Synology NAS

[Dan Curry]

Is it possible to use a Synology NAS for storage rather than Amazon S3?

[Dave Jones]

No. Sorry.  It's really either internal or s3.  The idea is that you want your server protected from having to serve content to the public directly.  It just exists for you and your users to interact with.  The rest of the world that wants your content gets it served from S3 because it's dirt cheap, secure, persistent and infinitely scalable.  All things a virtual server lacks.  That's why the dependence on S3.  It's all open-source though, so you can add anything you like if you wanted that. :-)  Good question though.

DJ

[Dan Curry]

So, I'm not clear about how to install. I have a Mac. In your install video, you use Digital Ocean AND Amazon S3. Does that mean you need to create a server and a storage location? If that is the case, can't I use the Synology for the server part of this. I apologize for not grasping this -- I realize this really basic.

[Chris Tonkinson]

Minio would be another compatible option, no? https://minio.io/


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[Dave Jones]

Not out of the box, since it's using the AWS sdk.  But it'd be fairly trivial to add the endpoints for a compatible S3-like service.  If anyone needs that, tell me.

DJ

[Richard Hughes]

Hi Dave,

I'd love to run this locally.

Are there VMs or docker containers for this?

-Rich

[Mike Cerny]

You might check out Minio which looks like it can be installed as a Docker container and offers an S3-compatible API.  In this article the author installs it on a Synology device which is fine if you have enough CPU power in your Synolgoy device.

https://jonaharagon.com/installing-minio-on-synology/

[Dave Jones]

Currently I haven’t built a docker container for it. If you, or anyone else would like to do that it’d be great. It’s been on my todo list forever. I’m struggling with Ubuntu 18 LTS install compatibility at the moment. It’s painful with so many of the older php dependencies being dropped.

Runs great on a raspberry pi I’ve heard.