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# Create buckets and keys
First, chances are that your garage deployment is secured by TLS.
All your commands must be prefixed with their certificates.
I will define an alias once and for all to ease future commands.
Please adapt the path of the binary and certificates to your installation!
*We use a command named `garagectl` which is in fact an alias you must define as explained in the [Control the daemon](./daemon.md) section.*
```
alias grg="/garage/garage --ca-cert /secrets/garage-ca.crt --client-cert /secrets/garage.crt --client-key /secrets/garage.key"
```
Now we can check that everything is going well by checking our cluster status:
```
grg status
```
In this section, we will suppose that we want to create a bucket named `nextcloud-bucket`
that will be accessed through a key named `nextcloud-app-key`.
Don't forget that `help` command and `--help` subcommands can help you anywhere, the CLI tool is self-documented! Two examples:
```
grg help
grg bucket allow --help
garagectl help
garagectl bucket allow --help
```
## Create a bucket
Fine, now let's create a bucket (we imagine that you want to deploy nextcloud):
```
grg bucket create nextcloud-bucket
garagectl bucket create nextcloud-bucket
```
Check that everything went well:
```
grg bucket list
grg bucket info nextcloud-bucket
garagectl bucket list
garagectl bucket info nextcloud-bucket
```
## Create an API key
Now we will generate an API key to access this bucket.
Note that API keys are independent of buckets: one key can access multiple buckets, multiple keys can access one bucket.
Now, let's start by creating a key only for our PHP application:
```
grg key new --name nextcloud-app-key
garagectl key new --name nextcloud-app-key
```
You will have the following output (this one is fake, `key_id` and `secret_key` were generated with the openssl CLI tool):
```
Key { key_id: "GK3515373e4c851ebaad366558", secret_key: "7d37d093435a41f2aab8f13c19ba067d9776c90215f56614adad6ece597dbb34", name: "nextcloud-app-key", name_timestamp: 1603280506694, deleted: false, authorized_buckets: [] }
```javascript
Key {
key_id: "GK3515373e4c851ebaad366558",
secret_key: "7d37d093435a41f2aab8f13c19ba067d9776c90215f56614adad6ece597dbb34",
name: "nextcloud-app-key",
name_timestamp: 1603280506694,
deleted: false,
authorized_buckets: []
}
```
Check that everything works as intended (be careful, info works only with your key identifier and not with its friendly name!):
```
grg key list
grg key info GK3515373e4c851ebaad366558
garagectl key list
garagectl key info GK3515373e4c851ebaad366558
```
## Allow a key to access a bucket
Now that we have a bucket and a key, we need to give permissions to the key on the bucket!
```
grg bucket allow --read --write nextcloud-bucket --key GK3515373e4c851ebaad366558
garagectl bucket allow \
--read \
--write
nextcloud-bucket \
--key GK3515373e4c851ebaad366558
```
You can check at any times allowed keys on your bucket with:
```
grg bucket info nextcloud-bucket
garagectl bucket info nextcloud-bucket
```

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# Configure a cluster
*We use a command named `garagectl` which is in fact an alias you must define as explained in the [Control the daemon](./daemon.md) section.*
In this section, we will inform garage of the disk space available on each node of the cluster
as well as the site (think datacenter) of each machine.
## Test cluster
As this part is not relevant for a test cluster, you can use this one-liner to create a basic topology:
```bash
garagectl status | grep UNCONFIGURED | grep -Po '^[0-9a-f]+' | while read id; do
garagectl node configure -d dc1 -n 10 $id
done
```
## Real-world cluster
For our example, we will suppose we have the following infrastructure:
For our example, we will suppose we have the following infrastructure (Tokens, Identifier and Datacenter are specific values to garage described in the following):
| Location | Name | IP Address | Disk Space |
|----------|---------|------------|------------|
| Paris | Mercury | fc00:1::1 | 1 To |
| Paris | Venus | fc00:1::2 | 2 To |
| London | Earth | fc00:1::2 | 2 To |
| Brussels | Mars | fc00:B::1 | 1.5 To |
| Location | Name | Disk Space | `Tokens` | `Identifier` | `Datacenter` |
|----------|---------|------------|----------|--------------|--------------|
| Paris | Mercury | 1 To | `100` | `8781c5` | `par1` |
| Paris | Venus | 2 To | `200` | `2a638e` | `par1` |
| London | Earth | 2 To | `200` | `68143d` | `lon1` |
| Brussels | Mars | 1.5 To | `150` | `212f75` | `bru1` |
### Identifier
After its first launch, garage generates a random and unique identifier for each nodes, such as:
```
8781c50c410a41b363167e9d49cc468b6b9e4449b6577b64f15a249a149bdcbc
```
Often a shorter form can be used, containing only the beginning of the identifier, like `8781c5`,
which identifies the server "Mercury" located in "Paris" according to our previous table.
