So you want a commandline tool for managing cloud files containers? Enter, swiftly. Now you’ve seen examples before with curl, fog and pyrax, but here’s a special one which is a commandline application.<\/p>\n
\r\n# Upgrade pip just for hoots\r\npip install --upgrade pip\r\n\r\n# Install swiftly\r\npip install swiftly\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\nNow swiftly is installed, how about configuring it in your home directory<\/p>\n
\r\n# put a .swiftly.conf in your home directory, if your root i.e. \/root\/.swiftly.\r\nvi ~\/.swiftly.conf\r\n<\/pre>\nThis is what the configuration should look like<\/p>\n
\r\n[swiftly] \r\nauth_user = mycloudusername \r\nauth_key = mycloudapikey \r\nauth_url = https:\/\/identity.api.rackspacecloud.com\/v2.0 \r\nregion = lon\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\nbash-4.2 Tue Feb 16 15:04:34 pirax-test ~# swiftly get\r\n\r\ncurrent\r\nexport\r\nexports\r\ngallery\r\nimages\r\nlb_153727_TESTING_Nov_2015\r\nlb_153727_TESTING_Oct_2015\r\nmagento-stack-single-magento_server-gxlxbm7b6be2\r\nmeh\r\nmeh2\r\nrackspace_orchestration_templates_store\r\nscripts\r\ntesting\r\ntesting999\r\nversions\r\n<\/pre>\nThis gives us the output of all of the cloud containers as shown above. Pretty cool. But what about placing files in a container?<\/p>\n
\r\nswiftly put -i ~\/myfile.txt CONTAINER\/path\/to\/file\/somefilenamethatsdifferent.txt\r\n<\/pre>\nSo If I wanted to upload to meh2 I would do an<\/p>\n
\r\nswiftly put -i ~\/mylocalfile.txt meh2\/some\/container\/path\/somefileiuploaded.txt\r\n<\/pre>\nThe destination file can be called mylocalfile.txt if you want but I want to illustrate the target name can be different to the local source name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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