Development Philosophy

ceph-workbench is a command-line toolbox for Ceph.

All functionality is 100% covered by integration and unit tests that can be run using ``tox``_.

To this end, the test suite spawns containers running Redmine, GitLab, etc. instances and shuts them down when the tests complete.

Each new feature is first developed as a set of manually run snippets and tools, outside of ceph-workbench, and only those features that prove useful are implemented and tested as ceph-workbench subcommands. This is an effective way to make sure a problem exists before the solution is implemented.

ceph-workbench does not claim to be useful to all developers working on Ceph, only to those who chose to participate in the development of ceph-workbench.