@payloadcms/plugin-cloud-storage

Payload Cloud Storage Plugin

This repository contains the officially supported Payload Cloud Storage plugin. It extends Payload to allow you to store all uploaded media in third-party permanent storage.

NOTE: If you are using Payload 3.0 and one of the following storage services, you should use one of following packages instead of this one:

Service	Package
Vercel Blob	@payloadcms/storage-vercel-blob
AWS S3	@payloadcms/storage-s3
Azure	@payloadcms/storage-azure
Google Cloud Storage	@payloadcms/storage-gcs

This package is now best used for implementing custom storage solutions or third-party storage services that do not have @payloadcms/storage-* packages.

Installation

pnpm add @payloadcms/plugin-cloud-storage

Usage

import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
import { cloudStoragePlugin } from '@payloadcms/plugin-cloud-storage'

export default buildConfig({
  plugins: [
    cloudStoragePlugin({
      collections: {
        'my-collection-slug': {
          adapter: theAdapterToUse, // see docs for the adapter you want to use
        },
      },
    }),
  ],
  // The rest of your config goes here
})

Conditionally Enabling/Disabling

The proper way to conditionally enable/disable this plugin is to use the enabled property.

cloudStoragePlugin({
  enabled: process.env.MY_CONDITION === 'true',
  collections: {
    'my-collection-slug': {
      adapter: theAdapterToUse, // see docs for the adapter you want to use
    },
  },
}),

If the code is included in any way in your config but conditionally disabled in another fashion, you may run into issues such as Webpack Build Error: Can't Resolve 'fs' and 'stream' or similar because the plugin must be run at all times in order to properly extend the webpack config.

Features

Adapter-based Implementation

This plugin supports the following adapters:

• Azure Blob Storage
• AWS S3-style Storage
• Google Cloud Storage
• Vercel Blob Storage

However, you can create your own adapter for any third-party service you would like to use.

All adapters are implemented dev directory's Payload Config. See this file for examples.

Plugin options

This plugin is configurable to work across many different Payload collections. A * denotes that the property is required.

Option	Type	Description
collections *	Record<string, CollectionOptions>	Object with keys set to the slug of collections you want to enable the plugin for, and values set to collection-specific options.
enabled		boolean to conditionally enable/disable plugin. Default: true.

Collection-specific options:

Option	Type	Description
adapter *	Adapter	Pass in the adapter that you'd like to use for this collection. You can also set this field to null for local development if you'd like to bypass cloud storage in certain scenarios and use local storage.
disableLocalStorage	boolean	Choose to disable local storage on this collection. Defaults to true.
disablePayloadAccessControl	true	Set to true to disable Payload's access control. More
prefix	string	Set to media/images to upload files inside media/images folder in the bucket.
generateFileURL	GenerateFileURL	Override the generated file URL with one that you create.

Payload Access Control

Payload ships with access control that runs even on statically served files. The same read access control property on your upload-enabled collections is used, and it allows you to restrict who can request your uploaded files.

To preserve this feature, by default, this plugin keeps all file URLs exactly the same. Your file URLs won't be updated to point directly to your cloud storage source, as in that case, Payload's access control will be completely bypassed and you would need public readability on your cloud-hosted files.

Instead, all uploads will still be reached from the default /:collectionSlug/file/:filename path. This plugin will "pass through" all files that are hosted on your third-party cloud service—with the added benefit of keeping your existing access control in place.

If this does not apply to you (your upload collection has read: () => true or similar) you can disable this functionality by setting disablePayloadAccessControl to true. When this setting is in place, this plugin will update your file URLs to point directly to your cloud host.

Credit

This plugin was created with significant help, and code, from Alex Bechmann and Richard VanBergen. Thank you!!