From c2f11810151d71996a4be7cc8746ccb6a3bd0236 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Longo Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:49:14 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Discourage replication for SNSD/SNMD (#976) It's technically possible to replicate with SNSD/SNMD configurations. This is not safe for production environments, docs should discourage it. (See https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/17523) Staged http://192.241.195.202:9000/staging/DOCS-919-6-snsd-replication-nope/linux/operations/install-deploy-manage/multi-site-replication.html#load-balancers-installed-on-each-site Fixes https://github.com/minio/docs/issues/909 (last item to doc for that release) --- source/includes/common-replication.rst | 6 ++++-- .../install-deploy-manage/multi-site-replication.rst | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/includes/common-replication.rst b/source/includes/common-replication.rst index e6b75033..98200730 100644 --- a/source/includes/common-replication.rst +++ b/source/includes/common-replication.rst @@ -155,8 +155,10 @@ MinIO deployments in a site replication configuration do *not* replicate the cre .. start-mc-admin-replicate-load-balancing -When replicating to multi-node sites, use the URL or IP address of the site's load balancer, reverse proxy, or similar network control plane component which automatically routes requests to nodes in the deployment. +Specify the URL or IP address of the site's load balancer, reverse proxy, or similar network control plane component. +Requests are automatically routed to nodes in the deployment. -Using a single node for configuring site replication creates a single point of failure, where that node being offline results in replication failure. +MinIO recommends against using a single node hostname for a peer site. +This creates a single point of failure: if that node goes offline, replication fails. .. end-mc-admin-replicate-load-balancing diff --git a/source/operations/install-deploy-manage/multi-site-replication.rst b/source/operations/install-deploy-manage/multi-site-replication.rst index d61c2969..5a14f16a 100644 --- a/source/operations/install-deploy-manage/multi-site-replication.rst +++ b/source/operations/install-deploy-manage/multi-site-replication.rst @@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ You cannot disable versioning in site replication deployments. MinIO cannot replicate objects in prefixes in the bucket that you excluded from versioning. -Load Balancers Installed on Each Multi-Node Site -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Load Balancers Installed on Each Site +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. include:: /includes/common-replication.rst :start-after: start-mc-admin-replicate-load-balancing