There is two new nifty middlewares for doing quotas in upcoming Swift release 1.8.0 called container_quotas and account_quotas. Those are two different middlewares because they are actually addressing different use cases. container_quotas is typically used by end users the use case here is to let user to specify a limit on one of their container. Why would you want to… Read more →
Introduction “G” release is the next stable version of OpenStack which is going to be released the 4th April 2013. For remind us, Folsom brought us two new core projects : Quantum (Networking) and Cinder (Volumes). Two new projects have been incubated : Ceilometer (metering) led by Nicolas Barcet (VP Products at eNovance), and Heat (Cloud Orchestration). Oslo is a… Read more →
One of our client at eNovance had a need to be able to upload to Swift directly from a web browser without going via a PHP proxy. Things in browser-land are not exactly the same as what we have in user-land, it is a bit more restricted to ensure the end-user security and there is a few hoops to… Read more →
Oct, 18 , 2012 – San Diego – The eNovance team Day 3 at OpenStack Summit. Let’s continue the series of posts related to OpenStack Summit. Multi-backend support for Cinder http://wiki.openstack.org/Cinder/MultiVolumeBackend During the session, they directly used etherpad.Very informal presentation where the audience debated heavily and the conclusions went straight to the etherpadThe speaker works for Rackspace and did… Read more →
Oct, 17 , 2012 – San Diego – The eNovance team Day 2 at OpenStack Summit. The sun is still over here, and more news are coming. Here we go ! By the way, during all sessions we follow, we try to cover all topics in which we are interested to. Canonical Announcement We had this morning several interesting… Read more →
Oct, 17, 2012 – San Diego – The eNovance team Introduction What’s better can happen for an OpenStack Developper to go at bi-annual OpenStack Summit ? OpenStack Summit brings more than 1500 people together with the goal to prepare the next release of OpenStack : Grizzly. Since Openstack now has its own fondation, the community continue to grow every day…. Read more →
Swift is the software behind the OpenStack Object Storage service. This service provides a simple storage service for applications using RESTful interfaces, providing maximum data availability and storage capacity. I explain here how some parts of the storage and replication in Swift works. If you don’t know Swift and want to read a more “shallow” overview first, you can read John Dickinson’s Swift Tech Overview…