3 years ago

Category: Ubuntu

In this article , i’ll be dealing with Flexible Engine Cloud Provider in order to mount my Object Storage Bucket as a File System on my ECS Instance. This process can be done in two main ways : In this tutorial, i’ll focus on the s3fs-fuse project as it is a lot more easier to access Object Storage Bucket content directly using a file system then through scripts.

You also need to connect to your Cloud Provider account and setup up an IAM policy for your Object Storage Bucket : For more information about how to perform these steps , check out the Flexible Engine Documentation or your Cloud Provider Documentation.

In order to check if your Object Storage Bucket have been mounted, run the following commands : You’ll get the following result : If it shows the mounted file system, you have successfully mounted your OBject Storage Bucket on your ECS Instance.

In order to see the above change, Login to your Object Storage Bucket and verify if the test file is present or not.