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 …

Installing Swift (virtual machine) You can install Swift with an all-in-one virtual machine by following instructions here: http://swift.openstack.org/development_saio.html.

(You may find that you do not need to specify --os-region in the swift command line - swift parses the catalog returned by keystone and selects the first object-store endpoint it finds, which may …

SDKs that support multiple clouds including OpenStack (aka multi-cloud toolkits) and SDKs that support OpenStack only. If you're aware of any other SDKs, please add them to the lists below.

For base Swift functionality, the Proxy, Account, Container, Object and Auth servers should be running. If one of the servers are not running, and no errors are logged to syslog, it may be …

Since Swift has never had a formal API spec (ie a document defining the API that the implementation is coded against), we must make allowances for existing clusters.

Composite tokens allow other OpenStack services to store data in Swift on behalf of a client so that neither the client nor the service can update the data without both party's consent.

Swift versions in OpenStack integrated releases The change log file for what's in every release is at https://github.com/openstack/swift/blob/master/CHANGELOG Dates are taken from the tags …

Replacing a Swift Disk If a hard drive fails in an Object Storage node, replacing it is relatively easy. This assumes that your Object Storage environment is configured correctly, where the …

Horizon is the canonical implementation of Openstack’s Dashboard, which provides a web based user interface to OpenStack services including Nova, Swift, Keystone, etc.