MinIO is a high performance distributed object storage server, designed for large-scale private cloud infrastructure. MinIO is designed in a cloud-native manner to scale sustainably in multi-tenant environments.
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Installing & Configuring MinIO
You can install the MinIO server by compiling the source code or via a binary file. For this guide, we will make use of the binary and we will be deploying on a server running Ubuntu 18.04.
First, if you haven't updated the package database recently, update it now:
Next, download the MinIO server binary:
You will need to change permissions for the file you just downloaded to make it executable:
Next, the binary will need to be relocated to the /usr/local/bin directory where the startup script expects to find it. We'll be downloading the startup script below. It is also not suggested to run the MinIO server as root. Instead, we'll create a user called minio-user.
This is done by running:
Dependent upon your particular setup, the creation of the storage directory may vary.
The storage directory for MinIO will need to have its permissions adjusted to allow minio-user access.
Next up, we will need to create a MinIO configuration file. Typically, the most common location for this file is in /etc/. Make sure this location has the same permissions as the storage directory for minio-user.
An example of the MinIO configuration:
MINIO_ACCESS_KEY: a key set to access UI or the bucket from a remote application
MINIO_VOLUMES: is the directory (path) where your files will are stored
MINIO_OPTS: is multifaceted, it can include the working path of MinIO configuration, options of how to access the UI of MinIO
MINIO_SECRET_KEY: this is similar to that of the access key. it should not be the same key you utilized for the access key.
MinIO Startup Script
To allow MinIO to startup at reboot, a startup script is required. Download the descriptor file:
Double check the contents of this file. Once you are satisified with the content, the descriptor file will then need to be moved to /etc/systemd/system.
To ensure systemd knows of the new startup script, you'll need to reload the systemd units:
Also, to ensure that the MinIO Server automatically starts at reboot, add it to systemctl:
This completes the install, and setup process for MinIO. You should now be able to start the service!
Double check that is in fact running:
You should see an output similar to:
More information about MinIO is available at the project’s documentation website & information about how to secure your MinIO Server can be found at Let's Encrypt.
Prerequisites
Docker installed on your machine. Download the relevant installer from here.
Run Standalone MinIO on Docker.
MinIO needs a persistent volume to store configuration and application data. However, for testing purposes, you can launch MinIO by simply passing a directory (/data in the example below). This directory gets created in the container filesystem at the time of container start. But all the data is lost after container exits.
To create a MinIO container with persistent storage, you need to map local persistent directories from the host OS to virtual config ~/.minio and export /data directories. To do this, run the below commands
GNU/Linux and macOS
Windows
Run Distributed MinIO on Docker
Distributed MinIO can be deployed via Docker Compose or Swarm mode. The major difference between these two being, Docker Compose creates a single host, multi-container deployment, while Swarm mode creates a multi-host, multi-container deployment.
This means Docker Compose lets you quickly get started with Distributed MinIO on your computer - ideal for development, testing, staging environments. While deploying Distributed MinIO on Swarm offers a more robust, production level deployment.
MinIO Docker Tips
MinIO Custom Access and Secret Keys
To override MinIO's auto-generated keys, you may pass secret and access keys explicitly as environment variables. MinIO server also allows regular strings as access and secret keys.
GNU/Linux and macOS
Windows
Run MinIO Docker as a regular user
Docker provides standardized mechanisms to run docker containers as non-root users.
GNU/Linux and macOS
On Linux and macOS you can use --user to run the container as regular user.
NOTE: make sure --user has write permission to ${HOME}/data prior to using --user.
Windows
On windows you would need to use Docker integrated windows authentication and Create a container with Active Directory Support
NOTE: make sure your AD/Windows user has write permissions to D:data prior to using credentialspec=.
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MinIO Custom Access and Secret Keys using Docker secrets
To override MinIO's auto-generated keys, you may pass secret and access keys explicitly by creating access and secret keys as Docker secrets. MinIO server also allows regular strings as access and secret keys.
Create a MinIO service using docker service to read from Docker secrets.
Read more about docker servicehere
Minio Https
MinIO Custom Access and Secret Key files
To use other secret names follow the instructions above and replace access_key and secret_key with your custom names (e.g. my_secret_key,my_custom_key). Run your service with
MINIO_ROOT_USER_FILE and MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE also support custom absolute paths, in case Docker secrets are mounted to custom locations or other tools are used to mount secrets into the container. For example, HashiCorp Vault injects secrets to /vault/secrets. With the custom names above, set the environment variables to
Retrieving Container ID
To use Docker commands on a specific container, you need to know the Container ID for that container. To get the Container ID, run
Minion Images
-a flag makes sure you get all the containers (Created, Running, Exited). Then identify the Container ID from the output.
Starting and Stopping Containers
To start a stopped container, you can use the docker start command.
Minion Images
To stop a running container, you can use the docker stop command.
MinIO container logs
Minions Characters
To access MinIO logs, you can use the docker logs command.
Minion Memes
Monitor MinIO Docker Container
To monitor the resources used by MinIO container, you can use the docker stats command.
Minio Kubernetes
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