Add documentation for new Admin API and a few infos on K2V

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# Specification of Garage's administration API
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title = "Specification of Garage's administration API"
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The Garage administration API is accessible through a dedicated server whose
listen address is specified in the `[admin]` section of the configuration
file (see [configuration file
reference](@/documentation/reference-manual/configuration.md))
**WARNING.** At this point, there is no comittement to stability of the APIs described in this document.
We will bump the version numbers prefixed to each API endpoint at each time the syntax
or semantics change, meaning that code that relies on these endpoint will break
when changes are introduced.
The Garage administration API was introduced in version 0.7.2, this document
does not apply to older versions of Garage.
## Access control
The admin API uses two different tokens for acces control, that are specified in the config file's `[admin]` section:
- `metrics_token`: the token for accessing the Metrics endpoint (if this token is not set in the config file, the Metrics endpoint can be accessed without access control);
- `admin_token`: the token for accessing all of the other administration endpoints (if this token is not set in the config file, access to these endpoints is disabled entirely).
- `metrics_token`: the token for accessing the Metrics endpoint (if this token
is not set in the config file, the Metrics endpoint can be accessed without
access control);
- `admin_token`: the token for accessing all of the other administration
endpoints (if this token is not set in the config file, access to these
endpoints is disabled entirely).
These tokens are used as simple HTTP bearer tokens. In other words, to
authenticate access to an admin API endpoint, add the following HTTP header
to your request:
```
Authorization: Bearer <token>
```
## Administration API endpoints

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data_dir = "/var/lib/garage/data"
block_size = 1048576
block_manager_background_tranquility = 2
replication_mode = "3"
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[admin]
api_bind_addr = "0.0.0.0:3903"
metrics_token = "cacce0b2de4bc2d9f5b5fdff551e01ac1496055aed248202d415398987e35f81"
admin_token = "ae8cb40ea7368bbdbb6430af11cca7da833d3458a5f52086f4e805a570fb5c2a"
trace_sink = "http://localhost:4317"
```
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will not be deduplicated with chunks from newly uploaded files, meaning you
might use more storage space that is optimally possible.
### `block_manager_background_tranquility`
This parameter tunes the activity of the background worker responsible for
resyncing data blocks between nodes. The higher the tranquility value is set,
the more the background worker will wait between iterations, meaning the load
on the system (including network usage between nodes) will be reduced. The
minimal value for this parameter is `0`, where the background worker will
allways work at maximal throughput to resynchronize blocks. The default value
is `2`, where the background worker will try to spend at most 1/3 of its time
working, and 2/3 sleeping in order to reduce system load.
### `replication_mode`
Garage supports the following replication modes:
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### `api_bind_addr`
If specified, Garage will bind an HTTP server to this port and address, on
which it will listen to requests for administration features. Currently,
this endpoint only exposes Garage metrics in the Prometheus format at
`/metrics`. This endpoint is not authenticated. In the future, bucket and
access key management might be possible by REST calls to this endpoint.
which it will listen to requests for administration features.
See [administration API reference](@/documentation/reference-manual/admin-api.md) to learn more about these features.
### `metrics_token` (since version 0.7.2)
The token for accessing the Metrics endpoint. If this token is not set in
the config file, the Metrics endpoint can be accessed without access
control.
You can use any random string for this value. We recommend generating a random token with `openssl rand -hex 32`.
### `admin_token` (since version 0.7.2)
The token for accessing all of the other administration endpoints. If this
token is not set in the config file, access to these endpoints is disabled
entirely.
You can use any random string for this value. We recommend generating a random token with `openssl rand -hex 32`.
### `trace_sink`

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title = "K2V"
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Starting with version 0.7.2, Garage introduces an optionnal feature, K2V,
which is an alternative storage API designed to help efficiently store
many small values in buckets (in opposition to S3 which is more designed
to store large blobs).
K2V is currently disabled at compile time in all builds, as the
specification is still subject to changes. To build a Garage version with
K2V, the Cargo feature flag `k2v` must be activated. Special builds with
the `k2v` feature flag enabled can be obtained from our download page under
"Extra builds": such builds can be identified easily as their tag name ends
with `-k2v` (example: `v0.7.2-k2v`).
The specification of the K2V API can be found
[here](https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/src/branch/k2v/doc/drafts/k2v-spec.md).
This document also includes a high-level overview of K2V's design.
The K2V API uses AWSv4 signatures for authentification, same as the S3 API.
The AWS region used for signature calculation is always the same as the one
defined for the S3 API in the config file.
## Enabling and using K2V
To enable K2V, download and run a build that has the `k2v` feature flag
enabled, or produce one yourself. Then, add the following section to your
configuration file:
```toml
[k2v_api]
api_bind_addr = "<ip>:<port>"
```
Please select a port number that is not already in use by another API
endpoint (S3 api, admin API) or by the RPC server.
We provide an early-stage K2V client library for Rust which can be imported by adding the following to your `Cargo.toml` file:
```toml
k2v-client = { git = "https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage.git" }
```
There is also a simple CLI utility which can be built from source in the
following way:
```sh
git clone https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage.git
cd garage/src/k2v-client
cargo build --features cli --bin k2v-cli
```
The CLI utility is self-documented, run `k2v-cli --help` to learn how to use
it. There is also a short README.md in the `src/k2v-client` folder with some
instructions.