[Openstack] [Swift] Question regarding global scaling

Richard Raseley richard at raseley.com
Fri Feb 14 23:59:28 UTC 2014


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Adam Lawson <alawson at aqorn.com> wrote:

> Hola peoples.
>
> I'm working on a general purpose Swift deployment that needs to scale
> globally. For example, nodes in West Coast, East Coast, EU and APAC. We
> have a Swift PoC cluster that spans West Coast and EU and it works fine,
> replicating using zones for now.
>
> For those who are scaling to that degree, are you building multiple unique
> clusters and replicating between them somehow or using regions and
> replicating within essentially one giant cluster and using affinity rules
> like read_affinity and write_affinity*?
>

Utilizing the region capability of Swift is a good option depending on your
use case (I've used a region-based configuration in one production
deployment). Can you talk more about your data structure / access patterns
in order to help myself (and others) give better advice?


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