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Chapter 4. Ceph Object Gateway and the Swift API
As a developer, you can use a RESTful application programming interface (API) that is compatible with the Swift API data access model. You can manage the buckets and objects stored in Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster through the Ceph Object Gateway.
The following table describes the support status for current Swift functional features:
Feature | Status | Remarks |
---|---|---|
Supported | ||
Get Account Metadata | Supported | No custom metadata |
Supported | Supports a subset of Swift ACLs | |
Supported | ||
Supported | ||
Supported | ||
Supported | ||
Get Container Metadata | Supported | |
Supported | ||
Delete Container Metadata | Supported | |
Supported | ||
Supported | ||
Create Large Object | Supported | |
Supported | ||
Supported | ||
Supported | ||
Supported | ||
Supported | ||
CORS | Not Supported | |
Expiring Objects | Supported | |
Object Versioning | Not Supported | |
Static Website | Not Supported |
Prerequisites
- A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
- A RESTful client.
4.1. Swift API limitations
The following limitations should be used with caution. There are implications related to your hardware selections, so you should always discuss these requirements with your Red Hat account team.
- Maximum object size when using Swift API: 5GB
- Maximum metadata size when using Swift API: There is no defined limit on the total size of user metadata that can be applied to an object, but a single HTTP request is limited to 16,000 bytes.
4.2. Create a Swift user
To test the Swift interface, create a Swift subuser. Creating a Swift user is a two-step process. The first step is to create the user. The second step is to create the secret key.
In a multi-site deployment, always create a user on a host in the master zone of the master zone group.
Prerequisites
- Installation of the Ceph Object Gateway.
- Root-level access to the Ceph Object Gateway node.
Procedure
Create the Swift user:
Syntax
radosgw-admin subuser create --uid=NAME --subuser=NAME:swift --access=full
Replace
NAME
with the Swift user name, for example:Example
[root@host01 ~]# radosgw-admin subuser create --uid=testuser --subuser=testuser:swift --access=full { "user_id": "testuser", "display_name": "First User", "email": "", "suspended": 0, "max_buckets": 1000, "auid": 0, "subusers": [ { "id": "testuser:swift", "permissions": "full-control" } ], "keys": [ { "user": "testuser", "access_key": "O8JDE41XMI74O185EHKD", "secret_key": "i4Au2yxG5wtr1JK01mI8kjJPM93HNAoVWOSTdJd6" } ], "swift_keys": [ { "user": "testuser:swift", "secret_key": "13TLtdEW7bCqgttQgPzxFxziu0AgabtOc6vM8DLA" } ], "caps": [], "op_mask": "read, write, delete", "default_placement": "", "placement_tags": [], "bucket_quota": { "enabled": false, "check_on_raw": false, "max_size": -1, "max_size_kb": 0, "max_objects": -1 }, "user_quota": { "enabled": false, "check_on_raw": false, "max_size": -1, "max_size_kb": 0, "max_objects": -1 }, "temp_url_keys": [], "type": "rgw" }
Create the secret key:
Syntax
radosgw-admin key create --subuser=NAME:swift --key-type=swift --gen-secret
Replace
NAME
with the Swift user name, for example:Example
[root@host01 ~]# radosgw-admin key create --subuser=testuser:swift --key-type=swift --gen-secret { "user_id": "testuser", "display_name": "First User", "email": "", "suspended": 0, "max_buckets": 1000, "auid": 0, "subusers": [ { "id": "testuser:swift", "permissions": "full-control" } ], "keys": [ { "user": "testuser", "access_key": "O8JDE41XMI74O185EHKD", "secret_key": "i4Au2yxG5wtr1JK01mI8kjJPM93HNAoVWOSTdJd6" } ], "swift_keys": [ { "user": "testuser:swift", "secret_key": "a4ioT4jEP653CDcdU8p4OuhruwABBRZmyNUbnSSt" } ], "caps": [], "op_mask": "read, write, delete", "default_placement": "", "placement_tags": [], "bucket_quota": { "enabled": false, "check_on_raw": false, "max_size": -1, "max_size_kb": 0, "max_objects": -1 }, "user_quota": { "enabled": false, "check_on_raw": false, "max_size": -1, "max_size_kb": 0, "max_objects": -1 }, "temp_url_keys": [], "type": "rgw" }
4.3. Swift authenticating a user
To authenticate a user, make a request containing an X-Auth-User
and a X-Auth-Key
in the header.
