Keystone Federated Swift – Multi-region cluster, multiple federation, access same account

Welcome to the final post in the series, it has been a long time coming. If required/requested I’m happy to delve into any of these topics deeper, but I’ll attempt to explain the situation, the best approach to take and how I got a POC working, which I am calling…

Setting up a basic keystone for Swift + Keystone dev work

As a Swift developer, most of the development works in a Swift All In One (SAIO) environment. This environment simulates a mulinode swift cluster on one box. All the SAIO documentation points to using tempauth for authentication. Why? Because most the time authentication isn’t the things we are working on.…

Swift Container sharding – locked db POC – Benchmarking observations

The latest POC is at the benchmarking stage, and in the most part it’s going well. I have set up 2 clusters in the cloud, not huge, but 2 proxies and 4 storage nodes each. A benchmarking run involves pointing an ssbench master at each cluster and putting each cluster…

Adventures in Container Sharding – SQLite performance problem and the pivot point.

Hey world it’s been a while, turns out I’m not much of a blogger. But I know how useful for myself it is to do write-ups occasionally so I can actually find them later.. having said that. In my last post I mentioned I was an OpenStack Developer.. and it’s…