Do the new storage options in Bitbucket DC 6.0 support cloud storage

[Zac Cicala]

Specifically I'm wondering if the storage options introduced in 6.0 support direct access to Google GCS or Amazon S3?

The documentation at https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/adding-additional-storage-for-your-repository-data-966065964.html only mentions NFS, which for a variety of reasons isn't a great option for us.

[Marty]

Hi Zac,

I'm not on the Bitbucket team and am no Data Center expert, but I will try to help.

My understanding is that NFS is a File System Protocol, meaning that cloud providers can provide an NFS interface to their storage services.

For example, AWS has Storage Gateway https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/11/aws-storage-gateway-provides-a-file-interface-to-objects-in-your-amazon-s3-buckets/

You could also look into Google Cloud's Elastifile CloudConnect: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/filers-on-compute-engine

There are many other storage options for GCP, that one may not be the right one for you.

You will need to do your own research on these, but the idea is the same - use NFS to connect to the Cloud Services.

I hope that helps!

[Christian Glockner]

Hi Martyn,

While you're technically correct, the problem will be that latency for these data stores will be too large for Bitbucket Server to work properly with a, say, S3-backed NFS.

Cheers,

Christian

Premier Support Engineer

Atlassian