Creating data connections to your own S3-compatible object storage

If you do not have your own s3-compatible storage, or if you want to use a disposable local Minio instance instead, skip this section and follow the steps in Running a script to install local object storage buckets and create data connections.
Prerequisite

To create data connections to your existing S3-compatible storage buckets, you need the following credential information for the storage buckets:

  • Endpoint URL

  • Access key

  • Secret key

  • Region

  • Bucket name

If you don’t have this information, contact your storage administrator.

Procedures

Create data connections to your two storage buckets.

Create a data connection for saving your data and models

  1. In the OpenShift AI dashboard, navigate to the page for your data science project.

  2. Click the Data connections tab, and then click Add data connection.

    Add data connection

  3. Fill out the Add data connection form and name your connection My Storage. This connection is for saving your personal work, including data and models.

    Add my storage form

  4. Click Add data connection.

Create a data connection for saving pipeline artifacts

If you do not intend to complete the pipelines section of the workshop, you can skip this step.

  1. Click Add data connection.

  2. Fill out the form and name your connection Pipeline Artifacts.

    Add pipeline artifacts form

  3. Click Add data connection.

Verification

In the Data connections tab for the project, check to see that your data connections are listed.

List of project data connections
Next steps