Associated Projects

Application Bindings

• OpenStack supported binding:

  • Python-SwiftClient

• Unofficial libraries and bindings:

  • PHP

    • PHP-opencloud - Official Rackspace PHP bindings that should work for other Swift deployments too.

  • Ruby

    • swift_client - Small but powerful Ruby client to interact with OpenStack Swift

    • nightcrawler_swift - This Ruby gem teleports your assets to an OpenStack Swift bucket/container

    • swift storage - Simple OpenStack Swift storage client.

  • Java

    • libcloud - Apache Libcloud - a unified interface in Python for different clouds with OpenStack Swift support.

    • jclouds - Java library offering bindings for all OpenStack projects

    • java-openstack-swift - Java bindings for OpenStack Swift

    • javaswift - Collection of Java tools for Swift

  • Bash

    • supload - Bash script to upload file to cloud storage based on OpenStack Swift API.

  • .NET

    • openstacknetsdk.org - An OpenStack Cloud SDK for Microsoft .NET.

  • Go

    • Go language bindings

    • Gophercloud an OpenStack SDK for Go

Authentication

• Keystone - Official Identity Service for OpenStack.

• Swauth - RETIRED: An alternative Swift authentication service that only requires Swift itself.

• Basicauth - HTTP Basic authentication support (keystone backed).

Command Line Access

• Swiftly - Alternate command line access to Swift with direct (no proxy) access capabilities as well.

Log Processing

• slogging - Basic stats and logging tools.

Monitoring & Statistics

• Swift Informant - Swift proxy Middleware to send events to a statsd instance.

• Swift Inspector - Swift middleware to relay information about a request back to the client.

Content Distribution Network Integration

• SOS - Swift Origin Server.

Alternative API

• ProxyFS - Integrated file and object access for Swift object storage

• SwiftHLM - a middleware for using OpenStack Swift with tape and other high latency media storage backends.

Benchmarking/Load Generators

• getput - getput tool suite

• COSbench - COSbench tool suite

Custom Logger Hooks

• swift-sentry - Sentry exception reporting for Swift

Storage Backends (DiskFile API implementations)

• Swift-on-File - Enables objects created using Swift API to be accessed as files on a POSIX filesystem and vice versa.

• swift-scality-backend - Scality sproxyd object server implementation for Swift.

Developer Tools

• SAIO bash scripts - Well commented simple bash scripts for Swift all in one setup.

• vagrant-swift-all-in-one - Quickly setup a standard development environment using Vagrant and Chef cookbooks in an Ubuntu virtual machine.

• SAIO Ansible playbook - Quickly setup a standard development environment using Vagrant and Ansible in a Fedora virtual machine (with built-in Swift-on-File support).

• Multi Swift - Bash scripts to spin up multiple Swift clusters sharing the same hardware

Other

• Glance - Provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images (for OpenStack Compute [Nova], for example).

• Django Swiftbrowser - Simple Django web app to access OpenStack Swift.

• Swift-account-stats - Swift-account-stats is a tool to report statistics on Swift usage at tenant and global levels.

• PyECLib - High-level erasure code library used by Swift

• liberasurecode - Low-level erasure code library used by PyECLib

• Swift Browser - JavaScript interface for Swift

• swift-ui - OpenStack Swift web browser

• swiftbackmeup - Utility that allows one to create backups and upload them to OpenStack Swift