MinIO Kubernetes Plugin

Overview

The kubectl minio plugin brings native support for deploying MinIO tenants to Kubernetes clusters using the kubectl CLI. Use kubectl minio to deploy a MinIO tenant with little to no interaction with YAML configuration files.

Installing kubectl minio implies installing the MinIO Kubernetes Operator.

Installation

The MinIO Kubernetes Plugin requires Kubernetes 1.19.0 or later.

The following code downloads the latest stable version 5.0.15 of the MinIO Kubernetes Plugin and installs it to the system $PATH.

kubectl krew update
kubectl krew install minio

wget https://github.com/minio/operator/releases/download/v5.0.15/kubectl-minio_5.0.15_linux_amd64 -O kubectl-minio
chmod +x kubectl-minio
mv kubectl-minio /usr/local/bin/

You can access the plugin using the kubectl minio command. Run the following command to verify installation of the plugin:

kubectl minio version

Subcommands

kubectl minio has the following subcommands:

• init

• proxy

• tenant

• delete

• version