swift/doc/source/associated_projects.rst

Associated Projects

Application Bindings

• OpenStack supported binding:
  • Python-SwiftClient
• Unofficial libraries and bindings:
  • PHP
    • PHP-opencloud - Official Rackspace PHP bindings that should work for other Swift deployments too.
  • Ruby
    • swift_client -Small but powerful Ruby client to interact with OpenStack Swift
    • nightcrawler_swift -This Ruby gem teleports your assets to an OpenStack Swift bucket/container
    • swift storage -Simple OpenStack Swift storage client.
  • Java
    • libcloud - Apache Libcloud - a unified interface in Python for different clouds with OpenStack Swift support.
    • jclouds -Java library offering bindings for all OpenStack projects
    • java-openstack-swift -Java bindings for OpenStack Swift
    • javaswift - Collection of Java tools for Swift
  • Bash
    • supload - Bash script to upload file to cloud storage based on OpenStack Swift API.
  • .NET
    • openstacknetsdk.org - An OpenStack Cloud SDK for Microsoft .NET.
  • Go
    • Go language bindings
    • Gophercloud an OpenStack SDK for Go

Authentication

• Keystone - Official Identity Service for OpenStack.
• Swauth - An alternative Swift authentication service that only requires Swift itself.
• Basicauth - HTTP Basic authentication support (keystone backed).

Command Line Access

• Swiftly - Alternate command line access to Swift with direct (no proxy) access capabilities as well.

External Integration

• 1space -Multi-cloud synchronization tool - supports Swift and S3 APIs
• swift-metadata-sync -Propagate OpenStack Swift object metadata into Elasticsearch

Log Processing

• slogging - Basic stats and logging tools.

Monitoring & Statistics

• Swift Informant -Swift proxy Middleware to send events to a statsd instance.
• Swift Inspector -Swift middleware to relay information about a request back to the client.

Content Distribution Network Integration

• SOS - Swift Origin Server.

Alternative API

• ProxyFS - Integrated file and object access for Swift object storage
• SwiftHLM - a middleware for using OpenStack Swift with tape and other high latency media storage backends.

Benchmarking/Load Generators

• getput - getput tool suite
• COSbench - COSbench tool suite
• ssbench - ssbench tool suite

Custom Logger Hooks

• swift-sentry -Sentry exception reporting for Swift

Storage Backends (DiskFile API implementations)

• Swift-on-File -Enables objects created using Swift API to be accessed as files on a POSIX filesystem and vice versa.
• swift-scality-backend -Scality sproxyd object server implementation for Swift.

Developer Tools

• SAIO bash scripts -Well commented simple bash scripts for Swift all in one setup.
• vagrant-swift-all-in-one - Quickly setup a standard development environment using Vagrant and Chef cookbooks in an Ubuntu virtual machine.
• SAIO Ansible playbook -Quickly setup a standard development environment using Vagrant and Ansible in a Fedora virtual machine (with built-in Swift-on-File support).
• runway - Runway sets up a swift-all-in-one (SAIO) dev environment in an lxc container.
• Multi Swift -Bash scripts to spin up multiple Swift clusters sharing the same hardware

Other

• Glance - Provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images (for OpenStack Compute [Nova], for example).
• Django Swiftbrowser -Simple Django web app to access OpenStack Swift.
• Swift-account-stats -Swift-account-stats is a tool to report statistics on Swift usage at tenant and global levels.
• PyECLib - High-level erasure code library used by Swift
• liberasurecode - Low-level erasure code library used by PyECLib
• Swift Browser - JavaScript interface for Swift
• swift-ui - OpenStack Swift web browser
• swiftbackmeup -Utility that allows one to create backups and upload them to OpenStack Swift
• s3compat - S3 API compatibility checker