MinIO: Online storage server that reads and stores data for Kubernetes.

Command creates the folder explicitly at the specified path. For instructions to download the binary, RPM, or DEB files for those architectures, see the MinIO download page. Use the following commands to download the latest stable MinIO RPM and install it. Let’s explore this further in Google Compute Engine context. GCE has disksthat serve as physical storage for your compute nodes.

Test all upgrades in a lower environment before applying to production. Performing blind upgrades in production environments carries significant risk. Similarly, if your TLS certificates do not have the IP SAN for the MinIO server host, the MinIO Console may fail to validate the connection to the server. Use the MINIO_SERVER_URL environment variable and specify the proxy-accessible hostname of the MinIO server to allow the Console to use the MinIO server API using the TLS certificate. By default MinIO uses the port 9000 to listen for incoming connections. If your platform blocks the port by default, you may need to enable access to the port. MinIO strongly recommends using RPM or DEB installation routes.

Let’s Connect

For administrative tasks, MinIO has a web console and a client utility called mc. COSI is the ultimate cloud native solution but it is still in pre-alpha phase as of mid 2022. Unfortunately, it is not a recommended solution to any real-life project in 2022, and we are stuck with the unified API approach until COSI matures.. The unified API approach is by no means cloud native, but has come to maturity for adoption.

Here we declare the bucket and object methods we expect from our storage service implementations. Modern applications are built with these principles in mind. Typically, any modern application that deals with some kind of data , conforms to the cloud-native design by shipping the state to a relevant storage system. Tools like the MinIO client and rclone help to manage the stored data. Both tools are fairly easy to set up and simplify daily operations on the command line or for automation. Native deployment in public and private Cloud, based on kubernetes. You have now connected to the MinIO server through its graphical interface.

What Is Object Storage?

It is responsible for fielding requests for bucket creation, updates, deletion and access management. One instance of the controller manager is required per kubernetes cluster. Only one is needed even if multiple object storage providers are used in the cluster. While the hot storage destination has to be either a file system or Kubernetes persistent volume, remote tiers can be S3 , Azure Blob, or GCS. The hot tier is usually based on storage options available to the platform.

• The unified API approach is by no means cloud native, but has come to maturity for adoption.
• Objects accessibility may not offer the same consistency as file-based storage.
• When enabled, MinIO writes mutated objects to a different version than the original, allowing access to both the original object and the newer, changed object.
• MinIO requires the client perform both authentication and authorization for each new operation.Identity and access management is therefore a critical component of a MinIO configuration.

Authentication and authorization between MinIO client and MinIO server have a number of options. MinIO client may use the built-in standalone identity management in MinIO server. To Active Directory via LDAP, or any Identity provider that supports OIDC . In the Gateway mode, MinIO as a gateway between client and destination storage, and does not persist data to itself. In the past, the destination storage can be Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage and HDFS as backend. According to MinIO’s blog post from February 2022, the entire MinIO Gateway feature will be removed in August, leaving server mode the only option for MinIO. If we use S3 as the universal object storage protocol, does that also address object storage access with container workload on Kubernetes?

Create New Bucket

My data scraping project and the archive logs for the IBM Cloud Activity Tracker serve as examples. MinIO supports the widest range of use cases across the largest number of environments. Cloud native since inception, its software-defined suite runs seamlessly in the public cloud, private cloud and at the edge.

MinIO provides a consistent, performant and scalable object store for any Kubernetes distribution. MinIO is Kubernetes-native by design and S3 compatible from inception. Developers can quickly deploy persistent object storage for all of their cloud native applications. From the Kubernetes perspective, object stores are not different from any other key value stores or databases.

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External monitoring solutions scrape the MinIO Prometheus endpoint at regular intervals. MinIO recommends Grafana to monitor the Prometheus feed in MinIO. Administrators establish baselines and set alert thresholds for notifications, which can then be routed via Alertmanager to a notification platform such as PagerDuty, Freshservice or even SNMP. MinIO relies on an external KMS to bootstrap its internal key encryption server to enable high-performance, per object encryption. Each tenant runs its own KES server in an isolated namespace. Portability across vendors is only possible when both vendors support a common datapath-API. It is possible to port from AWS S3 to Ceph, or AWS S3 to MinIO and back as they all use S3 API. In contrast, it is not possible to port from AWS S3 and Google Cloud’s GCS or vice versa.