PROBLEM SOLVED:
- Roles were stored in memory per-instance, causing inconsistencies
- Sessions and policies had filer storage but roles didn't
- Multi-instance deployments had authentication failures
IMPLEMENTATION:
- Add RoleStore interface for pluggable role storage backends
- Implement FilerRoleStore using SeaweedFS filer as distributed backend
- Update IAMManager to use RoleStore instead of in-memory map
- Add role store configuration to IAM config schema
- Support both memory and filer storage for roles
NEW COMPONENTS:
- weed/iam/integration/role_store.go - Role storage interface & implementations
- weed/iam/integration/role_store_test.go - Unit tests for role storage
- test/s3/iam/iam_config_distributed.json - Sample distributed config
- test/s3/iam/DISTRIBUTED.md - Complete deployment guide
CONFIGURATION:
{
'roleStore': {
'storeType': 'filer',
'storeConfig': {
'filerAddress': 'localhost:8888',
'basePath': '/seaweedfs/iam/roles'
}
}
}
BENEFITS:
- ✅ Consistent role definitions across all S3 gateway instances
- ✅ Persistent role storage survives instance restarts
- ✅ Scales to unlimited number of gateway instances
- ✅ No session affinity required in load balancers
- ✅ Production-ready distributed IAM system
This completes the distributed IAM implementation, making SeaweedFS
S3 Gateway truly scalable for production multi-instance deployments.
Chris Lu
chrislu