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OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook

You're reading from   OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you build and operate OpenStack cloud computing, storage, networking, and automation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788398763
Length 398 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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James Denton James Denton
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Egle Sigler Egle Sigler
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Cody Bunch Cody Bunch
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Kevin Jackson Kevin Jackson
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook Fourth Edition
Contributors
Preface
Another Book You May Enjoy
1. Installing OpenStack with Ansible FREE CHAPTER 2. The OpenStack Client 3. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service 4. Neutron – OpenStack Networking 5. Nova – OpenStack Compute 6. Glance – OpenStack Image Service 7. Cinder – OpenStack Block Storage 8. Swift – OpenStack Object Storage 9. OpenStack Orchestration Using Heat and Ansible 10. Using OpenStack Dashboard Index

Uploading large objects


Every OpenStack Object Storage cluster has a limit on how large the uploaded objects can be. Usually that limit is set to 5 GB, though each cluster can have its own limit. However, this doesn't mean that you are limited to uploading only 5 GB or smaller objects to OpenStack Object Storage. Swift provides large object support via already configured and deployed middleware by splitting up large objects into smaller parts. There are two types of large object support: dynamic and static.

Getting ready

Ensure that you are logged on to a correctly configured OpenStack client and can access the OpenStack environment as a user with the swiftoperator privileges. We will use the developer user created in the Common OpenStack identity tasks recipe in Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client with the cookbook4 password. We also granted this user with the swiftoperator privileges.

Since the OpenStack CLI does not provide all the functionality required through the individual OpenStack project...

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