Configuring OpenStack Object Storage – proxy server
Clients connect to OpenStack Object Storage via the proxy servers. This allows us to scale out our OpenStack Object Storage environment as needed, without affecting the frontend to which the clients connect. Configuration of the Swift proxy service is simply done by editing the /etc/swift/proxy-server.conf
file.
Getting ready
Ensure that you are logged in to the swift-proxy
nodes. If you created this with vagrant
, you can access this node by issuing the following command:
vagrant ssh swift-proxy
How to do it...
To configure the OpenStack Object Storage proxy server, carry out the following steps:
- We first create the
/etc/swift/proxy-server.conf
file with the following content:[DEFAULT] bind_port ...
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