Environment Vars

Turbolift, the Cloud Files Uploader ################################### :date: 2013-09-05 09:51 :tags: rackspace, upload, mass, Cloud Files, files, api :category: *nix

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Environment Variables

The Application can except Environment Variables for simpler authentication if you are commonly uploading files to the same user environment::

# COMMON TURBOLIFT ENVS, THESE ARE THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS
# =======================================================
export OS_USERNAME=YOU_USERNAME
export OS_API_KEY=SOME_RANDOM_SET_OF_THINGS
export OS_RAX_AUTH=THE_NAME_OF_THE_TARGET_REGION


# NOT REQUIRED FOR AUTH
#export OS_PASSWORD=USED_FOR_PASSWORD_AUTH
#export OS_TENANT=OPENSTACK_TENANT_NAME 
#export OS_TOKEN=USED_FOR_TOKEN_AUTH
#export OS_REGION_NAME=REGION_NAME
#export OS_AUTH_URL=AUTH_URL_SET_IF_NEEDED

# NOT REQUIRED OPTIONS
#export TURBO_CONFIG=PATH_TO_CONFIG_FILE
#export TURBO_LOGS=LOG_LOCATION
#export TURBO_ERROR_RETRY=INT
#export TURBO_CONCURRENCY=INT
#export TURBO_QUIET=True|False
#export TURBO_VERBOSE=True|False
#export TURBO_DEBUG=True|False
#export TURBO_INTERNAL=True|False

NOTE: that these variables are similar with the Openstack NOVA compute project's NOVA client environment variables. You'll may want to read more about the Rackspace NOVA Client_ which contains more information on these variables and the inner workings of The Rackspace Public Cloud.

.. _Rackspace NOVA Client: https://github.com/rackspace/rackspace-novaclient