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MinIO Operator with Helm 3

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Introduction

We show how to deploy a Kubernetes cluster and set a MinIO Operator with Helm 3.

MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store. It is built for large scale AI/ML, data lake and database workloads. Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes that allows developers and operators to more easily package, configure, and deploy applications and services onto Kubernetes clusters.

Prerequisites

Create an SSH Tunnel

To access the MinIO Operator, we need to create an SSH tunnel with the port 9090.

  • Open a terminal and create an SSH tunnel
    ssh -4 -L 9090:127.0.0.1:9090 root@<VM_IP>
    

Simply leave this window open and follow the next steps.

Set the VM

We set the Master VM to access the minIO Operator.

  • Install the prerequisites:
    apt update
    apt install git -y
    apt install wget
    apt install jq -y
    
  • Install Helm
    wget https://get.helm.sh/helm-v3.14.3-linux-amd64.tar.gz
    tar -xvf helm-v3.14.3-linux-amd64.tar.gz
    mv linux-amd64/helm /usr/local/bin/helm
    
  • Install yq
    wget https://github.com/mikefarah/yq/releases/download/v4.43.1/yq_linux_amd64.tar.gz
    tar -xvf yq_linux_amd64.tar.gz
    mv yq_linux_amd64 /usr/bin/yq
    

Set MinIO

We can then set the MinIO Operator. For this step, we mainly follow the MinIO documentation here.

  • Add the MinIO repo
    helm repo add minio-operator https://operator.min.io
    
  • Validate the MinIO repo content
    helm search repo minio-operator
    
  • Install the operator
    helm install \
    --namespace minio-operator \
    --create-namespace \
    operator minio-operator/operator
    
  • Verify the operator installation
    kubectl get all -n minio-operator
    

Access the MinIO Operator

You can then access the MinIO Operator on your local browser (port 9090)

localhost:9090

To log in the MinIO Operator, you will need to enter the token. To see the token, run the following line:

kubectl get secret/console-sa-secret -n minio-operator -o json | jq -r ".data.token" | base64 -d

Enter the token on the login page:

minio_1

You then have access to the MinIO Operator:

minio_2

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