Operating a Pelican Federation
A federation in Pelican refers to an instance of a data sharing ecosystem where members can share and access data as objects. To allow such an exchange of data to work, Pelican has two top-level central server components to coordinate origins and caches in the federation, direct client requests to the proper storage server, and manage namespace registration. They are the director and the registry. A Pelican federation requires both a director and a registry to be set up first before any origin or cache server can join the federation or any client can access objects in the federation.
Before Starting
Install Pelican
If you haven't installed Pelican, follow the instructions to install Pelican.
Prepare TLS Credentials
Pelican servers use https for serving its web UI, handling objects transfer requests and internal http requests. https requires a set of credential files in place to work. For details on how to set up the TLS credentials, refer to Federating Your Data page.
Next Steps
Follow the instructions below for serving a specific Pelican federation component.