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Andrey Markelov, Certified OpenStack Administrator Study Guide , 10.1007/978-1-4842-2125-9_8

8. OpenStack Object Storage

Andrey Markelov

(1)Stockholm, Sweden

This chapter covers 10% of the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam requirements.

Overview of Swift Object Storage

OpenStack Swift is a highly available, distributed, eventually consistent object Software Defined Storage (SDS) system. In contrast to file storage, object storage works with an object that contains data and metadata itself. Generally, object storage provides access through an API. Objects are available via URLs and HTTP/HTTPS protocols. Object storage can distribute requests across a number of storage hosts. All objects are accessible in one single namespace, ...

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