go-ds-s3-plugin

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go-ds-s3-plugin

Installation

On a brand new instance:

1. Copy the binary go-ds-s3-plugin to ~/.ipfs/plugins.
2. Run ipfs init
3. Include a configuration for the plugin in the Kubo configuration (.ipfs/config) as explained below.
4. Start Kubo (ipfs daemon). The plugin should be loaded automatically and the S3 backend should be used.

Configuration

The config file should include the following:

{
  "Datastore": {
  ...

    "Spec": {
      "mounts": [
        {
          "child": {
            "type": "s3ds",
            "region": "us-east-1",
            "bucket": "$bucketname",
            "rootDirectory": "$bucketsubdirectory",
            "accessKey": "",
            "secretKey": ""
          },
          "mountpoint": "/blocks",
          "prefix": "s3.datastore",
          "type": "measure"
        },

If the access and secret key are blank they will be loaded from the usual ~/.aws/. If you are on another S3 compatible provider, e.g. Linode, then your config should be:

{
  "Datastore": {
  ...

    "Spec": {
      "mounts": [
        {
          "child": {
            "type": "s3ds",
            "region": "us-east-1",
            "bucket": "$bucketname",
            "rootDirectory": "$bucketsubdirectory",
            "regionEndpoint": "us-east-1.linodeobjects.com",
            "accessKey": "",
            "secretKey": ""
          },
          "mountpoint": "/blocks",
          "prefix": "s3.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":"$bucketname","mountpoint":"/blocks","region":"us-east-1","rootDirectory":"$bucketsubdirectory"},{"mountpoint":"/","path":"datastore","type":"levelds"}],"type":"mount"}

Otherwise, you need to do a datastore migration.