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MinIO Object Storage for Linux

MinIO Client Settings

This page covers settings for the MinIO Client.

You can establish or modify settings by defining:

  • an environment variable on the host system prior to starting or restarting the MinIO Server. Refer to your operating system’s documentation for how to define an environment variable.

  • a configuration setting using mc admin config set.

  • a configuration setting using the MinIO Console’s Administrator > Settings pages.

If you define both an environment variable and the similar configuration setting, MinIO uses the environment variable value.

Some settings have only an environment variable or a configuration setting, but not both.

Settings

Host Credentials

Use this setting to add a temporary alias to use for mc commands. For example, for use with scripting.

MC_HOST_<ALIAS>

Replace <ALIAS> at the end of the environment variable with the alias to set the host for.

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

Use mc alias set to configure an alias.

Examples

Static Credentials

export MC_HOST_<alias>=https://<Access Key>:<Secret Key>@<YOUR-S3-ENDPOINT>

export MC_HOST_myalias=https://Q3AM3UQ867SPQQA43P2F:zuf+tfteSlswRu7BJ86wekitnifILbZam1KYY3TG@play.min.io

Security Token Service (STS) Credentials

export MC_HOST_<alias>=https://<Access Key>:<Secret Key>:<Session Token>@<YOUR-S3-ENDPOINT>

export MC_HOST_myalias=https://Q3AM3UQ867SPQQA43P2F:zuf+tfteSlswRu7BJ86wekitnifILbZam1KYY3TG:eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhY2Nlc3NLZXkiOiJOVUlCT1JaWVRWMkhHMkJNUlNYUiIsImF1ZCI6IlBvRWdYUDZ1Vk80NUlzRU5SbmdEWGo1QXU1WWEiLCJhenAiOiJQb0VnWFA2dVZPNDVJc0VOUm5nRFhqNUF1NVlhIiwiZXhwIjoxNTM0ODk2NjI5LCJpYXQiOjE1MzQ4OTMwMjksImlzcyI6Imh0dHBzOi8vbG9jYWxob3N0Ojk0NDMvb2F1dGgyL3Rva2VuIiwianRpIjoiNjY2OTZjZTctN2U1Ny00ZjU5LWI0MWQtM2E1YTMzZGZiNjA4In0.eJONnVaSVHypiXKEARSMnSKgr-2mlC2Sr4fEGJitLcJF_at3LeNdTHv0_oHsv6ZZA3zueVGgFlVXMlREgr9LXA@play.min.io

STS Service

New in version mc: RELEASE.2023-11-06T04-19-23Z

Use this setting to add an STS endpoint to use for mc commands.

Changed in version mc: RELEASE.2023-12-02T02-03-28Z

Supports adding multiple environment variables by alias.

MC_STS_ENDPOINT_<alias>
export MC_STS_ENDPOINT_myalias=https://sts.minio-operator.svc.cluster.local:4223/sts/ns-1

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

Web Token Identity

New in version mc: RELEASE.2023-11-06T04-19-23Z

Use this setting to add a web token identity to use for mc commands.

Changed in version mc: RELEASE.2023-12-02T02-03-28Z

Supports adding multiple environment variables by alias.

MC_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_<alias>
export MC_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE_myalias=/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

Configuration Directory

Specify the path to the configuration folder the MinIO Client should use.

MC_CONFIG_DIR

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

Progress Bar

Disable the MinIO Client progress bar.

MC_QUIET

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

Pager

New in version mc: RELEASE.2024-04-29T09-56-05Z

Disable the pager functionality of the MinIO Client in the CLI. When used, output prints to raw STDOUT instead.

MC_DISABLE_PAGER

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

Color Theme

Disable the color theme used for MinIO Client output.

MC_NO_COLOR

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

JSON

Enable formatting the output as JSON lines.

MC_JSON

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

Debug

Enable the debug output.

MC_DEBUG

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

Disable SSL

Disable SSL certificate verification.

MC_INSECURE

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

Limit Download Bandwidth

Limit the download bandwidth the MinIO Client uses for certain commands.

MC_LIMIT_DOWNLOAD

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

If not specified, the MinIO Client uses all available bandwidth.

Limit client-side download rates to no more than the specified rate in KiB/s, MiB/s, or GiB/s. This affects only the download from the local device running the MinIO Client. Valid units include:

  • B for bytes

  • K for kilobytes

  • M for megabytes

  • G for gigabytes

  • Ki for kibibytes

  • Mi for mibibytes

  • Gi for gibibytes

For example, to limit download rates to no more than 1 GiB/s, use the following on a Linux system:

export MC_LIMIT_DOWNLOAD=1G

Refer to your operating system instructions for equivalent commands on non-Linux systems.

Limit Upload Bandwidth

Limit the upload bandwidth the MinIO Client uses for certain commands.

MC_LIMIT_UPLOAD

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

If not specified, the MinIO Client uses all available bandwidth.

Limit client-side upload rates to no more than the specified rate in KiB/s, MiB/s, or GiB/s. This affects only the upload from the local device running the MinIO Client. Valid units include:

  • B for bytes

  • K for kilobytes

  • M for megabytes

  • G for gigabytes

  • Ki for kibibytes

  • Mi for mibibytes

  • Gi for gibibytes

For example, to limit upload rates to no more than 1 GiB/s, use the following on a Linux system:

export MC_LIMIT_UPLOAD=1G

Refer to your operating system instructions for equivalent commands on non-Linux systems.

SSE-KMS Encryption

Encrypt and decrypt options using SSE-KMS with server managed keys.

MC_ENC_KMS

Specify the key with the MC_ENC_KMS environment variable.

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

SSE-S3 Encryption

Encrypt and decrypt options using SSE-KMS with server managed keys.

MC_ENC_S3

Specify the key to use for performing SSE-S3 encryption. The specified value must match the encryption key set in MINIO_KMS_KES_KEY_NAME.

This setting does not have a configuration setting option.

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