# Flight Silo

Flight Silo allows users to connect to "silos" - cloud storage systems designed primarily to distribute software and projects, with more general file storage also available. Silo comes pre-installed as part of the User Suite included with Flight Solo.

# Setting up

Use flight silo type avail to list available types. e.g.

[flight@chead1 ~]$ flight silo type avail
┌──────┬───────────────────────────────┬──────────┐
│ Name │ Description                   │ Prepared │
├──────┼───────────────────────────────┼──────────┤
│ aws  │ Amazon Simple Storage Service │ false    │
└──────┴───────────────────────────────┴──────────┘

Types are not prepared by default. To prepare a type you must become a root user, and then do flight silo type prepare <type>. e.g.

[root@chead1 ~]# flight silo type prepare aws
Preparing...
Type aws prepared for use

Types are the backend providers of storage, each type can hold multiple silos. These can be listed with the command flight silo repo list. e.g.

[flight@chead1 ~]$ flight silo repo list
┌────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│ Name       │ Description                       │ Platform │ Public? │
├────────────┼───────────────────────────────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ openflight │ Openflight software and resources │ aws      │ true    │
└────────────┴───────────────────────────────────┴──────────┴─────────┘

# Viewing and accessing files

To list the files in a particular repo use the command flight silo file list <repo>: e.g.

[flight@chead1 ~]$ flight silo file list openflight:
OpenFOAM-v2212.tar.gz
motorBike.tar.gz

To pull a file from a repo, use the command flight silo file pull <repo>:<filepath> e.g.

[flight@chead1 ~]$ flight silo file pull openflight:motorBike.tar.gz
Pulling '/motorBike.tar.gz' into '/home/flight'...
File(s) downloaded to /home/flight/motorBike.tar.gz

# More information

These commands and a summary of each of them can be viewed with flight silo help, using the --help argument on a particular command will give more information about it. e.g.

[flight@chead1 ~]$ flight silo repo list --help
  SYNOPSIS:

    flight silo repo list

  DESCRIPTION:

    List available existing silos