Creating the radosgw user

To use Ceph object storage, we should create an initial Ceph object gateway user for the S3 interface and then create a subuser for the Swift interface

How to do it…

  1. Make sure that rgw-node1 is able to access the Ceph cluster.
    # ceph -s -k /etc/ceph/ceph.client.radosgw.keyring --name client.radosgw.gateway
  2. Create a RADOS Gateway user for S3 access:
    # radosgw-admin user create --uid=mona --display-name="Monika Singh" --email=mona@cephcookbook.com -k /etc/ceph/ceph.client.radosgw.keyring --name client.radosgw.gateway
    How to do it…
  3. The values keys (access_key) and the keys (secret_key) would be required later in this chapter for access validation. ...

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