Object Storage

Note

Object Storage API is available in Libcloud 0.5.0 and higher.

Storage API allows you to manage cloud object storage (not to be confused withcloud block storage) and services such as Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles,Google Storage and others.

Besides managing cloud object storage, storage component also exposes simpleCDN management functionality.

Terminology

• Container - represents a container which cancontain multiple objects. You can think of it as a folder on a file system.Difference between container and a folder on file system is that containerscannot be nested. Some APIs and providers (e.g. AWS) refer to it as a Bucket.
• Object - represents an object or so calledBLOB.

Supported Providers

For a list of supported providers see supported providers page.

Examples

We have examples of several common patterns.

API Reference

For a full reference of all the classes and methods exposed by the storageAPI, see this page.