How to upload a compressed file (.gz) to the swift object storage using the Python swift client?

[Hanginium65]

I wrote the Python code to upload the .gz file from my local machine to the OpenStack object store using the following documentation: https://docs.openstack.org/python-swiftc...t-api.html.

The file gets uploaded successfully. However, when I tried to compress the file after downloading it from the object storage using the Swift commands (I cannot ssh to the object storage instance apart from using Swift commands), I got the following error:

# gzip -d object_netbox_2024-07-20.psql.gz

gzip: sanbox_nb01_netbox_2024-07-20.psql.gz: not in gzip format

What should I do to ensure the file gets uploaded in the same format and size to the object storage as the file on my local machine?

Any assistance will be appreciated.

Yours sincerely

What I have tried:

Below is the code I wrote to upload the compressed file (.gz)

from keystoneauth1 import session
from keystoneauth1.identity import v3
from swiftclient.client import Connection, logger
from swiftclient.client import ClientException
import gzip

# Create a password auth plugin
auth = v3.Password(
    auth_url='https://cloud.company.com:5000/v3/',
    username='myaccount',
    password='mypassword',
    user_domain_name='Default',
    project_name='myproject',
    project_domain_name='Default'
)

# Create swiftclient Connection
swift_conn = Connection(session=keystone_session)

# Create a new container
container = 'object-backups'
swift_conn.put_container(container)
res_headers, containers = swift_conn.get_account()
if container in containers:
    print("The container " + container + " was created!")

# Create a new object with the contents of Netbox database backup
with gzip.open('/var/backup/netbox_backups/netbox_2024-07-20.psql.gz', 'rb') as f:
    # Read the contents...
    file_gz_content = f.read()

    # Upload the returned contents to the Swift Object Storage container
    swift_conn.put_object(
        container,
        "sanbox_nb01_netbox_2024-07-20.psql.gz",
        contents=file_gz_content,
        content_type='application/gzip'
    )

# Confirm the presence of the object holding the Netbox database backup
obj1 = 'sanbox_nb01_netbox_2024-07-20.psql.gz'
container = 'object-backups'
try:
    resp_headers = swift_conn.head_object(container, obj1)
    print("The object " + obj1 + " was successfully created")
except ClientException as e:
    if e.http_status == '404':
        print("The object " + obj1 + " was not found!")
    else:
        print("An error occurred checking for the existence of the object " + obj1)

 

[Hanginium65]

Sorry, I meant to decompress in the above message.