Deleting containers and objects
The swift client tool allows us to directly delete containers and objects within our OpenStack Object Storage environment.
Getting ready
Ensure you are logged in to a Ubuntu host that has access to our OpenStack environment on the 192.168.100.0/24 public network. This host will be used to run client tools against the OpenStack environment created. If you are using the accompanying Vagrant environment, as described in the Preface, you can use the controller node. It has the python-swiftclient package that provides the swift command-line client.
If you created this node with Vagrant, you can execute the following command:
vagrant ssh controller
Ensure you have set the following credentials (adjust the path to your certificates ...
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