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Version: 3.1

MinIO on Kubernetes on Portworx

Overview

MinIO is a high-performance distributed object store with an S3 compatible API.

The following steps deploy the latest version of the MinIO operator and tenant on Kubernetes. Refer to the MinIO documentation for more information.

Prerequisites

  • Have a Kubernetes cluster running version 1.19 or newer.
  • Have Portworx installed on your Kubernetes cluster. For details, see Install Portworx.
  • Meet the MinIO prerequisites.

Deploy the MinIO Operator

Follow the steps in the MinIO documentation to deploy the MinIO Operator.

Create a MinIO Tenant using the command line

note

The example deployment in this document is not recommended for production environments. Refer to the MinIO documentation for more details.

There are multiple ways to deploy MinIO tenants. In this example, we will create a tenant using the command line.

Portworx offers a set of Storage classes out of the box. In the example, we are using the px-csi-db StorageClass to provision Portworx volumes.

  1. Check the storage classes and make sure that px-csi-db is set as the default:

    kubectl get sc
    px-csi-db (default)                  pxd.portworx.com                Delete          Immediate           true                   52m
    px-csi-db-cloud-snapshot pxd.portworx.com Delete Immediate true 52m
    px-csi-db-cloud-snapshot-encrypted pxd.portworx.com Delete Immediate true 52m
    ...
    px-db kubernetes.io/portworx-volume Delete Immediate true 52m
    px-db-cloud-snapshot kubernetes.io/portworx-volume Delete Immediate true 52m
    px-db-cloud-snapshot-encrypted kubernetes.io/portworx-volume Delete Immediate true 52m
    ...
    px-replicated kubernetes.io/portworx-volume Delete Immediate true 52m
    px-replicated-encrypted kubernetes.io/portworx-volume Delete Immediate true 52m
    stork-snapshot-sc stork-snapshot Delete Immediate true 52m

    If you have a different default storage class, mark it as non-default and mark the px-csi-db StorageClass as default. Refer to the Kubernetes documentation for information about marking non-default and default storage classes.

  2. Create a MinIO tenant namespace:

    kubectl create ns minio-demo
    namespace/minio-demo created
  3. Create a tenant:

    kubectl minio tenant create                    \
    minio-demo \
    --capacity 100Gi \
    --servers 1 \
    --volumes 1 \
    --namespace minio-demo \
    --storage-class px-csi-db
    Tenant 'minio-demo' created in 'minio-demo' Namespace

    Username: <tenant-id>
    Password: <tenant-password>
    Note: Copy the credentials to a secure location. MinIO will not display these again.

    APPLICATION SERVICE NAME NAMESPACE SERVICE TYPE SERVICE PORT
    MinIO minio minio-demo ClusterIP 443
    Console minio-demo-console minio-demo ClusterIP 9443

    In this example, the required settings are as follows:

    • TENANT_NAME: The name of the tenant. In this example, we are using minio-demo as the tenant name.
    • --capacity: The total Raw size of storage across all volumes
    • --servers: The total number of Server Pods in the Tenant
    • --volumes: The total number of storage Volumes.
    • --namespace: The namespace required by the MinIO Tenant.
    • --storage-class: The storage class to use to provision Portworx Volumes.
  4. Copy the credentials displayed in the output to a secure location.

    note

    When creating the tenant, the Operator displays the access credentials to use for the tenant. This is the only time the credentials display.

  5. Check the tenant pod status:

    kubectl get po -n minio-demo
    NAME                                         READY   STATUS    RESTARTS       AGE
    minio-demo-log-0 1/1 Running 0 2m20s
    minio-demo-log-search-api-6954696f58-rpr2n 1/1 Running 3 (119s ago) 2m20s
    minio-demo-prometheus-0 2/2 Running 0 80s
    minio-demo-ss-0-0 1/1 Running 0 2m20s
  6. Check Portworx volumes:

    kubectl get pvc -n minio-demo
    NAME                                            STATUS   VOLUME                                     CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE
    0-minio-demo-ss-0-0 Bound pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-d456ddf8af1e 100Gi RWO px-csi-db 3m32s
    minio-demo-log-minio-demo-log-0 Bound pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-af8b15bd9084 5Gi RWO px-csi-db 3m32s
    minio-demo-prometheus-minio-demo-prometheus-0 Bound pvc-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-0336eb868566 5Gi RWO px-csi-db 2m32s

Access the tenant

The Operator creates multiple services for the tenant.

  1. To get service details, run the following command:

    kubectl get svc -n minio-demo
    minio                          ClusterIP   10.108.83.135    <none>        443/TCP    6m29s
    minio-demo-console ClusterIP 10.110.166.206 <none> 9443/TCP 6m29s
    minio-demo-hl ClusterIP None <none> 9000/TCP 6m29s
    minio-demo-log-hl-svc ClusterIP None <none> 5432/TCP 5m28s
    minio-demo-log-search-api ClusterIP 10.96.72.119 <none> 8080/TCP 5m28s
    minio-demo-prometheus-hl-svc ClusterIP None <none> 9090/TCP 4m28s
note
  • Applications should use the minio service for performing operations against the MinIO tenant.

  • Administrators should use the <TENANT-NAME>-console service for accessing the MinIO Console and performing administrative operations.

  1. Use port-forwarding to expose each service and access the MinIO tenant for applications or the console UI for administration.

    To port-forward the MinIO tenant, run the following command:

    kubectl port-forward service/minio 8443:443 -n minio-demo
    Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:8443 -> 9000
    Forwarding from [::1]:8443 -> 9000

    To port-forward the MinIO console, run the following command:

    kubectl port-forward service/minio-demo-console  -n minio-demo 9443:9443
    Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:9443 -> 9443
    Forwarding from [::1]:9443 -> 9443

Access the MinIO tenant console and create a bucket

  1. To temporarily connect to the MinIO tenant console, navigate to https://localhost:9443.

  2. Use the credentials obtained during deployment and log in to the console.

  3. Click Create Bucket + to start bucket creation:

    Minio Tenant Console UI

  4. Click Create Bucket to finish bucket creation:

    Minio Tenant Console UI2

    The tenant console UI displays the list of buckets, including the bucket that you created:

    Minio Tenant Console UI3

Application access to the MinIO tenant

Applications should use the minio service to perform operations against the MinIO tenant.

Use the credentials obtained during deployment for application access.

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