Create a Shared Storage connection

A Shared Storage connection allows you to grant your capabilities access to files from a shared folder. This connection is especially useful for capabilities with large files, such as Technical lineage, as you do not need to manually upload these files directly to Edge, but rather define the file path when creating the new connection.

Note The Shared Storage connection is currently only available for the Technical lineage capability.

Before you begin

• You have created an Edge site on K3S.

Note This connection type is not available for Edge sites created on EKS.

Prerequisites

• You have a global role that has the System administration global permission.
• You have a global role that has the Manage Edge sites global permission.

Steps

1. Create a folder on the server where your Edge site is installed, relative to the --storage-path.
   • For example, sudo sh install-master.sh --storage-path /var/edge/storage properties.yaml -r registries.yaml.
   • When you create the Shared Storage connection, the correct location of this file appears next to the Folder field.
     • For example, Folder relative to /var/lib/edge/storage.
2. Open an Edge site.
   1. On the main menu, click , and then click Settings.
      The Settings page opens.
   2. Click Edge.
      The Edge sites overview appears.
   3. Click the name of an Edge site in the Edge site overview.
      The Edge site page appears.
3. Click Create Connection.
   The Connection settings page appears.
4. Enter the connection information.

   Field	Description	Required
   Name	The name of the connection.	Yes
   Description	The description of the connection.	No
   Connection provider	Select Shared Storage Connection.	Yes
   Folder	Enter the folder path of your shared folder created in step 1. Note Edge lists the correct location of this file to the right of this field.	Yes

5. Click Create.

What's next?

You can now create an Edge capability using your Shared Storage connection.