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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By : Dan Radez
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OpenStack Essentials - Second Edition

By: Dan Radez

Overview of this book

OpenStack is a widely popular platform for cloud computing. Applications that are built for this platform are resilient to failure and convenient to scale. This book, an update to our extremely popular OpenStack Essentials (published in May 2015) will help you master not only the essential bits, but will also examine the new features of the latest OpenStack release - Mitaka; showcasing how to put them to work straight away. This book begins with the installation and demonstration of the architecture. This book will tech you the core 8 topics of OpenStack. They are Keystone for Identity Management, Glance for Image management, Neutron for network management, Nova for instance management, Cinder for Block storage, Swift for Object storage, Ceilometer for Telemetry and Heat for Orchestration. Further more you will learn about launching and configuring Docker containers and also about scaling them horizontally. You will also learn about monitoring and Troubleshooting OpenStack.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
OpenStack Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Object file management in the web interface


Now, let's take a look at managing containers and objects in the web interface. Once you have logged in, open the Object Store menu and select the Containers submenu. Click on the Create Container button. The following screenshot captures this step:

Now you will be presented with the following screenshot:

Once you have a container created, you will have two buttons to choose from to create objects in the container, Create Pseudo Folder and Upload Object. Start with uploading an object, as shown in the following screenshot:

The file that was chosen was /etc/redhat-release again. The web interface prepopulates the object name field with the file name chosen but not its path. Click Upload Object to complete the object creation. These actions are illustrated in the following screenshot:

A directory-structure-like name could have been given to the object when it was uploaded. To offer assistance with using a convention that would mock a file system's directory...