Create New Bucket
This section explains how to create buckets in a BucketFS service.
Prerequisites
You must have a BucketFS service configured. For more information, see Create New Bucket.
Procedure
This procedure is carried out using ConfD.
The following examples use ConfD through the command-line tool confd_client, which is available on all database nodes.
Placeholder values are indicated with UPPERCASE characters. Replace the placeholders with your own values.
To create a bucket, use the ConfD job bucket_add with the following parameters:
Parameter name | Data type | Description |
---|---|---|
bucket_name
|
string | The name of the new bucket name. |
bucketfs_name
|
string | The name of the BucketFS service that will store the new bucket. |
public
|
boolean |
Indicates whether the bucket content is public. Valid values are |
read_password | string | The password for read permissions in the bucket. |
write_password | string | The password for read/write permissions in the bucket. |
For example:
confd_client bucket_add bucket_name: my_bucket bucketfs_name: my_bucketfs public: False read_password: READPW write_password: WRITEPW
Verification
To verify that the bucket was successfully created, use the ConfD job bucketfs_info:
Next Steps
For information about how to access and use the new bucket, see Manage Buckets and Files in BucketFS.
See also
For information about how to expand scripting languages using BucketFS, see Adding New Packages to Existing Script Languages.