Thumbor

Thumbor is an open-source project for on-demand image processing. Thumbor runs as an HTTP service and performs transformations, such as image cropping and resizing, applying filters, and many others.

Thumbor features:

• Support for all popular image formats.
• Smart cropping and resizing.
• Accelerated image processing using caching.
• Support for various storage types (local disk, Yandex Object Storage, and others).
• Face and object recognition (glasses, facial features) based on computer vision technology.
• Integration with various programming languages.

This product build is adapted to work with Yandex Object Storage.

1. Create a bucket in Yandex Object Storage.

2. Upload images to the bucket.

3. Create a service account, which is required for Thumbor.

4. Create a static key and save it to a file named sa-key.json:

   yc iam access-key create \
      --service-account-name <Thumbor service account name> \
      --format json > sa-key.json
   

5. Set the bucket object read access rights for the service account.

6. Configure Thumbor:

   • Namespace: Select a namespace or create a new one.
   • Application name: Enter a name for the application.
   • Bucket name: Specify the name of the previously created bucket.
   • Object Storage static access key: Paste the contents of the sa-key.json file.
   • (optional) Security key: Specify the security key for URL signing.
   • Allow unsigned URLs (unsafe): Select this option if you didn’t specify a security key at the previous step.
   • Subfolder in the bucket: Specify the name of the bucket (without the ending / symbol) where images are located.

7. Click Install.

8. Wait for the application to change its status to Deployed.

• Transforming images located in Yandex Object Storage.

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