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diff --git a/content/documentation/quick-start/overview.md b/content/documentation/quick-start/overview.md deleted file mode 100644 index 478e033..0000000 --- a/content/documentation/quick-start/overview.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,284 +0,0 @@ -+++ -title = "Overview" -weight = 5 -+++ - -# Quick Start - -Let's start your Garage journey! -In this chapter, we explain how to deploy Garage as a single-node server -and how to interact with it. - -Our goal is to introduce you to Garage's workflows. -Following this guide is recommended before moving on to -[configuring a multi-node cluster](/documentation/cookbook/real-world/). - -Note that this kind of deployment should not be used in production, -as it provides no redundancy for your data! - -## Get a binary - -Download the latest Garage binary from the release pages on our repository: - -<https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/_releases.html> - -Place this binary somewhere in your `$PATH` so that you can invoke the `garage` -command directly (for instance you can copy the binary in `/usr/local/bin` -or in `~/.local/bin`). - -If a binary of the last version is not available for your architecture, -or if you want a build customized for your system, -you can [build Garage from source](/documentation/cookbook/from-source/). - - -## Writing a first configuration file - -This first configuration file should allow you to get started easily with the simplest -possible Garage deployment. -**Save it as `/etc/garage.toml`.** -You can also store it somewhere else, but you will have to specify `-c path/to/garage.toml` -at each invocation of the `garage` binary (for example: `garage -c ./garage.toml server`, `garage -c ./garage.toml status`). - -```toml -metadata_dir = "/tmp/meta" -data_dir = "/tmp/data" - -replication_mode = "none" - -rpc_bind_addr = "[::]:3901" -rpc_public_addr = "127.0.0.1:3901" -rpc_secret = "1799bccfd7411eddcf9ebd316bc1f5287ad12a68094e1c6ac6abde7e6feae1ec" - -bootstrap_peers = [] - -[s3_api] -s3_region = "garage" -api_bind_addr = "[::]:3900" -root_domain = ".s3.garage" - -[s3_web] -bind_addr = "[::]:3902" -root_domain = ".web.garage" -index = "index.html" -``` - -The `rpc_secret` value provided above is just an example. It will work, but in -order to secure your cluster you will need to use another one. You can generate -such a value with `openssl rand -hex 32`. - - -As you can see in the `metadata_dir` and `data_dir` parameters, we are saving Garage's data -in `/tmp` which gets erased when your system reboots. This means that data stored on this -Garage server will not be persistent. Change these to locations on your local disk if you want -your data to be persisted properly. - - -# Launching the Garage server - -Use the following command to launch the Garage server with our configuration file: - -``` -RUST_LOG=garage=info garage server -``` - -You can tune Garage's verbosity as follows (from less verbose to more verbose): - -``` -RUST_LOG=garage=info garage server -RUST_LOG=garage=debug garage server -RUST_LOG=garage=trace garage server -``` - -Log level `info` is recommended for most use cases. -Log level `debug` can help you check why your S3 API calls are not working. - - -## Checking that Garage runs correctly - -The `garage` utility is also used as a CLI tool to configure your Garage deployment. -It uses values from the TOML configuration file to find the Garage daemon running on the -local node, therefore if your configuration file is not at `/etc/garage.toml` you will -again have to specify `-c path/to/garage.toml`. - -If the `garage` CLI is able to correctly detect the parameters of your local Garage node, -the following command should be enough to show the status of your cluster: - -``` -garage status -``` - -This should show something like this: - -``` -==== HEALTHY NODES ==== -ID Hostname Address Tag Zone Capacity -563e1ac825ee3323… linuxbox 127.0.0.1:3901 NO ROLE ASSIGNED -``` - -## Creating a cluster layout - -Creating a cluster layout for a Garage deployment means informing Garage -of the disk space available on each node of the cluster -as well as the zone (e.g. datacenter) each machine is located in. - -For our test deployment, we are using only one node. The way in which we configure -it does not matter, you can