Category Archives: Openstack

How does a PUT to a swift object server look like.

I have been trying lately to get a better understanding of the Swift code base, and I found the best way to know it was to read it from top to bottom and document it along the way. Here is … Continue reading

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Audit a swift cluster

Swift integrity tools. There is quite a bit of tools shipped with Swift to ensure you have the right object on your cluster. At first there is the basic : swift-object-info It will take a swift object stored on the … Continue reading

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Swift and Keystone middleware – Part1

It seems that integrating Swift and Keystone together present some challenges to people and this is absolutely normal as there is a lot of changes going on. This is my attempt to document how everything is plugged together. I am … Continue reading

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Debugging python-novaclient on the command line.

I have done lately quite a bit of work with python-novaclient the (nova/keystone) openstack client. I often experiment it with ipython in the console. There is a nice debugging facility in novaclient which you can see while using –debug argument … Continue reading

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