ivankelly commented on a change in pull request #1941: Tiered Storage
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+title: Tiered Storage
+tags: [admin, tiered-storage]
+---
+
+Pulsar's **Tiered Storage** feature allows older backlog data to be offloaded
to long term storage, thereby freeing up space in BookKeeper and reducing
storage costs. This cookbook walks you through using tiered storage in your
Pulsar cluster.
+
+## When should I use Tiered Storage?
+
+Tiered storage should be used when you have a topic for which you want to keep
a very long backlog for a long time. For example, if you have a topic
containing user actions which you use to train your recommendation systems, you
may want to keep that data for a long time, so that if you change your
recommendation algorithm you can rerun it against your full user history.
+
+## The offloading mechanism
+
+A topic in Pulsar is backed by a log, known as a managed ledger. This log is
composed of an ordered list of segments. Pulsar only every writes to the final
segment of the log. All previous segments are sealed. The data within the
segment is immutable. This is known as a segment oriented architecture.
+
+{% include figure.html src="/img/pulsar-tiered-storage.png" alt="Tiered
Storage" width="80" %}
+
+The Tiered Storage offloading mechanism takes advantage of this segment
oriented architecture. When offloading is requested, the segments of the log
are copied, one-by-one, to tiered storage. All segments of the log, apart from
the segment currently being written to can be offloaded.
+
+## Amazon S3
+
+Tiered storage currently supports S3 for long term storage. The broker must be
configured with the S3 bucket into which the offloaded data will be placed and
the AWS region where that bucket exists.
+
+The configured S3 bucket must exist before attempting to offload. If it does
not offload, will fail.
+
+Pulsar users multipart objects to update the segment data. It is possible that
a broker could crash while uploading the data. We recommend you add a lifecycle
rule your S3 bucket to expire incomplete multipart upload after a day or two to
avoid getting charged for incomplete uploads.
+
+### Configuring the broker
+
+Offloading is configured in ```broker.conf```.
+
+At a minimum, the user must configure the driver, the region and the bucket.
+
+```conf
+managedLedgerOffloadDriver=S3
+s3ManagedLedgerOffloadRegion=eu-west-3
+s3ManagedLedgerOffloadBucket=pulsar-topic-offload
+```
+
+It is also possible to specify the s3 endpoint directly, using
```s3ManagedLedgerOffloadServiceEndpoint```. This is useful if you are using a
non-AWS storage service which provides an S3 compatible API.
+
+{% include admonition.html type="warning" content="If the endpoint is
specified directly, then the region must not be set." %}
+
+{% include admonition.html type="warning" content="The broker.conf of all
brokers must have the same configuration for driver, region and bucket for
offload to avoid data becoming unavailable as topics move from one broker to
another." %}
+
+Pulsar also provides some knobs to configure they size of requests sent to S3.
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