Installing the swift client tool
In order to operate our OpenStack Object Storage environment, we need to install an appropriate tool on our client. Swift ships with the swift tool, which allows us to upload, download, and modify files in our OpenStack Object Storage environment.
Getting ready
Ensure you are logged in to a Ubuntu host that has access to our OpenStack environment on the 192.168.100.0/24 public network. This host will be used to run client tools against the OpenStack environment created. If you are using the accompanying Vagrant environment, you can use the controller node. It has the python-swiftclient package that provides the swift command-line client.
If you created this node with Vagrant, you can execute the following command: ...
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