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Rolling upgrades are here — upgrade Ceph with zero downtime

NodeFoundry 0.14 ships rolling upgrade support for major Ceph version transitions. Here's how we built it and what to expect when you trigger your first upgrade.

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Introducing NodeFoundry Support: direct access to the engineers who built it

Starting today, Professional and Enterprise customers get direct access to our support team — the same engineers who designed and operate NodeFoundry in production environments every day.

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Building predictive drive failure detection with S.M.A.R.T. data

How we process S.M.A.R.T. attributes across thousands of drives to surface actionable warnings before a failure impacts cluster health.

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iPXE booting 100 nodes: what we learned scaling the bootstrap network

Running large-scale tests revealed subtle issues in iPXE chaining, TFTP congestion, and DHCP lease timing. This is what we fixed.

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We've been operating Ceph in production for 12 years. Here's why we built NodeFoundry.

Our founding team ran Ceph clusters for major cloud providers and infrastructure-heavy businesses before building NodeFoundry. This is the tooling we always wished existed.

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Why we chose Ceph as the storage foundation — and what we had to build on top of it

Ceph is the right answer for software-defined storage at scale. But operating it requires tooling that doesn't exist in the open-source ecosystem. This is the gap we're filling.

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