Creating the radosgw user

To use the Ceph object storage, we should create an initial Ceph object gateway user for the S3 interface and then create a subuser for the Swift interface.

How to do it…

Following steps will help you to create radosgw user:

1. Make sure that the rgw-node1 is able to access the Ceph cluster:

        # ceph -s -k /var/lib/ceph/radosgw/ceph-rgw.rgw-node1/keyring 
          --name client.rgw.rgw-node1

2. Create a RADOS Gateway user for the S3 access:

      # radosgw-admin user create --uid=pratima 
        --display-name="Pratima Umrao" 
        --email=[e-mail] 
        -k /var/lib/ceph/radosgw/ceph-rgw.rgw-node1/keyring 
        --name client.rgw.rgw-node1

3. The values keys...