The most simple way to match an identifier to a node is to run:
```
garagectl status
```
It will display the IP address associated with each node; from the IP address you will be able to recognize the node.
### Tokens
Garage reasons on an arbitrary metric about disk storage that is named "tokens".
The number of tokens must be proportional to the disk space dedicated to the node.
Additionaly, ideally the number of tokens must be in the order of magnitude of 100
to provide a good trade-off between data load balancing and performances (*this sentence must be verified, it may be wrong*).
Here we chose 1 token = 10 Go but you are free to select the value that best fit your needs.
### Datacenter
Datacenter are simply a user-chosen identifier that identify a group of server that are located in the same place.
It is up to the system administrator deploying garage to identify what does "the same place" means.
Behind the scene, garage will try to store the same data on different sites to provide high availability despite a data center failure.
### Inject the topology
Given the information above, we will configure our cluster as follow:
```
garagectl node configure --datacenter par1 -n 100 -t mercury 8781c5
garagectl node configure --datacenter par1 -n 200 -t venus 2a638e
garagectl node configure --datacenter lon1 -n 200 -t earth 68143d
garagectl node configure --datacenter bru1 -n 150 -t mars 212f75
```

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# Control the daemon
The `garage` binary has two purposes:
- it acts as a daemon when launched with `garage server ...`
- it acts as a control tool for the daemon when launched with any other command
In this section, we will see how to use the `garage` binary as a control tool for the daemon we just started.
You first need to get a shell having access to this binary, which depends of your configuration:
- with `docker-compose`, run `sudo docker-compose exec g1 bash` then `/garage/garage`
- with `docker`, run `sudo docker exec -ti garaged bash` then `/garage/garage`
- with `systemd`, simply run `/usr/local/bin/garage` if you followed previous instructions
*You can also install the binary on your machine to remotely control the cluster.*
## Talk to the daemon and create an alias
`garage` requires 4 options to talk with the daemon:
```
--ca-cert <ca-cert>
--client-cert <client-cert>
--client-key <client-key>
-h, --rpc-host <rpc-host>
```
The 3 first ones are certificates and keys needed by TLS, the last one is simply the address of garage's RPC endpoint.
Because we configure garage directly from the server, we do not need to set `--rpc-host`.
To avoid typing the 3 first options each time we want to run a command, we will create an alias.
### `docker-compose` alias
```bash
alias garagectl='/garage/garage \
--ca-cert /pki/garage-ca.crt \
--client-cert /pki/garage.crt \
--client-key /pki/garage.key'
```
### `docker` alias
```bash
alias garagectl='/garage/garage \
--ca-cert /etc/garage/pki/garage-ca.crt \
--client-cert /etc/garage/pki/garage.crt \
--client-key /etc/garage/pki/garage.key'
```
### raw binary alias
```bash
alias garagectl='/usr/local/bin/garage \
--ca-cert /etc/garage/pki/garage-ca.crt \
--client-cert /etc/garage/pki/garage.crt \
--client-key /etc/garage/pki/garage.key'
```
Of course, if your deployment does not match exactly one of this alias, feel free to adapt it to your needs!
## Test the alias
You can test your alias by running a simple command such as:
```
garagectl status
```
You should get something like that as result:
```
Healthy nodes:
2a638ed6c775b69a… 37f0ba978d27 [::ffff:172.20.0.101]:3901 UNCONFIGURED/REMOVED
68143d720f20c89d… 9795a2f7abb5 [::ffff:172.20.0.103]:3901 UNCONFIGURED/REMOVED
8781c50c410a41b3… 758338dde686 [::ffff:172.20.0.102]:3901 UNCONFIGURED/REMOVED
```
...which means that you are ready to configure your cluster!

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```bash
docker run \
-d \
--name garaged \
--restart always \
--network host \
-v /etc/garage/pki:/etc/garage/pki \