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Dan Radez
Dan Radez
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Dan Radez

Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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Swift is the object storage management component. Object storage is a simple content-only storage system. Files are stored without the metadata that a block filesystem has. These are simply containers and files. The files are simply content. Swift has two layers as part of its deployment: the proxy and the storage engine. The proxy is the API layer. It's the service that the end user communicates with. The proxy is configured to talk to the storage engine on the user's behalf. By default, the storage engine is the Swift storage engine. It's able to do software-based storage distribution and replication. GlusterFS and Ceph are also popular storage backends for Swift. They have similar distribution and replication capabilities to those of Swift storage.

In Chapter 7, Object Storage, we'll work with object content and the configuration involved in setting up an alternative storage backend for Swift.

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Author (1)

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Dan Radez

Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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