# Federation Quickstart Guide [![Slack](https://slack.min.io/slack?type=svg)](https://slack.min.io) *Federation feature is deprecated and should be avoided for future deployments*

This document explains how to configure MinIO with `Bucket lookup from DNS` style federation.

## Get started

### 1. Prerequisites

Install MinIO - [MinIO Quickstart Guide](https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/index.html#quickstart-for-linux).

### 2. Run MinIO in federated mode

	for _, s := range secrets {
		if includeConfigType {
			s.Name = fmt.Sprintf("secret/%s", s.Name)
		}
		// If all secrets have a trust domain, we are probably dealing with trust domain federation, so print trust domains.
		// Otherwise, do not do that, because we do not know how to determine that information from the certificate,
		// so the output would be confusing.
		if !hasUnknownTrustDomain {

						globalDomainNames, err))
				}
			}
		}
	}

	// Bucket federation is 'true' only when IAM assets are not namespaced
	// per tenant and all tenants interested in globally available users
	// if namespace was requested such as specifying etcdPathPrefix then
	// we assume that users are interested in global bucket support
	// but not federation.
	globalBucketFederation = etcdCfg.PathPrefix == "" && etcdCfg.Enabled

- Temporary credentials have a limited lifetime, there is no need to rotate them or explicitly revoke them. Expired temporary credentials cannot be reused.

## Identity Federation

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	// Cluster replication manager.
	globalSiteReplicationSys SiteReplicationSys

	// Cluster replication resync metrics
	globalSiteResyncMetrics *siteResyncMetrics

	// Is set to true when Bucket federation is requested
	// and is 'true' when etcdConfig.PathPrefix is empty
	globalBucketFederation bool

	// Allocated DNS config wrapper over etcd client.
	globalDNSConfig dns.Store

### **Cluster Federation**
#### Placement Policy
* [alpha] The federation-apiserver now supports a SchedulingPolicy admission controller that enables policy-based control over placement of federated resources. For more information, see [Set up placement policies in Federation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/federation/set-up-placement-policies-federation/).

#### Cluster Selection

management (beyond our initial Federation approach), and preparing
to release Federation for general availability ('GA').

[SIG Multi-cluster]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-federation

### SIG Node

[SIG Node][] is responsible for the components that support the controlled
interactions between pods and host resources, and manage the lifecycle
of pods scheduled on a node.

				continue
			}

			// No IPs seem to intersect, this means that bucket exists but has
			// different IP addresses perhaps from a different deployment.
			// bucket names are globally unique in federation at a given
			// path prefix, name collision is not allowed. We simply log
			// an error and continue.
			bucketsInConflict.Add(bucket)
		}
	}

	// Add/update buckets that are not registered with the DNS

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		return nil, err
	}
	core.SetAppInfo("minio-federated", ReleaseTag)
	return core, nil
}

// Check if the destination bucket is on a remote site, this code only gets executed
// when federation is enabled, ie when globalDNSConfig is non 'nil'.
//
// This function is similar to isRemoteCallRequired but specifically for COPY object API