Ceph Object Gateway Config Reference
The following settings may added to the Ceph configuration file (i.e., usually ceph.conf
) under the [client.radosgw.{instance-name}]
section. The settings may contain default values. If you do not specify each setting in the Ceph configuration file, the default value will be set automatically.
Configuration variables set under the [client.radosgw.{instance-name}]
section will not apply to rgw or radosgw-admin commands without an instance-name specified in the command. Thus variables meant to be applied to all RGW instances or all radosgw-admin commands can be put into the [global]
or the [client]
section to avoid specifying instance-name.
rgw frontends
Description
Configures the HTTP frontend(s). The configuration for multiple frontends can be provided in a comma-delimited list. Each frontend configuration may include a list of options separated by spaces, where each option is in the form “key=value” or “key”. See HTTP Frontends for more on supported options.
Type
String
Default
beast port=7480
rgw data
Description
Sets the location of the data files for Ceph Object Gateway.
Type
String
Default
/var/lib/ceph/radosgw/$cluster-$id
rgw enable apis
Description
Enables the specified APIs.
Note
Enabling the s3
API is a requirement for any radosgw instance that is meant to participate in a multi-site configuration.
Type
String
Default
s3, swift, swift_auth, admin
All APIs.
rgw cache enabled
Description
Whether the Ceph Object Gateway cache is enabled.
Type
Boolean
Default
true
rgw cache lru size
Description
The number of entries in the Ceph Object Gateway cache.
Type
Integer
Default
10000
rgw socket path
Description
The socket path for the domain socket. FastCgiExternalServer
uses this socket. If you do not specify a socket path, Ceph Object Gateway will not run as an external server. The path you specify here must be the same as the path specified in the rgw.conf
file.
Type
String
Default
N/A
rgw fcgi socket backlog
Description
The socket backlog for fcgi.
Type
Integer
Default
1024
rgw host
Description
The host for the Ceph Object Gateway instance. Can be an IP address or a hostname.
Type
String
Default
0.0.0.0
rgw port
Description
Port the instance listens for requests. If not specified, Ceph Object Gateway runs external FastCGI.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw dns name
Description
The DNS name of the served domain. See also the hostnames
setting within regions.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw script uri
Description
The alternative value for the SCRIPT_URI
if not set in the request.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw request uri
Description
The alternative value for the REQUEST_URI
if not set in the request.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw print continue
Description
Enable 100-continue
if it is operational.
Type
Boolean
Default
true
rgw remote addr param
Description
The remote address parameter. For example, the HTTP field containing the remote address, or the X-Forwarded-For
address if a reverse proxy is operational.
Type
String
Default
REMOTE_ADDR
rgw op thread timeout
Description
The timeout in seconds for open threads.
Type
Integer
Default
600
rgw op thread suicide timeout
Description
The time timeout
in seconds before a Ceph Object Gateway process dies. Disabled if set to 0
.
Type
Integer
Default
0
rgw thread pool size
Description
The size of the thread pool.
Type
Integer
Default
100 threads.
rgw num control oids
Description
The number of notification objects used for cache synchronization between different rgw
instances.
Type
Integer
Default
8
rgw init timeout
Description
The number of seconds before Ceph Object Gateway gives up on initialization.
Type
Integer
Default
30
rgw mime types file
Description
The path and location of the MIME types. Used for Swift auto-detection of object types.
Type
String
Default
/etc/mime.types
rgw s3 success create obj status
Description
The alternate success status response for create-obj
.
Type
Integer
Default
0
rgw resolve cname
Description
Whether rgw
should use DNS CNAME record of the request hostname field (if hostname is not equal to rgw dns name
).
Type
Boolean
Default
false
rgw obj stripe size
Description
The size of an object stripe for Ceph Object Gateway objects. See Architecture for details on striping.
Type
Integer
Default
4 << 20
rgw extended http attrs
Description
Add new set of attributes that could be set on an entity (user, bucket or object). These extra attributes can be set through HTTP header fields when putting the entity or modifying it using POST method. If set, these attributes will return as HTTP fields when doing GET/HEAD on the entity.
Type
String
Default
None
Example
“content_foo, content_bar, x-foo-bar”
rgw exit timeout secs
Description
Number of seconds to wait for a process before exiting unconditionally.
Type
Integer
Default
120
rgw get obj window size
Description
The window size in bytes for a single object request.
Type
Integer
Default
16 << 20
rgw get obj max req size
Description
The maximum request size of a single get operation sent to the Ceph Storage Cluster.
