openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_getstart_object-storage.xml
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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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
version="5.0"
xml:id="object-storage-service">
<title>OpenStack Object Storage</title>
<para>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.</para>
<para>It includes the following components:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>Proxy servers (<systemitem
class="service">swift-proxy-server</systemitem>)</term>
<listitem><para>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.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Account servers (<systemitem class="service"
>swift-account-server</systemitem>)</term>
<listitem><para>Manages accounts defined with Object
Storage.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Container servers (<systemitem class="service"
>swift-container-server</systemitem>)</term>
<listitem><para>Manages the mapping of containers or folders, within
Object Storage.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Object servers (<systemitem class="service"
>swift-object-server</systemitem>)</term>
<listitem><para>Manages actual objects, such as files, on the
storage nodes.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Various periodic processes</term>
<listitem><para>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.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>WSGI middleware</term>
<listitem><para>Handles authentication and is usually OpenStack
Identity.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</section>