Associated Projects

Application Bindings

• OpenStack supported binding:

  • Python-SwiftClient

• Unofficial libraries and bindings:

  • PHP-opencloud - Official Rackspace PHP bindings that should work for other Swift deployments too.
  • PyRAX - Official Rackspace Python bindings for CloudFiles that should work for other Swift deployments too.
  • openstack.net - Official Rackspace .NET bindings that should work for other Swift deployments too.
  • RSwift - R API bindings.
  • Go language bindings
  • supload - Bash script to upload file to cloud storage based on OpenStack Swift API.
  • libcloud - Apache Libcloud - a unified interface in Python for different clouds with OpenStack Swift support.
  • SwiftBox - C# library using RestSharp
  • jclouds - Java library offering bindings for all OpenStack projects
  • java-openstack-swift - Java bindings for OpenStack Swift
  • swift_client - Small but powerful Ruby client to interact with OpenStack Swift
  • nightcrawler_swift - This Ruby gem teleports your assets to a OpenStack Swift bucket/container
  • swift storage - Simple OpenStack Swift storage client.
  • javaswift - Collection of Java tools for Swift

Authentication

• Keystone - Official Identity Service for OpenStack.
• Swauth - 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

• Swift3 - Amazon S3 API emulation.
• CDMI - CDMI support
• 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
• ssbench - ssbench 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-ceph-backend - Ceph RADOS object server implementation for Swift.
• kinetic-swift - Seagate Kinetic Drive as backend for Swift
• swift-scality-backend - Scality sproxyd object server implementation for Swift.

Developer Tools

• 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).

Other

• Glance - Provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images (for OpenStack Compute [Nova], for example).
• Better Staticweb - Makes swift containers accessible by default.
• 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
• Swift Durability Calculator - Data Durability Calculation Tool for Swift
• swiftbackmeup - Utility that allows one to create backups and upload them to OpenStack Swift