go-ipfs-ds-azure

Go implementation of ipfs Azure datastore. Using it as a plugin for ipfs allows you to host ipfs files on Azure blob storage. This is a concrete implementation of the interface https://github.com/ipfs/go-datastore. And the instructions for ipfs plugin modules can be found here https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/plugin/loader/preload_list

Prerequisites

• Golang https://golang.org/dl/
• Make https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
• This build process only work on Linux/Mac. To run on Windows, Windows Linux subsystem is required: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

How to use it?

1. download go-ipfs source code from https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs
2. cd into go-ipfs
3. use command go get github.com/decentralized-identity/go-ipfs-ds-azure@latest
4. add azureds github.com/decentralized-identity/go-ipfs-ds-azure/plugin 0 to the following file "go-ipfs/plugin/loader/preload_list"
5. cd back to go-ipfs
6. use command make install
7. ipfs should have the azureds plugin now

How to configure it?

Once ipfs is successfully built, use the following configurations

1. add the following to store_spec in ipfs {"mounts":[{"accountName":"INSERT_ACCOUNT_NAME","containerName":"INSERT_CONTAINER_NAME","folderName":"INSERT_FOLDER_NAME","mountpoint":"/blocks"},{"mountpoint":"/","path":"datastore","type":"levelds"}],"type":"mount"}

2. replace the default block mount point with the following in config for ipfs under Spec.mounts { "child": { "accountName": "INSERT_ACCOUNT_NAME", "accountKey": "INSERT_ACCOUNT_KEY", "containerName": "INSERT_CONTAINER_NAME", "folderName": "INSERT_FOLDER_NAME", "type": "azure-data-store" }, "mountpoint": "/blocks", "prefix": "azure.datastore", "type": "measure" },

3. (optional) it is also possible to switch the root mount point from levelds to Azure, but block is the bare minimum for data to be persistent.

4. now you can run ipfs with the config file and it will connect to Azure ipfs init CONFIG_FILE_NAME