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MinIO Object Storage for MacOS

MinIO is an object storage solution that provides an Amazon Web Services S3-compatible API and supports all core S3 features. MinIO is built to deploy anywhere - public or private cloud, baremetal infrastructure, orchestrated environments, and edge infrastructure.

This site documents Operations, Administration, and Development of MinIO deployments on macOS platforms for the latest stable version of MinIO: RELEASE.2024-10-02T17-50-41Z.

MinIO is released under dual license GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 and MinIO Commercial License. Deployments registered through MinIO SUBNET use the commercial license and include access to 24/7 MinIO support.

You can get started exploring MinIO features using the MinIO Console and our play server at https://play.min.io. play is a public MinIO cluster running the latest stable MinIO server. Any file uploaded to play should be considered public and non-protected. For more about connecting to play, see MinIO Console play Login.

Quickstart: MinIO for Mac OSX

This procedure deploys a Single-Node Single-Drive MinIO server onto MacOS for early development and evaluation of MinIO Object Storage and its S3-compatible API layer.

For instructions on deploying to production environments, see Deploy MinIO: Multi-Node Multi-Drive.

Prerequisites

  • Read, write, and execute permissions for the user’s home directory

  • Familiarity with using the Terminal

Procedure

  1. Install the MinIO Server

    Open a Terminal and run the following command to install the latest stable MinIO package using Homebrew.

    brew install minio/stable/minio
    

    Important

    If you previously installed the MinIO server using brew install minio, then we recommend that you reinstall from minio/stable/minio instead.

    brew uninstall minio
    brew install minio/stable/minio
    

    Open a Terminal, then use the following commands to download the latest stable MinIO binary, set it to executable, and install it to the system $PATH:

    curl -O https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/darwin-arm64/minio
    chmod +x ./minio
    sudo mv ./minio /usr/local/bin/
    

    Open a Terminal, then use the following commands to download the latest stable MinIO binary, set it to executable, and install it to the system $PATH:

    curl -O https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/darwin-amd64/minio
    chmod +x ./minio
    sudo mv ./minio /usr/local/bin/
    
  2. Launch the MinIO Server

    From the Terminal, use the minio server to start a local MinIO instance in the ~/data folder. If desired, you can replace ~/data with another location to which the user has read, write, and delete access for the MinIO instance.

    export MINIO_CONFIG_ENV_FILE=/etc/default/minio
    minio server --console-address :9001
    
    Status:         1 Online, 0 Offline.
    API: http://192.168.2.100:9000  http://127.0.0.1:9000
    RootUser: myminioadmin
    RootPass: minio-secret-key-change-me
    Console: http://192.168.2.100:9001 http://127.0.0.1:9001
    RootUser: myminioadmin
    RootPass: minio-secret-key-change-me
    
    Command-line: https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/reference/minio-mc.html
       $ mc alias set myminio http://10.0.2.100:9000 myminioadmin minio-secret-key-change-me
    
    Documentation: https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/index.html
    

    The API block lists the network interfaces and port on which clients can access the MinIO S3 API. The Console block lists the network interfaces and port on which clients can access the MinIO Web Console.

  3. Connect your Browser to the MinIO Server

    Access the MinIO Console by going to a browser (such as Safari) and going to https://127.0.0.1:9000 or one of the Console addresses specified in the minio server command’s output. For example, Console: http://192.0.2.10:9001 http://127.0.0.1:9001 in the example output indicates two possible addresses to use for connecting to the Console.

    While port 9000 is used for connecting to the API, MinIO automatically redirects browser access to the MinIO Console.

    Log in to the Console with the RootUser and RootPass user credentials displayed in the output. These default to minioadmin | minioadmin.

    MinIO Console displaying login screen

    You can use the MinIO Console for general administration tasks like Identity and Access Management, Metrics and Log Monitoring, or Server Configuration. Each MinIO server includes its own embedded MinIO Console.

    MinIO Console displaying bucket start screen

    For more information, see the MinIO Console documentation.

  4. (Optional) Install the MinIO Client

    The MinIO Client allows you to work with your MinIO volume from the commandline.

    Run the following commands to install the latest stable MinIO Client package using Homebrew.

    brew install minio/stable/mc
    

    To use the command, run

    mc {command} {flag}
    

    Download the standalone MinIO server for MacOS and make it executable.

    curl -O https://dl.min.io/client/mc/release/darwin-arm64/mc
    chmod +x mc
    sudo mv mc /usr/local/bin/mc
    

    To use the command, run

    mc {command} {flag}
    

    Download the standalone MinIO server for MacOS and make it executable.

    curl -O https://dl.min.io/client/mc/release/darwin-amd64/mc
    chmod +x mc
    sudo mv mc /usr/local/bin/mc
    

    To use the command, run

    mc {command} {flag}
    

    Use mc alias set to quickly authenticate and connect to the MinIO deployment.

    mc alias set local http://127.0.0.1:9000 minioadmin minioadmin
    mc admin info local
    

    The mc alias set takes four arguments:

    • The name of the alias

    • The hostname or IP address and port of the MinIO server

    • The Access Key for a MinIO user

    • The Secret Key for a MinIO user

    For additional details about this command, see mc alias set.

Next Steps