Bitnami Object Storage Helm Chart based on MinIO®
MinIO® is an object storage server, compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service, mainly used for storing unstructured data (such as photos, videos, log files, etc.)
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TL;DR
$ helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
$ helm install my-release bitnami/minio
Introduction
This chart bootstraps a MinIO® deployment on a Kubernetes cluster using the Helm package manager.
Bitnami charts can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters. This Helm chart has been tested on top of Bitnami Kubernetes Production Runtime (BKPR). Deploy BKPR to get automated TLS certificates, logging and monitoring for your applications.
Prerequisites
- Kubernetes 1.12+
- Helm 3.1.0
- PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure
- ReadWriteMany volumes for deployment scaling
Installing the Chart
To install the chart with the release name my-release:
$ helm repo add bitnami https://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami
$ helm install my-release bitnami/minio
These commands deploy MinIO® on the Kubernetes cluster in the default configuration. The Parameters section lists the parameters that can be configured during installation.
Tip
: List all releases using
helm list
Uninstalling the Chart
To uninstall/delete the my-release deployment:
$ helm delete my-release
The command removes all the Kubernetes components associated with the chart and deletes the release.
Parameters
The following table lists the configurable parameters of the MinIO® chart and their their default values per section/component:
Global parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
global.imageRegistry |
Global Docker image registry | nil |
global.imagePullSecrets |
Global Docker registry secret names as an array | [] (does not add image pull secrets to deployed pods) |
global.storageClass |
Global storage class for dynamic provisioning | nil |
global.minio.existingSecret |
Global MinIO® credentials (overrides accessKey.password secretKey.password and existingSecret) |
{} |
Common parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
nameOverride |
String to partially override common.names.fullname | nil |
fullnameOverride |
String to fully override common.names.fullname | nil |
commonLabels |
Labels to add to all deployed objects | {} |
commonAnnotations |
Annotations to add to all deployed objects | {} |
clusterDomain |
Default Kubernetes cluster domain | cluster.local |
extraDeploy |
Array of extra objects to deploy with the release | [] (evaluated as a template) |
kubeVersion |
Force target Kubernetes version (using Helm capabilities if not set) | nil |
MinIO® parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
image.registry |
MinIO® image registry | docker.io |
image.repository |
MinIO® image name | bitnami/minio |
image.tag |
MinIO® image tag | {TAG_NAME} |
image.pullPolicy |
Image pull policy | IfNotPresent |
image.pullSecrets |
Specify docker-registry secret names as an array | [] (does not add image pull secrets to deployed pods) |
image.debug |
Specify if debug logs should be enabled | false |
clientImage.registry |
MinIO® Client image registry | docker.io |
clientImage.repository |
MinIO® Client image name | bitnami/minio-client |
clientImage.tag |
MinIO® Client image tag | {TAG_NAME} |
mode |
MinIO® server mode (standalone or distributed) |
standalone |
accessKey.password |
MinIO® Access Key. Ignored if existing secret is provided. | random 10 character alphanumeric string |
accessKey.forcePassword |
Force users to specify an Access Key | false |
secretKey.password |
MinIO® Secret Key. Ignored if existing secret is provided. | random 40 character alphanumeric string |
secretKey.forcePassword |
Force users to specify an Secret Key | false |
existingSecret |
Existing secret with MinIO® credentials | nil |
useCredentialsFile |
Have the secret mounted as a file instead of env vars | false |
forceNewKeys |
Force admin credentials (access and secret key) to be reconfigured every time they change in the secrets | false |
tls.enabled |
Enable tls in front of the container | true |
tls.secretName |
The name of the secret containing the certificates and key. | nil |
tls.mountPath |
The mount path where the secret will be located. | nil |
defaultBuckets |
Comma, semi-colon or space separated list of buckets to create (only in standalone mode) | nil |
disableWebUI |
Disable MinIO® Web UI | false |
command |
Default container command (useful when using custom images) | {} |
args |
Default container args (useful when using custom images) | nil |
extraEnv |
Extra environment variables to be set on MinIO® container | {} |
extraEnvVarsCM |
Name of existing ConfigMap containing extra env vars | nil |
extraEnvVarsSecret |
Name of existing Secret containing extra env vars | nil |
MinIO® deployment/statefulset parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
