Openstack Swift Storage Quick Introduction Montereal

What is Swift? The OpenStack Object Store project, known as Swift, offers cloud storage software so that you can store and retrieve lots of data with a simple API. It's built for scale and optimized for durability, availability, and concurrency across the entire data set. Swift is ideal for storing unstructured data that can grow without bound. Key Features Swift has many features for both end users and sysadmins running the system. User Features Versioned writes CORS ACLs Arbitrarily large objects Static website hosting Signed, expiring URLs Custom metadata Bulk operations Multi-range requests Deployer Features Globally distributed clusters Upgrades with no user downtime Smooth cluster capacity adjustment with no downtime StatsD integration Flexible auth and identity integration Seamless failure handling Quota management Support for high concurrency Documentation Links For an overview of specific parts of Swift, see http://swift.openstack.org API Documentation http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-object-storage/1.0/content/ Install For contributors, see http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/development_saio.html For deployers, see http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/howto_installmultinode.html Guides Deployer's Guide Admin's Guide Associated Projects http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/associated_projects.html#associated-projects