Type
Integer
Default
4 << 20
rgw relaxed s3 bucket names
Description
Enables relaxed S3 bucket names rules for US region buckets.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
rgw list buckets max chunk
Description
The maximum number of buckets to retrieve in a single operation when listing user buckets.
Type
Integer
Default
1000
rgw override bucket index max shards
Description
Represents the number of shards for the bucket index object, a value of zero indicates there is no sharding. It is not recommended to set a value too large (e.g. thousand) as it increases the cost for bucket listing. This variable should be set in the client or global sections so that it is automatically applied to radosgw-admin commands.
Type
Integer
Default
0
rgw curl wait timeout ms
Description
The timeout in milliseconds for certain curl
calls.
Type
Integer
Default
1000
rgw copy obj progress
Description
Enables output of object progress during long copy operations.
Type
Boolean
Default
true
rgw copy obj progress every bytes
Description
The minimum bytes between copy progress output.
Type
Integer
Default
1024 * 1024
rgw admin entry
Description
The entry point for an admin request URL.
Type
String
Default
admin
rgw content length compat
Description
Enable compatibility handling of FCGI requests with both CONTENT_LENGTH AND HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH set.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
rgw bucket quota ttl
Description
The amount of time in seconds cached quota information is trusted. After this timeout, the quota information will be re-fetched from the cluster.
Type
Integer
Default
600
rgw user quota bucket sync interval
Description
The amount of time in seconds bucket quota information is accumulated before syncing to the cluster. During this time, other RGW instances will not see the changes in bucket quota stats from operations on this instance.
Type
Integer
Default
180
rgw user quota sync interval
Description
The amount of time in seconds user quota information is accumulated before syncing to the cluster. During this time, other RGW instances will not see the changes in user quota stats from operations on this instance.
Type
Integer
Default
180
rgw bucket default quota max objects
Description
Default max number of objects per bucket. Set on new users, if no other quota is specified. Has no effect on existing users. This variable should be set in the client or global sections so that it is automatically applied to radosgw-admin commands.
Type
Integer
Default
-1
rgw bucket default quota max size
Description
Default max capacity per bucket, in bytes. Set on new users, if no other quota is specified. Has no effect on existing users.
Type
Integer
Default
-1
rgw user default quota max objects
Description
Default max number of objects for a user. This includes all objects in all buckets owned by the user. Set on new users, if no other quota is specified. Has no effect on existing users.
Type
Integer
Default
-1
rgw user default quota max size
Description
The value for user max size quota in bytes set on new users, if no other quota is specified. Has no effect on existing users.
Type
Integer
Default
-1
rgw verify ssl
Description
Verify SSL certificates while making requests.
Type
Boolean
Default
true
Lifecycle Settings
Bucket Lifecycle configuration can be used to manage your objects so they are stored effectively throughout their lifetime. In past releases Lifecycle processing was rate-limited by single threaded processing. With the Nautilus release this has been addressed and the Ceph Object Gateway now allows for parallel thread processing of bucket lifecycles across additional Ceph Object Gateway instances and replaces the in-order index shard enumeration with a random ordered sequence.
There are two options in particular to look at when looking to increase the aggressiveness of lifecycle processing:
rgw lc max worker
Description
This option specifies the number of lifecycle worker threads to run in parallel, thereby processing bucket and index shards simultaneously.
Type
Integer
Default
3
rgw lc max wp worker
Description
This option specifies the number of threads in each lifecycle workers work pool. This option can help accelerate processing each bucket.
These values can be tuned based upon your specific workload to further increase the aggressiveness of lifecycle processing. For a workload with a larger number of buckets (thousands) you would look at increasing the rgw lc max worker
value from the default value of 3 whereas a workload with a smaller number of buckets but higher number of objects (hundreds of thousands) per bucket you would look at tuning rgw lc max wp worker
from the default value of 3.
NOTE
When looking to tune either of these specific values please validate the current Cluster performance and Ceph Object Gateway utilization before increasing.
Garbage Collection Settings
The Ceph Object Gateway allocates storage for new objects immediately.
The Ceph Object Gateway purges the storage space used for deleted and overwritten objects in the Ceph Storage cluster some time after the gateway deletes the objects from the bucket index. The process of purging the deleted object data from the Ceph Storage cluster is known as Garbage Collection or GC.
To view the queue of objects awaiting garbage collection, execute the following:
$ radosgw-admin gc list
Note: specify --include-all to list all entries, including unexpired
Garbage collection is a background activity that may execute continuously or during times of low loads, depending upon how the administrator configures the Ceph Object Gateway. By default, the Ceph Object Gateway conducts GC operations continuously. Since GC operations are a normal part of Ceph Object Gateway operations, especially with object delete operations, objects eligible for garbage collection exist most of the time.