schedulerName |
Specifies the schedulerName, if it's nil uses kube-scheduler | nil |
statefulset.replicaCount |
Number of pods per zone (only for MinIO® distributed mode). Should be even and >= 4 |
4 |
statefulset.zones |
Number of zones (only for MinIO® distributed mode) | 1 |
statefulset.drivesPerNode |
Number of drives per node (only for MinIO® distributed mode) | 1 |
statefulset.updateStrategy |
Statefulset update strategy policy | RollingUpdate |
statefulset.podManagementPolicy |
Statefulset pods management policy | Parallel |
deployment.updateStrategy |
Deployment update strategy policy | Recreate |
securityContext.enabled |
Enable security context | true |
securityContext.fsGroup |
Group ID for the container | 1001 |
securityContext.runAsUser |
User ID for the container | 1001 |
containerPort |
MinIO(R) container port to open | 9000 |
resources.limits |
The resources limits for the MinIO® container | {} |
resources.requests |
The requested resources for the MinIO® container | {} |
livenessProbe |
Liveness probe configuration for MinIO® | Check values.yaml file |
readinessProbe |
Readiness probe configuration for MinIO® | Check values.yaml file |
startupProbe |
Startup probe configuration for MinIO® | Check values.yaml file |
customLivenessProbe |
Override default liveness probe | nil |
customReadinessProbe |
Override default readiness probe | nil |
customStartupProbe |
Override default startup probe | nil |
hostAliases |
MinIO® pod host aliases | [] |
podLabels |
Extra labels for MinIO® pods | {} |
podAnnotations |
Annotations for MinIO® pods | {} |
podAffinityPreset |
Pod affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard |
"" |
podAntiAffinityPreset |
Pod anti-affinity preset. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard |
soft |
nodeAffinityPreset.type |
Node affinity preset type. Ignored if affinity is set. Allowed values: soft or hard |
"" |
nodeAffinityPreset.key |
Node label key to match. Ignored if affinity is set. |
"" |
nodeAffinityPreset.values |
Node label values to match. Ignored if affinity is set. |
[] |
affinity |
Affinity for pod assignment | {} (evaluated as a template) |
nodeSelector |
Node labels for pod assignment | {} (evaluated as a template) |
tolerations |
Tolerations for pod assignment | [] (evaluated as a template) |
extraVolumeMounts |
Optionally specify extra list of additional volumeMounts for MinIO® container(s) | [] |
extraVolumes |
Optionally specify extra list of additional volumes for MinIO® pods | [] |
initContainers |
Add additional init containers to the MinIO® pods | {} (evaluated as a template) |
sidecars |
Add additional sidecar containers to the MinIO® pods | {} (evaluated as a template) |
Exposure parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
service.type |
Kubernetes service type | ClusterIP |
service.port |
MinIO® service port | 9000 |
service.nodePort |
Port to bind to for NodePort service type | nil |
service.externalTrafficPolicy |
Enable client source IP preservation | Cluster |
service.loadBalancerIP |
loadBalancerIP if service type is LoadBalancer |
nil |
service.loadBalancerSourceRanges |
Address that are allowed when service is LoadBalancer | [] |
service.annotations |
Annotations for MinIO® service | {} (evaluated as a template) |
ingress.enabled |
Enable ingress controller resource | false |
ingress.apiVersion |
Force Ingress API version (automatically detected if not set) | `` |
ingress.path |
Ingress path | / |
ingress.pathType |
Ingress path type | ImplementationSpecific |
ingress.certManager |
Add annotations for cert-manager | false |
ingress.hostname |
Default host for the ingress resource | minio.local |
ingress.tls |
Enable TLS configuration for the hostname defined at ingress.hostname parameter |
false |
ingress.annotations |
Ingress annotations | {} (evaluated as a template) |
ingress.extraPaths |
Any additional paths that may need to be added to the ingress under the main host | [] |
ingress.extraHosts[0].name |
Additional hostnames to be covered | nil |
ingress.extraHosts[0].path |
Additional hostnames to be covered | nil |
ingress.extraTls[0].hosts[0] |
TLS configuration for additional hostnames to be covered | nil |
ingress.extraTls[0].secretName |
TLS configuration for additional hostnames to be covered | nil |
ingress.secrets[0].name |
TLS Secret Name | nil |
ingress.secrets[0].certificate |
TLS Secret Certificate | nil |
ingress.secrets[0].key |
TLS Secret Key | nil |
ingress.servicePort |
Service port to be used | http |
networkPolicy.enabled |
Enable the default NetworkPolicy policy | false |
networkPolicy.allowExternal |
Don't require client label for connections | true |
Persistence parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
persistence.enabled |
Enable MinIO® data persistence using PVC | true |
persistence.storageClass |
PVC Storage Class for MinIO® data volume | nil |
persistence.mountPath |
Path to mount the volume at | /data |
persistence.accessModes |
