isle/docs/operator/managing-garage.md
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Managing Garage

The garage project provides the network storage component for cryptic-net. If you're reading this document then you would likely benefit greatly from reading the garage documentation on their website. It's extremely well written and concise.

Note that the cryptic-net daemon process will handle all setup steps described in that documentation, but it's still good to have an understanding of how garage works and what it can do.

Garage Runtime Note

There is an important thing to note regarding how cryptic-net runs garage. As described in the Contributing Storage document, a single cryptic-net daemon process can be configured to provide any number of storage allocations.

For each allocation which is configured, cryptic-net daemon will configure and run a separate garage server instance as a sub-process. Each garage will use the host's name as its zone in the garage cluster layout, which means that the cluster will prefer to not replicate the same data within the same host, but may do so if necessary.

Garage CLI

Every cryptic-net binary contains a full garage binary embedded into it. This binary can be accessed directly like so:

sudo cryptic-net garage cli <subcmd> <args>

Before handing off execution to the garage binary, the cryptic-net process will automatically set up the RPC host and secret environment variables.

If the host which is running the command has more than one allocation configured, then the garage server process for the first allocation will be connected to by this invocation of garage. If no allocations are configured, then the garage server process of some other host in the network will be connected to.

Examples

To display the current layout of the garage cluster:

sudo cryptic-net garage cli layout show

(DO NOT CHANGE THE CLUSTER LAYOUT UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!)

To create a new bucket:

sudo cryptic-net garage cli bucket create new-bucket

To list existing buckets:

sudo cryptic-net garage cli bucket list