October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
9h 46m
English
Swift is OpenStack's object storage system. It includes both a storage back end of redundant account, proxy, controller, and object storage nodes and an access API similiar to Amazon's S3. One can build a scalable object store with Swift, but if you also need block or filesystem service, you will have provision and separately manage additional solutions. Ceph's RADOS Gateway service offers a Swift-compatible API for those who need it while also supporting block and file service against a single back-end.
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