Installing Swift on OpenBSD

Swift is a highly available, distributed, and eventually consistent object/blob store. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Swift on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you will need the following:

• An OpenBSD-based system, version 6.4 or later
• A terminal or command-line interface
• Sudo privileges

Step 1: Installing Dependencies

The first step is to install the necessary dependencies. Open a terminal window and enter the following command to install the required components:

sudo pkg_add -z librabbitmq \
    py3-greenlet \
    py3-greenlet-0.4.16 \
    py3-kombu-4.6.10 \
    py3-msgpack-1.0.2 \
    py3-msgpack-numpy-0.4.1 \
    py3-memcached \
    py3-six-1.14.0 \
    py3-sqlalchemy \
    py3-xattr-0.9.6 \
    libffi \
    libssl

Step 2: Installing Swift

Next, we will download and install Swift. Follow the steps below to do so:

1. Navigate to the Swift GitHub repository at http://github.com/openstack/swift.

2. Clone the latest version of the source code, by running:

   git clone https://github.com/openstack/swift.git
   

3. Change the directory to the newly created swift directory:

   cd swift
   

4. Install Swift using pip3:

   sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   sudo pip3 install .
   

Note: You can use the --user flag with pip3 if you are installing Swift for a specific user.

Step 3: Verifying the Installation

To verify that Swift has been successfully installed, run the following command:

swift --version

This will print information about the Swift version and the installed components.

Conclusion

Swift has now been successfully installed on your OpenBSD-based system. You can now use it to create highly available and distributed object/blob stores.

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