gimme

gimme

A self-hosted CDN solution written in Go.

What is a CDN ?

A content delivery network (CDN) refers to a geographically distributed group of servers which work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content.

A CDN allows for the quick transfer of assets needed for loading Internet content including HTML pages, javascript files, stylesheets, images, and videos. […]

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cdn/what-is-a-cdn/

Configuration

Gimme configuration is stored in a yaml file.

You need to created it before running the application.

Example

admin:
  user: gimmeadmin
  password: gimmeadmin
port: 8080 # (default 8080)
secret: secret
s3:
  url: your.s3.url.cloud
  key: s3key
  secret: s3secret
  bucketName: gimme (default gimme)
  location: eu-west-1
  ssl: true

Run application

From sources

make build

./gimme

With docker

Execute the following command to run a gimme instance.

docker run -p 8080:8080 -v `pwd`/gimme.yml:/config/gimme.yml \
  ziggornif/gimme:latest

Or with docker compose :

version: "3.9"
services:
  minio:
    image: minio/minio
    command: server /data --console-address ":9001"
    ports:
      - "9000:9000"
      - "9001:9001"
  gimme:
    image: ziggornif/gimme:latest
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - ./gimme.yml:/config/gimme.yml

Run a local object storage

docker run \
  -p 9000:9000 \
  -p 9001:9001 \
  minio/minio server /data --console-address ":9001"

/!\ You must create the access key / secret from Minio admin console if you are using a local minio object storage.

Architecture

The CDN core is based on a S3 object storage.

Each package will be stored in a bucket as a folder named <package>@<version> to manage packages versioning.

The project use the Minio SDK to be compatible with all S3 providers.

💡NOTE : A caching system in front of the CDN is strongly recommended to improve performance.

Usage

Create access token

Use your GIMME_ADMIN_USER and GIMME_ADMIN_PASSWORD as a basic authentication to create a new access token.

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8080/create-token' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic Z2ltbWVhZG1pbjpnaW1tZWFkbWlu' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "name": "awesome-token",
    "expirationDate": "2022-02-17"
}'

NOTE : If the expirationDate is not set, the token expiration will be set to 15 minutes

Upload content to the CDN

The POST /packages route allows you to upload content to the CDN.

This route currently only accept a zip archive file which contains the files to import.

You also must provide a package name and a version.

This route needs a valid access-token to process the upload.

Example :

curl --location --request POST 'http://localhost:8080/packages' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer xxxxxxx' \
--form 'file=@"tests/awesome-lib.zip"' \
--form 'name="awesome-lib"' \
--form 'version="1.0.0"'

Load library from the CDN

Once your package uploaded in the CDN, you can use it from the following URL.

<base_url>/gimme/<package>@<version>/<your_file>.<js|css|...>

Example :

Open the tests/index.html file.

This file load js and css dependencies from the CDN (uploaded with the previous curl command).

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://localhost:8080/gimme/awesome-lib@1.0.0/awesome.min.css">
...
<script src="http://localhost:8080/gimme/awesome-lib@1.0.0/awesome-lib.min.js" type="module"></script>

You can try it with your favourite http server tool.

cd tests
npx http-server --cors .

Show package content

The root package URL package allows to view the list of available files.

Example :

<base_url>/gimme/awesome-lib@3.0.0

Setup a basic cache system with Nginx

Here is a docker-compose deployment file with a simple Nginx cache system.

The following configuration will cache all called CDN files during 10 minutes.

version: "3.9"
services:
  front:
    image: nginx
    volumes:
      - ./default.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
    ports:
      - "80:80"
  gimme:
    image: ziggornif/gimme:latest
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    volumes:
      - ./gimme-conf/gimme.yml:/config/gimme.yml

And the Nginx default.conf config file :

events {

}
http {
  proxy_cache_path  /cache  levels=1:2 keys_zone=STATIC:10m inactive=24h  max_size=1g;
  server {
    listen 80;

    location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|woff2|css|js)$ {
		proxy_pass http://gimme:8080;
		proxy_set_header       Host $host;
        proxy_buffering        on;
        proxy_cache            STATIC;
        proxy_cache_valid      200  10m;
	}

    location / {
      proxy_pass http://gimme:8080;
    }
  }
}

Deployment

The example deployment folder contains linux systemd, docker and kubernetes deployment configuration examples.

Monitoring

Each CDN running instance expose an OpenMetrics endpoint.

This endpoint is useful to monitor instances with Prometheus and Grafana.

A monitoring configuration with a default prometheus configuration and a grafana dashboard is avaiable in the monitoring example dir.

There is also a docker-compose deployment configuration with prometheus and grafana here : link