Creating object containers

To get started using OpenStack Object Storage, we must first create a container. A container in this case is quite similar to a folder on Windows or Linux file directory. However, containers cannot be nested, though deep structures can be created in a fashion similar to the nested folder structure using both container and object names (pseudo folders) when we come to uploading the objects that are stored in these containers. Names we assigned containers and objects are analogous to labels that allow us to interpret as folder structures through the use of a / character in these labels.

Getting ready

Ensure that you are logged on to a correctly configured OpenStack client as described in Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, and can access the OpenStack environment as a user with the swiftoperator privileges.

We will use the developer user created in the Common OpenStack identity tasks recipe in Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, with the cookbook4 password; we have also granted...