Accessing the Arbutus object storage with AWS CLI

AWS CLI

The awscli client also works with the Object Store service with better support for large (>5GB) files and the helpful sync command. However, not all features have not been tested.

Installing awscli

pip install awscli awscli-plugin-endpoint

Configuring awscli

Generate an access key ID & secret key

openstack ec2 credentials create

Edit or create ~/.aws/credentials and add the credentials generated above

[default]
aws_access_key_id = <access_key>
aws_secret_access_key = <secret_key>

Edit ~/.aws/config and add the following configuration

[plugins]
endpoint = awscli_plugin_endpoint

[profile default]
s3 =
  endpoint_url = https://object-arbutus.cloud.computecanada.ca
  signature_version = s3v4
s3api =
  endpoint_url = https://object-arbutus.cloud.computecanada.ca

Using awscli

export AWS_PROFILE=default
aws s3 ls <container-name>
aws s3 sync local_directory s3://container-name/prefix

More examples can be found here: https://docs.ovh.com/us/en/storage/getting_started_with_the_swift_S3_API/