Overview

Examples of interacting with the IBM Cloud Object Storage CLI Plugin.

Prerequisites

Requires the cos plugin to be installed.

Configure cos plugin to use your object storage instance

• NAME_OF_COS_INSTANCE: The name of the existing Object Storage instance to interact with

ibmcloud cos config crn --crn $(ibmcloud resource service-instance NAME_OF_COS_INSTANCE --output json | jq -r '.[].id')

Upload object to object storage bucket

ibmcloud cos upload --bucket NAME_OF_BUCKET --key NAME_FOR_OBJECT \
--file /path/to/object --region ICOS_REGION

Create HMAC credentials for S3 clients

ibmcloud resource service-key-create NAME_OF_SERVICE_KEY Writer --instance-name NAME_OF_COS_INSTANCE --parameters '{"HMAC":true}'