# Associated Projects

## Application Bindings

- OpenStack supported binding:

  - Python-SwiftClient

- Unofficial libraries and bindings:

  - PHP

    - PHP-opencloud - Official Rackspace PHP bindings that should work for other Swift deployments too.

  - Ruby

    - swift_client - Small but powerful Ruby client to interact with OpenStack Swift

    - nightcrawler_swift - This Ruby gem teleports your assets to an OpenStack Swift bucket/container

    - swift storage - Simple OpenStack Swift storage client.

  - Java

    - libcloud - Apache Libcloud - a unified interface in Python for different clouds with OpenStack Swift support.

    - jclouds - Java library offering bindings for all OpenStack projects

    - java-openstack-swift - Java bindings for OpenStack Swift

    - javaswift - Collection of Java tools for Swift

  - Bash

    - supload - Bash script to upload file to cloud storage based on OpenStack Swift API.

  - .NET

    - openstacknetsdk.org - An OpenStack Cloud SDK for Microsoft .NET.

  - Go

    - Go language bindings

    - Gophercloud an OpenStack SDK for Go

## Authentication

- Keystone - Official Identity Service for OpenStack.

- Swauth - RETIRED: 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

- ProxyFS - Integrated file and object access for Swift object storage

- 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

## 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-scality-backend - Scality sproxyd object server implementation for Swift.

## Developer Tools

- SAIO bash scripts - Well commented simple bash scripts for Swift all in one setup.

- 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).

- Multi Swift - Bash scripts to spin up multiple Swift clusters sharing the same hardware

## Other

- Glance - Provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images (for OpenStack Compute [Nova], for example).

- 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

- swiftbackmeup - Utility that allows one to create backups and upload them to OpenStack Swift

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