PVC Access Modes for MinIO® data volume | [ReadWriteOnce] |
persistence.size |
PVC Storage Request for MinIO® data volume | 8Gi |
persistence.selector |
Selector to match an existing Persistent Volume | {}(evaluated as a template) |
persistence.annotations |
Annotations for the PVC | {}(evaluated as a template) |
persistence.existingClaim |
Name of an existing PVC to use (only in "standalone" mode) | nil |
Volume Permissions parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
volumePermissions.enabled |
Enable init container that changes the owner and group of the persistent volume(s) mountpoint to runAsUser:fsGroup |
false |
volumePermissions.image.registry |
Init container volume-permissions image registry | docker.io |
volumePermissions.image.repository |
Init container volume-permissions image name | bitnami/bitnami-shell |
volumePermissions.image.tag |
Init container volume-permissions image tag | "10" |
volumePermissions.image.pullPolicy |
Init container volume-permissions image pull policy | Always |
volumePermissions.image.pullSecrets |
Specify docker-registry secret names as an array | [] (does not add image pull secrets to deployed pods) |
volumePermissions.resources.limits |
Init container volume-permissions resource limits | {} |
volumePermissions.resources.requests |
Init container volume-permissions resource requests | {} |
RBAC parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
serviceAccount.create |
Enable the creation of a ServiceAccount for MinIO® pods | true |
serviceAccount.name |
Name of the created ServiceAccount | Generated using the common.names.fullname template |
Other parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
pdb.create |
Enable/disable a Pod Disruption Budget creation | false |
pdb.minAvailable |
Minimum number/percentage of pods that should remain scheduled | 1 |
pdb.maxUnavailable |
Maximum number/percentage of pods that may be made unavailable | nil |
Metrics parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
metrics.prometheusAuthType |
Authentication mode for Prometheus (jwt or public) |
public |
metrics.serviceMonitor.enabled |
Create ServiceMonitor Resource for scraping metrics using PrometheusOperator | false |
metrics.serviceMonitor.path |
HTTP path to scrape for metrics | /minio/v2/metrics/cluster |
metrics.serviceMonitor.namespace |
Namespace which Prometheus is running in | nil |
metrics.serviceMonitor.interval |
Interval at which metrics should be scraped | 30s |
metrics.serviceMonitor.scrapeTimeout |
Specify the timeout after which the scrape is ended | nil |
metrics.serviceMonitor.relabellings |
Specify Metric Relabellings to add to the scrape endpoint | nil |
metrics.serviceMonitor.honorLabels |
honorLabels chooses the metric's labels on collisions with target labels. | false |
metrics.serviceMonitor.additionalLabels |
Used to pass Labels that are required by the Installed Prometheus Operator | {} |
metrics.serviceMonitor.release |
Used to pass Labels release that sometimes should be custom for Prometheus Operator | nil |
Gateway parameters
| Parameter | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
gateway.enabled |
Use MinIO® as Gateway for other storage systems | false |
gateway.type |
Gateway type. Supported types are: azure, gcs, nas, s3 |
s3 |
gateway.replicaCount |
Number of MinIO® Gateway replicas | 4 |
gateway.auth.azure.accessKey |
Access Key to access MinIO using Azure Gateway | random 10 character alphanumeric string |
gateway.auth.azure.secretKey |
Secret Key to access MinIO using Azure Gateway | random 40 character alphanumeric string |
gateway.auth.azure.storageAccountName |
Azure Storage Account Name to use to access Azure Blob Storage | nil |
gateway.auth.azure.storageAccountKey |
Azure Storage Account Key to use to access Azure Blob Storage | nil |
gateway.auth.gcs.accessKey |
Access Key to access MinIO using GCS Gateway | random 10 character alphanumeric string |
gateway.auth.gcs.secretKey |
Secret Key to access MinIO using GCS Gateway | random 40 character alphanumeric string |
gateway.auth.gcs.keyJSON |
Service Account key to access GCS | nil |
gateway.auth.gcs.projectID |
GCP Project ID to use | nil |
gateway.auth.nas.accessKey |
Access Key to access MinIO using NAS Gateway | random 10 character alphanumeric string |
gateway.auth.nas.secretKey |
Secret Key to access MinIO using NAS Gateway | random 40 character alphanumeric string |
gateway.auth.s3.serviceEndpoint |
AWS S3 endpoint | https://s3.amazonaws.com |
gateway.auth.s3.accessKey |
Access Key to use to access AWS S3 | nil |
gateway.auth.s3.secretKey |
Secret Key to use to access AWS S3 | nil |
Specify each parameter using the --set key=value[,key=value] argument to helm install. For example,
$ helm install my-release \
--set accessKey.password=minio-access-key \
--set secretKey.password=minio-secret-key \
bitnami/minio
The above command sets the MinIO® Server access key and secret key to minio-access-key and minio-secret-key, respectively.
