[Gluster-users] Minio as object storage

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

2016-09-28 18:16 GMT+02:00 John Mark Walker <johnmark at johnmark.org>:
> No - gluster-swift adds the swift API on top of GlusterFS. It doesn't
> require Swift itself.
>
> This project is 4 years old now - how do people not know this?

gluster-switft is obsolete.
The "proper" way to use the object storage is with Swift:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/3.1/html/Administration_Guide/chap-Managing_Object_Store.html
"Object Store technology is built upon OpenStack Swift. OpenStack
Swift allows users to store and retrieve files and content through a
simple Web Service REST (Representational State Transfer) interface as
objects. Red Hat Gluster Storage uses glusterFS as a back-end file
system for OpenStack Swift."

and you need the whole Swift stack from OpenStack:

# rpm -qa | grep swift
openstack-swift-container-1.13.1-6.el7ost.noarch
openstack-swift-object-1.13.1-6.el7ost.noarch
swiftonfile-1.13.1-6.el7rhgs.noarch
openstack-swift-proxy-1.13.1-6.el7ost.noarch
openstack-swift-doc-1.13.1-6.el7ost.noarch
openstack-swift-1.13.1-6.el7ost.noarch
openstack-swift-account-1.13.1-6.el7ost.noarch


but as wrote by Ben, there are too many moving parts to get that working.