It would seem that those voting for option 1 do so primarily from a code
hygiene and maintenance perspective. If code hygiene were the only issue this
would make sense.
But for those of us with a production environment going straight from
Nova-volumes to a full Cinder deployment is too big a
Jay wrote:
FYI, some folks have done some performance testing of Glance with
Swift backends. It was determined that using SSL caused a dramatic
performance degradation (roughly decreased the network I/O throughput
by half, with a queuing behvaiour showing up on GET requests as well.)