Creating a Bucket

Create a bucket on a fabric.

Prerequisites

  • A fabric must be available for you to create a bucket.
  • You must be a fabric user to create a bucket on the fabric.

About this task

Buckets can be created on a fabric that exists on a public cloud provider.

When you create a bucket, you must ensure that the bucket name is

  • globally unique for your fabric

  • starts and ends with a lowercase letter or a number

  • between 3 and 63 characters long
  • contains characters in lowercase only
You can enable locking of objects that are stored on the bucket. Object locking is useful when you wish to prevent overwriting of objects for a specific time duration. When you lock an object, multiple versions of the object can be stored. Each object version is unalterable. Once object locking is enabled on an object, you cannot disable it for the object. You can specify the retention mode and retention period.

If you wish to create a versioned bucket to store multiple object versions with an object lock, you must select the Enable Object Lock check box. The Object versioning check box is auto-selected when you enable object locking.

You can create a bucket to store multiple object versions without enabling an object lock. In this case, you must select the Object versioning check box and leave the Enable Object Lock check box deselected.

NOTE
Currently, a bucket can be created by a non-SSO user only.

Follow the steps given below to create a bucket.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
  2. Click the All resources icon on the left pane, click the table view icon.
  3. Select the Resource details check box.
  4. Click Actions > Create bucket.
  5. Enter the Name.
  6. Select the Resource type on which you wish to create the bucket. Select Fabric to create a bucket on a fabric. Alternatively, select External S3 to create a bucket on an external S3 server.
  7. If you have selected resource type as Fabric, and then select the fabric on which the bucket is to be created. If you have selected the resource type as External S3, select the external S3 server on which the bucket is to be created.
  8. Enter the Account name that owns the bucket.
  9. Select the Enable Object Lock check box to enable object versioning and prevent deletion of objects. This is an optional step.
  10. Select the Object versioning check box if you wish to enable object versioning, but do not wish to disable deletion of objects. This is an optional step.
  11. Click Create.

Results

The bucket is created on the fabric.

You can now upload objects to the bucket. You can create one or more folders on the bucket to store objects.

Related maprcli Commands
To implement the features described on this page, the Data Fabric UI relies on the following maprcli command. The command is provided for general reference. For more information, see maprcli Commands in This Guide.