Manage OpenStack Swift With Fog (HP Cloud)

On the Client Side, We Can Install a Ruby Gem Named Fog. In This Example, We Will Use OS X 10.10.1 as Client and HP Cloud as Cloud Service Provider. Obviously, we can use Python Swift Client to manage OpenStack Swift. Fog has extensive guides.

 

Manage OpenStack Swift With Fog (HP Cloud) : OS X Part

 

Our quite popular guide – iTerm2, Homebrew and ZSH Installation on OS X is the first step to get started. Next steps are :

Sadly, two more profile files will be created apart from .zshrc, they are :

You’ll run cat against these :

practically they’ll have this :

WE WILL DELETE :

AS WE HAVE ONLY ONE DOT FILE – .zshrc. We will only depend on .zshrc. Source it :

Next, we will run these commands :

Then :

last two steps are :

You should be able to install the gem properly. This is a fixed instruction for OS X Mavericks. 1.9.2 will give you error :

 

Manage OpenStack Swift With Fog : HP Cloud Part

 

Its pretty easy :

require 'rubygems' and require 'fog' should return true as output. Example configuration goes like this :

The can be Fog::Storage.new(), which is a variable string. It can be cdn, compute etc. You will get question answers on Fog on StackOverflow > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fog. Better specific guides can be found on HP’s website itself :

On OS X, installation can go hugely painful due to UNIX wheel group. Problem arises mainly from Homebrew part with OS X Mavericks. Fog is exactly not as painless as Python Swift Client for current version of OS X but it can become your solution for the need.