NOTE: Once this chart is deployed, it is not possible to change the application's access credentials, such as usernames or passwords, using Helm. To change these application credentials after deployment, delete any persistent volumes (PVs) used by the chart and re-deploy it, or use the application's built-in administrative tools if available.
Alternatively, a YAML file that specifies the values for the parameters can be provided while installing the chart. For example,
$ helm install my-release -f values.yaml bitnami/minio
Tip
: You can use the default values.yaml
Configuration and installation details
Rolling VS Immutable tags
It is strongly recommended to use immutable tags in a production environment. This ensures your deployment does not change automatically if the same tag is updated with a different image.
Bitnami will release a new chart updating its containers if a new version of the main container, significant changes, or critical vulnerabilities exist.
Distributed mode
By default, this chart provisions a MinIO® server in standalone mode. You can start MinIO® server in distributed mode with the following parameter: mode=distributed
This chart bootstrap MinIO® server in distributed mode with 4 nodes by default. You can change the number of nodes using the statefulset.replicaCount parameter. For instance, you can deploy the chart with 8 nodes using the following parameters:
mode=distributed
statefulset.replicaCount=8
You can also bootstrap MinIO® server in distributed mode in several zones, and using multiple drives per node. For instance, you can deploy the chart with 2 nodes per zone on 2 zones, using 2 drives per node:
mode=distributed
statefulset.replicaCount=2
statefulset.zones=2
statefulset.drivesPerNode=2
Note: The total number of drives should be multiple of 4 to guarantee erasure coding. Please set a combination of nodes, and drives per node that match this condition.
Prometheus exporter
MinIO® exports Prometheus metrics at /minio/v2/metrics/cluster. To allow Prometheus collecting your MinIO® metrics, modify the values.yaml adding the corresponding annotations:
- podAnnotations: {}
+ podAnnotations:
+ prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
+ prometheus.io/path: "/minio/v2/metrics/cluster"
+ prometheus.io/port: "9000"
Find more information about MinIO® metrics at https://docs.min.io/docs/how-to-monitor-minio-using-prometheus.html
Persistence
The Bitnami Object Storage based on MinIO® image stores data at the /data path of the container.
The chart mounts a Persistent Volume at this location. The volume is created using dynamic volume provisioning.
Adjust permissions of persistent volume mountpoint
As the image run as non-root by default, it is necessary to adjust the ownership of the persistent volume so that the container can write data into it.
By default, the chart is configured to use Kubernetes Security Context to automatically change the ownership of the volume. However, this feature does not work in all Kubernetes distributions. As an alternative, this chart supports using an initContainer to change the ownership of the volume before mounting it in the final destination.
You can enable this initContainer by setting volumePermissions.enabled to true.
Ingress
This chart provides support for ingress resources. If you have an ingress controller installed on your cluster, such as nginx-ingress or traefik you can utilize the ingress controller to serve your MinIO® server.
To enable ingress integration, please set ingress.enabled to true, and disableWebUI to false.
Hosts
Most likely you will only want to have one hostname that maps to this MinIO® installation. If that's your case, the property ingress.hostname will set it. However, it is possible to have more than one host. To facilitate this, the ingress.extraHosts object is can be specified as an array. You can also use ingress.extraTLS to add the TLS configuration for extra hosts.
For each host indicated at ingress.extraHosts, please indicate a name, path, and any annotations that you may want the ingress controller to know about.
For annotations, please see this document. Not all annotations are supported by all ingress controllers, but this document does a good job of indicating which annotation is supported by many popular ingress controllers.
TLS
This chart will facilitate the creation of TLS secrets for use with the ingress controller, however, this is not required. There are four common use cases:
- Helm generates/manages certificate secrets based on the parameters.
- User generates/manages certificates separately.
- Helm creates self-signed certificates and generates/manages certificate secrets.
- An additional tool (like cert-manager) manages the secrets for the application.
In the first two cases, it's needed a certificate and a key. Files are expected in PEM format.
