Object storage
Swift was one of the first two services in OpenStack, and object storage was the original mechanism for persistence within OpenStack (and Amazon) clouds. As OpenStack has been adopted for more and more traditional workloads, object storage has lost a lot of its relevance. In fact, many of the OpenStack deployments that we work on in the Enterprise space don't include object storage in the initial release.
An easy way to take an if you build it they will come approach to object storage is to leverage it for storing Glance images. Although a few of your tenants may come to your OpenStack deployment with applications that can persist their data over an S3-compatible interface, almost all of them can use the snapshot capability ...
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