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OpenStack is a rapidly growing open source cloud software; and Swift is one such project. Swift allows users to build cloud storage with the help of inexpensive commodity hardware. With the latest OpenStack Juno release, developers and experts have access to hundreds of new features to build robust cloud infrastructures.This book teaches you the fundamentals of cloud storage and OpenStack Swift and gives you the skillset to build and operate your own cloud storage. This book also explains the usefulness of OpenStack Swift for cloud storage and how it provides an architectural review of Swift. Next, the book covers the installation and management of Swift, along with other new topics including quality of service and storage policies. Hardware choice, Swift tuning, and use cases will round out your skills. This edition also features two new chapters covering OpenvStorage and Sahara. The book then demonstrates monitoring and new packaging methods, including Docker. Get a head start in the world of cloud storage using this content-rich book loaded with topics.What You Will Learn:
Learn the intricacies of cloud storage and discover the new features of Swift;
Understand OpenStack Swifts architecture and install a multicluster environment;
Use new packaging techniques such as Docker;
Perform basic and advanced operations for day-to-day management using REST APIs;
Know how to choose the right hardware configuration for your needs;
Tune Swift for your particular workload and use case;
Explore new Swift interfaces such as Cinder and Sahara.Learn the fundamentals of cloud architecture and improve usability of your Cloud storage using OpenStack Swift.
Perform basic data transfers and access-control list management using REST APIs.
Illustrated with examples and Swifts latest features, this book is a complete guide to installing, managing, and administering your cloud storage and its capabilities.
Design, implement, and successfully manage your cloud storage using OpenStack Swift.Who This Book Is For:
If you are an IT administrator and you want to enter the world of cloud storage using OpenStack Swift, then this book is ideal for you. Basic knowledge of Linux and server technology is beneficial to get the most out of the book. iPAD Amazon Kindle, PC , Cool Reader (EPUB), Calibre (EPUB, MOBI, AZW3), Adobe Digital Editions (EPUB), FBReader (EPUB, MOBI, AZW3).
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First published: May 2014
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Authors
Amar Kapadia
Kris Rajana
Sreedhar Varma
Reviewers
Steve Martinelli
Juan J. Martnez
Christian Schwede
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Amar Kapadia is a storage technologist and blogger based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently the senior director of product marketing for Mirantis, the #1 pure-play OpenStack company. Prior to Mirantis, he was the senior director of strategy for EVault's Long-Term Storage Service, a public cloud storage offering based on OpenStack Swift. He has over 20 years of experience in storage, server, and I/O technologies at Emulex, Philips, and HP. Amar's current passion is in cloud and object storage technologies. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
When not working on OpenStack Swift, Amar can be found working on technologies such as Kubernetes, MongoDB, PHP, or jQuery. His blogs can be found at www.buildcloudstorage.com.
I would like to thank my wife for tolerating my late-night and weekend book-writing sessions.
Kris Rajana is a technologist and serial entrepreneur, passionate about building globally distributed teams to deliver innovative infrastructure solutions. His areas of interest include data infrastructure and fast-emerging open source cloud storage technologies, such as OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Dockers/Containers, and big data. As the CEO of Vedams and Biarca (an offshoot of Vedams), he takes immense pride in his team and its development, which leads to excellence in execution. Kris has over 20 years of experience in managing engineering teams in fields such as space, aviation, storage at BFGoodrich Aerospace, Snap Appliance (currently Overland Storage), Adaptec, Xyratex, and Sullego. His current passion is DevOps, and he likes to leverage leading open source cloud technologies to make enterprises more agile, speed up the development and deployment of modern enterprise applications, and make IT operations more efficient. Kris earned his doctorate in engineering science from Pennsylvania State University.
He is a member of the board of the Pratham Bay Area Chapter. Along with the Vedams team, he is a sponsor of an urban learning center in Hyderabad. He is a student and sevak of the San Jose Chinmaya mission.
I would like to thank my family for their patience and support. I would also like to thank all my mentors and teachers over the years.
Sreedhar Varma has more than 15 years of experience in the storage industry, and has worked on various storage technologies such as SCSI, SAS, SATA, FC HBA drivers (Adaptec, Emulex, Qlogic, Promise, and so on), RAID, storage stacks of various operating systems, and system software for fault-tolerant and high-availability systems. He has good experience with SAN, NAS, and iSCSI networks; various storage arrays (Dothill, IBM, EMC, Netapp, Oracle Pillar, and so on); object storage implementations (Swift and Ceph); and software development using the corresponding REST APIs.
Sreedhar is currently working for Vedams software providing storage engineering services. In the past, he has worked for Stratus Technologies, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corp, and IBM. He has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts.
Steve Martinelli is a software developer for IBM, and has been involved with OpenStack since the Grizzly release. He is a core contributor to OpenStack's Identity ServiceKeystone. He primarily focuses on enabling Keystone to better integrate into enterprise environments. Steve has helped federated identity, auditing, and OAuth support to Keystone. In his spare time, he contributes to OpenStackClient, PyCADF, and Oslo Policy as a core contributor.
Juan J. Martnez is an experienced software developer with a strong open source background. He has been involved in OpenStack object storage since the Bexar release. His work related to Swift includes the customization and deployment of an award-winning cloud storage solution. He currently maintains a number of open source projects that provide access to the storage using common protocols (FTP, SFTP, and NBD). Juan is currently employed by Memset, a British cloud provider based in Cranleigh.
Christian Schwede is a principal software engineer working at Red Hat. He started working on OpenStack Swift in 2012. He is a core reviewer and contributor to Swift.
Christian's main interests are open source software, storage systems, cloud computing, and software-defined infrastructure.
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