swift-account-server(1)

✨ swift-account-server(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the OpenStack Swift corner of the manual-verse 💖 this is the page for swift-account-server, and it lives in section 1 of the manual, under the big OpenStack Swift umbrella. sit down, grab a lil snack 🍓, we're gonna read it together.

🎀 NAME 🎀

swift-account-server — the OpenStack Swift account server, no cap 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

swift-account-server [CONFIG] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea ☕ the Account Server's whole entire main character job is handling listings of containers. that's it, that's the vibe.

those listings? they're stored as sqlite database files 🗂️ and they get replicated across the cluster — literally the same way objects are replicated. so if you already get how object replication works, you already get this. iykyk 😌

💜 DOCUMENTATION 💜

want the deep lore? the more in-depth docs about swift-account-server — and honestly about OpenStack Swift as a whole — are right here, go be obsessed:

• https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/
• https://docs.openstack.org

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• account-server.conf(5) — the config page, your bestie for actual settings 🫶

this page shipped from Linux, dated 8/26/2011, bestie — vintage icon behavior honestly, it ate and left no crumbs 💀✨ that's the whole page, periodt 💅🌈