Digital Ocean Block Storage implementation like AWS S3 and Cloudfront

jaguardigital · January 23, 2022, 10:31pm

Hi,

Happy new year (still January ) to everyone.

We are using a Digital Ocean droplet as the main Kaltura CE hosting. We want to create a separated elastic storage server (DO’s “Block Storage”) to host the original video files and their related flavors. In Digital Ocean, this elastic storage server also has an integrated CDN (like AWS CloudFront service)

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/block-storage/

We found documentation on how to accomplish this very same task with S3 and Cloudfront

github.com

kaltura/platform-install-packages/blob/Propus-16.14.0/doc/kaltura_s3_cf_integration.md

# Kaltura S3 and CloudFront Integration Guide

**THIS DOCUMENT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. Contributions are most welcome.**

## Configuring an S3 Bucket
**NOTE: Before creating a bucket, you need to create an IAM user and generate an access key and secret. 
To do so, go to the [IAM management console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#/home).**

Go to the [S3 management console](https://s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home) and create the bucket.
S3 offers automatic content encryption and other services that this guide does not cover. 
When creating the bucket, you may want to enable the "Object-level logging" and "Server access logging" options for auditing purposes but in order for the Kaltura integration to work, none of the options under the "Set Properties" configuration view are needed. 
Under "Set Permissions", the default values can be left as they are. 
After creating the bucket, you will need to add an access policy. Go to the ```bucket configuration->Permissions->Bucket Policy```.

Amazon has a [Policy Generator](http://awspolicygen.s3.amazonaws.com/policygen.html) you can use to generate the policy JSON.
The actions you should allow are:
```
s3:GetObject
s3:ListBucket
s3:PutObject

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Is there any previous implementantion of this functionality in Digital Ocean?
There were no results when searching for the phrase “Digital Ocean” on Kaltura Forums.

Any help will be appreciated,

Oscar

jaguardigital · February 2, 2022, 9:35pm

To those who might be working with Digital Ocean, we just configured the Block Storage service, attached it to the droplet in which Kaltura CE is installed and then connected it via NFS to store all the uploaded video files there.