I built my HA environment from scratch last night, using the latest modules and manifests. My Swift nodes were deployed without issue: From Proxy 1 root@swiftproxy01:~# swift-ring-builder /etc/swift/account.builder /etc/swift/account.builder, build version 15 262144 partitions, 3.000000 replicas, 1 regions, 3 zones, 15 devices, 0.00 balance The minimum number of hours before a partition can be reassigned is 1 Devices: id region zone ip address port name weight partitions balance meta 0 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sde 1.00 52429 0.00 1 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sdd 1.00 52428 -0.00 2 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sdc 1.00 52429 0.00 3 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sdb 1.00 52429 0.00 4 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sdb 1.00 52429 0.00 5 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sdb 1.00 52429 0.00 6 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sdc 1.00 52429 0.00 7 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sdf 1.00 52429 0.00 8 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sdd 1.00 52429 0.00 9 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sdc 1.00 52429 0.00 10 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sde 1.00 52428 -0.00 11 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sdf 1.00 52429 0.00 12 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sdf 1.00 52429 0.00 13 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sde 1.00 52429 0.00 14 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sdd 1.00 52428 -0.00 root@swiftproxy01:~# swift-ring-builder /etc/swift/container.builder /etc/swift/container.builder, build version 15 262144 partitions, 3.000000 replicas, 1 regions, 3 zones, 15 devices, 0.00 balance The minimum number of hours before a partition can be reassigned is 1 Devices: id region zone ip address port name weight partitions balance meta 0 1 2 192.168.222.72 6001 sdb 1.00 52429 0.00 1 1 1 192.168.222.71 6001 sdc 1.00 52429 0.00 2 1 3 192.168.222.73 6001 sdf 1.00 52429 0.00 3 1 3 192.168.222.73 6001 sdb 1.00 52429 0.00 4 1 3 192.168.222.73 6001 sde 1.00 52429 0.00 5 1 1 192.168.222.71 6001 sdb 1.00 52429 0.00 6 1 2 192.168.222.72 6001 sdc 1.00 52429 0.00 7 1 1 192.168.222.71 6001 sdf 1.00 52429 0.00 8 1 2 192.168.222.72 6001 sdf 1.00 52429 0.00 9 1 1 192.168.222.71 6001 sdd 1.00 52429 0.00 10 1 1 192.168.222.71 6001 sde 1.00 52428 -0.00 11 1 2 192.168.222.72 6001 sde 1.00 52429 0.00 12 1 2 192.168.222.72 6001 sdd 1.00 52428 -0.00 13 1 3 192.168.222.73 6001 sdd 1.00 52429 0.00 14 1 3 192.168.222.73 6001 sdc 1.00 52428 -0.00 From Proxy 2 root@swiftproxy02:~# swift-ring-builder /etc/swift/account.builder /etc/swift/account.builder, build version 15 262144 partitions, 3.000000 replicas, 1 regions, 3 zones, 15 devices, 0.00 balance The minimum number of hours before a partition can be reassigned is 1 Devices: id region zone ip address port name weight partitions balance meta 0 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sde 1.00 52429 0.00 1 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sdd 1.00 52429 0.00 2 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sdc 1.00 52429 0.00 3 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sdb 1.00 52429 0.00 4 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sdb 1.00 52429 0.00 5 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sdb 1.00 52429 0.00 6 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sdc 1.00 52429 0.00 7 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sdf 1.00 52428 -0.00 8 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sdd 1.00 52428 -0.00 9 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sdc 1.00 52429 0.00 10 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sde 1.00 52429 0.00 11 1 1 192.168.222.71 6002 sdf 1.00 52429 0.00 12 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sdf 1.00 52428 -0.00 13 1 2 192.168.222.72 6002 sde 1.00 52429 0.00 14 1 3 192.168.222.73 6002 sdd 1.00 52429 0.00