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MinIO Object Storage

Installation and Management

This section documents steps for installing and managing the AGPLv3-licensed Community MinIO Object Storage on Kubernetes and Baremetal infrastructures.

MinIO is a software-defined high performance distributed object storage server. You can run MinIO on consumer or enterprise-grade hardware and a variety of operating systems and architectures.

All MinIO deployments implement Erasure Coding backends. You can deploy MinIO using one of the following topologies:

Single-Node Single-Drive (SNSD or “Standalone”)

Local development and evaluation with no/limited reliability

Single-Node Multi-Drive (SNMD or “Standalone Multi-Drive”)

Workloads with lower performance, scale, and capacity requirements

Drive-level reliability with configurable tolerance for loss of up to 1/2 all drives

Evaluation of multi-drive topologies and failover behavior.

Multi-Node Multi-Drive (MNMD or “Distributed”)

Enterprise-grade high-performance object storage

Multi Node/Drive level reliability with configurable tolerance for loss of up to 1/2 all nodes/drives

Primary storage for AI/ML, Distributed Query, Analytics, and other Data Lake components

Scalable for Petabyte+ workloads - both storage capacity and performance

Kubernetes

MinIO provides a Kubernetes-native Operator framework for managing and deploying Tenants onto your managed infrastructure.

MinIO fully supports upstream Kubernetes and most flavors which inherit from the upstream as a base. This includes, but is not limited to, RedHat Openshift, SUSE Rancher, VMWare Tanzu. MinIO also fully supports cloud-based Kubernetes engines such as Elastic Kubernetes Engine, Google Kubernetes Service, and Azure Kubernetes Service.

Select the link most appropriate for your Kubernetes infrastructure. If your provider is not listed, use the Kubernetes Upstream documentation as a baseline and modify as needed based on your provider’s guidance or divergence from upstream semantics and behavior.

Baremetal

MinIO supports deploying onto baremetal infrastructure - physical machines or virtualized hosts - running Linux, MacOS, and Windows. You can also deploy MinIO as a container onto supported Operating Systems.

Important

MinIO strongly recommends Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) or Kubernetes (Upstream, OpenShift) for long-term development and production environments.

MinIO provides no guarantee of support for SNMD or MNMD topologies on MacOS, Windows, or Containerized deployments.

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