twcswiftclient

Storing Images & Videos to Openstack Cloud Storage using Swift Client

##Installation Steps:

1. Pull the code from Repo :

git clone https://github.com/gopal1cloud/twcswiftclient.git

2. Get into Project Folder :

$ cd twcswiftclient/

3. Install Dependencies from requirement file :

$ pip install -r requirement.txt

4. Modify Openstack Cloud configuration on settings file :

$ vim twcswiftclient/settings.py

Configuring

django-storage-swift recognises the following options from settings file.

Option	Default	Description
SWIFT_AUTH_URL	None	The URL for the auth server, e.g. http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2.0
SWIFT_USERNAME	None	The username to use to authenticate.
SWIFT_KEY	None	The key (password) to use to authenticate.
SWIFT_AUTH_VERSION	1	The version of the authentication protocol to use.
SWIFT_TENANT_NAME	None	The tenant name to use when authenticating.
SWIFT_CONTAINER_NAME	None	The container in which to store the files.
SWIFT_STATIC_CONTAINER_NAME	None	Alternate container used by StaticSwiftStorage.
SWIFT_AUTO_CREATE_CONTAINER	False	Should the container be created if it does not exist?
SWIFT_AUTO_BASE_URL	True	Query the authentication server for the base URL.
SWIFT_BASE_URL	None	The base URL from which the files can be retrieved, e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8080/.
SWIFT_USE_TEMP_URLS	False	Generate temporary URLs for file access (allows files to be accessed without a permissive ACL).
SWIFT_TEMP_URL_KEY	None	Temporary URL key --- see [the OpenStack documentation][openstack-tempurl].
SWIFT_TEMP_URL_DURATION	30*60	How long a temporary URL remains valid, in seconds.
SWIFT_EXTRA_OPTIONS	{}	Extra options, eg. { "endpoint_type": "adminURL" }, which will return adminURL instead publicURL.

SWIFT_BASE_URL

django-swift-storage will automatically query the authentication server for the URL where your files can be accessed, which takes the form http://server:port/v1/AUTH_token/.

Sometimes you want to override the server and port (for example if you're developing using [devstack][devstack] inside Vagrant). This can be accomplished with SWIFT_BASE_URL.

The provided value is parsed, and:

• host and port override any automatically derived values
• any path component is put before derived path components.

So if your auth server returns http://10.0.2.2:8080/v1/AUTH_012345abcd/ and you have SWIFT_BASE_URL="http://127.0.0.1:8888/foo", the url function will a path based on http://127.0.0.1:8888/foo/v1/AUTH_012345abcd/.

Temporary URLs

Temporary URLs provide a means to grant a user permission to access a file for a limited time only and without making the entire container public.

Temporary URLs work as described in the Swift documentation. (The code to generate the signatures is heavily based on their implementation.) They require setup of a key for signing: the process is described in [the OpenStack documentation][openstack-tempurl].

5. Creating Initial Tables on the Database with syncdb command :

$ python manage.py syncdb --noinput

6. Creating Admin/Superuser for Application :

$ echo "from django.contrib.auth.models import User; User.objects.create_superuser('admin', '[email protected]', 'admin')" | ./manage.py shell

(Note: modify your admin credentials create_superuser(username, emailid, password) )

7. Collecting static media files to server :

$ python manage.py collectstatic --noinput

8. Running Django Development Server:

Manual Run:

$ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Run through Deployment Script:

Note: If you want running the Development server in Backend, Run deploy.sh from project folder.

$ ./deploy.sh

This script will initiate the development server in backend and raise the application on your IP ADDRESS with port 8000

9. Access the development server specifying the IP in the browser:

http://IP ADDRESS:8000/

Thats it!!