Container provisioning and configuration

In addition to the Cloud Object Storage API method and format to access containers in Container Mode, the system offers a Service API to provision and configure containers.

Create container

Create a container with container vault and storage account information

curl -X PUT "http://<Accesser IP>:8337/container/<bucket.name>"  
     -u <user name>:<password>
     -d ’{"storage_location":"<vault provisioning code>", "service_instance":"<storage account id>"}’ 
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Retrieve container metadata

Returns all container metadata including ACL, IP access control, quota, storage location, storage account, CORS, and retention policies.

curl http://<Accesser IP>:8337/container/<bucket.name> -u user:password

Modify container metadata

Modify authorized IP addresses

curl -X PATCH "http://<accesser ip>:8337/container/<bucket.name>"
     -u <user name>:<password>
     -d ’{"firewall":{"allowedIp": ["<IP1>", "<IP2>"]}}’ 
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Modify quota

curl -X PATCH "http://<accesser ip>:8337/container/<bucket.name>"
     -u <user name>:<password>
     -d ’{"hardQuota":"<hard quota bytes>"}’
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Modify authorization

curl -X PATCH "http://<accesser ip>:8337/container/<bucket.name>"
     -u <user name>:<password>
     -d ’{"acl":{"user1":["write"]}}’
     -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Delete container

curl -X DELETE "http://<accesser ip>:8337/container/<bucket.name>" -u user:password