Some workloads may temporarily or permanently outpace the rate of garbage collection activity. This is especially true of delete-heavy workloads, where many objects get stored for a short period of time and then deleted. For these types of workloads, administrators can increase the priority of garbage collection operations relative to other operations with the following configuration parameters.
rgw gc max objs
Description
The maximum number of objects that may be handled by garbage collection in one garbage collection processing cycle. Please do not change this value after the first deployment.
Type
Integer
Default
32
rgw gc obj min wait
Description
The minimum wait time before a deleted object may be removed and handled by garbage collection processing.
Type
Integer
Default
2 * 3600
rgw gc processor max time
Description
The maximum time between the beginning of two consecutive garbage collection processing cycles.
Type
Integer
Default
3600
rgw gc processor period
Description
The cycle time for garbage collection processing.
Type
Integer
Default
3600
rgw gc max concurrent io
Description
The maximum number of concurrent IO operations that the RGW garbage collection thread will use when purging old data.
Type
Integer
Default
10
Tuning Garbage Collection for Delete Heavy Workloads
As an initial step towards tuning Ceph Garbage Collection to be more aggressive the following options are suggested to be increased from their default configuration values:
rgw gc max concurrent io = 20
rgw gc max trim chunk = 64
NOTE
Modifying these values requires a restart of the RGW service.
Once these values have been increased from default please monitor for performance of the cluster during Garbage Collection to verify no adverse performance issues due to the increased values.
Multisite Settings
New in version Jewel.
You may include the following settings in your Ceph configuration file under each [client.radosgw.{instance-name}]
instance.
rgw zone
Description
The name of the zone for the gateway instance. If no zone is set, a cluster-wide default can be configured with the command radosgw-admin zone default
.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw zonegroup
Description
The name of the zonegroup for the gateway instance. If no zonegroup is set, a cluster-wide default can be configured with the command radosgw-admin zonegroup default
.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw realm
Description
The name of the realm for the gateway instance. If no realm is set, a cluster-wide default can be configured with the command radosgw-admin realm default
.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw run sync thread
Description
If there are other zones in the realm to sync from, spawn threads to handle the sync of data and metadata.
Type
Boolean
Default
true
rgw data log window
Description
The data log entries window in seconds.
Type
Integer
Default
30
rgw data log changes size
Description
The number of in-memory entries to hold for the data changes log.
Type
Integer
Default
1000
rgw data log obj prefix
Description
The object name prefix for the data log.
Type
String
Default
data_log
rgw data log num shards
Description
The number of shards (objects) on which to keep the data changes log.
Type
Integer
Default
128
rgw md log max shards
Description
The maximum number of shards for the metadata log.
Type
Integer
Default
64
Important
The values of rgw data log num shards
and rgw md log max shards
should not be changed after sync has started.
S3 Settings
rgw s3 auth use ldap
Description
Should S3 authentication use LDAP.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
Swift Settings
rgw enforce swift acls
Description
Enforces the Swift Access Control List (ACL) settings.
Type
Boolean
Default
true
rgw swift token expiration
Description
The time in seconds for expiring a Swift token.
Type
Integer
Default
24 * 3600
rgw swift url
Description
The URL for the Ceph Object Gateway Swift API.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw swift url prefix
Description
The URL prefix for the Swift API, to distinguish it from the S3 API endpoint. The default is swift
, which makes the Swift API available at the URL http://host:port/swift/v1
(or http://host:port/swift/v1/AUTH_%(tenant_id)s
if rgw swift account in url
is enabled).
For compatibility, setting this configuration variable to the empty string causes the default swift
to be used; if you do want an empty prefix, set this option to /
.
Warning
If you set this option to /
, you must disable the S3 API by modifying rgw enable apis
to exclude s3
. It is not possible to operate radosgw with rgw swift url prefix = /
and simultaneously support both the S3 and Swift APIs. If you do need to support both APIs without prefixes, deploy multiple radosgw instances to listen on different hosts (or ports) instead, enabling some for S3 and some for Swift.
Default
swift
Example
“/swift-testing”
rgw swift auth url
Description
Default URL for verifying v1 auth tokens (if not using internal Swift auth).
Type
String
Default
None
rgw swift auth entry
Description
The entry point for a Swift auth URL.
Type
String
Default
auth
rgw swift account in url
Description
Whether or not the Swift account name should be included in the Swift API URL.
