Generating S3 Access Keys for the Global Namespace

Describes how to obtain an S3 user access key and secret key that can be used to perform operations on S3 resources anywhere in the global namespace.

For the fabric manager you can generate and download a user access key and secret key. These keys facilitate command-line and programmatic (API) access to S3 resources for all fabrics in the namespace. For example, once you have generated the keys for the fabric manager, you can use MinIO client (mc) commands to set an alias for the fabric manager. Then you can use the same alias to perform operations on all fabrics in the namespace. For information about the supported mc commands, see MinIO Client (mc) Commands.

You can generate the keys only twice for the same global namespace. More attempts to generate keys result in an error message.

Use these steps:
  1. Sign in to your local fabric as a fabric manager. The Global namespace screen appears.
  2. In the Global namespace card, click the Graph view.
  3. Click the icon for the global namespace.
  4. Click View access points:

    The Access points screen is displayed.
  5. Click the S3 servers tab. The screen displays the Access keys and S3 server details:

  6. Click Generate key. A confirmation dialog box asks if you want to generate a new S3 key.
  7. Click Generate key. A dialog box displays the access key and secret key information. For example:

  8. Click Download JSON if you want to download the keys for the global namespace as a JSON file.
  9. Click Download if you want to download the S3 end points information as a JSON file.