Creating containers
A container can be thought of as a root folder under our OpenStack Object Storage. It allows for objects to be stored within it. Creating objects and containers can be achieved in a number of ways. A simple way is by using the swift client tool.
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. This node 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:
vagrant ...Get OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook - Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
