序1 It has been my pleasure to see the growth in popularity of Ceph in China over the last several years.More than any other region，I see organizations recognizing the benefits of an open source，distributed，and scalable storage platform for file，block，and object workloads.Open source is a huge opportunity for organizations to work cooperatively to improve software and to benefit from each others’hard work. The Chinese Ceph community has become an impressive force in the larger Ceph ecosystem.In March of 2018 the first Cephalocon conference took place in Beijing.The event spanned two days，included more than 60 speakers，and drew more than 1000 attendees.I was incredibly impressed with the amount of technical content that was presented by the local community，and with the scope of Ceph deploym…