infinispan.md

Infinispan

Lithops with Infinispan as storage backend. Infinispan provides two different endpoints: infinispan (REST) and infinispan_hotrod (native binary).

Installation

1. Install Infinispan.

Configuration

Edit your Lithops config file and add the following keys:

REST endpoint

    lithops:
        storage: infinispan
        data_limit: 8 # More space for data than the 4MB default

    infinispan:
        username   : <USER_NAME>
        password   : <PASSWORD>
        mech: <DIGEST|BASIC> # Defaults to DIGEST
        endpoint   : <INFINISPAN_SERVER_URL:PORT>
        cache_names :
        - cache_name_1
        - cache_name_2
        - ...

Summary of configuration keys for Infinispan:

Group	Key	Default	Mandatory	Additional info
infinispan	endpoint		yes	Endpoint to your Infinispan server
infinispan	username		yes	The username
infinispan	password		yes	The password
infinispan	mech		no	Authentication mechanism
infinispan	cache_names		no	List of cache names. Each bucket will be mapped to a different cache with the same name. Defaults to ['storage']
infinispan	cache_type		no	Type of the cache. Defaults to default

Hotrod endpoint:

To run this endpoint you need to compile and install the Infinispan Python client (home page).

    lithops:
        storage: infinispan_hotrod
        data_limit: 8 # More space for data than the 4MB default

    infinispan_hotrod:
        username   : <USER_NAME>
        password   : <PASSWORD>
        endpoint   : <INFINISPAN_SERVER_HOSTNAME:PORT>
        cache_names :
        - cache_name_1
        - cache_name_2
        - ...

Summary of configuration keys for Infinispan_hotrod:

Group	Key	Default	Mandatory	Additional info
infinispan_hotrod	endpoint		yes	Endpoint to your Infinispan server
infinispan_hotrod	username		yes	The username
infinispan_hotrod	password		yes	The password
infinispan_hotrod	cache_names		no	List of cache names. Each bucket will be mapped to a different cache with the same name. Defaults to ['storage']