Minio

• Docs
• Arch wiki

Community edition

• MinIO’s Community Edition: The End ? 🚨
• Management UI was removed from the Community Edition
  • Minio removed most management from WebUI

    Minio recently published a new version which removes most if not all of the management features that the Console UI had, forcing users to either work with the mc CLI tool or upgrade to the paid version.

Client

see ./client.md

Server

• Container Installation
• MinIO Object Storage for Kubernetes
• State (IAM etc.) is stored in the .minio.sys directory of the data PVC

Admin client usage

• Minio admin client docs
  • User managment

Minio directpv

• Minio's CSI driver

Install directpv krew plugin

kubectl krew install directpv

Install CSI driver with helm chart

• Official helm chart got removed
  • Last chart version update 2023-12, but recent commits to templates/
  • No value templating, plain manifests
  • No Helm chart repository
  • No way to Configure replicas
  • Hardcoded Namespace
• nineinfra-charts/minio-directpv
  • Chart source
  • 4 commits, one relase, last update 2023-11

Install CSI driver manually

Only use this method for testing, the helm chart method should be preferred.

Install DirectPV in all Kubernetes nodes:

kubectl directpv install

This will install the following resources:

┌──────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
│ NAME                                 │ KIND                     │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┤
│ directpv                             │ Namespace                │
│ directpv-min-io                      │ ServiceAccount           │
│ directpv-min-io                      │ ClusterRole              │
│ directpv-min-io                      │ ClusterRoleBinding       │
│ directpv-min-io                      │ Role                     │
│ directpv-min-io                      │ RoleBinding              │
│ directpvdrives.directpv.min.io       │ CustomResourceDefinition │
│ directpvvolumes.directpv.min.io      │ CustomResourceDefinition │
│ directpvnodes.directpv.min.io        │ CustomResourceDefinition │
│ directpvinitrequests.directpv.min.io │ CustomResourceDefinition │
│ directpv-min-io                      │ CSIDriver                │
│ directpv-min-io                      │ StorageClass             │
│ node-server                          │ Daemonset                │
│ controller                           │ Deployment               │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