Access Filespace data through MinIO Gateway

MinIO https://min.io/ provides an S3 compatible environment to act as both an object storage endpoint leveraging local disk, as well as gateway configurations brokering S3 APIs between Azure, Backblaze, Google Cloud Storage and a local disk or NAS mount-point.

See MinIO object storage endpoint on how to initialize a Filespace against your own private on-premises object storage.

In this KB we will concentrate on a NAS Gateway providing S3 Compatible API access into your Filespace. "You may run multiple MinIO instances on the same shared NAS volume as a distributed object gateway."

A Filespace utilizes the object store in a unique manner that enables random read/write streaming of your data on demand. This unique data layout breaks the data up into blocks. Each LucidLink client liaises with a local copy of metadata and draws only the blocks required, as requested. 

There are certain situations where applications cannot natively access operating system file systems, as they require S3 APIs to access their data. These applications may need to collaborate with data within a Filespace therefore in order to achieve this we must overlay S3 APIs over the Filespace mount-point. 

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MinIO is available across Linux, Windows, macOS likewise is our LucidLink client and can be setup in unison across platforms.

Link and mount your Filespace as a mount-point accessible within your file system. In this example we have used MinIO on Windows and mounted our Filespace as a Windows Service as L: 

Launch MinIO as a Gateway against your Filespace mount-point, providing environment variables for your access-key and secret-keys:

NAS:

set MINIO_ACCESS_KEY=abc123
set MINIO_SECRET_KEY=secret456xyz
minio gateway nas L:/

Once MinIO is up and running you will be able to navigate to your endpoint:port URL and login with your environment variables access-key and secret-key. 

You now have S3 compatible API access into your Filespace! Issue your conventional APIs as you would against a traditional S3 compatible object storage endpoint.

Applications that are natively written to liaise directly with object storage in Puts, Gets and S3 compatible API based Deletes, can now co-exist with their file system base counterparts.

Interacting with Filespace datasets, via our highly scalable, high performant distributed architecture in conjunction with load balanced MinIO gateway nodes provides seamless cross platform access to your data.

Feel free to ask our support team for assistance via a ticket.