minio/docs/federation/lookup

Federation Quickstart Guide Federation feature is deprecated and should be avoided for future deployments

This document explains how to configure Silo with Bucket lookup from DNS style federation.

Get started

1. Prerequisites

Install Silo - Silo Quickstart Guide.

2. Run Silo in federated mode

Bucket lookup from DNS federation requires two dependencies

• etcd (for bucket DNS service records)
• CoreDNS (for DNS management based on populated bucket DNS service records, optional)

Architecture

flowchart LR
    app["Application requests bucket.example.net"] --> dns["CoreDNS"]
    dns --> registry["etcd bucket records"]
    registry --> cluster1["Silo cluster 1"]
    registry --> cluster2["Silo cluster 2"]
    registry --> clustern["Silo cluster n"]
    dns --> app

Environment variables

MINIO_ETCD_ENDPOINTS

This is comma separated list of etcd servers that you want to use as the Silo federation back-end. This should be same across the federated deployment, i.e. all the Silo instances within a federated deployment should use same etcd back-end.

MINIO_DOMAIN

This is the top level domain name used for the federated setup. This domain name should ideally resolve to a load-balancer running in front of all the federated Silo instances. The domain name is used to create sub domain entries to etcd. For example, if the domain is set to domain.com, the buckets bucket1, bucket2 will be accessible as bucket1.domain.com and bucket2.domain.com.

MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS

This is comma separated list of IP addresses to which buckets created on this Silo instance will resolve to. For example, a bucket bucket1 created on current Silo instance will be accessible as bucket1.domain.com, and the DNS entry for bucket1.domain.com will point to IP address set in MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS.

• This field is mandatory for standalone and erasure code Silo server deployments, to enable federated mode.
• This field is optional for distributed deployments. If you don't set this field in a federated setup, we use the IP addresses of hosts passed to the Silo server startup and use them for DNS entries.

Run Multiple Clusters

cluster1

export MINIO_ETCD_ENDPOINTS="http://remote-etcd1:2379,http://remote-etcd2:4001"
export MINIO_DOMAIN=domain.com
export MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS=44.35.2.1,44.35.2.2,44.35.2.3,44.35.2.4
silo server http://rack{1...4}.host{1...4}.domain.com/mnt/export{1...32}

cluster2

export MINIO_ETCD_ENDPOINTS="http://remote-etcd1:2379,http://remote-etcd2:4001"
export MINIO_DOMAIN=domain.com
export MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS=44.35.1.1,44.35.1.2,44.35.1.3,44.35.1.4
silo server http://rack{5...8}.host{5...8}.domain.com/mnt/export{1...32}

In this configuration you can see MINIO_ETCD_ENDPOINTS points to the etcd backend which manages Silo's config.json and bucket DNS SRV records. MINIO_DOMAIN indicates the domain suffix for the bucket which will be used to resolve bucket through DNS. For example if you have a bucket such as mybucket, the client can use now mybucket.domain.com to directly resolve itself to the right cluster. MINIO_PUBLIC_IPS points to the public IP address where each cluster might be accessible, this is unique for each cluster.

NOTE: mybucket only exists on one cluster either cluster1 or cluster2 this is random and is decided by how domain.com gets resolved, if there is a round-robin DNS on domain.com then it is randomized which cluster might provision the bucket.

3. Test your setup

To test this setup, access the Silo server via browser or mc. You’ll see the uploaded files are accessible from the all the Silo endpoints.

Explore Further

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• The Silo documentation website