Kalpesh Pandya
I started my career with Red Hat and am currently working as a Backend Engineer at IBM. Exploring and helping develop Ceph for nearly 6 years. I've been a part of Ceph RGW team since beginning and have worked for the development of Secure Token Service (STS), bucket notifications, multisite and RGW standalone projects. With a focus of continuous learning about new technologies and a solution driven mindset always ready to take up any innovative projects that drives the open source community.
IBM
Backend Engineer
Session
This talk explores extending the Ceph RADOS Gateway (RGW) Standalone feature into a Distributed RGW Standalone model. Traditionally, standalone RGW runs on dedicated nodes with local filesystems, operating independently from other Ceph components. Distributed RGW Standalone advances this by deploying multiple RGW instances across different networks and locations.
A major challenge in distributed systems like Ceph, HDFS, NFS, and S3 is maintaining consistent and ordered bucket listings across geographically separated gateways. This session include basics, its engineering to solve such issues, including code snapshots and open-source modules that enable coordination between RGWs.
The result is RGW as a truly standalone, S3-compatible service that is easy to deploy and operate. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of Distributed RGW Standalone, its benefits for data management and high availability, and how it reflects Ceph’s evolution toward a more modular and scalable architecture.