File storage on Amazon S3

[rtrvrtg]

I'm working with some Mukurtu instances and am investigating the possibility of using S3FS to store uploaded files and derivatives (image styles etc.) on Amazon S3. This is intended to allow our site instances to be less constrained by local disk space, and to allow us to be flexible with how much uploaded content we can handle.

Some of the considerations we're having to deal with:

• Nearly everything is in the private file system, and must be so so we're having to configure S3FS correctly
• Need to patch S3FS to generate temporary file URLs correctly
• Pre-generating image styles on upload
• itok parameter interferes with generating temporary URLs
• Migration of existing assets
• Correct ACL handling (since S3FS likes to upload everything as publicly readable)

I was wondering whether anyone else who's on the Mukurtu team, or anyone who uses Mukurtu, had had any experience with this sort of architecture.

[taylor-steve]

That sounds very cool. We haven't had any experience with using S3 for Mukurtu or Drupal here. Let us know if you hit any Mukurtu specific roadblocks. We'd definitely be interested in helping make this sort of configuration work if possible. Thanks.