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An overview of applying CephFS to LXC containers.

If you're familiar with web site hosting on Amazon S3, which is a simple and cheap way to host a static web site, you might be wondering whether or not you can do the same in Ceph radosgw.

The short answer is you can't. Bucket Website is listed as Not …

Every once in a while you'll want to remove a bucket in radosgw, including all the objects contained in that bucket.

Now you might use a utility like s3cmd for that purpose:

s3cmd rb --recursive s3://mybucket

The advantage to this approach is that your users can do it, using …

In case you need a quick overview of how many radosgw objects live in your Ceph cluster, here‘s how you do that in one (slightly involved) line of Python.