Cloud Assets Module

Allows you to host all or part of the assets folder on a cloud storage container (CDN).

I would consider this beta quality software. We're using it on a couple production sites but it has not yet been widely tested across different configurations. You could experience some flakiness and may want to keep a backup of your assets initially until you've put it through it's paces, especially if not using LocalCopy mode.

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Requirements

• Silverstripe 3.1+ (tested against 3.1 and master)
• Not very useful without a bucket driver such as:
  • Rackspace CloudFiles: https://github.com/markguinn/silverstripe-cloudassets-rackspace
  • Amazon S3: https://github.com/edlinklater/silverstripe-cloudassets-s3
  • (please let me know if anyone has written others)

Example

Assuming you have a CloudFiles container called site-uploads:

mysite/_config/cloudassets.yml:

---
name: assetsconfig
---
CloudAssets:
  map:
    'assets/Uploads':
      Type: RackspaceBucket
      BaseURL: 'http://yourcdnbaseurl.com/'
      Container: site-uploads
      Region: ORD
      Username: yourlogin
      ApiKey: yourkey
      LocalCopy: false

You can map multiple folders in this way or just map the whole assets folder.

How It Works

1. CloudFileExtension is added to File.
2. In onAfterWrite, this extension checks if anything needs to be synced to the cloud or changed to a wrapped class.
3. File and Image records are converted at that stage to the corresponding wrapped versions. Additional wrapper classes can be added (if you have other subclasses of File) via CloudAssets.wrappers. Note that any subclass that is not wrapped will continue to function normally and will not use the cloud.
4. Once wrapped, the file length will be checked every onAfterWrite. If the file on disk has been replaced it will be uploaded to the cloud storage and the local version truncated to the string 'CloudFile' (see CloudAssets.file_placeholder config). NOTE: this behaviour can be changed with the LocalCopy key in the bucket config. If that is true, the file will be kept in tact locally and the modification time will be used to keep the cloud version in sync.
5. For files (image, etc) the wrapped class overrides Link, URL, etc to point to the CDN version of the file.

This setup allows you to forgo mounting the cloud storage via s3fs, CloudFuse, etc but shouldn't require changes to the Silverstripe file subsystem.

Scenarios Where This Won't Work

• Hosting with no writable storage. The assets folder does not need to be permanent but it does need to be used. Per-request permanence should be enough, though maybe not ideal.

Developer(s)

• Mark Guinn mark@adaircreative.com

Contributions welcome by pull request and/or bug report. Please follow Silverstripe code standards (tests would be nice).

I would love for someone to implement some other drivers - S3, Swift, Google, etc. It's very easy to implement drivers - just extend CloudBucket and implement a few methods.

License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Mark Guinn

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