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Introducing Minio: Run your own S3 compatible cloud storage on Hyper.sh!

Storage has been long thought of as a complex, difficult to setup system. Even after the advent of quick deployment mechanisms like containers, problem somewhat persisted because of ephemeral nature of containers - it seemed counter-intuitive to store mission critical data on something that itself is supposed to be disposable.

Minio is an open source, S3 compatible, cloud-native object storage server, that makes storage as easy as launching a Docker container. On Hyper.sh, Minio servers are backed by Hyper.sh volumes that make sure, even if a container running Minio server goes down, the data is safe in the volume. As a true cloud-native application, Minio scales very well in a multi-tenant cloud environment.

Docker containers provide isolated environment for application execution, Hyper.sh enables effortless scaling by running multiple instances of these isolated applications. To scale Minio as per your s

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Shared Backend Minio Quickstart Guide

Minio shared mode lets you use single NAS (like NFS, GlusterFS, and other distributed filesystems) as the storage backend for multiple Minio servers. Synchronization among Minio servers is taken care by design. Read more about the Minio shared mode design here.

Minio shared mode is developed to solve several real world use cases. Some of these are

• You have already invested in NAS and would like to use Minio to add S3 co

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apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  # This name uniquely identifies the Deployment
  name: minio-deployment
spec:
  strategy:
    type: Recreate
  template:
    metadata:

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Run Minio Gateway Binary

• Download this : https://cloud.google.com/sdk/downloads
• Run the command and complete authentication for the first time

 gcloud init

• If you are reauthenticating use this command instead

gcloud beta auth application-default login

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apiVersion: v1
entries:
  minio:
  - apiVersion: v1
    created: 2017-06-15T17:48:36.895822482Z
    description: Distributed object storage server built for cloud applications and
      devops.
    digest: 75ff1e3d779d8937cff57c28a102da97a520245d50e22c1a2763cbea064a76cd
    home: https://minio.io
    icon: https://www.minio.io/img/logo_160x160.png

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{
  "type": "file",
  "enabled": true,
  "connection": "s3a://lake",
  "config": null,
  "workspaces": {
    "root": {
      "location": "/",
      "writable": false,
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Mint

Mint is a Docker image based platform to run tests against Minio server using various Minio, AWS SDKs and Tools. Read more on Mint here.

Requirements of Mint automation pod

Following are the steps we need to follow

• Once a PR is opened on minio/minio repository, GitHub sends webhook notifications to our web server.
• Web server parses the incoming PR information and passes on this to an automation script. We can use https://github.com/adnanh/webhook or https://github.com/ceejbot/jthoober as the webhook receiver.
• The automation script checks out the PR locally and builds Minio Docker image.
• Push the Docker image to play.minio.io Docker registry.

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Minio Storage Class

Storage Classes provide administrators an option to set number of parity disks used for erasure encoded objects.

Current behaviour

By default Minio server uses half of the available disks to store data and rest for parity. This means if you have N disks, Minio server will erasure-encode data across as N/2 data disks and N/2 parity disks.

The write quorum is (N/2) + 1 and read quorum is N/2.

With Storage class support

Before starting Minio server, administrator can set these environment variables.

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Nginx SSL termination for Minio server load balanced setup

This document explains the steps required to set up Nginx proxy and SSL termination for Minio servers running in the backgronud.

Generate self signed certificate

Create a directory /etc/nginx/ssl/domain.abc, here domain.abc is the name of your website domain. Then use the below commands

sudo openssl genrsa -out private.key 2048
sudo openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -key private.key -out public.crt -subj "/C=US/ST=state/L=location/O=organization/CN=domain.abc"