Chapter 6. Securing OpenStack Storage
When the word storage is mentioned in clusters and other complete architectures, we can refer to three possible kinds:
- Object storage
- Block storage
- File storage
In this chapter, we will focus on how OpenStack provides storage. Our focus, as usual, will be more on the security part than on others, such as performance.
OpenStack provides two different storage services, Cinder and Swift. Both these components, like the majority of OpenStack components, don't act directly but use backends.
