# 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

### **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

- 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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						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

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.

Kubernetes as stateful containers with local storage (JBOD/JBOF) mapped as persistent local volumes. This architecture enables multi-tenant MinIO, allowing isolation of data between customers.

MinIO also supports multi-cluster, multi-site federation similar to AWS regions and tiers. Using MinIO Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), you can configure data to be tiered between NVMe based hot storage, and HDD based warm storage. All data is encrypted with per-object key. Access Control and Identity...

	// 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

				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.Name)
		}
	}

*   Development of Kubernetes Federation has moved to [github.com/kubernetes/federation](https://github.com/kubernetes/federation). This move out of tree also means that Federation will begin releasing separately from Kubernetes. Impact:
    *   Federation-specific behavior will no longer be included in kubectl
    *   kubefed will no longer be released as part of Kubernetes

		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