Object storage works by using a client to send and receive files to and from the object store. The files are stored with very little metadata and are treated as a whole entity. The object server does not work in partial pieces of an object the way block storage would work with file blocks. It is a very simple storage method focused on storing and retrieving the contents of the files with minimal overhead to the operating system while interacting with the storage server. The power of the Swift object storage engine is its robust software-defined storage backend. The Swift storage engine has distribution and replication capabilities across its storage nodes. First, let's take a look at the client side of using Swift, and later, we will look at the backend storage engine.
OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition
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Overview of this book
OpenStack is a widely popular platform for cloud computing. Applications that are built for this platform are resilient to failure and convenient to scale. This book, an update to our extremely popular OpenStack Essentials (published in May 2015) will help you master not only the essential bits, but will also examine the new features of the latest OpenStack release - Mitaka; showcasing how to put them to work straight away.
This book begins with the installation and demonstration of the architecture. This book will tech you the core 8 topics of OpenStack. They are Keystone for Identity Management, Glance for Image management, Neutron for network management, Nova for instance management, Cinder for Block storage, Swift for Object storage, Ceilometer for Telemetry and Heat for Orchestration. Further more you will learn about launching and configuring Docker containers and also about scaling them horizontally. You will also learn about monitoring and Troubleshooting OpenStack.
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
RDO Installation
Identity Management
Image Management
Network Management
Instance Management
Block Storage
Object Storage
Telemetry
Orchestration
Docker
Scaling Horizontally
Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Index
Customer Reviews