Upload to Object Storage on OCI (Oracle

Cloud Infrastructure) using CLI (Command

Line Interface)
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Published Feb 17, 2018

In this example I will demonstrate the use of CLI with Object Storage.

Overview : The command line interface (CLI) is a tool that enables you to work
with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure objects and services. The CLI provides much the
same functionality as the Console and includes additional advanced commands.
Some of these commands, such as the ability to run scripts, extend the Console's
functionality.

The following Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services are supported with CLI.

Audit
 Core Services (Networking, Compute, Block Volume)

Database

IAM

Object Storage

Load Balancing

DNS
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There are different way to upload files to Object Storage and its documented here.
In this blog I demonstrate a working example to use OCI CLI to upload files to
Object Storage.

High level Steps

Install OCI CLI (Automatically Installing CLI & Dependencies with CLI installer)

Configure OCI CLI

Copy Public Key to OCI

Validate CLI installation

Upload files to Object Storage

Step 1 Install CLI (Automatically Installing CLI & Dependencies with CLI
installer)

1. To install the CLI using oracle OS user, I had to add oracle OS use to the
sudoer.

vi /etc/sudoers

Add entry for

## The commands section may have other options added to it.

##

## Allow root to run any commands anywhere

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

oracle ALL=(root) ALL

2. Login as oracle OS user and run the below command to install OCI cli.

(This step will take few minutes)

bash -c "$(curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/oci-

cli/master/scripts/install/install.sh)"

Step 2 Configure CLI

Before using the CLI, you have to create a config file that contains the required
credentials for working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Login as oracle OS user and
run the below command and follow the prompts.

1. oci setup config

[oracle@finqa ~]$ oci setup config

Enter a location for your config [/home/oracle/.oci/config]:

Enter a user OCID:

ocid1.user.oc1..aaaaaaaawhsfelmwqcenomtokpzvrncgmpd35spfere5yzizsb3gcjk5vla

Enter a tenancy OCID:

ocid1.tenancy.oc1..aaaaaaaafwzll3j5n44mksfxlcyywbaur6znkg4chleyozfazsgur65liia

Enter a region (e.g. eu-frankfurt-1, us-ashburn-1, us-phoenix-1): us-phoenix-1

Do you want to generate a new RSA key pair? (If you decline you will be asked to
supply the path to an existing key.) [Y/n]: y

Enter a directory for your keys to be created [/home/oracle/.oci]:

Enter a name for your key [oci_api_key]:

Public key written to: /home/oracle/.oci/oci_api_key_public.pem

Enter a passphrase for your private key (empty for no passphrase):

Private key written to: /home/oracle/.oci/oci_api_key.pem

Fingerprint: 1f:36:24:d2:1e:c7:1e:8a:de:7a:af:75:7d:5a:50:38

Config written to /home/oracle/.oci/config

[oracle@finqa ~]$

How to get the OCID for User & OCID for Tenancy

User OCID Click on User at top Right --> User Settings --> User Information --
> OCID

Tenancy OCID Click on Tenancy Name at Top Left à OCID

Region Displayed at the top Left.

Step 3 Copy Public Key to OCI

In the previous step the Public Key that’s generated should be upload to OCI.
/home/oracle/.oci/oci_api_key_public.pem

1. You need to login to Oracle OCI console.

2. On top Right click on User Name --> User Settings --> API Keys --> Add
Public Key

3. Copy the Public Key in the box & click Add.

Step 4 Validate CLI installation

Let’s validate OCI install/configuration using the command which finds the
namespace. Command to find Namespace is --> oci os ns get

[oracle@finqa ~]$ oci os ns get

"data": "gsebmcs00026"

[oracle@finqa ~]$

You can see a valid JSON response which returns a namespace.

Step 5 Upload Files to Object Storage

I have already created a bucket named ADWC. So let’s upload to this bucket.

-ns is the namespace which we got in the previous step

-bn is the bucket name

--name is the name of the file that you would like to see in object storage

--file is the source file name with full path

[oracle@finqa tmp]$ oci os object put -ns gsebmcs00026 -bn ADWC --name
PRODUCTS_DATA_TABLE.dsv --file /tmp/PRODUCTS_DATA_TABLE.dsv

Uploading object [####################################] 100%

"etag": "610A8776E3E3AC24E053824711AC86EC",

"last-modified": "Sat, 23 Dec 2017 22:42:49 GMT",

"opc-content-md5": "y+rUMMEDFOtRt1wSMnttOg=="

[oracle@finqa tmp]$

Additional commands for reference:

Get the OCID for the compartment --> Identity --> Compartments --> Its will list
all the compartments, find the OCID for the compartment which you have access.

List all Buckets created in compartment

oci os bucket list -ns gsebmcs00026 --compartment-id

ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaa3evaydxyb4gvdti2i4yjzdssr6lauqxzhdh2pzzglfzam
54jm6q

List objects in the Bucket

oci os object list -ns gsebmcs00026 -bn ADWC

Emanuel Jesus Rodríguez 1mo

Professional developer

Gracias por esta información, fue útil y muy bien explicada.

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Matias Choulet 4mo

Jefe de Departamento de Infraestructura IT en Laboratorios Bagó

Muchas gracias, me fui muy útil.

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Iliya Fadeev 5mo

Linux system administrator, sysops engineer, system engineer

Thank you! This helped^_^

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Dhiraj Goundgave 2y
Senior QA Engineer at Quick Heal Technologies

Thank you so much! This helped.

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Bhoodev Sharma 4y
Leader Digital Transformation & Cloud Security

2GB

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