Description of configuration options for swift
Configuration option = Default value Description
[DEFAULT]
swift_enable_snet = False (BoolOpt) Whether to use ServiceNET to communicate with the Swift storage servers.
swift_store_admin_tenants = (ListOpt) A list of tenants that will be granted read/write access on all Swift containers created by Glance in multi-tenant mode.
swift_store_auth_address = None (StrOpt) The address where the Swift authentication service is listening.(deprecated)
swift_store_auth_insecure = False (BoolOpt) If True, swiftclient won't check for a valid SSL certificate when authenticating.
swift_store_auth_version = 2 (StrOpt) Version of the authentication service to use. Valid versions are 2 for keystone and 1 for swauth and rackspace. (deprecated)
swift_store_config_file = None (StrOpt) The config file that has the swift account(s)configs.
swift_store_container = glance (StrOpt) Container within the account that the account should use for storing images in Swift.
swift_store_create_container_on_put = False (BoolOpt) A boolean value that determines if we create the container if it does not exist.
swift_store_endpoint_type = publicURL (StrOpt) A string giving the endpoint type of the swift service to use (publicURL, adminURL or internalURL). This setting is only used if swift_store_auth_version is 2.
swift_store_key = None (StrOpt) Auth key for the user authenticating against the Swift authentication service. (deprecated)
swift_store_large_object_chunk_size = 200 (IntOpt) The amount of data written to a temporary disk buffer during the process of chunking the image file.
swift_store_large_object_size = 5120 (IntOpt) The size, in MB, that Glance will start chunking image files and do a large object manifest in Swift.
swift_store_multi_tenant = False (BoolOpt) If set to True, enables multi-tenant storage mode which causes Glance images to be stored in tenant specific Swift accounts.
swift_store_region = None (StrOpt) The region of the swift endpoint to be used for single tenant. This setting is only necessary if the tenant has multiple swift endpoints.
swift_store_retry_get_count = 0 (IntOpt) The number of times a Swift download will be retried before the request fails.
swift_store_service_type = object-store (StrOpt) A string giving the service type of the swift service to use. This setting is only used if swift_store_auth_version is 2.
swift_store_ssl_compression = True (BoolOpt) If set to False, disables SSL layer compression of https swift requests. Setting to False may improve performance for images which are already in a compressed format, eg qcow2.
swift_store_user = None (StrOpt) The user to authenticate against the Swift authentication service (deprecated)