Simple Kubernetes Operator for MinIO clusters :computer:
MinIO is a Kubernetes-native high performance object store with an S3-compatible API. The MinIO Kubernetes Operator supports deploying MinIO Tenants onto private and public cloud infrastructures (“Hybrid” Cloud).
This README provides a high level description of the MinIO Operator and quickstart instructions. See https://min.io/docs/minio/kubernetes/upstream/index.html for complete documentation on the MinIO Operator.
Each MinIO Tenant represents an independent MinIO Object Store within the Kubernetes cluster. The following diagram describes the architecture of a MinIO Tenant deployed into Kubernetes:
MinIO provides multiple methods for accessing and managing the MinIO Tenant:
This procedure installs the MinIO Operator and creates a 4-node MinIO Tenant for supporting object storage operations in a Kubernetes cluster.
Starting with Operator v6.0.0, MinIO requires Kubernetes version 1.28.0 or later. You must upgrade your Kubernetes cluster to 1.28.0 or later to use Operator v6.0.0+.
This procedure assumes the host machine has kubectl
installed and configured
with access to the target Kubernetes cluster.
MinIO supports no more than one MinIO Tenant per Namespace. The following kubectl
command creates a new namespace
for the MinIO Tenant.
kubectl create namespace minio-tenant
The MinIO Kubernetes Operator automatically generates Persistent Volume Claims (PVC
) as part of deploying a MinIO
Tenant.
The plugin defaults to creating each PVC
with the default
Kubernetes Storage Class
. If the default
storage
class cannot support the generated PVC
, the tenant may fail to deploy.
MinIO Tenants require that the StorageClass
sets volumeBindingMode
to WaitForFirstConsumer
. The
default StorageClass
may use the Immediate
setting, which can cause complications during PVC
binding. MinIO
strongly recommends creating a custom StorageClass
for use by PV
supporting a MinIO Tenant.
The following StorageClass
object contains the appropriate fields for supporting a MinIO Tenant using
MinIO DirectPV-managed drives:
apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
kind: StorageClass
metadata:
name: directpv-min-io
provisioner: kubernetes.io/no-provisioner
volumeBindingMode: WaitForFirstConsumer
The MinIO Operator generates one Persistent Volume Claim (PVC) for each volume in the tenant plus two PVC to support collecting Tenant Metrics and logs. The cluster must have sufficient Persistent Volumes that meet the capacity requirements of each PVC for the tenant to start correctly. For example, deploying a Tenant with 16 volumes requires 18 (16 + 2). If each PVC requests 1TB capacity, then each PV must also provide at least 1TB of capacity.
MinIO recommends using the MinIO DirectPV Driver to automatically provision Persistent Volumes from locally attached drives. This procedure assumes MinIO DirectPV is installed and configured.
For clusters which cannot deploy MinIO DirectPV, use Local Persistent Volumes. The following example YAML describes a local persistent volume:
The following YAML describes a local
PV:
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: <PV-NAME>
spec:
capacity:
storage: 1Ti
volumeMode: Filesystem
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
storageClassName: local-storage
local:
path: </mnt/disks/ssd1>
nodeAffinity:
required:
nodeSelectorTerms:
- matchExpressions:
- key: kubernetes.io/hostname
operator: In
values:
- <NODE-NAME>
Replace values in brackets <VALUE>
with the appropriate value for the local drive.
You can estimate the number of PVC by multiplying the number of minio
server pods in the Tenant by the number of
drives per node. For example, a 4-node Tenant with 4 drives per node requires 16 PVC and therefore 16 PV.
MinIO strongly recommends using the following CSI drivers for creating local PV to ensure best object storage performance:
The standard kubectl
tool ships with support
for kustomize out of the box, so you can
use that to install MiniO Operator.
kubectl kustomize github.com/minio/operator\?ref=v6.0.4 | kubectl apply -f -
Run the following command to verify the status of the Operator:
kubectl get pods -n minio-operator
The output resembles the following:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
minio-operator-69fd675557-lsrqg 1/1 Running 0 99s
We provide a variety of examples for creating MinIO Tenants in the examples
directory. The following example creates a
4-node MinIO Tenant with 4 volumes per node:
kubectl apply -k github.com/minio/operator/examples/kustomization/bases
Use the following command to list the services created by the MinIO Operator:
kubectl get svc -n NAMESPACE
Replace NAMESPACE
with the namespace for the MinIO Tenant. The output
resembles the following:
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S)
minio LoadBalancer 10.104.10.9 <pending> 443:31834/TCP
myminio-console LoadBalancer 10.104.216.5 <pending> 9443:31425/TCP
myminio-hl ClusterIP None <none> 9000/TCP
myminio-log-hl-svc ClusterIP None <none> 5432/TCP
myminio-log-search-api ClusterIP 10.102.151.239 <none> 8080/TCP
myminio-prometheus-hl-svc ClusterIP None <none> 9090/TCP
Applications internal to the Kubernetes cluster should use the minio
service for performing object storage
operations on the Tenant.
Administrators of the Tenant should use the minio-tenant-1-console
service to access the MinIO Console and manage the
Tenant, such as provisioning users, groups, and policies for the Tenant.
MinIO Tenants deploy with TLS enabled by default, where the MinIO Operator uses the
Kubernetes certificates.k8s.io
API to generate the required x.509 certificates. Each
certificate is signed using the Kubernetes Certificate Authority (CA) configured during
cluster deployment. While Kubernetes mounts this CA on Pods in the cluster, Pods do
not trust that CA by default. You must copy the CA to a directory such that the
update-ca-certificates
utility can find and add it to the system trust store to
enable validation of MinIO TLS certificates:
cp /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/
update-ca-certificates
For applications external to the Kubernetes cluster, you must configure
Ingress or a
Load Balancer to
expose the MinIO Tenant services. Alternatively, you can use the kubectl port-forward
command
to temporarily forward traffic from the local host to the MinIO Tenant.
Use of MinIO Operator is governed by the GNU AGPLv3 or later, found in the LICENSE file.