It doesn't - the AMQP is needed for the Nova/Glance/Cinder/Ceilometer integration and that internal RPC mechanism that they use. -joe On Feb 19, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Everett Toews <everett.toews at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote: > Hi All, > > When I was doing a Swift/Keystone only install with DevStack I used the following in my localrc > > disable_all_services > enable_service key swift mysql > > Then stack.sh paused with the error message > > ERROR: at least one rpc backend must be enabled, > set one of 'rabbit', 'qpid', 'zeromq' > via ENABLED_SERVICES. > > So I blindly added rabbit to enable_service and the error went away. Then I did the PR https://review.openstack.org/#/c/22333/ to change the DevStack README.md file. > > But then I got the question, is rabbit really necessary? > > Does anyone know if a Swift/Keystone only install requires AMQP? > > Thanks, > Everett > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20130219/b2cc2b9d/attachment.html>