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
When you create a bucket, you must ensure that the bucket name is
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globally unique for your fabric
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starts and ends with a lowercase letter or a number
- between 3 and 63 characters long
- contains characters in lowercase only
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.
Follow the steps given below to create a bucket.
Procedure
- Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
- Select Fabric user on the Home page.
- Click Create Bucket on the Resources card.
- Enter the Name.
- Select the fabric on which you wish to create the bucket.
- Enter the Account name that owns the bucket.
- Select the Enable Object Lock check box to enable object versioning and prevent deletion of objects. This is an optional step.
- 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.
- Click Create.
Results
You can now upload objects to the bucket. You can create one or more folders on the bucket to store objects.
maprcli
command. The
command is provided for general reference. For more information, see maprcli Commands in This Guide.