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Chapter 1. Overview

Designed for cloud infrastructures and web-scale object storage, Red Hat® Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that combines the most stable version of Ceph with a Ceph management platform, deployment tools, and support services. Providing the tools to flexibly and cost-effectively manage petabyte-scale data deployments in the enterprise, Red Hat Ceph Storage manages cloud data so enterprises can focus on managing their businesses.

Ceph Object Gateway is an object storage interface built on top of librados to provide applications with a RESTful gateway to Ceph Storage Clusters. Ceph Object Storage supports two interfaces:

  1. S3-compatible: Provides object storage functionality with an interface that is compatible with a large subset of the Amazon S3 RESTful API.
  2. Swift-compatible: Provides object storage functionality with an interface that is compatible with a large subset of the OpenStack Swift API.

Ceph Object Storage uses the Ceph Object Gateway daemon (radosgw), which is a server for interacting with a Ceph Storage Cluster. Since it provides interfaces compatible with OpenStack Swift and Amazon S3, the Ceph Object Gateway has its own user management. Ceph Object Gateway can store data in the same Ceph Storage Cluster used to store data from Ceph Block Device clients; however, you will use separate pools. The S3 and Swift APIs share a common namespace, so you may write data with one API and retrieve it with the other.

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