Swift (object storage) notes

FUEL currently supports several ways to deploy the swift service:

Swift absent

By default, Glance uses the filesystem backend to store virtual machine images. In this case, you can use any of shared file systems Glance supports.
Swift compact

In this mode the role of swift-storage and swift-proxy are combined with a nova-controller. Use it only for testing in order to save nodes; it's not suitable for production.
Swift standalone

In this case the Proxy service and Storage (account/container/object) services reside on separate nodes, with one proxy node and a minimum of three storage nodes. (For a production cluster, a minimum of five nodes is recommended.)

Now let's look at performing an actual OpenStack installation using Fuel.