will longhorn have a s3 compatible object storage?

[thbeh]

Is there a plan to create a S3 compatible object storage for longhorn?

[yasker]

@thbeh Longhorn supports S3 compatible object storage. See https://github.com/rancher/longhorn/blob/master/docs/backup.md#setup-a-local-testing-backupstore https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/blob/master/docs/snapshot-backup.md#setup-aws-s3-backupstore for example.

[thbeh]

Sorry, I meant will longhorn have a direct S3 API for object storage instead of dependancy on minio, etc. Something similar to Zenko's s3server?

[yasker]

No, Longhorn doesn't act as S3 server. User can use any S3 compatible server with Longhorn.

And for Zenko, I think it's a controller provides S3 API but not storing the data by itself. It replicates data to other cloud storages e.g. AWS S3.

What would be the use case for Longhorn to provide S3 API? If you meant it's more like Ceph Object storage, Longhorn doesn't support it. Longhorn only designed to provide the block device at the moment.

[thbeh]

Thanks.

[milovanderlinden]

@thbeh Longhorn supports S3 compatible object storage. See https://github.com/rancher/longhorn/blob/master/docs/backup.md#setup-a-local-testing-backupstore for example.

The link is dead.

[yasker]

@milovanderlinden please see https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/blob/master/docs/snapshot-backup.md#setup-a-local-testing-backupstore instead.

[milovanderlinden]

Yes, I found it, but I justed wanted to make sure others would not stumble on a dead link. By the way, in github comments you can use relative URL's.

[xvilo]

@milovanderlinden please see https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/blob/master/docs/snapshot-backup.md#setup-a-local-testing-backupstore instead.

Link is dead, again

[mantissahz]

Hi @xvilo
here are Refs:
https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/blob/v0.8.0/docs/snapshot-backup.md#setup-a-local-testing-backupstore
https://longhorn.io/docs/1.3.1/snapshots-and-backups/backup-and-restore/set-backup-target/#set-up-a-local-testing-backupstore