Syntax
GET /auth HTTP/1.1 Host: swift.example.com X-Auth-User: johndoe X-Auth-Key: R7UUOLFDI2ZI9PRCQ53K
Example Response
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:05:33 GMT Server: swift X-Storage-Url: https://swift.example.com X-Storage-Token: UOlCCC8TahFKlWuv9DB09TWHF0nDjpPElha0kAa Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
You can retrieve data about Ceph’s Swift-compatible service by executing GET
requests using the X-Storage-Url
value during authentication.
Additional Resources
- See the Red Hat Ceph Storage Developer Guide for Swift request headers.
- See the Red Hat Ceph Storage Developer Guide for Swift response headers.
4.4. Swift container operations
As a developer, you can perform container operations with the Swift application programming interface (API) through the Ceph Object Gateway. You can list, create, update, and delete containers. You can also add or update the container’s metadata.
Prerequisites
- A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
- A RESTful client.
4.4.1. Swift container operations
A container is a mechanism for storing data objects. An account can have many containers, but container names must be unique. This API enables a client to create a container, set access controls and metadata, retrieve a container’s contents, and delete a container. Since this API makes requests related to information in a particular user’s account, all requests in this API must be authenticated unless a container’s access control is deliberately made publicly accessible, that is, allows anonymous requests.
The Amazon S3 API uses the term 'bucket' to describe a data container. When you hear someone refer to a 'bucket' within the Swift API, the term 'bucket' might be construed as the equivalent of the term 'container.'
One facet of object storage is that it does not support hierarchical paths or directories. Instead, it supports one level consisting of one or more containers, where each container might have objects. The RADOS Gateway’s Swift-compatible API supports the notion of 'pseudo-hierarchical containers', which is a means of using object naming to emulate a container, or directory hierarchy without actually implementing one in the storage system. You can name objects with pseudo-hierarchical names, for example, photos/buildings/empire-state.jpg, but container names cannot contain a forward slash (/
) character.
When uploading large objects to versioned Swift containers, use the --leave-segments
option with the python-swiftclient
utility. Not using --leave-segments
overwrites the manifest file. Consequently, an existing object is overwritten, which leads to data loss.
4.4.2. Swift update a container’s Access Control List (ACL)
When a user creates a container, the user has read and write access to the container by default. To allow other users to read a container’s contents or write to a container, you must specifically enable the user. You can also specify *
in the X-Container-Read
or X-Container-Write
settings, which effectively enables all users to either read from or write to the container. Setting *
makes the container public. That is it enables anonymous users to either read from or write to the container.
Syntax
POST /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN X-Container-Read: * X-Container-Write: UID1, UID2, UID3
Request Headers
X-Container-Read
- Description
- The user IDs with read permissions for the container.
- Type
- Comma-separated string values of user IDs.
- Required
- No
X-Container-Write
- Description
- The user IDs with write permissions for the container.
- Type
- Comma-separated string values of user IDs.
- Required
- No
4.4.3. Swift list containers
A GET
request that specifies the API version and the account will return a list of containers for a particular user account. Since the request returns a particular user’s containers, the request requires an authentication token. The request cannot be made anonymously.
Syntax
GET /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
Request Parameters
limit
- Description
- Limits the number of results to the specified value.
- Type
- Integer
- Valid Values
- N/A
- Required
- Yes
format
- Description
- Limits the number of results to the specified value.
- Type
- Integer
- Valid Values
-
json
orxml
- Required
- No
marker
- Description
- Returns a list of results greater than the marker value.
- Type
- String
- Valid Values
- N/A
- Required
- No
The response contains a list of containers, or returns with an HTTP 204
response code.
Response Entities
account
- Description
- A list for account information.
- Type
- Container
container
- Description
- The list of containers.
- Type
- Container
name
- Description
- The name of a container.
- Type
- String
bytes
- Description
- The size of the container.
