Installing OpenStack Object Storage services – storage nodes

The storage nodes run a number of OpenStack Object Storage services. These services and libraries can be installed using apt, and they are listed as follows:

  • swift: These are the underlying common files shared among other OpenStack Object Storage packages, including the Swift client
  • swift-account: This is the account service for accessing OpenStack Object Storage
  • swift-object: This is the package responsible for object storage and the orchestration of rsync
  • swift-container: This is the package for the OpenStack Object Storage container server
  • rsyncd: This is the file replication daemon for replicating our objects across our storage nodes
  • python-keystoneclient: These are the clients, as well ...

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