Chapter 11. Georeplication of storage in Red Hat Quay

After adding storage and enabling “Replicate to storage engine by default” for Georeplications, you need to sync existing image data across all storage. To do this, you need to oc exec (or docker/kubectl exec) into the container and run:

scl enable python27 bash
python -m util.backfillreplication

# scl enable python27 bash
# python -m util.backfillreplication

This is a one time operation to sync content after adding new storage.

For each machine in each region, add a QUAY_DISTRIBUTED_STORAGE_PREFERENCE environment variable with the preferred storage engine for the region in which the machine is running.

For example, for a machine running in Europe with the config directory on the host available from /mnt/quay/config:

# docker login quay.io
Username: yourquayuser
Password: *****
# docker run -d -p 443:8443 -p 8080:8080 -v /mnt/quay/config:/conf/stack:Z \
    -e QUAY_DISTRIBUTED_STORAGE_PREFERENCE=europestorage \
    quay.io/redhat/quay:v3.2.2

# docker login quay.io
Username: yourquayuser
Password: *****
# docker run -d -p 443:8443 -p 8080:8080 -v /mnt/quay/config:/conf/stack:Z \
    -e QUAY_DISTRIBUTED_STORAGE_PREFERENCE=europestorage \
    quay.io/redhat/quay:v3.2.2