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ObjectScale appliance is deployed on a set of qualified industry standard hardware or as a turnkey storage appliance. The main components of ObjectScale appliance are the:
Buckets are object containers that are used to control access to objects. A bucket is associated with ObjectScale instances, the object store and account, or tenant. In ObjectScale, buckets are limited to S3 only.
In ObjectScale, Kubernetes provides the connective glue between physical infrastructure, such as disk and network, and the application services running in containers. ObjectScale uses Kubernetes' efficient resource-management capabilities and relies on Kubernetes to manage operating-system and hardware interaction.
Note: The current ObjectScale appliance uses the ObjectScale 1.3 software package which supports only one object store in ObjectScale instance.
The following figure shows a graphical view of these layers which are described in detail in the sections that follow.
Note: See Dell ObjectScale overview and architecture for more information about ObjectScale architecture.