simply write: - -```bash -garage layout assign -z dc1 -c 1 <node_id> -``` - -where `<node_id>` corresponds to the identifier of the node shown by `garage status` (first column). -You can enter simply a prefix of that identifier. -For instance here you could write just `garage layout assign -z dc1 -c 1 563e`. - -The layout then has to be applied to the cluster, using: - -```bash -garage layout apply -``` - - -## Creating buckets and keys - -In this section, we will suppose that we want to create a bucket named `nextcloud-bucket` -that will be accessed through a key named `nextcloud-app-key`. - -Don't forget that `help` command and `--help` subcommands can help you anywhere, -the CLI tool is self-documented! Two examples: - -``` -garage help -garage bucket allow --help -``` - -#### Create a bucket - -Let's take an example where we want to deploy NextCloud using Garage as the -main data storage. - -First, create a bucket with the following command: - -``` -garage bucket create nextcloud-bucket -``` - -Check that everything went well: - -``` -garage bucket list -garage bucket info nextcloud-bucket -``` - -#### Create an API key - -The `nextcloud-bucket` bucket now exists on the Garage server, -however it cannot be accessed until we add an API key with the proper access rights. - -Note that API keys are independent of buckets: -one key can access multiple buckets, multiple keys can access one bucket. - -Create an API key using the following command: - -``` -garage key new --name nextcloud-app-key -``` - -The output should look as follows: - -``` -Key name: nextcloud-app-key -Key ID: GK3515373e4c851ebaad366558 -Secret key: 7d37d093435a41f2aab8f13c19ba067d9776c90215f56614adad6ece597dbb34 -Authorized buckets: -``` - -Check that everything works as intended: - -``` -garage key list -garage key info nextcloud-app-key -``` - -#### Allow a key to access a bucket - -Now that we have a bucket and a key, we need to give permissions to the key on the bucket: - -``` -garage bucket allow \ - --read \ - --write \ - nextcloud-bucket \ - --key nextcloud-app-key -``` - -You can check at any time the allowed keys on your bucket with: - -``` -garage bucket info nextcloud-bucket -``` - - -## Uploading and downlading from Garage - -We recommend the use of MinIO Client to interact with Garage files (`mc`). -Instructions to install it and use it are provided on the -[MinIO website](https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-client-quickstart-guide.html). -Before reading the following, you need a working `mc` command on your path. - -Note that on certain Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, the Minio client binary -is called `mcli` instead of `mc` (to avoid name clashes with the Midnight Commander). - -#### Configure `mc` - -You need your access key and secret key created above. -We will assume you are invoking `mc` on the same machine as the Garage server, -your S3 API endpoint is therefore `http://127.0.0.1:3900`. -For this whole configuration, you must set an alias name: we chose `my-garage`, that you will used for all commands. - -Adapt the following command accordingly and run it: - -```bash -mc alias set \ - my-garage \ - http://127.0.0.1:3900 \ - <access key> \ - <secret key> \ - --api S3v4 -``` - -You must also add an environment variable to your configuration to -inform MinIO of our region (`garage` by default, corresponding to the `s3_region` parameter -in the configuration file). -The best way is to add the following snippet to your `$HOME/.bash_profile` -or `$HOME/.bashrc` file: - -```bash -export MC_REGION=garage -``` - -#### Use `mc` - -You can not list buckets from `mc` currently. - -But the following commands and many more should work: - -```bash -mc cp image.png my-garage/nextcloud-bucket -mc cp my-garage/nextcloud-bucket/image.png . -mc ls my-garage/nextcloud-bucket -mc mirror localdir/ my-garage/another-bucket -``` - - -#### Other tools for interacting with Garage - -The following tools can also be used to send and recieve files from/to Garage: - -- the [AWS CLI](https://aws.amazon.com/cli/) -- [`rclone`](https://rclone.org/) -- [Cyberduck](https://cyberduck.io/) -- [`s3cmd`](https://s3tools.org/s3cmd) - -Refer to the ["Integrations" section](/documentation/connect/) to learn how to -configure application and command line utilities to integrate with Garage. |