Adding External Buckets

Prerequisites

You have obtained the permissions to read and write the external bucket that you want to add.

For example: Account A wants to add bucket testbucket of account B. Account B must grant account A the permission to read bucket testbucket. If account A needs to upload object to bucket testbucket, account B needs to grant account A the permission to write the bucket. Account A is the owner of the uploaded objects, and needs to grant account B the permission to read and write the objects.

Only a bucket 3.0 or later can be added as an external bucket after its standard bucket policy is set to public read/write.

Suppose a bucket's standard bucket policy is set to public read/write during the bucket creation. To add this bucket as an external bucket, its standard bucket policy must be manually changed to private and then changed back to public read/write.

Procedure

1. Log in to OBS Browser.
2. Click Add Bucket on the upper left corner of the page. The Add Bucket dialog box is displayed.
3. Select Add external bucket and enter the bucket name.
   Figure 1 Adding an external bucket
   

   After successfully adding an external bucket, you can see the external bucket in the bucket list and have the ACL access permissions for the bucket.

4. Click OK.
5. In the displayed dialog box, click Close to close the dialog box.