Accessing the Ceph object storage using the Swift API

Ceph supports RESTful API that is compatible with the basic data access model of the Swift API. In the last section, we covered accessing the Ceph cluster via the S3 API; in this section, we will learn to access it via the Swift API.

How to do it...

To use Ceph object storage with the Swift API, we need the Swift subuser and secret keys that we created earlier in this chapter. This user information will then be passed using the Swift CLI tool in order to access the Ceph object storage:

1. On the client-node1, a virtual machine installs the Python Swift client:

        # easy_install pip
        # pip install --upgrade setuptools
        # pip install --upgrade python...