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Full outline finished. Keystone, Glance, and most of Nova complete Changes to Common: * Separate "Getting Started" content into separate files, so they can be included individually where needed in the install guide * separated "Keystone Concepts" so that a smaller subset of that can be used in the install guide Change-Id: I583349443685e3022f4c4c1893c2c07d1d2af1d5
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
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xml:id="object-storage-service">
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<title>Object Storage Service</title>
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<para>The Object Storage Service is a highly scalable and
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durable multi-tenant object storage system for large amounts
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of unstructured data at low cost through a RESTful http
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API.</para>
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<para>It includes the following components:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><systemitem class="service"
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>swift-proxy-server</systemitem>. Accepts Object Storage
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API and raw HTTP requests to upload files, modify
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metadata, and create containers. It also serves file or
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container listings to web browsers. To improve
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performance, the proxy server can use an optional cache
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usually deployed with memcache.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Account servers. Manage accounts defined with the
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Object Storage Service.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Container servers. Manage a mapping of containers, or
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folders, within the Object Storage Service.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Object servers. Manage actual objects, such as files,
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on the storage nodes.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>A number of periodic processes. Performs housekeeping
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tasks on the large data store. The replication services
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ensure consistency and availability through the cluster.
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Other periodic processes include auditors, updaters, and
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reapers.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Configurable WSGI middleware, which is usually the
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Identity Service, handles authentication.</para>
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</section>
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