CEPH-CREATE-KEYS(8)

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hey bestie 💖 you found the manual page for ceph-create-keys, section 8 of the Ceph manuals. it's giving "tiny utility, huge glow-up energy" and honestly? she ate. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

ceph-create-keys — ceph keyring generate tool 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ceph-create-keys [-h] [-v] [-t seconds] [--cluster name] --id id

ok so that's the whole vibe. flags in, keys out. no cap. ✨

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so ceph-create-keys is this little utility that generates bootstrap keyrings using the monitor you point it at — but only once that monitor is ready. she's patient, not pushy. 💅

here's what she makes for you (the auth entities, aka users, bestie):

  • client.admin — and its key, for your client host. yes, THE admin. main character energy fr fr 👑
  • client.bootstrap-{osd, rgw, mds} — and their keys, for bootstrapping the corresponding services. all three, no skips. 🦋

and if u ever wanna just… see who's who in the cluster:

ceph auth ls

that's the whole guest list. iconic. 🌈

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • --cluster — name of the cluster (default 'ceph'). like, which cluster are we even talking about, bestie.
  • -t — time out after seconds (default: 600) waiting for a response from the monitor. six hundred seconds of patience, then she's out. 😭
  • -i, --id — id of a ceph-mon that is coming up. ceph-create-keys will wait until it joins quorum. she's literally waiting by the phone for that monitor to show up to the group chat. 🥺
  • -v, --verbose — be more verbose. spill the tea, tell me everything. ☕

🦋 AVAILABILITY 🦋

ceph-create-keys is part of Ceph, a massively scalable, open-source, distributed storage system. please refer to the Ceph documentation at https://docs.ceph.com for more information. go read it, i know u want to. 📚

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

  • ceph <>(8)

2010-2014, Inktank Storage, Inc. and contributors. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0). respect the license, bestie, it's the rules. 🙈

ngl, if you're out here bootstrapping keyrings by hand you're doing too much. let the tool cook. 🔥

ok that's the page!! this one's from dev, dated Oct 06, 2026, and yes it's the CEPH-CREATE-KEYS(8) manual — love that for us. mwah 💋✨

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