The purpose of this blog post is to show you the basic commands you can run to manage your Alibaba buckets using ossutil command tool from cloud shell. But there more things you can with cloud shell, such as develop, build, debug and even deploy your apps! We invite you to visit Alibaba Cloud to explore all possibilities.
About Alibaba Cloud Shell
The Alibaba Cloud Shell is a management tool built on Alibaba Cloud’s open APIs. Users can utilize this tool to control their Alibaba Cloud services by calling open APIs provided by Alibaba Cloud. To expand the functionality, users can attach the Cloud Shell to Alibaba Cloud’s built-in APIs.
Important: At the moment, the Cloud Shell is free, however, if you need to use permanent storage, you need to pay for storage fees based on your actual usage.
Cloud Shell provides:
- An ephemeral machine to use as a host for a Linux shell, pre-configured with cloud management tools and system tools, including Python, Java, Node.js, Alibaba Cloud CLI, cURL, SSH, Kubectl, Fun, Terraform, Ansible, and Vim
- Permanent disk storage for your home directory
- A persistent frame of the Console which stays active as you navigate to different pages of the console
- Built-in Code Editor. ou can directly develop applications online and run or deploy scripts through command lines. You can also bind a storage space to Cloud Shell to permanently store the edited files.
Create Storage Bucket from Cloud Shell
Start Cloud Shell
To launch Cloud Shell, select one of the options below.
- Start from Alibaba Cloud console Click the Cloud Shell icon in the top menu of the Alibaba Cloud console to start Cloud Shell.
- Start from web browser Enter https://shell.aliyun.com in a web browser or open Cloud Shell from the OpenAPI Explorer. You can start multiple Cloud Shell windows as needed, but up to 5 Cloud Shell windows can be started at the same time.
Use OSSUTIL from cloud shell
In the Cloud Shell, you can manage OSS data with ossutil commands. ossutil allows you to perform the following operations:
- Manage buckets, such as create, list, and delete buckets.
- Manage objects, such as upload, download, list, copy, and delete objects.
- Manage parts, such as list and delete parts.
Install ossutil
Download the ossutil installation package:
wget http://gosspublic.alicdn.com/ossutil/1.7.3/ossutil64 
Modify the execution permissions of the file:
chmod 755 ossutil64Generate a configuration file in interactive mode
./ossutil64 configConfigure the path of the configuration file as prompted, we decided to use the default path.
Set the language of ossutil as prompted
Configure the parameters, including endpoint, AccessKey ID, AccessKey secret, and Security Token Service (STS) token
- For more information about the endpoint of each region, see Regions and endpoints
- For more information about how to obtain the AccessKey pair of an Alibaba Cloud account or a RAM user, see Create an AccessKey pair.
- For more information about how to obtain the AccessKey pair of a temporary STS token, see Access OSS with a temporary access credential provided by STS.
Now that we have installed and configured ossutil it’s time to run some commands to work with buckets
Create storage bucket
Command syntax
./ossutil64 mb oss://bucket_name [--acl <value>][--storage-class <value>][--redundancy-type <value>]As example we are creating a private bucket in Sydney region, storage class standard
./ossutil64 mb oss://bakingclouds-post --acl private --storage-class Standard --redundancy-type LRS
Uploading Files to Oracle Cloud Storage
To have organized objects when you upload files to a bucket, the best way is to create directories.
Command syntax
./ossutil64 mkdir oss://bucket_name dir_name [--encoding-type <value>]Single-level directory created in our bucket. No encoding type specified.
./ossutil mkdir oss://bakingclouds-post/Folder/Multi-level directory
./ossutil mkdir oss://bakingclouds-post/Folder/Multi
You can upload files from local storage or objects from other Cloud Storage buckets. In the following example we are going to download a sample image file to an images directory and then copy the file to our bucket.
shell@Alicloud:~$ mkdir images
shell@Alicloud:~$ curl -o images/alibabacloud.jpg https://github.com/bakingclouds/alibaba/blob/main/alibabacloud.jpg
Upload the file from images directory to your Cloud Storage bucket
Command syntax
./ossutil64 cp filename oss://examplebucket/dir/./ossutil64 cp filename oss://examplebucket/dir/
As you can see in this post, using the ossutil command tool from cloud shell is very simple.
The Alibaba documentation center has good resources, where you can find more common options, and also other command tools to manage your storage buckets.
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Reference Links
Alibaba Regions and endpoints https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/31837.htm?spm=a2c63.p38356.879954.13.1bcf2454oTrgJN#concept-zt4-cvy-5db
ossutil Alibaba guide https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/50452.htm?spm=a2c63.p38356.b99.203.3f7a25edrjVQzT
Alibaba Cloud Shell https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/cloud-shell
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