The Road to Essex. Part 1 -- Keystone and Swift with Keystone Authentication #openstack

The Road to Essex. Part 1 -- Keystone and Swift with Keystone Authentication:
The following step-by-step guide is provided by guest contributor Florian Daniel Otel.
For developers curious about OpenStack™ Essex and interested to start using OpenStack Object Storage (aka Swift to the cool kids) with Keystone authentication, we’re pleased to publish a step-by-step guide. This guide is a follow-up on the earlier post from Jeff Kramer on setting up a single node OpenStack storage server.
This guide is provided by guest contributor Florian Daniel Otel. Florian is an HP Cloud Services Sales Evangelist based in Sweden, and he is responsible for our EMEA-based customers. Florian’s post provides a step-by-step guide for deploying an OpenStack cluster using the latest available version of OpenStack (code name “Essex,” released on 2012-04-05). Florian’s guide is timely as the Essex release of OpenStack is gathering a lot of interest. With the help of this guide, you should be able to quickly get up and running with Keystone and Swift. While a lot of people are comfortable using public cloud for test and development, some might want to start by doing test and dev on their own local servers at first. At the end of this tutorial, you’ll have your own, local environment of OpenStack Object Storage.
The installation will have the same core API interface as HP Cloud Services, and you can use this interface for API testing.
This first post from Florian focuses on Keystone.
Please feel free to share this code and comment on this blog with any questions or feedback. Follow Florian on @FlorianOtel (Twitter) or +FlorianOtel (Google+).
Click to access Florian’s Essex-specific step-by-step guide to using OpenStack Object Storage with Keystone authentication.