Chapter 7. Troubleshooting OpenStack Object Storage

In this chapter, we will examine some of the common troubleshooting scenarios you may encounter when working with OpenStack object storage, otherwise known as Swift. In the last chapter, you learned about troubleshooting OpenStack block storage. In this chapter, we will explore object storage. Access to data in object storage is achieved through an API as opposed to direct filesystem access; that is, object storage is not a hard drive. As a result, our troubleshooting techniques will not follow the typical troubleshooting techniques that are used when troubleshooting block storage. However, there are some things that you need not worry much about with Swift object storage. The system is designed ...

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