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How to access object storage using connectVM CLI on connectVM Cloud🔗
Cloud computing offers the ability to handle large chunks of data, directly on the remote server. connectVM module Swift was created expressly to enable access to unstructured data that can grow without bounds, with the following design goals in mind :
- durability,
- scalability,
- concurrency across the entire data set,
- all while keeping the API simple.
Swift is installed as an independent module but on the syntax level, it is used through the parameters of connectVM command.
What We Are Going To Cover🔗
- How to install Swift
- How to connect Swift to connectVM cloud
- Basic connectVM operations with containers
- Basic connectVM operations with objects
Prerequisites🔗
No. 1 Hosting
You need a connectVM Cloud hosting account, available at https://portal.connectVM.com/. If you want to follow up with articles about object storage on Horizon, you will this link too: https://console.connectvm.com/.
No. 2 Install or activate connectVM command
To be able to connect to the cloud, connectVM command must be operational. If not installed already, use article How to install connectVMClient for Linux on connectVM Cloud
No. 3 Authenticate to connectVM using application credentials
Then you have to authenticate your account to the cloud. The usual way is to activate connectVM command using an RC file for on- or two-factor authentication. That will not work in case of Swift module. It is authenticated with application credentials, as explained in article
How to generate or use Application Credentials via CLI on connectVM Cloud.
No. 4 Familiarity with object storage on connectVM Cloud connectVM
This article is explaining the basics, using the Horizon interface:
How to use Object Storage on connectVM Cloud.
Swift can be understood as the CLI tool for accessing object storage under connectVM.
No. 5 Python installed
The following articles contain sections on how to install Python: