Revision as of 15:27, 8 November 2016

Ideas for OpenStack Swift

This page is a collection of "brain dumps" for ideas about features in OpenStack Swift. If you're working on something, it's a very good idea to write down what you're thinking about. This lets others get up to speed, helps you collaborate, and serves as a great record for future reference. Write down your thoughts somewhere and put a link to it here. It doesn't matter what form your thoughts are in; use whatever is best for you. Your document should include why your idea is needed and your thoughts on particular design choices and tradeoffs. Please include some contact information (ideally, your IRC nick) so that people can collaborate with you.

Historic "specs" are available at https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/swift-specs/

Ideas

Format: Idea -- link to your brain dump

• Small file optimization -- Swift/ideas/small files
• Reduce memcache lookups -- Swift/ideas/memoize lookups
• Improve internal network security -- Swift/ideas/network_security
• Metrics around rate-limiting -- Swift/ideas/ratelimiting_metrics
• Hierarchical keymaster -- Swift/ideas/hierarchical_keymaster
• sync_method = repconn -- https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/hummingbird-replication-upgrade
• Container Sharding -- container-sharding.odt Etherpad notes trello Initial locking db shard approach idea
• High-latency media / Tape support for Swift -- Swift/HighLatencyMedia
• The Archival Storage extension to the Swift API -- [1]
• Symlinks -- https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/swift_symlinks
• Metadata index (Elasticsearch) -- Swift/ideas/metadata-sync
• Keymaster v2 -- Swift/ideas/keymaster_v2
• oslo.config -- https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/swift_oslo-config