Swift#

Lithops with OpenStack Swift as storage backend.

Installation#

  1. Install and configure Keystone

  2. Install and configure OpenStack Swift

  3. Create a new bucket (container) (e.g. lithops-data). Remember to update the corresponding Lithops config field with this bucket name.

Configuration#

  1. Edit your lithops config file and add the following keys:

    lithops:
        storage: swift

    swift:
        storage_bucket: <BUCKET_NAME>
        auth_url   : <SWIFT_AUTH_URL>
        region     : <SWIFT_REGION>
        user_id    : <SWIFT_USER_ID>
        project_id : <SWIFT_PROJECT_ID>
        password   : <SWIFT_PASSWORD>

Summary of configuration keys for Swift:#

Group

Key

Default

Mandatory

Additional info

swift

storage_bucket

yes

The name of a container that exists in you account. This will be used by Lithops for intermediate data. If set, this will overwrite the storage_bucket set in lithops section

swift

auth_url

yes

The keystone endpoint for authenthication

swift

region

yes

The region of your container

swift

project_id

yes

The Project ID

swift

user_id

yes

The user ID

swift

password

yes

The password