Managing the OpenStack Object Storage cluster with swift-init

Services in our OpenStack Object Storage environment can be managed using the swift-init tool. This tool allows us to control all the daemons in OpenStack Object Storage in a convenient way. For information on installing and configuring the Swift services or daemons, see Chapter 5, Swift – OpenStack Object Storage.

Getting ready

Login to any OpenStack Object Storage node. If using the vagrant environment, these can be accessed by using the following commands:

vagrant ssh swift-proxy
vagrant ssh swift-01
vagrant ssh swift-02
vagrant ssh swift-03
vagrant ssh swift-04
vagrant ssh swift-05

How to do it...

The swift-init tool can be used to control any of the running daemons in our OpenStack ...

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