- Type
- Integer
4.4.4. Swift list a container’s objects
To list the objects within a container, make a GET
request with the API version, account, and the name of the container. You can specify query parameters to filter the full list, or leave out the parameters to return a list of the first 10,000 object names stored in the container.
Syntax
GET /API_VERSION/TENANT:CONTAINER HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
Request Parameters
format
- Description
- Limits the number of results to the specified value.
- Type
- Integer
- Valid Values
-
json
orxml
- Required
- No
prefix
- Description
- Limits the result set to objects beginning with the specified prefix.
- Type
- String
- Valid Values
- N/A
- Required
- No
marker
- Description
- Returns a list of results greater than the marker value.
- Type
- String
- Valid Values
- N/A
- Required
- No
limit
- Description
- Limits the number of results to the specified value.
- Type
- Integer
- Valid Values
- 0 - 10,000
- Required
- No
delimiter
- Description
- The delimiter between the prefix and the rest of the object name.
- Type
- String
- Valid Values
- N/A
- Required
- No
path
- Description
- The pseudo-hierarchical path of the objects.
- Type
- String
- Valid Values
- N/A
- Required
- No
Response Entities
container
- Description
- The container.
- Type
- Container
object
- Description
- An object within the container.
- Type
- Container
name
- Description
- The name of an object within the container.
- Type
- String
hash
- Description
- A hash code of the object’s contents.
- Type
- String
last_modified
- Description
- The last time the object’s contents were modified.
- Type
- Date
content_type
- Description
- The type of content within the object.
- Type
- String
4.4.5. Swift create a container
To create a new container, make a PUT
request with the API version, account, and the name of the new container. The container name must be unique, must not contain a forward-slash (/) character, and should be less than 256 bytes. You can include access control headers and metadata headers in the request. You can also include a storage policy identifying a key for a set of placement pools. For example, execute radosgw-admin zone get
to see a list of available keys under placement_pools
. A storage policy enables you to specify a special set of pools for the container, for example, SSD-based storage. The operation is idempotent. If you make a request to create a container that already exists, it will return with a HTTP 202 return code, but will not create another container.
Syntax
PUT /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN X-Container-Read: COMMA_SEPARATED_UIDS X-Container-Write: COMMA_SEPARATED_UIDS X-Container-Meta-KEY:VALUE X-Storage-Policy: PLACEMENT_POOLS_KEY
Headers
X-Container-Read
- Description
- The user IDs with read permissions for the container.
- Type
- Comma-separated string values of user IDs.
- Required
- No
X-Container-Write
- Description
- The user IDs with write permissions for the container.
- Type
- Comma-separated string values of user IDs.
- Required
- No
X-Container-Meta-KEY
- Description
- A user-defined metadata key that takes an arbitrary string value.
- Type
- String
- Required
- No
X-Storage-Policy
- Description
-
The key that identifies the storage policy under
placement_pools
for the Ceph Object Gateway. Executeradosgw-admin zone get
for available keys. - Type
- String
- Required
- No
If a container with the same name already exists, and the user is the container owner then the operation will succeed. Otherwise, the operation will fail.
HTTP Response
409
- Status Code
-
BucketAlreadyExists
- Description
- The container already exists under a different user’s ownership.
4.4.6. Swift delete a container
To delete a container, make a DELETE
request with the API version, account, and the name of the container. The container must be empty. If you’d like to check if the container is empty, execute a HEAD
request against the container. Once you’ve successfully removed the container, you’ll be able to reuse the container name.
Syntax
DELETE /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
HTTP Response
204
- Status Code
-
NoContent
- Description
- The container was removed.
4.4.7. Swift add or update the container metadata
To add metadata to a container, make a POST
request with the API version, account, and container name. You must have write permissions on the container to add or update metadata.
Syntax
POST /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN X-Container-Meta-Color: red X-Container-Meta-Taste: salty
Request Headers
X-Container-Meta-KEY
- Description
- A user-defined metadata key that takes an arbitrary string value.
- Type
- String
- Required
- No
4.5. Swift object operations
As a developer, you can perform object operations with the Swift application programming interface (API) through the Ceph Object Gateway. You can list, create, update, and delete objects. You can also add or update the object’s metadata.
Prerequisites
- A running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
- A RESTful client.
