * Start using: $ LINODE_API_KEY=ABC...DEF ./launch.sh --ceph-ansible /path/to/ceph-ansible