If set to false
(the default), then the Swift API will listen on a URL formed like http://host:port/<rgw_swift_url_prefix>/v1
, and the account name (commonly a Keystone project UUID if radosgw is configured with Keystone integration) will be inferred from request headers.
If set to true
, the Swift API URL will be http://host:port/<rgw_swift_url_prefix>/v1/AUTH_<account_name>
(or http://host:port/<rgw_swift_url_prefix>/v1/AUTH_<keystone_project_id>
) instead, and the Keystone object-store
endpoint must accordingly be configured to include the AUTH_%(tenant_id)s
suffix.
You must set this option to true
(and update the Keystone service catalog) if you want radosgw to support publicly-readable containers and temporary URLs.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
rgw swift versioning enabled
Description
Enables the Object Versioning of OpenStack Object Storage API. This allows clients to put the X-Versions-Location
attribute on containers that should be versioned. The attribute specifies the name of container storing archived versions. It must be owned by the same user that the versioned container due to access control verification - ACLs are NOT taken into consideration. Those containers cannot be versioned by the S3 object versioning mechanism.
A slightly different attribute, X-History-Location
, which is also understood by OpenStack Swift for handling DELETE
operations, is currently not supported.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
rgw trust forwarded https
Description
When a proxy in front of radosgw is used for ssl termination, radosgw does not know whether incoming http connections are secure. Enable this option to trust the Forwarded
and X-Forwarded-Proto
headers sent by the proxy when determining whether the connection is secure. This is required for some features, such as server side encryption. (Never enable this setting if you do not have a trusted proxy in front of radosgw, or else malicious users will be able to set these headers in any request.)
Type
Boolean
Default
false
Logging Settings
rgw log nonexistent bucket
Description
Enables Ceph Object Gateway to log a request for a non-existent bucket.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
rgw log object name
Description
The logging format for an object name. See manpage date for details about format specifiers.
Type
Date
Default
%Y-%m-%d-%H-%i-%n
rgw log object name utc
Description
Whether a logged object name includes a UTC time. If false
, it uses the local time.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
rgw usage max shards
Description
The maximum number of shards for usage logging.
Type
Integer
Default
32
rgw usage max user shards
Description
The maximum number of shards used for a single user’s usage logging.
Type
Integer
Default
1
rgw enable ops log
Description
Enable logging for each successful Ceph Object Gateway operation.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
rgw enable usage log
Description
Enable the usage log.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
rgw ops log rados
Description
Whether the operations log should be written to the Ceph Storage Cluster backend.
Type
Boolean
Default
true
rgw ops log socket path
Description
The Unix domain socket for writing operations logs.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw ops log data backlog
Description
The maximum data backlog data size for operations logs written to a Unix domain socket.
Type
Integer
Default
5 << 20
rgw usage log flush threshold
Description
The number of dirty merged entries in the usage log before flushing synchronously.
Type
Integer
Default
1024
rgw usage log tick interval
Description
Flush pending usage log data every n
seconds.
Type
Integer
Default
30
rgw log http headers
Description
Comma-delimited list of HTTP headers to include with ops log entries. Header names are case insensitive, and use the full header name with words separated by underscores.
Type
String
Default
None
Example
“http_x_forwarded_for, http_x_special_k”
rgw intent log object name
Description
The logging format for the intent log object name. See manpage date for details about format specifiers.
Type
Date
Default
%Y-%m-%d-%i-%n
rgw intent log object name utc
Description
Whether the intent log object name includes a UTC time. If false
, it uses the local time.
Type
Boolean
Default
false
Keystone Settings
rgw keystone url
Description
The URL for the Keystone server.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone api version
Description
The version (2 or 3) of OpenStack Identity API that should be used for communication with the Keystone server.
