Glossary
- Manila
- OpenStack project to provide “Shared Filesystems as a service”.
- manila-api
- Service that provides a stable RESTful API.
The service authenticates and routes requests throughout the Shared Filesystem service.
There is python-manilaclient to interact with the API.
- python-manilaclient
- Command line interface to interact with Manila via manila-api and also a
Python module to interact programmatically with Manila.
- manila-scheduler
- Responsible for scheduling/routing requests to the appropriate manila-share service.
It does that by picking one back-end while filtering all except one back-end.
- manila-share
- Responsible for managing Shared File Service devices, specifically the back-end devices.