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Kepler

Kepler is self-sovereign storage. It is architected as a decentralized storage system that uses DIDs and Authorization Capabilities to define Orbits, where your data lives and who has access. Any DID controller (e.g. people, applications, DAOs) can administer their own Kepler Orbit.

Quickstart

To run Kepler locally you will need the latest version of rust.

You will need to create a directory for Kepler to store data in:

mkdir kepler

Within this directory, create one more directories blocks and a database file caps.db:

mkdir kepler/blocks
touch kepler/caps.db

You will then need to set the environment variables to point to those directories:

export KEPLER_STORAGE_BLOCKS_PATH="kepler/blocks"
export KEPLER_STORAGE_DATABASE="kepler/caps.db"

Finally you can run Kepler using cargo:

cargo build
cargo run

Configuration

Kepler instances are configured by the kepler.toml configuration file, or via environment variables. You can either modify them in this file, or specify them through environment variable using the prefix KEPLER_.

The following common options are available:

Option env var description
log_level KEPLER_LOG_LEVEL Set the level of logging output, options are "normal", "debug"
address KEPLER_ADDRESS Set the listening address of the kepler instance
port KEPLER_PORT Set the listening TCP port for the kepler instance
storage.blocks.type KEPLER_STORAGE_BLOCKS_TYPE Set the mode of block storage, options are "Local" and "S3"
storage.limit KEPLER_STORAGE_LIMIT Set a maximum limit on storage available to Orbits hosted on this instance. Limits are written as strings, e.g. 10 MiB, 100 GiB
storage.database KEPLER_STORAGE_DATABASE Set the location of the SQL database
storage.staging KEPLER_STORAGE_STAGING Set the mode of content staging, options are "Memory" and "FileSystem"
keys.type KEPLER_KEYS_TYPE Set the type of host key store, options are "Static"
orbits.allowlist KEPLER_ORBITS_ALLOWLIST Set the URL of an allowlist service for gating the creation of Orbit Peers

Database Config

The SQL database can be configured with storage.database or the KEPLER_STORAGE_DATABASE environment variable. It supports Sqlite, MySQL and PostgresSQL. For example:

Type Example Description
Sqlite "sqlite:./kepler/caps.db" Set Kepler to use a local Sqlite file at the relative path ./kepler/caps.db
MySQL "mysql://root:root@localhost:3306/example" Use the MySQL instance deployed at localhost:3306, with database name example
Postgres "postgres://root:root@localhost:5432/example" Use the Postgres instance deployed at localhost:5432 with database name example

This will default to an in-memory Sqlite database (i.e. sqlite::memory:).

Migrations

Kepler will automatically apply the relevant migrations to your chosen SQL database. Use caution if you are sharing this database with another application.

Staging Config

Kepler will temporarily stage files it recieves before writing them. It can do this in memory or in temporary files. This can be configured by setting storage.staging to Memory or FileSystem. Default is Memory.

Storage Config

Storage can be configured for Blocks depending on it's type.

Local Storage

When storage.blocks.type is Local, the local filesystem will be used for application content storage. The following config option will become available:

Option env var description
storage.blocks.path KEPLER_STORAGE_BLOCKS_PATH Set the path of the block storage

AWS Storage

When storage.blocks.type is S3 the instance will use the S3 AWS service for application storage. The following config options will become available:

Option env var description
storage.blocks.type KEPLER_STORAGE_BLOCKS_TYPE Set the mode of block storage, options are "Local" and "S3"
storage.blocks.bucket KEPLER_STORAGE_BLOCKS_BUCKET Set the name of the S3 bucket
storage.blocks.endpoint KEPLER_STORAGE_BLOCKS_ENDPOINT Set the URL of the S3 store

Additionally, the following environment variables must be present: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_DEFAULT_REGION.

Keys Config

Kepler hosts require key pairs to provide replication. The keys config fields specify how a Kepler instance generates and stores these key pairs.

Static Secret Derivation

When keys.type is Static the instance will use an array of bytes as a static secret from which it will derive key pairs on a per-Orbit basis. The following config options will be available:

Option env var description
keys.secret KEPLER_KEYS_SECRET Unpadded base64Url-encoded byte string from which key pairs will be derived.

The secret MUST contain at least 32 bytes of entropy (either randomly generated or derived in a cryptographically secure way). It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that the secret be given via environment variables and NOT in the kepler.toml config file. Additionally it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that the secret be backed up in a secure place if used in production. Loss of the secret will result in total loss of function for the Kepler instance.

Running

Kepler instances can be started via command line, e.g.:

KEPLER_PORT=8001 kepler

If the Kepler instance is not able to find or establish a connection to the configured storage, the instance will terminate.

Usage

Kepler is most easily used via the Kepler SDK. See the example DApps and tutorials for detailed information.