Swift development currently targets Ubuntu Server 14.04, but should work on most Linux platforms.
Swift is written in Python and has these dependencies:
Python 2.6 should work, but it’s not actively tested. There is no current support for Python 3.
Swift’s source code is hosted on github and managed with git. The current trunk can be checked out like this:
git clone https://github.com/openstack/swift.git
A source tarball for the latest release of Swift is available on the launchpad project page.
Prebuilt packages for Ubuntu and RHEL variants are available.
To get started with development with Swift, or to just play around, the following docs will be useful:
There are many clients in the ecosystem. The official CLI and SDK is python-swiftclient.
If you want to set up and configure Swift for a production cluster, the following doc should be useful: