Tutorial: Installing Swift on NixOS Latest

Swift is a highly available, distributed, and eventually consistent object/blob store. It is open source and part of the OpenStack project. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Swift on NixOS Latest.

Step 1: Install NixOS Latest

If NixOS is not installed on your system, you can download the latest image from the official website and follow the installation instructions.

Step 2: Install OpenStack Swift Dependencies

Before we can install Swift, we need to install its dependencies. Open the terminal and run the following command:

$ sudo nix-env -iA nixos.openstack-swift

This command will install all the necessary packages for Swift to run on NixOS.

Step 3: Configure Swift

After installing the Swift dependencies, we need to configure Swift. Open the /etc/swift/proxy-server.conf file:

$ sudo nano /etc/swift/proxy-server.conf

Add the following configuration:

[DEFAULT]
bind_port = 8080
workers = 2

[pipeline:main]
pipeline = catch_errors gatekeeper healthcheck proxy-logging cache container_sync bulk tempurl ratelimit authtoken keystoneauth copy container_quotas account_quotas slo dlo versioned_writes proxy-logging proxy-server

[app:proxy-server]
use = egg:swift#proxy
account_autocreate = true
allow_account_management = true
account_listing_limit = 10000

Save and close the file.

Step 4: Start Swift

After configuring Swift, we can start the server. Run the following command to start the Swift proxy server:

$ sudo swift-init proxy start

This will start the Swift proxy server with the configuration we specified in the previous step.

Step 5: Verify Swift Installation

To verify the Swift installation, we can use the Swift command line interface. Run the following command to see if Swift is working:

$ swift stat

This command should return information about the Swift installation.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Swift on NixOS Latest.