4.5.1. Swift object operations
An object is a container for storing data and metadata. A container might have many objects, but the object names must be unique. This API enables a client to create an object, set access controls and metadata, retrieve an object’s data and metadata, and delete an object. Since this API makes requests related to information in a particular user’s account, all requests in this API must be authenticated. Unless the container or object’s access control is deliberately made publicly accessible, that is, allows anonymous requests.
4.5.2. Swift get an object
To retrieve an object, make a GET
request with the API version, account, container, and object name. You must have read permissions on the container to retrieve an object within it.
Syntax
GET /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER/OBJECT HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
Request Headers
range
- Description
- To retrieve a subset of an object’s contents, you can specify a byte range.
- Type
- Date
- Required
- No
If-Modified-Since
- Description
-
Only copies if modified since the date and time of the source object’s
last_modified
attribute. - Type
- Date
- Required
- No
If-Unmodified-Since
- Description
-
Only copies if not modified since the date and time of the source object’s
last_modified
attribute. - Type
- Date
- Required
- No
Copy-If-Match
- Description
- Copies only if the ETag in the request matches the source object’s ETag.
- Type
- ETag
- Required
- No
Copy-If-None-Match
- Description
-
Copies only if the
ETag
in the request does not match the source object’s ETag. - Type
- ETag
- Required
- No
Response Headers
Content-Range
- Description
- The range of the subset of object contents. Returned only if the range header field was specified in the request.
4.5.3. Swift create or update an object
To create a new object, make a PUT
request with the API version, account, container name, and the name of the new object. You must have write permission on the container to create or update an object. The object name must be unique within the container. The PUT
request is not idempotent, so if you do not use a unique name, the request will update the object. However, you can use pseudo-hierarchical syntax in the object name to distinguish it from another object of the same name if it is under a different pseudo-hierarchical directory. You can include access control headers and metadata headers in the request.
Syntax
PUT /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
Request Headers
ETag
- Description
- An MD5 hash of the object’s contents. Recommended.
- Type
- String
- Valid Values
- N/A
- Required
- No
Content-Type
- Description
- An MD5 hash of the object’s contents.
- Type
- String
- Valid Values
- N/A
- Required
- No
Transfer-Encoding
- Description
- Indicates whether the object is part of a larger aggregate object.
- Type
- String
- Valid Values
-
chunked
- Required
- No
4.5.4. Swift delete an object
To delete an object, make a DELETE
request with the API version, account, container, and object name. You must have write permissions on the container to delete an object within it. Once you’ve successfully deleted the object, you will be able to reuse the object name.
Syntax
DELETE /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER/OBJECT HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
4.5.5. Swift copy an object
Copying an object allows you to make a server-side copy of an object, so that you do not have to download it and upload it under another container. To copy the contents of one object to another object, you can make either a PUT
request or a COPY
request with the API version, account, and the container name.
For a PUT
request, use the destination container and object name in the request, and the source container and object in the request header.
For a Copy
request, use the source container and object in the request, and the destination container and object in the request header. You must have write permission on the container to copy an object. The destination object name must be unique within the container. The request is not idempotent, so if you do not use a unique name, the request will update the destination object. You can use pseudo-hierarchical syntax in the object name to distinguish the destination object from the source object of the same name if it is under a different pseudo-hierarchical directory. You can include access control headers and metadata headers in the request.
Syntax
PUT /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER HTTP/1.1 X-Copy-From: TENANT:SOURCE_CONTAINER/SOURCE_OBJECT Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
or alternatively:
Syntax
COPY /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:SOURCE_CONTAINER/SOURCE_OBJECT HTTP/1.1 Destination: TENANT:DEST_CONTAINER/DEST_OBJECT
Request Headers
X-Copy-From
- Description
-
Used with a
PUT
request to define the source container/object path. - Type
- String
- Required
-
Yes, if using
PUT
.
Destination
- Description
-
Used with a
COPY
request to define the destination container/object path. - Type
- String
- Required
-
Yes, if using
COPY
.
If-Modified-Since
- Description
-
Only copies if modified since the date and time of the source object’s
last_modified
attribute. - Type
- Date
- Required
- No
If-Unmodified-Since
- Description
-
Only copies if not modified since the date and time of the source object’s
last_modified
attribute. - Type
- Date
- Required
- No
Copy-If-Match
- Description
- Copies only if the ETag in the request matches the source object’s ETag.
