I don't plan to use Keystone at all. On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Kuo Hugo <tonyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <shrin...@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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org >> Unsubscribe : >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > >
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