Swift Guides on Documentation

Swift getting started

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Swift is Elastx object storage in OpenStack. Swift provides high availability by utilizing all availability zones and is encrypted at rest. This guide will help you get started with the basics surrounding Swift object storage.

Swift/S3 Compatibility

Swift has an s3 compatible API for applications that don’t natively support the Swift API.

S3/Swift support matrix can be found here.
To get started with Swift/S3, See our guide here.

Getting started with Swift CLI

Prerequisites

python-swiftclient installed.
Application credential. See here on how to get started with application crendentials.

Swift-cli

Start by sourcing your application credential.

Swift projects

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

There are two main options for access separation in Swift:

You can use Access rules to manage access to specific containers using application credentials. This alone will not stop the ability for users to create/remove virtual machines. See more information here on how to get started with access rules.
Dedicated Swift project. Dedicated Swift projects are basically OpenStack projects with reduced access to any resource except swift. This is sometime needed due to the current limitation of how privilege/role management works for users in OpenStack.

Swift Project

In this guide we will go through how to manage user permissions for Swift containers using ACLs in a Swift project.

Swift S3 compatibility

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Swift provides an S3 compatible API for applications that don’t support the Swift API. Note that you need to create EC2 credentials for this to work.

NOTE: The S3 region must be set to “us-east-1” for compatibility with “AWS Signature Version 4”

NOTE: If the application does support Swift natively, using Swift will provide superior performance and generally a better experience.

Example s3cmd configuration

The configuration below works with s3cmd: