Object Storage

Overview

SysEleven Stack provides S3 compatible Object Storage.

It stores and retrieves arbitrary unstructured data objects via a RESTful, HTTP-based API. It is highly fault tolerant with its data replication and scale-out architecture. In its implementation as a distributed eventually consistent object storage, it is not mountable like a file server.

You can create the OpenStack API to generate credentials to access the SysEleven Stack Object Storage. You can then use the S3 API with various S3 clients and/or SDKs.

Supported S3 operations

We do not offer the complete feature set compared to Amazon S3. Thus we cannot guarantee the same user experience. Certain API calls may fail and receive a 501 Not Implemented response. If you are in doubt, feel free to contact our Cloud-Support (cloudsupport@syseleven.de).

For setting up bucket/object ACLs we suggest to use boto3. Not all predefined (canned) ACLs of AWS are supported. We are supporting the following canned ACLs: private,public-read,public-read-write,authenticated-read. Not supported canned ACLs will be interpreted as the default private ACL. We have prepared a guide in our Tutorials section which shows how to set up custom ACLs.

Buckets

Buckets are the logical unit SysEleven Stack Object Storage uses to stores objects.
Every bucket name can only be used once per SysEleven Stack region among all customers. If a desired bucket name is already taken by any customer, you cannot create another bucket with that name. To minimize the risk of collisions, avoid common and short words, combine multiple rare words, prefix them with your company or brand name, add random numbers or hashes (e.g. syseleven-bucketname-example-7hg3x instead of test is more likely to succeed). If you create buckets automatedly, prepare to retry with a different choice or resort to manual action.

Objects

Basically, SysEleven Stack Object Storage is a big key/value store.
A file or file object can be assigned a file name like key, and made available under this key.

Regions

The SEOS (SysEleven-Object-Storage / S3) is available in every region. The storage systems run independent from each other.

Credentials

You need to meet the following prerequisites to generate credentials:

• You need the OpenStack command line tools in version >= 3.13.x.
• A change to your shell environment (you can add this to your openrc file):

export OS_INTERFACE="public"

When these prerequisites are met, you can generate and display S3 credentials:

openstack ec2 credentials create
openstack ec2 credentials list

Clients

S3cmd

Information about the s3cmd client can be found here.

Now you can create an s3cmd configuration which could look like this:

syseleven@kickstart:~$ cat .s3cfg
[default]
access_key = < REPLACE ME >
secret_key = < REPLACE ME >
use_https = True
check_ssl_certificate = True
check_ssl_hostname = False

host_base = s3.dbl.cloud.syseleven.net
host_bucket = %(bucket).s3.dbl.cloud.syseleven.net

Next, create an S3 Bucket.

s3cmd mb s3://BUCKET_NAME -P

The option -P or --acl-public makes this a public bucket which means that public objects in this bucket and a list of public objects can be retrieved. Without this option or with --acl-private the public retrieval of objects and the list is not possible.

Then add some object(s):

s3cmd put test.jpg s3://BUCKET_NAME -P

Here we upload a file and make it public by specifying the option -P or --acl-public. Objects without this option or with --acl-private are not publicly available and will not be contained in the listing.

Please note that s3cmd may be configured to return incorrect URLs, i.e. by default:

Public URL of the object is: http://BUCKET_NAME.s3.amazonaws.com/test.jpg

The correct URL for this object in SysEleven Stack would be:

https://s3.REGION.cloud.syseleven.net/BUCKET_NAME/test.jpg

where REGION is the SysEleven Stack region (e.g. cbk or dbl).

You can use these URLs to refer to the uploaded files as static assets in your web applications.

Boto3

Information about the boto3 python S3 library can be found here. We suggest to make use of this library to set up and manage more complex ACLs.

Using the following python snippet we can configure our client:

import boto3
import botocore
# Get our session
session = boto3.session.Session()
s3 = session.resource(
    service_name = 's3',
    aws_access_key_id = "< REPLACE ME >",
    aws_secret_access_key = "< REPLACE ME >",
    endpoint_url = 'https://s3.dbl.cloud.syseleven.net'
)
# Get our client
s3client = s3.meta.client

For (re)creating a bucket we can use following snippet:

bucket = "myBucket"
try:
    s3client.create_bucket(Bucket=bucket)
except Exception:
    print("There was a problem creating the bucket '{}', it may have already existed".format(bucket))
    oldbucket = s3.Bucket(bucket)
    # Cleanup remaining objects in bucket
    oldbucket.objects.all().delete()
    s3client.delete_bucket(Bucket=bucket)
    s3client.create_bucket(Bucket=bucket)

To upload our first objects we may use following commands:

bucket = "myBucket"
s3client.put_object(Body="secret", Bucket=bucket, Key="private-scope-object")

Boto3 also supports defining ACLs for your buckets and objects. To learn more take a look on our ACL guide in the Tutorials section.

Minio

Information about the Minio client can be found here.

Installation of Minio client into the home directory of the current user is necessary for the following example commands to work!

Now you can create a Minio S3 configuration:

~/mc config host add <ALIAS> <YOUR-S3-ENDPOINT> <YOUR-ACCESS-KEY> <YOUR-SECRET-KEY> --api <API-SIGNATURE> --lookup <BUCKET-LOOKUP-TYPE>
~/mc config host add dbl https://s3.dbl.cloud.syseleven.net accesskey secretkey --api S3v4 --lookup dns
~/mc config host add cbk https://s3.cbk.cloud.syseleven.net accesskey secretkey --api S3v4 --lookup dns

Next, create an S3 Bucket:

~/mc mb dbl/bucketname
Bucket created successfully ‘dbl/bucketname’.

Then, use it to add some file(s):

~/mc cp /root/test.jpg dbl/bucketname/test.jpg
/root/test.jpg: 380.21 KB / 380.21 KB ┃▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓┃ 100.00% 65.42 MB/s 0s

List the file(s):

~/mc ls dbl/bucketname
[2018-04-27 14:18:28 UTC] 380KiB test.jpg