Saturday, February 28, 2015

Cloudberry Explorer

The following steps show how to configure Cloudberry Explorer to access Oracle Cloud Storage :

1. Download Cloudberry Explorer software Cloudberry Lab

2. Add a new Openstack connection

3. Specify requested fields as follow :
  • Display name: Oracle Cloud Storage Service
  • User name: Storage-IdentityDomain:user
  • Api key: user_pwd
  • Authentication Service : https://storage.us2.oraclecloud.com/auth/v1.0 

4. Containers and objects are now accessible from Cloudberry Explorer

Friday, February 27, 2015

Cyberduck

Oracle Storage Cloud Service is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) product which provides an object storage solution for files and unstructured data.
Oracle Storage Cloud Service provides REST APIs based on OpenStack Swift.

The REST API can be accessed from any application or programming platform that supports Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP); for example Cyberduck.


The following steps show how to configure Cyberduck to access Oracle Cloud Storage :

1. Download Cyberduck software from https://cyberduck.io/

2. Copy profile file (Oracle Storage Cloud (US Commercial 2).cyberduckprofile) into the profile folder (for example : D:\Program Files (x86)\Cyberduck\profiles)


3. Start Cyberduck and configure as below

Server : storage.us2.oraclecloud.com
Identity Domain : Storage-IdentityDomain:user

4. Access Oracle Cloud Storage Service from Cyberduck


Sunday, February 8, 2015

Mounting Oracle Cloud Storage to OPC Linux VM Using CloudFuse

Cloudfuse allows to access Cloud containers and data directly inside an OPC Linux VM.
(Using Cloudfuse on OPC is not certified and/or supported by Oracle)

1. Download the CloudFuse code from https://github.com/redbo/cloudfuse
2. Install required package (libcurl, fuse, libssl, and libxml2)

3. Install and configure Cloudfuse
        ./configure
        make
        sudo make install

4. Verify ~/.cloudfuse configuration file

     example (~/.cloudfuse):
           username=Storage-identitydomain:user
           api_key=user_password
           authurl=https://storage.us2.oraclecloud.com/auth/v1.0
           cache_timeout=20