ivankelly commented on a change in pull request #2152: GCS offload support(4): add documentations for GCS URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-pulsar/pull/2152#discussion_r205816007
########## File path: site/docs/latest/cookbooks/tiered-storage.md ########## @@ -17,44 +19,50 @@ A topic in Pulsar is backed by a log, known as a managed ledger. This log is com The Tiered Storage offloading mechanism takes advantage of this segment oriented architecture. When offloading is requested, the segments of the log are copied, one-by-one, to tiered storage. All segments of the log, apart from the segment currently being written to can be offloaded. -## Amazon S3 - -Tiered storage currently supports S3 for long term storage. On the broker, the administrator must configure a S3 bucket and the AWS region where the bucket exists. Offloaded data will be placed into this bucket. +On the broker, the administrator must configure the bucket or credentials for the cloud storage service. The configured bucket must exist before attempting to offload. If it does not exist, the offload operation will fail. -The configured S3 bucket must exist before attempting to offload. If it does not exist, the offload operation will fail. +Pulsar uses multi-part objects to upload the segment data. It is possible that a broker could crash while uploading the data. We recommend you add a life cycle rule your bucket to expire incomplete multi-part upload after a day or two to avoid getting charged for incomplete uploads. -Pulsar users multipart objects to update the segment data. It is possible that a broker could crash while uploading the data. We recommend you add a lifecycle rule your S3 bucket to expire incomplete multipart upload after a day or two to avoid getting charged for incomplete uploads. - -### Configuring the broker +## Configuring the driver for "aws-s3" or "google-cloud-storage" in the broker Offloading is configured in ```broker.conf```. -At a minimum, the user must configure the driver, the region and the bucket. +At a minimum, the administrator must configure the driver, the bucket and the authenticating. There is also some other knobs to configure, like the bucket regions, the max block size in backed storage, etc. Review comment: -> the bucket and authentication credentials. -> bucket region ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
