Easy access to open stack object storage
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The document discusses providing easy access to OpenStack object storage through proxy servers like ftp-cloudfs and sftp-cloudfs. These open source projects allow users to access OpenStack storage via FTP and SFTP protocols, abstracting the underlying REST API. They have gained popularity with over 1,000 monthly downloads. The proxies help customers use OpenStack storage like other services by providing familiar access methods and tools to move data in and out while scaling easily on low-cost VMs.
Easy access to open stack object storage
- 1. Easy Access to OpenStack Object Storage Juan J. Martínez @reidrac http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ Merry OpenStack, London Dec 2013
- 2. What is Swift? Open Source software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of accessible data. Object Storage ● ● ● ● Not a real file system RESTful HTTP API Blob and metadata (name, content type, date-time, size, MD5) Support for pseudo-hierarchical directories Real File System ● ● ● ● ● open, read, write, seek, close chdir, mkdir, rmdir remove, rename chmod, chown, stat, lock etc
- 3. CUSTOMERS
- 4. What we have
- 5. What we sell
- 8. Back in 2011... ● ● ● Building a product based on OpenStack Object Storage Started working with Bexar Went live with Diablo ● Not many end-user tools using OpenStack Object Storage API (actually, it was Rackspace Cloud Files™) ● ● ● Customers won’t start building things straight away Internal tools WIP (snapshot VM, re-image from snapshot) It was hard to explain the product*: What is Amazon S3? I want Dropbox! * disclaimer: I’m a developer
- 9. Proxies: FTP ftp-cloudfs ● ● ● ● Personal project of Chmouel Boudjnah (now @ https://github.com/cloudfs/ftp-cloudfs) Open Source Very cool, “almost working” (Jan 2011) fs.py abstraction: Swift API -> FTP Memset started contributing to make it “production ready”: ● ● ● ● ● Support for OpenStack Object Storage (was Cloud Files only) Missing bits in fs.py, more tests, introduced some new bugs Fixed performance problems: memcache all the things! Finally migrated from python-cloudfiles to python-swiftclient (kept the name, it’s cool) Keystone auth, resume downloads, listing +10k files, large file support (>5GB)
- 10. Proxies: SFTP sftp-cloudfs ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Open Source sponsored by Memset Hosting Ltd https://github.com/Memset/sftpcloudfs ftp-cloudfs’ fs.py + paramiko (ssh2 protocol for Python) Secure: client -> SSH -> sftp-cloudfs -> SSL -> swift Not as performant as FTP (1.6 MB/s vs pyftpdlib 4.2 MB/s), CPU intensive Only password based authentication Partial SCP support contributed by Koert van der Veer + everything supported by ftp-cloudfs
- 11. Bigger than the API ● ● ● ● ● ● +2 TB / mo traffic (in > out) Small VMs running ftp-cloudfs, sftp-cloudfs and shared cache (memcache) Load-balanced with LVS Easy to scale (add more VMs!) Use cases: backups, CMS plugins (CDN support), remote storage, ??? FTP > SFTP > API Useful Open Source projects: ● ● ● Numbers from PyPI ftp-cloudfs: 1895 downloads last month sftp-cloudfs: 1107 downloads last month Patches from several contributors (including hosting companies) “Stable” and almost feature complete, a new release every now and then
- 12. Easy Access to OpenStack Object Storage Questions? Juan J. Martínez @reidrac http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ Merry OpenStack, London Dec 2013