How do I use it for backend that requires token?

[stevefan1999-personal]

It seems like I cannot go past the token generation, and I realized it is not just for GDrive but for all other backend types that requires token too like OneDrive, Mega and Box.

[Snake4life]

did you find a solution?

[Jancis]

so the drive-token would not work? does it work with rclone?
https://rclone.org/drive/#drive-token

[PatrickHuetter]

@Jancis No, it's mostly an access and renew token (within a jwt token). Without this, you can't use dropbox or similar services that use OAuth2 since the token changes from time to time (gets renewed by rclone) and needs to be persisted somewhere.

[Jancis]

Oh, sounds like chicken and egg problem where You need to mount a rwx storage on all rclone plugin pods and share the token, but You don't have any :)

I had some success with nfs-subdir-external-provisioner and a custom nfs server. If You mount a storage with rclone in it, You might have more or less the same system (but the storage is mounted in a single pod then). If You customize the nfs server, You could store and persist the token.

[dvcrn]

1. Do rclone config on your local machine
2. Connect to the remote backend
3. rclone config view
4. Copy config into PersistenVolume

[PatrickHuetter]

This won't work stable since refresh tokens change and it might work the first time but won't after a while or after restarting the backend pod after a token isn't active anymore. The best case would be to you optionally a RWX volume OR a secret that can be written via k8s API by the pod. I think the best option would be to use an RWX volume since most storage providers already provide that.

[stevefan1999-personal]

This won't work stable since refresh tokens change and it might work the first time but won't after a while or after restarting the backend pod after a token isn't active anymore. The best case would be to you optionally a RWX volume OR a secret that can be written via k8s API by the pod. I think the best option would be to use an RWX volume since most storage providers already provide that.

Agreed. We need a feedback mechanism.