• Setuptools
• Fabric (if not present it will pull it down with any other dependencies)

• The Admin/Controller system must have a user (e.g:swiftops) with ssh-key access to all nodes in the cluster & sudo privileges

• There are several scripts under the contrib folder that could be helpful

Download the code into your local machine

git clone git://github.com/btorch/swift-setup.git

cd swift-setup && python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local

Once the installation is completed you will have several files under /etc/swift-setup folder

• swift-setup.conf-sample

  The sample configuration file, change what you see fit and rename it to swift-setup.conf

• hosts/

  Location of files that contains the swift hostnames, much like a DSH groups. You MUST set this up if you will be deploying servers in groups

• templates/

  Contains all the files that will be loaded into the admin system git server repo. If you have extra files that would like to be pushed to the admin system on the initial git repo setup please include them here on the approrite location.

• templates/common

  Files common to all swift systems (admin, proxy, storage, generic, saio)

• templates/admin

  Files that should only be on an swift admin node

• templates/proxy

  Files for a swift proxy node

• templates/storage

  Files for a swift storage node

• Initialize the templates

  sudo swift-setup init

• Deploy systems (see swift-setup deploy --help)

  swift-setup deploy -H admin1.swift -t admin

  swift-setup deploy -g proxy-zone1 -t proxy

  swift-setup deploy -g storage-zone1 -t storage

  ....

• Setup the storage drives (create partition, filesystem, fstab and mount)