Using an Actual S3 Bucket?

[akashisama]

Hi, as I understand it, the default storage option is to have MinIO imitate an s3 bucket on the instance storage. I'm wondering is it possible to use an actual S3 bucket for storage instead? Does anyone have experience with this and if so, do you have an example of a working configuration?

The main reason we'd prefer this is that then the data urls will continue to work when we delete the instance and bring up a new one.

[maaikelimper]

Hi, in principle you should be able to use S3 though I do not have an explicit example to share have with you.

You can configure the wis2box.env to use S3 provided by Amazon Web Services by updating the WIS2BOX_STORAGE_* variables:

WIS2BOX_STORAGE_SOURCE=https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
WIS2BOX_STORAGE_USERNAME=YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
WIS2BOX_STORAGE_PASSWORD=YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

If you have an issue configuring wis2box to use S3 provided by Amazon Web Services you may also report this as a new issue in this repository:
https://github.com/World-Meteorological-Organization/wis2box/issues

[akashisama]

Thanks Maaike, we'll try that out and post back about how it goes