[Openstack] [Swift] Allowing clients to write to separate regions

Kuo Hugo tonytkdk at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 03:13:00 UTC 2014


Do you plan to have two keystone servers in each region or single keystone
server for both east/west coast Swift proxy?

1. Geo-DNS + single Swift region endpoint in keystone
2. Geo-DNS for Keystone servers and each Keystone server returns the local
Swift endpoint.
3. Let user to switch which region of Swift endpoint would they like to
use.


Hope it help


2014-06-24 8:38 GMT+08:00 Shrinand Javadekar <shrinand at maginatics.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to understand the notion of "regions" in Swift. To start
> with, it's kinda confusing that the notion of "region" in Keystone is
> not exactly the same as that of Swift. So I could authenticate with
> Keystone, get a Swift endpoint for a region (Keystone's notion of a
> region) and write/read data. That could then possibly translate to
> data writes/reads from another region (Swift's notion of a region).
>
> So, as per the example in [1], let's say I have two regions: SF and
> NYC. I would like the have clients write to the most local region. How
> do I achieve this? I am *not* looking to use container-sync.
>
> I had a quick word about this on the #openstack-swift irc channel.
> Asking over email for better clarity and more details. I believe the
> way to go about this would be:
>
> (1) Have two Swift proxy servers in each region. Configure DNS such
> that the domain name of the Swift proxy server resolves to the
> "closest" node.
>
> Each of these proxy servers will be configured with read/write
> affinity to object servers in its region.
>
> This is great because it means I only have to use one endpoint.
>
> (2) Have two Swift proxy servers in each region with separate IPs.
> Inform clients about the closest endpoints and let clients write to
> the correct proxy servers. If they make a mistake, data can still get
> written to the in-correct node.
>
> Any other way? Is there a way to query the available regions (say a
> latency test) and use the one which is fastest to reach?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> -Shri
>
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