Transition tiers can be added to MinIO using `mc admin tier add` command to associate a `gcs`, `s3` or `azure` bucket or prefix path on a bucket to the tier name.
Lifecycle transition rules can be applied to buckets (both versioned and un-versioned) by specifying the tier name defined above as the transition storage class for the lifecycle rule.

## Implementation

		Secure:    u.Scheme == "https",
		Transport: globalRemoteTargetTransport,
	}
	client, err := minio.New(u.Host, opts)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	client.SetAppInfo(fmt.Sprintf("s3-tier-%s", tier), ReleaseTag)

	core := &minio.Core{Client: client}
	return &warmBackendS3{
		client:       client,
		core:         core,
		Bucket:       conf.Bucket,

			}
			t.activeTasks.Add(-1)
		}
	}
}

func (t *transitionState) addLastDayStats(tier string, ts tierStats) {
	t.lastDayMu.Lock()
	defer t.lastDayMu.Unlock()

	if _, ok := t.lastDayStats[tier]; !ok {
		t.lastDayStats[tier] = &lastDayTierStats{}
	}
	t.lastDayStats[tier].addStats(ts)
}

func (t *transitionState) getDailyAllTierStats() DailyAllTierStats {
	t.lastDayMu.RLock()

./mc mb --ignore-existing sitea/bucket
./mc mb --ignore-existing siteb/bucket

sleep 10s

## Add warm tier
./mc ilm tier add minio sitea WARM-TIER --endpoint http://localhost:9004 --access-key minioadmin --secret-key minioadmin --bucket bucket

## Add ILM rules
./mc ilm add sitea/bucket --transition-days 0 --transition-tier WARM-TIER
./mc ilm rule list sitea/bucket

./mc cp README.md sitea/bucket/README.md

> To create a transition tier for transitioning objects to a prefix `testprefix` in `azurebucket` on Azure blob using `mc`:

```

## create a warm tier instance
(minio server /tmp/xltier/{1...4}/disk{0...1} --address :9002 2>&1 >/dev/null) &

export MC_HOST_mytier="http://minioadmin:minioadmin@localhost:9002/"

./mc ready myminio

./mc mb -l myminio/bucket2
./mc mb -l mytier/tiered

## create a tier and set up ilm policy to tier immediately

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  name: hello
spec:
  replicas: 7
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: hello
      tier: backend
      track: stable
  strategy: {}
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        prometheus.io/path: /stats/prometheus
        prometheus.io/port: "15020"
        prometheus.io/scrape: "true"

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: hello
spec:
  replicas: 7
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: hello
      tier: backend
      track: stable
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: hello
        tier: backend
        track: stable
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: hello
          image: "fake.docker.io/google-samples/hello-go-gke:1.0"
          ports:

kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: hello
spec:
  replicas: 7
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: hello
      tier: backend
      track: stable
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        proxy.istio.io/config: '{ "holdApplicationUntilProxyStarts": true }'
      labels:
        app: hello
        tier: backend
        track: stable
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: hello

	for tier, st := range other.Tiers {
		ats.Tiers[tier] = ats.Tiers[tier].add(st)
	}
}

func (ats *allTierStats) clone() *allTierStats {
	if ats == nil {
		return nil
	}
	dst := *ats
	dst.Tiers = make(map[string]tierStats, len(ats.Tiers))
	for tier, st := range ats.Tiers {
		dst.Tiers[tier] = st
	}
	return &dst
}