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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Third Edition

You're reading from   OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Third Edition Over 110 effective recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782174783
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Cody Bunch Cody Bunch
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service FREE CHAPTER 2. Glance – OpenStack Image Service 3. Neutron – OpenStack Networking 4. Nova – OpenStack Compute 5. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage 6. Using OpenStack Object Storage 7. Administering OpenStack Object Storage 8. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage 9. More OpenStack 10. Using the OpenStack Dashboard 11. Production OpenStack Index

Installing OpenStack Object Storage services – proxy server


Clients connect to OpenStack Object Storage via the Swift proxy servers. This allows us to scale out our OpenStack Object Storage environment as needed, without affecting the frontend to which the clients connect. The proxy servers have the following packages installed:

  • swift: These are the underlying common files shared among other the OpenStack Object Storage packages, including the Swift client

  • swift-proxy: This is the proxy service responsible for providing access to the OpenStack Object Storage nodes

  • memcached: This is a high-performance memory object caching system

  • python-swiftclient: This is the Swift client for accessing the OpenStack Object Storage environment using the Command-line Interface (CLI)

  • python-keystoneclient: These are the clients, as well as libraries allowing the services to communicate with Keystone

  • python-webob: This is the Python module providing Web Service Gateway Interface (WSGI) request and response objects...

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