Chapter 8. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Introduction – OpenStack Object Storage
- Creating object containers
- Deleting object containers
- Uploading objects
- Uploading large objects
- Downloading objects
- Deleting objects
- Container ACLs
Introduction – OpenStack Object Storage
OpenStack Object Storage, also known as Swift, is the service that allows for massively scalable and highly redundant storage on commodity hardware. This service is implemented by Rackspace as Cloud Files, and it is also analogous to Amazon's S3 storage service and managed in a similar way under OpenStack. With OpenStack Object Storage, we can store many objects of virtually unlimited size—restricted only by the available hardware—and ...
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