Storage Options

Storage

When configuring storage, a mix of credentials and ENV variables are used

You can edit your credentials file with the following command.

EDITOR="vim --nofork" bin/rails credentials:edit --environment production

When selecting a storage service to use, set the following ENV variable to the service you want.

ENV variable	Description	Default
RAILS_STORAGE_SERVICE	Which type of storage to use. One of [local,amazon,google,microsoft].	local

Default values below that contain #{Rails.env} refer to the environment the IRIDA Next is running in. In production, this is production

Local

Files are stored locally in the storage/ directory.

No additional options are needed for this configuration.

Amazon S3

Credentials

aws:
  access_key_id:
  secret_access_key:

ENV variable	Description	Default
S3_REGION	S3 region	us-east-1
S3_BUCKET_NAME	S3 bucket name	your_own_bucket-#{Rails.env}

Google Cloud Storage

ENV variable	Description	Default
GCS_PROJECT_NAME	Google Cloud Storage project name	your_project
GCS_KEYFILE	Relative path to gcs.keyfile	gcs.keyfile
GCS_BUCKET_NAME	Google Cloud Storage bucket name	your_own_bucket-#{Rails.env}

Microsoft Azure

Credentials

azure_storage:
  storage_access_key:

ENV variable	Description	Default
AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME	Storage Account Name	your_account_name
AZURE_STORAGE_CONTAINER_NAME	Storage Container Name	your_container_name-#{Rails.env}
AZURE_STORAGE_BLOB_HOST	Optional. Storage Blob Host	N/A