- Type
- ETag
- Required
- No
Copy-If-None-Match
- Description
-
Copies only if the
ETag
in the request does not match the source object’s ETag. - Type
- ETag
- Required
- No
4.5.6. Swift get object metadata
To retrieve an object’s metadata, make a HEAD
request with the API version, account, container, and object name. You must have read permissions on the container to retrieve metadata from an object within the container. This request returns the same header information as the request for the object itself, but it does not return the object’s data.
Syntax
HEAD /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER/OBJECT HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
4.5.7. Swift add or update object metadata
To add metadata to an object, make a POST
request with the API version, account, container, and object name. You must have write permissions on the parent container to add or update metadata.
Syntax
POST /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT/TENANT:CONTAINER/OBJECT HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
Request Headers
X-Object-Meta-KEY
- Description
- A user-defined meta data key that takes an arbitrary string value.
- Type
- String
- Required
- No
4.6. Swift temporary URL operations
To allow temporary access, temp url functionality is supported by swift endpoint of radosgw
. For example GET requests, to objects without the need to share credentials.
For this functionality, initially the value of X-Account-Meta-Temp-URL-Key
and optionally X-Account-Meta-Temp-URL-Key-2
should be set. The Temp URL functionality relies on a HMAC-SHA1 signature against these secret keys.
4.7. Swift get temporary URL objects
Temporary URL uses a cryptographic HMAC-SHA1 signature, which includes the following elements:
- The value of the Request method, "GET" for instance
- The expiry time, in the format of seconds since the epoch, that is, Unix time
- The request path starting from "v1" onwards
The above items are normalized with newlines appended between them, and a HMAC is generated using the SHA-1 hashing algorithm against one of the Temp URL Keys posted earlier.
A sample python script to demonstrate the above is given below:
Example
import hmac from hashlib import sha1 from time import time method = 'GET' host = 'https://objectstore.example.com' duration_in_seconds = 300 # Duration for which the url is valid expires = int(time() + duration_in_seconds) path = '/v1/your-bucket/your-object' key = 'secret' hmac_body = '%s\n%s\n%s' % (method, expires, path) hmac_body = hmac.new(key, hmac_body, sha1).hexdigest() sig = hmac.new(key, hmac_body, sha1).hexdigest() rest_uri = "{host}{path}?temp_url_sig={sig}&temp_url_expires={expires}".format( host=host, path=path, sig=sig, expires=expires) print rest_uri
Example Output
https://objectstore.example.com/v1/your-bucket/your-object?temp_url_sig=ff4657876227fc6025f04fcf1e82818266d022c6&temp_url_expires=1423200992
4.8. Swift POST temporary URL keys
A POST
request to the swift account with the required Key will set the secret temp URL key for the account against which temporary URL access can be provided to accounts. Up to two keys are supported, and signatures are checked against both the keys, if present, so that keys can be rotated without invalidating the temporary URLs.
Syntax
POST /API_VERSION/ACCOUNT HTTP/1.1 Host: FULLY_QUALIFIED_DOMAIN_NAME X-Auth-Token: AUTH_TOKEN
Request Headers
X-Account-Meta-Temp-URL-Key
- Description
- A user-defined key that takes an arbitrary string value.
- Type
- String
- Required
- Yes
X-Account-Meta-Temp-URL-Key-2
- Description
- A user-defined key that takes an arbitrary string value.
- Type
- String
- Required
- No
4.9. Swift multi-tenancy container operations
When a client application accesses containers, it always operates with credentials of a particular user. In Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster, every user belongs to a tenant. Consequently, every container operation has an implicit tenant in its context if no tenant is specified explicitly. Thus multi-tenancy is completely backward compatible with previous releases, as long as the referred containers and referring user belong to the same tenant.
Extensions employed to specify an explicit tenant differ according to the protocol and authentication system used.
A colon character separates tenant and container, thus a sample URL would be:
Example
https://rgw.domain.com/tenant:container
By contrast, in a create_container()
method, simply separate the tenant and container in the container method itself:
Example
create_container("tenant:container")