# Welcome to MINIO

Welcome to the *Minio API Reference*. It explains the Minio application programming interface. It describes various API operations, related request and response structures, and error codes.

Minio is an open source object storage released under [Apache license v2](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). It uses ``Rubberband Erasure`` coding to dynamically protect the data.

## How?

| Information  | Sections |
|:------------- |:-------------:|
| Overview  | Minio  |
| REST  | [Minio API](./api/minio.md) |
| Error List  | [Error Codes](./api/errors.md) |