Infinispan#

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

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

Cache names list. Each bucket will be mapped on a different cache with the same name # Optional [‘storage’] in default value

infinispan

cache_type

no

Type of the cache. # Optional ‘default’ in default value

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

Cache names list. Each bucket will be mapped on a different cache with the same name # Optional [‘storage’] in default value