Introduction to ProxyFS – Integrated multi-cloud filesystem in OpenStack Swift

Critical to migrating workloads to cloud-native architectures and the public cloud, is providing storage compatibility between file-based applications and cloud-native applications. How can filesystem-based applications interface with cloud-native applications? How can filesystem-based application leverage public/private-cloud infrastructure? ProxyFS is an open-source filesystem integrated into OpenStack Swift to solve this problem. ProxyFS enables simultaneous object (S3 and Swift) and filesyst