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Swift#

Lithops with OpenStack Swift as storage backend.

Installation#

Install and configure Keystone
Install and configure OpenStack Swift
Create a new bucket (container) (e.g. lithops-data). Remember to update the corresponding Lithops config field with this bucket name.

Configuration#

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>
        user_domain_name: <SWIFT_USER_DOMAIN>
        project_domain_name: <SWIFT_PROJECT_DOMAIN>

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 authentication
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
swift	user_domain_name		no	The domain to which the user belongs, by default is set to “default”
swift	project_domain_name		no	The domain associated with the project, by default is set to “default”