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 as libraries, allowing services to communicate with Keystone

• python-webob: This is the Python module providing WSGI requests and response objects

Getting ready

Ensure that you are logged in to the swift storage nodes. If you created these nodes with...