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Object Storage service overview
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The OpenStack Object Storage is a multi-project object storage system. It
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is highly scalable and can manage large amounts of unstructured data at
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low cost through a RESTful HTTP API.
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It includes the following components:
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Proxy servers (swift-proxy-server)
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Accepts OpenStack Object Storage API and raw HTTP requests to upload
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files, modify metadata, and create containers. It also serves file
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or container listings to web browsers. To improve performance, the
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proxy server can use an optional cache that is usually deployed with
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memcache.
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Account servers (swift-account-server)
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Manages accounts defined with Object Storage.
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Container servers (swift-container-server)
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Manages the mapping of containers or folders, within Object Storage.
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Object servers (swift-object-server)
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Manages actual objects, such as files, on the storage nodes.
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Various periodic processes
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Performs housekeeping tasks on the large data store. The replication
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services ensure consistency and availability through the cluster.
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Other periodic processes include auditors, updaters, and reapers.
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WSGI middleware
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Handles authentication and is usually OpenStack Identity.
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swift client
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Enables users to submit commands to the REST API through a
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command-line client authorized as either a admin user, reseller
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user, or swift user.
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swift-init
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Script that initializes the building of the ring file, takes daemon
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names as parameter and offers commands. Documented in
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`Managing Services
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<https://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/admin_guide.html#managing-services>`_.
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swift-recon
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A cli tool used to retrieve various metrics and telemetry information
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about a cluster that has been collected by the swift-recon middleware.
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swift-ring-builder
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Storage ring build and rebalance utility. Documented in
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`Managing the Rings
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<https://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/admin_guide.html#managing-the-rings>`_.
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