openstack-manuals/doc/common-rst/get_started_object_storage.rst
Blake Smith cf250ddc5d Fix grammar mistake in object storage overview
There was a missing space in the object storage overview page.
"manages actual object,such as files, on the storage nodes".
A space was added before such.

Closes-Bug: #1482093

Change-Id: Ia3f6ed04aa24162a145d22c4481798dd3da58e59
2015-08-18 09:18:26 -05:00

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OpenStack Object Storage

The OpenStack Object Storage is a multi-tenant object storage system. It is highly scalable and can manage large amounts of unstructured data at low cost through a RESTful HTTP API.

It includes the following components:

Proxy servers (swift-proxy-server)

Accepts OpenStack Object Storage API and raw HTTP requests to upload files, modify metadata, and create containers. It also serves file or container listings to web browsers. To improve performance, the proxy server can use an optional cache that is usually deployed with memcache.

Account servers (swift-account-server)

Manages accounts defined with Object Storage.

Container servers (swift-container-server)

Manages the mapping of containers or folders, within Object Storage.

Object servers (swift-object-server)

Manages actual objects, such as files, on the storage nodes.

Various periodic processes

Performs housekeeping tasks on the large data store. The replication services ensure consistency and availability through the cluster. Other periodic processes include auditors, updaters, and reapers.

WSGI middleware

Handles authentication and is usually OpenStack Identity.