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diff --git a/doc/architecture/blueprints/object_storage/index.md b/doc/architecture/blueprints/object_storage/index.md index a79374d60bd..7864c951eca 100644 --- a/doc/architecture/blueprints/object_storage/index.md +++ b/doc/architecture/blueprints/object_storage/index.md @@ -89,20 +89,23 @@ replaced by a mock implementation. Furthermore, the presence of a shared disk, both in CI and in local development, often hides broken implementations until we deploy on an HA environment. -Shipping MinIO as part of the product will reduce the differences +One consideration we can take is to investigate shipping MinIO as part of the product. This could reduce the differences between a cloud and a local installation, standardizing our file storage on a single technology. -The removal of local disk operations will reduce the complexity of +The removal of local disk operations would reduce the complexity of development as well as mitigate several security attack vectors as we no longer write user-provided data on the local storage. -It will also reduce human errors as we will always run a local object +It would also reduce human errors as we will always run a local object storage in development mode and any local file disk access should raise a red flag during the merge request review. This effort is described in [this epic](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/6099). +Before considering any specific third-party technology, the +open source software licensing implications should be considered. As of 23 April 2021, [MinIO is subject to the AGPL v3 license](https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/069432566fcfac1f1053677cc925ddafd750730a). GitLab Legal must be consulted before any decision is taken to ship MinIO as proposed in this blueprint. + ### Enable direct upload by default on every upload Because every group of features requires its own bucket, we don't have |