Openstack

Explain Swift in detail

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • Swift is Object Store service and is an highly available, distributed and consistent store designed for storing a lot of data
    • Swift is distributing data across multiple servers while writing it to multiple disks
    • One can choose to add additional servers to scale the cluster. All while swift maintaining integrity of the information and data replications.