openstack/swift

Tim Burke 7367907c58 Drop py2 support

* Remove py2 gate jobs.
* Build non-universal, py3-only wheels.
* Specify minimum python version in package metadata.
* Clean up requirements/constraints/bindep (a little, anyway).

Change-Id: I53153c4fde043e964e1daa7bbf2089e0471dede2

2024-12-20 09:11:14 -08:00

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Getting Started

System Requirements

Swift development currently targets Ubuntu Server 22.04, but should work on most Linux platforms.

Swift is written in Python and has these dependencies:

Python (3.6-3.12)
rsync 3.x
liberasurecode
The Python packages listed in the requirements file
Testing additionally requires the test dependencies
Testing requires these distribution packages

Development

To get started with development with Swift, or to just play around, the following docs will be useful:

Swift All in One <development_saio> - Set up a VM with Swift installed
Development Guidelines <development_guidelines>
First Contribution to Swift <first_contribution_swift>
Associated Projects <associated_projects>

CLI client and SDK library

There are many clients in the ecosystem <application-bindings>. The official CLI and SDK is python-swiftclient.

Production

If you want to set up and configure Swift for a production cluster, the following doc should be useful:

install/index