javacruft / pycradox

Python libraries for the Ceph librados library with use cython instead of ctypes

cradox

Python libraries for the Ceph librados library with use cython instead of ctypes

This a standalone library initially comes from this Ceph PR ceph/ceph#7621

But can be built against older version of Ceph from 11.1.0 to 12.0.X (perhaps more not tested)

This is designed for application that want to use a recent python-rados API without upgrading the whole ceph cluster.

Rados C handles provided by this library can't be used with the ceph rbd.py or librbdpy.

The API of this python lib will be keep in sync with the upstream Ceph rados.py API.

• Free software: LGPL 2.1
• Documentation: http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/api/python/
• Source: http://github.com/sileht/pycradox

Installation

Pre-requires:

$ sudo apt-get install cython librados2 librados-dev

Then, at the command line:

$ pip install cradox

Or, if you have virtualenvwrapper installed:

$ mkvirtualenv cradox
$ pip install cradox

Usage

import cradox as rados

Functionnal Tests

Ceph packages must be installed, the suite create a temporary Ceph cluster run the tests and destroy it.

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