- If you are going to use Helm to manage the certificates based on the parameters, please copy these values into the
certificateandkeyvalues for a giveningress.secretsentry. - In case you are going to manage TLS secrets separately, please know that you must create a TLS secret with name INGRESS_HOSTNAME-tls (where INGRESS_HOSTNAME is a placeholder to be replaced with the hostname you set using the
ingress.hostnameparameter). - To use self-signed certificates created by Helm, set
ingress.tlstotrue, andingress.certManagertofalse. - If your cluster has a cert-manager add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates, set
ingress.certManagerboolean totrueto enable the corresponding annotations for cert-manager.
MinIO® Gateway
MinIO® can be configured as a Gateway for other other storage systems. Currently this chart supports to setup MinIO® as a Gateway for the storage systems below:
- Azure Blob Storage
- GCS
- NAS: Network Attached Storage
- AWS S3
The enable this feature, install the chart setting gateway.enabled to true. You can choose the Gateway type setting the gateway.type parameter. For instance, to install the chart as a S3 Gateway, install the chart the using the following parameters:
gateway.enabled=true
gateway.replicaCount=4
gateway.type=s3
gateway.auth.s3.serviceEndpoint=https://s3.amazonaws.com
gateway.auth.s3.accessKey=S3_ACCESS_KEY
gateway.auth.s3.secretKey=S3_SECRET_KEY
Note: remember to replace the S3_ACCESS_KEY and S3_SECRET_KEY placeholders with your actual S3 access & secret keys.
Find all the available parameters to configure MinIO® as a Gateway in the Gateway parameters section.
Note: when using MinIO® as a NAS Gateway, you need ReadWriteMany PVs to deploy multiple MinIO® instances. Ensure you K8s cluster supports this kind of cluster, and install the chart setting
persistence.accessModes[0]toReadWriteManyto do so.
Adding extra environment variables
In case you want to add extra environment variables (useful for advanced operations like custom init scripts), you can use the extraEnv property.
extraEnv:
- name: MINNIO_LOG_LEVEL
value: DEBUG
Alternatively, you can use a ConfigMap or a Secret with the environment variables. To do so, use the extraEnvVarsCM or the extraEnvVarsSecret values.
Sidecars and Init Containers
If you have a need for additional containers to run within the same pod as the MinIO® app (e.g. an additional metrics or logging exporter), you can do so via the sidecars config parameter. Simply define your container according to the Kubernetes container spec.
sidecars:
- name: your-image-name
image: your-image
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- name: portname
containerPort: 1234
Similarly, you can add extra init containers using the initContainers parameter.
initContainers:
- name: your-image-name
image: your-image
imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- name: portname
containerPort: 1234
Setting Pod's affinity
This chart allows you to set your custom affinity using the affinity parameter. Find more information about Pod's affinity in the kubernetes documentation.
As an alternative, you can use of the preset configurations for pod affinity, pod anti-affinity, and node affinity available at the bitnami/common chart. To do so, set the podAffinityPreset, podAntiAffinityPreset, or nodeAffinityPreset parameters.
Deploying extra resources
There are cases where you may want to deploy extra objects, such a ConfigMap containing your app's configuration or some extra deployment with a micro service used by your app. For covering this case, the chart allows adding the full specification of other objects using the extraDeploy parameter.
Troubleshooting
Find more information about how to deal with common errors related to Bitnami's Helm charts in this troubleshooting guide.
Upgrading
To 5.0.0
This version standardizes the way of defining Ingress rules. When configuring a single hostname for the Ingress rule, set the ingress.hostname value. When defining more than one, set the ingress.extraHosts array. Apart from this case, no issues are expected to appear when upgrading.
To 4.1.0
This version introduces bitnami/common, a library chart as a dependency. More documentation about this new utility could be found here. Please, make sure that you have updated the chart dependencies before executing any upgrade.
To 4.0.0
On November 13, 2020, Helm v2 support was formally finished, this major version is the result of the required changes applied to the Helm Chart to be able to incorporate the different features added in Helm v3 and to be consistent with the Helm project itself regarding the Helm v2 EOL.
What changes were introduced in this major version?
- Previous versions of this Helm Chart use
apiVersion: v1(installable by both Helm 2 and 3), this Helm Chart was updated toapiVersion: v2(installable by Helm 3 only). Here you can find more information about theapiVersionfield. - The different fields present in the Chart.yaml file has been ordered alphabetically in a homogeneous way for all the Bitnami Helm Charts
Considerations when upgrading to this version
- If you want to upgrade to this version from a previous one installed with Helm v3, you shouldn't face any issues
- If you want to upgrade to this version using Helm v2, this scenario is not supported as this version doesn't support Helm v2 anymore
- If you installed the previous version with Helm v2 and wants to upgrade to this version with Helm v3, please refer to the official Helm documentation about migrating from Helm v2 to v3
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