Google Cloud Storage Datastore Implementation

This is an implementation of the datastore interface backed by google cloud storage.

NOTE: Plugins only work on Linux and MacOS at the moment. You can track the progress of this issue here: golang/go#19282

Building and Installing

You must build the plugin with the exact version of go used to build the go-ipfs binary you will use it with. You can find the go version for go-ipfs builds from dist.ipfs.io in the build-info file, e.g. https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/v0.4.22/build-info or by running ipfs version --all.

In addition to needing the exact version of go, you need to build the correct version of this plugin.

• To build against a released version of go-ipfs, checkout the release/v$VERSION branch and build.
• To build against a custom (local) build of go-ipfs, run make IPFS_VERSION=/path/to/go-ipfs/source.

You can then install it into your local IPFS repo by running make install.

Bundling

As go plugins can be finicky to correctly compile and install, you may want to consider bundling this plugin and re-building go-ipfs. If you do it this way, you won't need to install the .so file in your local repo and you won't need to worry about getting all the versions to match up.

# We use go modules for everything.
> export GO111MODULE=on

# Clone go-ipfs.
> git clone https://github.com/ipfs/kubo
> cd go-ipfs

# Pull in the datastore plugin (you can specify a version other than latest if you'd like).
> go get github.com/luanet/go-ds-gcs/plugin@latest

# Add the plugin to the preload list.
> echo "s3ds github.com/luanet/go-ds-gcs/plugin 0" >> plugin/loader/preload_list

# ( this first pass will fail ) Try to build go-ipfs with the plugin
> make build

# Update the deptree
> go mod tidy

# Now rebuild go-ipfs with the plugin
> make build

# (Optionally) install go-ipfs
> make install

Detailed Installation

For a brand new ipfs instance (no data stored yet):

1. Copy gcsplugin.so $IPFS_DIR/plugins/go-ds-gcs.so (or run make install if you are installing locally).
2. Run ipfs init.
3. Edit $IPFS_DIR/config to include gcs details (see Configuration below).
4. Overwrite $IPFS_DIR/datastore_spec as specified below (Don't do this on an instance with existing data - it will be lost).

Configuration

The config file should include the following:

{
  "Datastore": {
  ...

    "Spec": {
      "mounts": [
        {
          "child": {
            "type": "gcs",
            "bucket": "$bucketname",
            "workers": 1
          },
          "mountpoint": "/blocks",
          "prefix": "gcs.datastore",
          "type": "measure"
        },

If you are configuring a brand new ipfs instance without any data, you can overwrite the datastore_spec file with:

{"mounts":[{"bucket":"$bucketname","mountpoint":"/blocks"},{"mountpoint":"/","path":"datastore","type":"levelds"}],"type":"mount"}

Otherwise, you need to do a datastore migration.

Contribute

Feel free to join in. All welcome. Open an issue!

This repository falls under the IPFS Code of Conduct.

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License

MIT