Investigating NFS and External Storage Integration with ownCloud

[carmat88]

Howdy @mcapuccini and @andersla. As per our recent DevOps Meeting, we'd like to investigate integration of NFS and external storage Integration with ownCloud.

From their web site there seems to be positive signals for such goal:

EXTERNAL STORAGE

With ownCloud, you can also leverage pre-existing storage: FTP, Swift, S3, Dropbox and more. Administrators are able to decide whether to store the most sensitive data on-premises and less sensitive data in the cloud while making all of your files available through a single interface and enabling compliance with your chosen security and governance policies.

and this might include also NFS although not entirely sure yet.

Here are some useful links:

• Configuring External Storage via GUI

• Configuring External Storage via conf file.

Cheers.

[carmat88]

Other hints to be investigated:

Frontend: mounting OwnCloud's volume as a persistent volume in Kubernetes (if basically it can be exposed as a NFS)

Backend: how owncloud can write persistent data (one idea is by using Object Storage)

[carmat88]

Some other useful links:

• https://central.owncloud.org/t/ftp-server-for-owncloud/5442

• https://doc.owncloud.org/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration/files/external_storage/ftp.html

• https://github.com/owncloud/files_external_ftp/issues/17

[carmat88]

I have opened an issue because documentation might be outdated and unclear:

• https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/issues/4080