[rhos-list] Setting up a client to access single node instance of RedHat Swift (Essex)

[Darren Birkett]

On Ubuntu you would need to add the cloud archive repo

 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/CloudArchive#How_to_Enable_and_Use

But openstack packages are only available from 12.04 onwards.

- Darren

Perry Myers <pmyers at redhat.com> wrote:

>On 11/27/2012 04:52 PM, David Hernandez wrote:
>> I have currently installed RHOS Swift on a single node using the Folsom
>> preview install document I received from Derek Higgins.  I am using
>> Keystone as my identity service.  I have been using the "swift" command
>> to upload data to Swift.  
>> 
>> I need to setup a new client machine so that I can access Swift
>> "remotely."  I would like to use the swift command on this new client as
>> well.  Will you please tell me how to configure this client server.
>>  Will I need to install Keystone on it also?  This new machine is
>> currently running Ubuntu 10.04 but I will probably install RedHat 6.3 on
>> it so that it will be running the same OS as my Swift server.
>
>I think what you want is to just do "yum install python-swiftclient" on
>the machine you want to act as the remote swift client machine.
>
>That's how it would work if that machine was running RHEL and subscribed
>to the RHOS Folsom Preview.  If the remote machine is Ubuntu, I'm sure
>you can still have that Ubuntu machine act as a client as well, but
>you'd need to check with the Ubuntu folks on where to download the
>equivalent of python-swiftclient from their repositories.
>
>You shouldn't need keystone running on that machine, just the
>python-swiftclient packages should be all you need afair
>
>Cheers,
>
>Perry
>
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