Managing objects in Swift

Swift provides object storage for OpenStack. Here, we create containers and upload objects inside the containers. Remember that a container is a virtual entity for organizing the data better.

How to do it...

1. Let's begin with creating a container, as follows:

- name: create an object container
  os_object:
    state: present
    container: backup

2. Now let's push a sample object here, as follows:

- name: upload backup.tar to backup container
  os_object:
    filename: /opt/backup.tar
    container: backup
    name: backup.tar
    state: present

How it works...

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