Deploy and Configure Minio for Docs

Installation

[!CAUTION] We provide those instructions as an example, it should not be run in production. For production environments, deploy MinIO in a Multi-Node Multi-Drive (Distributed) topology

Step 1: Prepare your working environment:

mkdir minio
curl -o minio/compose.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/suitenumerique/docs/refs/heads/main/docs/examples/compose/minio/compose.yaml 

Step 2:. Update compose file with your own values

version: '3'
services:
  minio:
   ...
    environment:
    - MINIO_ROOT_USER=<Set minio root username>
    - MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=<Set minio root password>

Step 3: Expose MinIO instance

Option 1: Internal network

You may not need to expose your MinIO instance to the public if only services hosted on the same private network need to access to your MinIO instance.

You should create a docker network that will be shared between those services

docker network create storage-tier

Option 2: Public network

If you want to expose your MinIO instance to the public, it needs to be exposed on a domain with SSL termination. You can use our example with an nginx proxy and Let's Encrypt companion for automated creation/renewal of Let's Encrypt certificates using acme.sh.

If following our example, uncomment the environment and network sections in compose file and update it with your values.

version: '3'
services:
   docs:
   ...
  minio:
   ...
    environment:
   ...
    # - VIRTUAL_HOST=storage.yourdomain.tld # used by nginx proxy 
    # - VIRTUAL_PORT=9000 # used by nginx proxy
    # - LETSENCRYPT_HOST=storage.yourdomain.tld # used by lets encrypt to generate TLS certificate
   ...
# Uncomment if using our nginx proxy example
#    networks:
#    - proxy-tier
#    - default

# Uncomment if using our nginx proxy example
#networks:
#  proxy-tier:
#    external: true

In this example we are only exposing MinIO API service. Follow the official documentation to configure Minio WebUI.

Step 4: Start the service

`docker compose up -d`

Your minio instance is now available on https://storage.yourdomain.tld

Creating a user and bucket for your Docs instance

Installing mc

Follow the official documentation to install mc

Step 1: Configure mc to connect to your MinIO Server with your root user

mc alias set minio <MINIO_SERVER_URL> <MINIO_ROOT_USER> <MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD>

Replace the values with those you have set in the previous steps

Step 2: Create a new bucket with versioning enabled

mc mb --with-versioning minio/<your-bucket-name>

Replace your-bucket-name with the desired name for your bucket e.g. docs-media-storage

Additional notes:

For increased security you should create a dedicated user with readwrite access to the Bucket. In the following example we will use MinIO root user.