Type
Integer
Default
2
rgw keystone admin domain
Description
The name of OpenStack domain with admin privilege when using OpenStack Identity API v3.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone admin project
Description
The name of OpenStack project with admin privilege when using OpenStack Identity API v3. If left unspecified, value of rgw keystone admin tenant
will be used instead.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone admin token
Description
The Keystone admin token (shared secret). In Ceph RadosGW authentication with the admin token has priority over authentication with the admin credentials (rgw keystone admin user
, rgw keystone admin password
, rgw keystone admin tenant
, rgw keystone admin project
, rgw keystone admin domain
). The Keystone admin token has been deprecated, but can be used to integrate with older environments. Prefer rgw keystone admin token path
to avoid exposing the token.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone admin token path
Description
Path to a file containing the Keystone admin token (shared secret). In Ceph RadosGW authentication with the admin token has priority over authentication with the admin credentials (rgw keystone admin user
, rgw keystone admin password
, rgw keystone admin tenant
, rgw keystone admin project
, rgw keystone admin domain
). The Keystone admin token has been deprecated, but can be used to integrate with older environments.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone admin tenant
Description
The name of OpenStack tenant with admin privilege (Service Tenant) when using OpenStack Identity API v2
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone admin user
Description
The name of OpenStack user with admin privilege for Keystone authentication (Service User) when OpenStack Identity API v2
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone admin password
Description
The password for OpenStack admin user when using OpenStack Identity API v2. Prefer rgw keystone admin password path
to avoid exposing the token.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone admin password path
Description
Path to a file containing the password for OpenStack admin user when using OpenStack Identity API v2.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone accepted roles
Description
The roles requires to serve requests.
Type
String
Default
Member, admin
rgw keystone token cache size
Description
The maximum number of entries in each Keystone token cache.
Type
Integer
Default
10000
rgw keystone revocation interval
Description
The number of seconds between token revocation checks.
Type
Integer
Default
15 * 60
rgw keystone verify ssl
Description
Verify SSL certificates while making token requests to keystone.
Type
Boolean
Default
true
Server-side encryption Settings
rgw crypt s3 kms backend
Description
Where the SSE-KMS encryption keys are stored. Supported KMS systems are OpenStack Barbican (barbican
, the default) and HashiCorp Vault (vault
).
Type
String
Default
None
Barbican Settings
rgw barbican url
Description
The URL for the Barbican server.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone barbican user
Description
The name of the OpenStack user with access to the Barbican secrets used for Encryption.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone barbican password
Description
The password associated with the Barbican user.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone barbican tenant
Description
The name of the OpenStack tenant associated with the Barbican user when using OpenStack Identity API v2.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone barbican project
Description
The name of the OpenStack project associated with the Barbican user when using OpenStack Identity API v3.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw keystone barbican domain
Description
The name of the OpenStack domain associated with the Barbican user when using OpenStack Identity API v3.
Type
String
Default
None
HashiCorp Vault Settings
rgw crypt vault auth
Description
Type of authentication method to be used. The only method currently supported is token
.
Type
String
Default
token
rgw crypt vault token file
Description
If authentication method is token
, provide a path to the token file, which should be readable only by Rados Gateway.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw crypt vault addr
Description
Vault server base address, e.g. http://vaultserver:8200
.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw crypt vault prefix
Description
The Vault secret URL prefix, which can be used to restrict access to a particular subset of the secret space, e.g. /v1/secret/data
.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw crypt vault secret engine
Description
Vault Secret Engine to be used to retrieve encryption keys: choose between kv-v2, transit.
Type
String
Default
None
rgw crypt vault namespace
Description
If set, Vault Namespace provides tenant isolation for teams and individuals on the same Vault Enterprise instance, e.g. acme/tenant1
Type
String
Default
None
QoS settings
New in version Nautilus.
The civetweb
frontend has a threading model that uses a thread per connection and hence automatically throttled by rgw thread pool size
configurable when it comes to accepting connections. The beast
frontend is not restricted by the thread pool size when it comes to accepting new connections, so a scheduler abstraction is introduced in Nautilus release which for supporting ways for scheduling requests in the future.
Currently the scheduler defaults to a throttler which throttles the active connections to a configured limit. QoS based on mClock is currently in an experimental phase and not recommended for production yet. Current implementation of dmclock_client op queue divides RGW Ops on admin, auth (swift auth, sts) metadata & data requests.
rgw max concurrent requests
Description
Maximum number of concurrent HTTP requests that the beast frontend will process. Tuning this can help to limit memory usage under heavy load.
Type
Integer
Default
1024
rgw scheduler type
Description
The type of RGW Scheduler to use. Valid values are throttler, dmclock. Currently defaults to throttler which throttles beast frontend requests. dmclock is experimental and will need the experimental flag set
The options below are to tune the experimental dmclock scheduler. For some further reading on dmclock, see QoS Based on mClock. op_class for the flags below is one of admin, auth, metadata or data.
rgw_dmclock_<op_class>_res
Description
The mclock reservation for op_class requests
Type
float
Default
100.0
rgw_dmclock_<op_class>_wgt
Description
The mclock weight for op_class requests
Type
float
Default
1.0
rgw_dmclock_<op_class>_lim
Description
The mclock limit for op_class requests
Type
float
Default
0.0