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Enable serving static objects from an external storage

Ahmad Sherif requested to merge static-objects-external-storage into master

What does this MR do?

It consists of two parts:

  1. Redirecting users to the configured external storage when requesting a static object (e.g. an archive)
  2. Allowing the external storage to request the static object(s) on behalf of the user by means of specific tokens

Part of gitlab-com/gl-infra/infrastructure#6829

Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Performance and testing

Security

If this MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization and authentication methods and other items described in the security review guidelines:

  • Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
  • The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
  • Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team
Edited by Thong Kuah

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