ConfigureSwift
Configuring OpenStack Object Store (Swift)
Swift uses paste.deploy to manage server configurations, which is a Python-based system for finding and configuring WSGI applications and servers.
Default configuration options are set in the [DEFAULT] section, and any options specified there can be overridden in any of the other sections.
These are the four files that are included in the source code repository.
- etc/object-server.conf-sample
- etc/container-server.conf-sample
- etc/account-server.conf-sample
- etc/proxy-server.conf-sample
Here are the basic steps. Configuration options are documented in the Swift developer documentation.
- Create /etc/swift/auth-server.conf.
- Create /etc/swift/proxy-server.conf.
- Create /etc/swift/account-server/1.conf, 2.conf, 3.conf, 4.conf, and so on until each account server has a conf file.
- Create /etc/swift/container-server/1.conf, 2.conf, 3.conf, 4.conf, and so on for each container server.
For these configuration files, set devices= to a directory where a set of mount points can be found. The system is set up to allow many drives per server. For instance, at Rackspace we often have systems with devices=/srv/node. If you do ls /srv/node you'd see:
sda sdc sde sdg sdi sdk sdm sdo sdq sds sdu sdw sdb sdd sdf sdh sdj sdl sdn sdp sdr sdt sdv sdx
Each one of those being a separate mount point and therefore device.
One possible convention is to create an /srv/node directory and mount sdb1 at /srv/node/sdb1 and set devices=/srv/node.
