Deleting objects

Deleting objects from OpenStack Object Storage is fairly trivial, whether for small or large files.

Getting ready

Ensure that you are logged on to a correctly configured OpenStack client and can access the OpenStack environment as a user with the swiftoperator privileges. We will use the developer user created in the Common OpenStack identity tasks recipe in Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, with the cookbook4 password. We have also granted this user the swiftoperator privileges.

Refer to Chapter 2, The OpenStack Client, for details of setting up your environment to use the OpenStack command-line client.

How to do it…

To delete objects from our Swift cluster, carry out the following steps:

1. List available objects in a container:

   openstack object list books
   

   This will give a list of objects in our books container:

   

2. Delete the object from a container:

   openstack object delete books intro.txt
   

   Note

   There will be no output from this command.

3. List objects in the books container after deletion...