New remote: Aliyun OSS

[mappu]

Hi,

It would be good to support Aliyun OSS ("Object Storage Service") as a supported cloud provider.

Because it has quite competitive pricing ($0.018 / GB for US-EAST) as well as diverse geographic locations (Japan, Singaport, HK, Dubai UAE). The pricing detail is here https://intl.aliyun.com/product/oss#pricing

You can see Docker Registry's integration here https://github.com/docker/distribution/tree/master/registry/storage/driver/oss which is using this golang library: https://github.com/denverdino/aliyungo/

[ncw]

Any help much appreciated :-)

[benjamin-bergia]

I am currently based in China and Aliyun is the major public cloud provider in here. Unfortunately Aliyun is lacking tool support for their products. I will link the latest doc API here:

• English: http://docs-aliyun.cn-hangzhou.oss.aliyun-inc.com/pdf/oss-api-reference-intl-en-2016-12-16.pdf
• Chinese: https://help.aliyun.com/document_detail/31947.html?spm=5176.doc31957.6.827.GG5xx8

I can't help much from a coding point of view, but if you need more info or testing, just let me know.

[ncw]

Here is the first beta. No docs yet! The backend is called "oss" if anyone wants to try:

https://beta.rclone.org/branch/v1.45-094-g3d1958f4-oss-beta/ (uploaded in 15-30 mins)

[ncw]

I've been round in circles with this backend, but eventually I remembered that Aliyun /Alibaba OSS works perfectly if you set the force_path_style = false config (See #2401). All the integration tests work fine.

So what I've done is made config for OSS using the S3 backend and set the path style parameter automatically when the provider is set to Alibaba.

Thanks for @luolibin for the oss backend which we aren't using :-(

This will be in the latest beta in 15-30 mins and be released in v1.46