Local File store

[felix-dpg]

Local File store

[mjnagel]

@Szymongib / @gabrieljackson If you want to assign me to this, I've got a PR that hopefully resolves - #305 - happy to make any modifications needed to get it ready.

[Szymongib]

In theory, it would be possible to configure local file store with environment variables. This is not possible with CRD tho, as containers file system is transient therefore unless you mount a persistent volume you would lose all your data whenever containers restart.

[felix-dpg]

Yes, I will mount a persistent volume, so, please, where in the docs talk about local file store with env variable?

[Szymongib]

There are no docs for that as we do not officially support it. I would advise against it in any production scenario as this is not really tested and it is more of a hack, but you could achieve it by setting the following environment variables:

  mattermostEnv:
  - name: MM_FILESETTINGS_DRIVERNAME
    value: local
  - name: MM_FILESETTINGS_DIRECTORY
    value: /mattermost/data    # Or whatever is path of your volume mount
  ...

You would still need to specify the filestore section tho, so probably configuring some not existent bucket or something.

Could you share what is your use case for using local filestore? Maybe there is some other solution for it? 🤔

[felix-dpg]

Thanks. The use case is that Im on baremetal, and even if I deploy minio I will end with an NFS filesystem. I will try the env "hack".
But why the operator was not designed to support local file store?

[Szymongib]

We only recently added support for volumes and using external file store is more aligned with cloud application. Also as you mentioned there is always option for deploying Minio so I suppose there was never real need for it.

[Szymongib]

We will be most likely moving out from support for Minio and MySQl Operators tho, so maybe it is something we can revisit.

[gabrieljackson]

Due to a few recent requests for this functionality in other communication channels we are opening this up as a help wanted request.

The task would be to provide a clean configuration option for a local filestore type which would be clearly marked as not supported for production environments.