Thanks for the tips. I'll keep you posted with any advance we make. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Chuck Thier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Javier, > > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Javier Fontan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> We recently had interest from some of our enterprise users to use >> Swift Object Store as the backend for the VM images. I have been >> researching on a possible integration with OpenNebula but I have some >> questions. >> >> AFAIK Swift is only Object Store and exposes the object through a REST >> interface. Is there any plan to add block storage support like Ceph so >> VMs can use the objects directly? >> > > There isn't currently any plans for this. At one time we considered > it, but decided that it would not be a good idea to build block > storage on top of Swift. > >> We would love to have the same users and permissions in both >> OpenNebula and Swift so the management is only done in one place. It >> seems that the "TempAuth" system is the way to go to perform this >> authentication. Is it going to be supported in the future or is it >> going to be dumped in favor of just Keystone? >> > > You should be able to write your own auth middleware that integrates > swift into the OpenNebula auth system. Docs are here: > > http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/development_auth.html > > You can also use TempAuth as an example to work from. > >> Are the object ACLs stored within Swift? Can I provide the object ACLs >> from the Auth subsystem (OpenNebula in this case)? I plan to map Swift >> objects to OpenNebula Images and they already have ACLs in place. >> > > Currently ACLs are at the container level in swift and not at the > object level. That said, for your specific use case, I think you > could implement the image ACLs in your auth middleware, but it has > been a while since I have looked at that code. > > -- > Chuck
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