This was just something to mess around with whilst I was trying to get the hang of Openstack's Swift.
It allows you to fire up a medium AWS instance, put this script onto the instance, run the script, and have a working Swift setup in a minute or two.
You can then run the script again to make it all happen again and again. Trash the old cluster, make a new one.
Have fun!
GrahamM [email protected]