Minio

Minio is a minimal cloud storage server for Micro Services. Written in Golang and licensed under Apache license v2. Compatible with Amazon S3 APIs.

Description

Micro services environment provisions one Minio server per application instance. Scalability is achieved through large number of smaller personalized instances. This version of the Minio binary is built using Filesystem storage backend for magnetic and solid state disks.

Minio Client

Minio Client (mc) provides a modern alternative to Unix commands like ls, cat, cp, sync, and diff. It supports POSIX compatible filesystems and Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage systems. It is entirely written in Golang.

Amazon S3 Compatible Client Libraries

• Golang Library
• Java Library
• Nodejs Library
• Python Library
• .Net Library

Install

GNU/Linux

Download minio for:

• 64-bit Intel from https://dl.minio.io:9000/updates/minio/2015/Dec/linux-amd64/minio
• 32-bit Intel from https://dl.minio.io:9000/updates/minio/2015/Dec/linux-386/minio
• 32-bit ARM from https://dl.minio.io:9000/updates/minio/2015/Dec/linux-arm/minio

$ chmod +x minio
$ ./minio help

OS X

Download minio from https://dl.minio.io:9000/updates/minio/2015/Dec/darwin-amd64/minio

$ chmod 755 minio
$ ./minio help

Microsoft Windows

Download minio for:

• 64-bit from https://dl.minio.io:9000/updates/minio/2015/Dec/windows-amd64/minio.exe
• 32-bit from https://dl.minio.io:9000/updates/minio/2015/Dec/windows-386/minio.exe

C:\Users\Username\Downloads> minio.exe help

Docker container

Download minio for docker.

$ docker pull minio/minio

Read more here on How to configure data volume containers for Minio?

Source

NOTE: Source installation is intended for only developers and advanced users. ‘minio update’ continous delivery mechanism is not supported for ‘go get’ based binary builds. Please download official releases from https://minio.io/#minio.

If you do not have a working Golang environment, please follow Install Golang.

$ GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 go get -u github.com/minio/minio

How to use Minio?

NAME:
  minio server - Start Minio cloud storage server.

USAGE:
  minio server [OPTION VALUE] PATH

  OPTION = expiry        VALUE = NN[h|m|s] [DEFAULT=Unlimited]
  OPTION = min-free-disk VALUE = NN% [DEFAULT: 10%]

EXAMPLES:
  1. Start minio server on Linux.
        $ minio server /home/shared

  2. Start minio server on Windows.
        $ minio server C:\MyShare

  3. Start minio server bound to a specific IP:PORT, when you have multiple network interfaces.
        $ minio --address 192.168.1.101:9000 server /home/shared

  4. Start minio server with minimum free disk threshold to 5%
        $ minio server min-free-disk 5% /home/shared/Pictures

  5. Start minio server with minimum free disk threshold to 15% with auto expiration set to 1h
        $ minio server min-free-disk 15% expiry 1h /home/shared/Documents

Start Minio server.

$ minio server ~/Photos
AccessKey: G5GJRH51R2HSUWYPGIX5  SecretKey: uxhBC1Yscut3/u81l5L8Yp636ZUk32N4m/gFASuZ

To configure Minio Client.

	$ wget https://dl.minio.io:9000/updates/2015/Nov/linux-amd64/mc
	$ chmod 755 mc
	$ ./mc config host add http://localhost:9000 G5GJRH51R2HSUWYPGIX5 uxhBC1Yscut3/u81l5L8Yp636ZUk32N4m/gFASuZ
	$ ./mc mb localhost:9000/photobucket
	$ ./mc cp ~/Photos... localhost:9000/photobucket

Starting minio server:
Listening on http://127.0.0.1:9000
Listening on http://172.30.2.17:9000

How to use AWS SDK with Minio?

Please follow the documentation here - Using aws-sdk-go with Minio server

How to use s3cmd with Minio?

Even with Signature version '4' enabled, 's3cmd' falls back to Signature version '2' for listing your buckets. Since minio server is only Signature version '4' listing your buckets with Signature version '2' fails. We have no immediate plans on supporting Signature version '2'. Please follow https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/987 to know more on this issue.

s3cmd is currently not supported.

Contribute to Minio Project

Please follow Minio Contributor's Guide

Jobs

If you think in Lisp or Haskell and hack in go, you would blend right in. Send your github link to callhome@minio.io.