[Openstack-operators] Rados Gateway to Swift migration

Xav Paice xavpaice at gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 19:12:14 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 07:19 -0400, George Mihaiescu wrote:
> Hi Xav,
> 
> We are trying to get usage metrics for radosgw as well for internal cost recovery. Can you please share how far you got in that process and what it was missing?
> 

To be honest, we didn't get very far and that's one of the reasons for
using Swift instead.  There were limitations with permissions that we
found very difficult to get around, without having a data collection
user added to each and every project.

> Thank you,
> George
> 
> > On Oct 5, 2016, at 1:57 AM, Xav Paice <xavpaice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 15:42 +1100, Blair Bethwaite wrote:
> >> Nice! But I'm curious, why the need to migrate?
> > 
> > Hmm.  I want to be diplomatic since both are great for their thing.
> > 
> > For us, the main reason was simply that we wanted replication of the
> > object storage between regions (we started the process before that was a
> > feature in RGW), but also being a public cloud we also wanted to be able
> > to bill customers for their usage, and we were finding that incredibly
> > difficult with Rados Gateway in comparison to Swift.
> > 
> > That, and we found customers were using RGW as a backup, and that's on
> > the same storage back end as our Cinder and Glance - moving to a
> > different platform makes it separate.
> > 
> > There's a few other features in Swift that aren't in RGW, and we have
> > customers asking for them, which really matters a lot to us.
> > 
> > There's pros and cons for both, I don't regret us using RGW but it just
> > doesn't suit our needs right now.
> > 
> > 
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