# Automatic Site Replication

This feature allows multiple independent MinIO sites (or clusters) that are using the same external IDentity Provider (IDP) to be configured as replicas. In this situation the set of replica sites are referred to as peer sites or just sites. When site-replication is enabled on a set of sites, the following changes are replicated to all other sites:

- Creation and deletion of buckets and objects

#### Remote tier management permissions

- admin:SetTier
- admin:ListTier

#### Give full admin permissions

- admin:*

### 5. Using an external IDP for admin users

Admin users can also be externally managed by an IDP by configuring admin policy with

This document focuses on showing a working example on how to use Object Lambda with MinIO, you must have [MinIO deployed in your environment](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/operations/installation.html) before you can start using external lambda functions. You also must install Python version 3.8 or later for the lambda handlers to work.

## Example Lambda handler

Install the necessary dependencies.
```sh
pip install flask requests
```

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